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My name is Britt Raes and this blog is dedicated to my new animated short 'Catherine', produced by the studio Creative Conspiracy. I will share some artwork and info about the film here! In october 2016 the short had its premiere and is now travelling film festivals! You can also follow the film on facebook.

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Thanks to some lovely amazing fans, the film is now available with Russian and Ukrainian subtitles! 

(other available languages are French, Dutch, English and Spanish)

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Catherine is online!!! The people from Short of the Week wrote an amazing review for the film! Read the review and watch the full film here: https://www.shortoftheweek.com/2018/12/20/catherine/

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This is very very exciting...

Catherine will finally be online, worldwide, on youtube and vimeo! Next week, Wednesday December 19 the film will launch!

Share the happy news with your family, friends, and cat!

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At the ANNY awards in New York, Catherine won the Animation for Adults award AND the Grand Prize Best of Fest!!! :o so much love, thank you all!!!

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An overview of the festival screenings that took place in July and August, and will take place in September! Thank you all the lovely festivals for selecting Catherine! And an extra thank you to:

ANNY - Animation Nights New York for choosing Catherine as one of the Best of Fest Winners

Insomnia Open Air Festival in Russia for the Jury Distinction

Alpinale for the Best Animation Award - a golden unicorn!

Hiroshima Animation Film Festival for the special prize & audience award

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Some more lovely news! At the Hiroshima International Animation Film Festival Catherine received the Special Prize from the jury and the Audience Prize! Thank you so much jury members, audience and the entire festival team!

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Trophies trophies trophies!

I received a little goat and a dino (or something) from the O!PLA festival in Poland, where Catherine won the Silver Bundle in 2018!

In 2017 Catherine was awarded Best Short Film at the Zabut festival in Italy.

I handmade an award in the shape of Kitty! A custom made trophy for Zhanna Bekmambetova who won the audience award at Womanimation 2018 with her amazing short film Tweet-tweet. (Each year, the winner from last year creates the trophy for the current winner!)

And in Austria I was awarded a Golden Unicorn as Catherine won best animated short at Alpinale! Thank you lovely jury members!

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In March and April I was a jury member for two lovely animation film festivals! Ciné court animé in Roanne and Animakom in Bilbao. I had SUCH a great time, seeing amazing films and hanging out with lovely people! Thank you so much Loic and Pedro for inviting me. I hope to come back to your festivals with my future projects :)

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These are the past screenings of Catherine in May, and the upcoming screenings in June!

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Catherine continues her travels around the world in April! :)

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Japan, you were amazing! I had such a great time visiting Tokyo, and of course receiving the Award of Excellence at the Tokyo Anime Award Festival! Waw!

Japan and cats truly do love each other!!!

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Ik heb gisteren eindelijk mijn opname van Catherine kunnen bekijken, en heb het vandaag meteen nog eens bekeken. Ik vind het zo zo zo zo mooi, wauw. En die theme song! Ja. Dat wou ik gewoon even laten weten eigenlijk. Catherine heeft me kunnen ontroeren, en ik kan het zelf niet goed verklaren, maar het is al eventjes geleden dat mijn hartje nog zo... vol voelde. 💙

Oh waw wat een mooi bericht, ik word er zelf even stil van! :) dankjewel, heel erg fijn om te horen dat je zoveel van de film hebt genoten en je zo een mooi gevoel geeft!!! Heel heel erg bedankt voor je bericht :)

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The collection of trophies for Catherine is expanding! Thank you Funcinema Crítica de Cine, Big Cartoon Festival and CINANIMA!

And the lovely people from deAuteurs interviewed me for their magazine iTems. You can read the full interview (in Dutch) online here:https://www.deauteurs.be/nieuws/items16-audiovisueel-nummer/

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A silver SpIFFy for Catherine at the Spokane Film Festival! Thank you jury members!

And congrats to Alain Delannoy for winning gold with his funny short The Talk!

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On the radio!

A month ago, the theme song of Catherine made by Pieter Van Dessel (A Sound Scenario) aired on the radio! :o How awesome is that, right?! It really made me smile! Thank you Urgent.fm! Thank you Kuleshov!

You can hear it in the beginning of the episode, at around 1:45!

https://www.mixcloud.com/Kuleshov/kuleshov-06-01-2018/

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At the LIAF in December 2017 Catherine screened at the Barbican Center in London! And it won the audience vote in the competition program “From Absurd to Zany”. Hooray :)

Congrats to Nicolas Menard for receiving the jury award with his Wednesday with Goddard!

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A new year brings new festivals! And what a great start it was! JIFF was the very first festival Catherine screened in 2018, and it received a Special Mention of the jury! Thank you Jaipur International Film Festival, thank you India!

Tomorrow VOID - International Animation Film Festival starts in Denmark, and after that Catherine is travelling to Spokane International Film Festival, Oxford Film Festival, MICE Film Festivaland Northwest Film Center (Portland International Film Festival). Thank you all!