The short film “Holy Chicken of Life and Music” tells the story of the Holy Chicken, a magnificent beast, worshiped and exploited, in a tale of love and regret, art and science, Life and Music.

Official site: theholychicken.com

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Credits:

CONCEPT / DIRECTION / DESIGN / ANIMATION / PRODUCTION: NOMINT nomint.gr
Direction: Christos Lefakis, Yannis Konstantinidis
Concept / Creative Direction: Christos Lefakis, Yannis Konstantinidis
Director' s Assistant: Marilena Vatseri
Design: Christos Lefakis, Yannis Konstantinidis, Georgios Xanthos, Marilena Vatseri,
Manolis Mavris, Andreas Helmis, Manos Gerogiannis
Animation: Andreas Helmis, Konstantinos Diamantis, Konstantinos Petrou
CG Supervisor: Andreas Helmis
Compositing: Yannis Konstantinidis, Christos Lefakis, Marilena Vatseri
Sound Design: Christos Lefakis
EP: Aristotelis Michailidis
Producer: Marianna Papachristodoulou
Voice over: Stan Robinowitz

SCREENINGS

MONSTRA 2012 / Lisbon Animated Film Festival, Lisbon, Portugal, Mar 2012
ANIRMAU 2012 / 2nd Didactic International Animation Film Festival, Lalín, Spain, April 2012
MANIPULATE 2012 / Manipulate Visual Theatre Festival, Off to the Asylum programme, Scotland, Feb 2012
ANIMATEKA 2011 / International Animated Film Festival, Ljubljana, Slovenia, Dec 2011
MULTIVISION 2011 / 9th International Festival of Animation Arts, Russia, Nov 2011
SOUTHERN SCREEN 2011 / Southern Screen Film Festival, Louisiana, USA, Nov 2011
6th SFFS 2011 / San Francisco International Animation Festival, USA, Nov 2011
BIG CARTOON FESTIVAL 2011/ The Fifth International Animation Festival, Moscow, Russia, Nov 2011
15 I.K.F.T.W. 2011/ 15th International Short Film Festival Winterthur, Switzerland, Nov 2011
Arrosoir à Emile 2011 / Rennes, France, Oct 2011
BITFILM 2011 / 12th Bitfilm Digital Film Festival, Hamburg, Germany, Oct 2011
UPPSALA 2011/ 30th Uppsala International Short Film Festival, Sweden, Oct 2011
Un festival c’est trop court 2011/ 11th Nice short film festival/ EXPERIENCE Competition, Nice, Oct 2011
LE TAP 2011/ TAP Cinéma, Poitiers, France, Oct 2011
ANIMATOU 2011/ 6th International Animation Film Festival, Geneva, Oct 2011
TINDIRINDIS 2011/ 9th International Animated Film Festival, Vilnius, Oct 2011
ArtFutura 2011/ Festival of Digital Culture and Creativity, Barcelona, Spain, Oct 2011
FANTASTIC FEST 2011/ Austin Fantastic Fest, Texas, USA, Sep 2011
ANIMAGE 2011/ International Film of Animation Festival of Pernambuco, Brazil, Sep 2011
L'ÉTRANGE FESTIVAL 2011 / 17th Edition, Paris, France, Sep 2011
KROK 2011/ International Animated Films Festival, Kiev, Sept 2011
ANIMANIMA 2011/ 5th International Animation Festival, Serbia, Sept 2011
ANIMIX 2011 / 11th annual Animix Festival, Tel Aviv, Israel, Aug 2011
LIAF 2011 / London International Animation Festival, London, Aug 2011
FESTIVAL MIDEN 2011 / Videoart festival Miden, Kalamata, Greece, July 2011
PALIC 2011/ 18th European Film Festival Palić, Serbia, July 2011
ANIMA MUNDI 2011/ 19th Intern. Animation Festival of Brazil, Rio de Janeiro & Sao Paolo, July 2011
GFF 2011/ Giffoni Film Festival, Italy, July 2011
Sceni Qua Non 2011/ Nevers, France, July 2011
NIFFF 2011/ 11th Neuchâtel International Fantastic Film Festival/ Switzerland, July 2011
ANNECY 2011/ Annecy International Animation Film Festival [Short film category], France, June 2011
PIFF 2011/ Provincetown International Film Festival, USA, June 2011
TABOR FILM FESTIVAL 2011/ International Short Film Festival, Zacob, Croatia, June 2011
ROOFTOPS FILMS 2011/ Short Film Festival, Summer Series, NY, May 2011
BACKUP 2011/ 13th Edition Backup_Festival, Weimar, Germay, May 2011
BE FILM 2011/ Be Film The Underground Film Festival (BTUFF), New York, USA, May 2011
CURTOCIRCUITO 2011/ International Short Film Festival of Santiago de Compostela, Spain, May 2011
ARROSOIR A EMILE 2011/ Rennes, France, 2011
FICAM 2011/ Festival International de cinema d'animation de Meknes, Maroc, Apr 2011
FILMFEST DRESDEN 2011/ 23rd International Short Film Festival [special program with experimental films], Germany, Apr 2011
ASPEN 2011/ 20th Aspen Shortfest, USA, April 2011
NASHVILLE 2011/ Nashville Film Festival [Experimental Short Category], Tennessee, Apr 2011
PICTOPLASMA 2011/ Festival of contemporary character design and art, Apr 2011
ANIFEST 2011/ Trebon International Festival, Teplice, Czech Republic, Apr 2011
RIVERRUN 2011/ RiverRun International Film Festival, USA, Apr 2011
ANIMACALL 2011/ Thessaloniki Center of Contemporary Art, Greece, Mar 2011
BE THERE! 2011/ Corfu animation festival, Greece, March 2011
BREDA 2011/ 3rd International Film Festival Breda, The Netherlands, Mar 2011
CLERMONT-FERRANT SHORT FILM MARKET/ 26th Short Film Market, France, Feb 2011
PSAROKOKALO 2011/ 5th Athens International Short Film Festival, Athens, Greece, Feb 2011
FANTASPORTO 2011/ International Film Festival Fantasporto, Porto, Portugal, Feb 2011
ANIMATED DREAMS 2010/ 12th Animation Film Festival Animated Dreams, Tallinn, Estonia, Nov 2010
ONE DOT ZERO 2010/ Adventures in Motion London, Nov 2010
VIMEO AWARDS 2010/ New York, Oct 2010
ANIMASYROS 2010 / Animasyros 3.0 International Animation Festival and Forum, Greece, Sep 10

AWARDS

Special price of International Jury / Anilogue IAF 2011
International Animation Film Festival, Vienna and Budapest, Nov 2011

SHORTLISTED / LICC competition
London International Creative Competition™ 2011

3rd PRIZE/ Animation Category
BEFILM The Underground Film Festival 2011

GOLD AWARD/ Digital Implementation Category
EBGE (Greek Design and Illustration Awards) 2011

1st PRIZ Animation category
EBGE (Greek Design and Illustration Awards) 2011

GOLD iF AWARD/ Moving Images Category/ iF Communication Design Award 2011

BEST OF STASH 2010/ SHORT FILMS category/
Stash Magazine, Online video library of Animation, VFX and Motion Design

SPECIAL MENTION AWARD/ ANIMASYROS 3.0 2010/
Animasyros 3.0 International animation Festival

1st PRIZE/ Vimeo community awards 2010/
Vimeo community awards, Experimental category