Animated Korean Adoption Film: Approved for Adoption

This film recently was selected in the Feature Competition at the Ottawa International Animation Festival last week.

See here for a description and pasted below:

“A film by Jung & Laurent Boileau

Jung. Cartoonist. 42 years old according to his civil status, Jung prefers to place his birth at the age of 5, when a policeman found him wandering alone in the streets of Seoul. He is one of those 200 000 adopted Koreans spread around the world. Jung decided to return for the first time in South Korea, in order to breathe the air of his home country, tread the land of his ancestors, and maybe find traces of his biological mother. This trip of reconciliation with his roots and with himself leads our character to recall – in animation – the child he once was and the winding path that made him grow up. Approved for adoption is a very original animation film for an original topic. The characters were developed and created in 3D, the landscapes and decorations are in 2D and the drawings are originally made by Jung. The film deals with adoption issues with tenderness and humor.

Original language: French“

Additionally, it received  the Great Award of Montreal, for the best feature film of the official competition, and the INIS Award (National Institute of Image and Sound) in the 2013 edition of the Montreal International Film for Children Festival (FIFEM), which took place from March 2 to 10 in Canada.

Other awards include the following: Audience award – Unicef award (Annecy), Special distinction (TFF-Torino),Special Jury award (Monstra-Lisbon), Jury award (Leeds), Great award – Audience award (Animafest), Best feature Film (Anima Mundi).

The animation was officially selected at the following film festivals: Abu Dhabi (ADFF), Amsterdam (Cinekid), Barcelona, Bologna (FFF), Gijon, Goa (IFFI), Kecskemét (KAFF), Malmö (BUFF), Stuttgart (ITFS).

 

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