The winners of the 13th edition of the short film festival were revealed on Friday 21 April. Director Anna Apter won two important awards at the Nikon Film Festival 2023, for /Imagine generated by Artificial Intelligence.
The winners of the 13th Nikon Film Festival were revealed on Friday 21 April, deciding from around 2,229 films. With a jury this year chaired by Alexander Astierthe imposed theme of this new edition was number 13.
The Critics’ and Director’s Award for a film generated by Artificial Intelligence
surprise: it is /Conceived by the director Anna Apter, which won two major awards, one for critics and one for directing. Its peculiarity? Characters, but no actors, the director has used an artificial intelligence to do his bidding and make her rectify her work until he gets satisfaction.
Ironically, this 2.40-minute short imagines exactly what it means to be 13 today, in the age of social networks and everything virtual. “No children worked overtime for the purposes of this video because they don’t exist “warned Anna Apter on her Instagram account.
Trained as a graphic designer, Anna Apter is also an actress, screenwriter and director of miniseries Dear Diary AND It will (maybe) get better later broadcast on Canal+.
Near 20 minuteshe says he did “asked AI Midjourney to generate still images “. Imagine her then” retouched and animated with other free tools, available on the Internet “.
A varied list of winners for the Nikon Film Festival 2023
In addition to this award, the Nikon Film Festival jury awarded its Grand Prize among the 50 finalists to Tears come from aboveFrom Margaux Fazio AND Manon Stutzshort film dedicated to a gay survivor of the extermination camps, which also won the international award.
Several comic book creations were also awarded, including The grit by Ilan Zerrouki 13 eurosby Bertrand Goncalves and Guillaume Courty as well as Reincarnated by Camille Charbeau and Hugo Brunswick e SinFromAlice Isaac.
The overall winners of the Nikon Film Festival 2023
- Grand Jury Prize : Tears come from above, by Margaux Fazio and Manon Stutz
- international price : Tears come from above
- Staging Award : /Conceivedby Anna Apter
- Critics Award : /Conceived
- Screenplay Award : The gritwritten by Pierre Bollerot and Ilan Zerrouki
- Best Actress Award : Shirin Boutella, Maintenance, directed by Enzo Croisier
- Best Actor Award : Bertrand Goncalves, 13 eurosdirected by Bertrand Goncalves and Guillaume Courty
- photography award :Simon Noizat, ReincarnatedCamille Charbeau and Hugo Brunswick
- Best Editing Award : Remi Muzzupapa, Sindirected by Alice Isaaz
- Best Sound Award : Paul Bessot, Hugdirected by Axel Zeltser
- School prices : Linguini n°13directed by Berenger
- Critical price : Echroma Teiodirected by Frédéric Uran and Kévin Poezevara
- Audience Award : 13 yearsdirected by Sylvia Borel and Mathieu Seclet
Source: Madmoizelle
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