'Horn OK Please' Wins Best Animation 2006 At Cine-Jeune Festival

At the recent Cine-Jeune Festival in Saint Quentin in Northern France the team from Flickerpix Animations Ltd, Belfast were awarded Best Animation 2006 for 'Horn OK Please' which was released earlier this year.
The film was chosen from two programmes consisting of more than 20 international shorts.
This festival is aimed particularly at children and the jury consisted of 24 primary school children from the Aisne region of France, all the children are self professed film enthusiasts.
This nine minute animated film was largely a West-Indian/Northern Ireland creative collaboration which took a full year to produce and so far, Horn OK Please has received five awards at various international festivals, as well as two special commendations.
Joel Simon, the director of the film who collected the award on Tuesday said: “I’m incredibly chuffed, especially since the story-telling aspect of this film was always intended to be completely universal, and to be accessible to people of all ages and nationalities. The kids from l’Aisne all commented on the ‘scenario’ which they were fond of.”
Flickerpix Animations Ltd were recently selected to participate in Phase II of the Creative Entrepreneurship Programme.
The aim of the scheme is to assist small, low turnover businesses in the Belfast area to address future sustainability through the development of their core business and through gaining access to numerous services and industry expertise that would previously have been unavailable to them.
You can catch 'Horn OK Please' at the Foyle Film Festival (Animation Program 2) on November 11 at 2pm as well as at Cinemagic’06 on November 24 and 28 as a curtain-raiser to the feature 'Children Of The Moon'.
(DS)