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Hungarian animation will be more present than ever at this year’s Annecy International Animation Film Festival. The first English-language professional website on Hungarian animation has been launched, and a fresh industry trailer featuring 75 works from 24 studios is now available, the National Film Institute revealed.
The press release by the National Film Institute highlighted that the Annecy International Animation Film Festival, starting on June 8, pays tribute to Hungarian animation by showcasing Hungary’s film industry, creators, studios, and schools. The Guest of Honor program is a collaboration between the National Film Institute and the Hungarian animation industry.
To mark the launch of this prestigious event, Hunimation.com, the first comprehensive professional website for Hungarian animation in English, was launched. Supported by the National Film Institute and produced by the team of Friss Hús,
the website aims to present the Hungarian animation community and to strengthen its international presence in the long term,
they said, adding that the site’s design was created by Mirjána Balogh, who won the Crystal Bear Award at this year’s Berlinale with her diploma film directed as a student of MOME Anim.
“Hunimation.com is an initiative that fills a gap: until now, there was no English-language online platform that would have collected the most important information about Hungarian animation in one place. In addition to news, events and articles, the website also features a detailed industry database of Hungarian animation creators, studios, educational institutions and professional organizations,” Ildikó Takács, Director of the Annecy Hungarian Awards Hospitality Program, is quoted in the press release.
Hunimation.com provides a comprehensive overview of Hungarian animation as a whole and makes it easily accessible to the international animation community, whether it is for co-production opportunities, education, or festival appearances.
The website dedicates a special sub-page to showcasing screenings, exhibitions, and professional events of the Annecy Hungarian Guest of Honor Program, as well as a range of exciting articles and exclusive interviews.
The site will remain active after the festival: it will continue to be hosted by the Film Knowledge Center of the Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design, ensuring the long-term maintenance and expansion of its content, thereby providing a long-term basis for the future of the animation industry.
The trailer showcasing the Hungarian animation industry is made up of excerpts from 75 films from 24 studios, representing the diversity, and technical and aesthetic richness of the genre.
The trailer focuses specifically on Hungarian animated films of the last decade. In the video, you can hear a fresh, dynamic reworking of Johannes Brahms’ Hungarian Dances, created by sound designer Péter Mári especially for this project, evoking the contemporary, internationally recognizable mood of Hungarian motifs.
Via MTI, Featured image: MTI/Lakatos Péter