Wildebeest
Korte Animatiefilm
Going on a safari is a dream for many. For middle-aged couple Linda and Troyer, it turns into a horribly real adventure when they get left behind in the wilderness.
Wildebeest is a short animation/live-action film by Nicolas Keppens and Matthias Phlips (a.k.a. MAT), supported by Flanders Audiovisual Fund (VAF).
Available on Dalton Distribution
Written and directed by Nicolas Keppens & Matthias Phlips Voices by Sam Louwyck As Troyer & Chris Boni As Linda Producer Animal Tank Line producers Brecht Van Elslande & Bert Lesaffer Animation by Eno Swinnen, Jeroen Ceulebrouck, Pieter Vanluffelen, Pieter Samyn, David Dils & Nicolas Keppens Compositing Alice Saadi & Nicolas Keppens Sound design, editing & mixing Greg Scheirlinckx (Kabaal For Studio Thinkntalk) Music by Arvo Pärt, Mario Spindler & Franz Schubert Festival coordination & sales: Animal Tank (Brecht@Animaltank.be) Distribution Dalton Distribution With the support of: Flanders Audiovisual Fund Tax Shelter of the Belgian Federal Government.
AWARDS
International Short Film Festival Leuven 2017 (Leuven, Belgium)
Audience Award for Best Flemish Animation Shortfilm
Anima Festival 2018 (Brussels, Belgium)
Award for Best Belgian Shortfilm + Authors prize SACD
Brussels Short Film Festival 2018 (Brussels, Belgium)
Award Le Prix Canal+ France
Guanajuato International Film Festival 2018 (Guanajuato, México)
Award Best Animated Short Film
La Guarimba Film Festival 2018 (Amantea, Italy)
Award Best Animation
Canal de Panama International Film Festival 2018 (Panama)
Award Best International Animation Short Film
Fantoche International Animation Film Festival 2018 (Baden, Zwitzerland)
Award Best Film
Encounters Film Festival 2018 (Bristol, UK)
Animated Encounters Grand Prix Award
KLIK Amsterdam Animation Festival 2018 (Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
Award Best Animated Short
EFA - European Film Awards 2018
nominated in the short film category
Multivision International Festival of Animated Arts 2018 (Sint-Petersburg, Russia) Special Mention of The Jury
Premiers Plans Festival (Anger, France) 2019
Grand Prix of the jury and Prix du Public Award
FESTIVALS
International Short Film Festival Leuven (Leuven, Belgium):
December (2017) - world premiere at the opening night
Anima Festival (Brussels, Belgium)
9 January - 18 February 2018
Netwerk Aalst (Aalst, Belgium)
9 March 2018
Ciné Privé (Ghent, Belgium)
16-18 March 2018
Brussels Short Film Festival (Brussels, Belgium)
26 April - 6 May 2018
Anifilm (Praha, Czech Republic)
1 - 6 May 2018
Animafest - World Festival of Animated Film (Zagreb, Croatia)
4 - 9 June 2018
Fest - New Directors / New Film Festival (Espinho, Portugal)
18 - 25 June 2018
Palm Springs International Short Film Festival (Palm Springs, California)
19 - 25 June 2018
Fest Anca - International Animation Festival (Zilina, Slovakia)
28 June - 1 July 2018
Guanajuato International Film Festival (Guanajuato, México)
20 - 29 July 2018
Anima Mundi (Rio De Janeiro & São Paulo, Brazil)
24 July - 5 August 2018
La Guarimba Film Festival (Amantea, Italy)
7 - 11 August 2018
Anibar International Animation Festival (Peja, Kosovo)
13 - 19 August 2018
Canal de Panama International Film Festival (Panama)
16 - 18 August 2018
Seoul International Cartoon & Animation Festival (Seoul, South-Korea)
23 - 26 August 2018
Montreal World Film Festival (Montreal, Canada)
23 August - 3 September 2018
Fantoche International Animation Film Festival (Baden, Zwitzerland)
4 - 9 September 2018
Shorts México - Festival Internacional de Cortometrajes (Mexico City, Mexico)
5 - 12 September 2018
Linoleum Animation Festival (Kiev, Ukraine)
6 - 9 September 2018
Festival Off-Courts Trouville (Trouville, France)
7 - 15 September 2018
Encounters Film Festival (Bristol, UK)
25 - 30 September 2018
Anim’est International Animation Film Festival (Bucharest, Romania)
28 September - 7 October 2018
Animatou International Animation Festival (Geneva, Switzerland)
5 - 13 October 2018
KLIK Amsterdam Animation Festival (Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
10 - 14 October 2018
Shnit Worldwide Shortfilmfestival (Bern, Switzerland)
18 - 28 October 2018
Multivision International Festival of Animated Arts (Sint-Petersburg, Russia)
27 October - 19 November 2018
Dok Leipzig (Leipzig, Germany)
29 October - 4 November 2018
TIAF - Tbilisi International Animation Festival (Tbilisi, Georgia)
2 - 4 November 2018
Catacumba Film Festival (Godella, Spain)
31 October - 4 November 2018
Festival Européen du Film Court de Brest (Brest, France)
6 - 11 November 2018
Manchester Animation Festival (Manchester, UK)
13 - 15 November 2018
Exground Filmfest (Wiesbaden, Germany)
16 - 25 November 2018
Interfilm (Berlin, Germany)
20 - 25 November 2018
PÖFF Shorts (Talinn, Estonia)
20 - 28 November 2018
European Film Awards 2018
Shorts Matters tour
Animax Skopje Fest (Skopje, Macedonia)
29 November - 2 December 2018
Anchorage Film Festival (Anchorage, Alaska)
30 November - 9 December 2018
Flickerfest (Bondi, Australia)
11 - 20 January 2019
Premiers Plans Festival (Anger, France)
25 January - 3 February 2019
Animac (Lleida, Spain)
21 - 24 February 2019
Tampere Film Festival (Tampere, Finland)
6 - 10 march 2019
Ciné Court Animé (Roanne, France)
18 - 24 March 2019
Monstra Animation Festival (Lisbon, Portugal)
20 - 31 March 2019
GLAS Animation Festival (Berkeley, California)
21 - 24 march 2019
Vilnius Short Film Festival (Vilnius, Lituania)
21 March - 4 April 2019
Mecal Pro International Short and Animation Festival (Barcelona, Spain)
28 march - 14 april 2019
Stuttgart International Festival of Animated Film (Stuttgart, Germany)
30 April - 5 May 2019
Animakom Film Festival (Bilbao, Spain)
2 - 8 April 2019
Brussels Short Film Festival (Brussels, Belgium)
25 April - 5 May 2019
Screening “A wind of freedom” (Brussels, Belgium)
19 May 2019
Short Film Festival Cologne (Cologne, Germany)
5 July 2019
Aegean Film Festival (island of Patmos, Greece)
16 - 21 July 2019
ShortsUP, the The Great Picnic (Bucharest, Romania)
26 - 28 July 2019
Still Voices Short Film Festival (Ballymahon, Ireland)
15- 18 August 2019
LISFF Wiz-Art (Lviv, Ukraine)
19 - 25 August 2019
Cinéma Belge en Garrigue (Uzès, France)
19 - 25 August 2019
Viborg Animations festival (Viborg, Denmark)
23 - 29 September 2019
Best of Short Film Festival (La Ciotat, France)
2 - 6 October 2019
Animation Nights New York (New York, USA)
15 October 2019
Flying Film Festival (Fribourg, Switzerland)
November and December 2019
Fest Anca - International Animation Festival (Zilina, Slovakia)
27- 30 August 2020
