A plastic bottle drifting underwater, surrounded by marine life in an ocean environment. Light rays penetrate the water, illuminating the scene with a serene blue hue.

The Beauty

This year’s FMX trailer is “The Beauty” – if you’re thinking “that looks familiar”, you’re right. The 2019 project won a number of awards, including an Animago “Jury Prize” of the Jury”. So it’s all the better that we can now show this film to even more people!

But before we get to see excerpts from the film at the lectures, we sat down with director Pascal Schelbli and VFX supervisor Marc Angele and let the story of "The Beauty" drift past us. And if you want to see the whole film in advance, you can find it here in full length on the Filmakademie's YouTube channel: is.gd/filmaka_beauty

DP: What has happened to the film since Animago 2019, where "The Beauty" won the Jury Prize? Pascal Schelbli: The film has had an incredible festival tour. In addition to countless awards such as the Young Directors Award in Cannes and the VES Award in LA, it won the Student Academy Award that crowned everything. This attention has certainly played into the hands of the online release and the film has also been doing the rounds on the net. In addition to the fact that the film generated orders for us freelancers, we also made some very interesting contacts from all sectors.Marc Angele: It's really great what we were able to ex...


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