Students from Maya Academy of Advanced Cinematics (MAAC), India’s leading educator in high-end 3D Animation and Visual Effects won the best film award at Anime Cine Experience, 2010-a 3-day film festival organized by Cine Darbaar in collaboration with the Embassy of Japan, Directorate of Film Festivals, Japan Foundation.
The festival was held at Siri Fort auditorium II, Delhi from 20th-22nd August, 2010 and it’s was for the first time that a festival celebrated the Japanese-Anime, Manga (Comics) and Pop-culture in India. The jury at the festival awarded ‘Always’ a short film made by the students of MAAC as the best short film in the Short Anime Corner. The film also bagged the 2st runner up position in 24FPS animation awards organized by MAAC.
Delighted with the win, Mr. Ram Warrier, Business Head, MAAC said, “I would like to take this opportunity to congratulate all my students for winning this award at the film festival for the best film prize in Anime Cine Experience, 2010. Winning an award has always been an honour and it’s our constant endeavor at MAAC to produce work which would give MAAC, its students a global recognition. I would like to thank Cine Darbaar for bestowing an award to our students in this category and strengthening their confidence towards producing better piece of art in the future”.
The festival brought the great anime works created in Japan like The Girl who leapt through time, Grave of the fireflies, 5cm per second, Voices of Distant Star, The Place Promised in Our Early Days. In its inaugural edition the festival showcased Japanese comics, anime serial, short film competitions, pop-culture exhibitions. Along with the short film competition, various workshops and special discussions forums on various topics by industry experts were organized at the festival. The festival also brought with it an exhibition of Manga (Japanese comics in English) along with a photography exhibition on Japan.
To watch Always, visit: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GU7o3tUi9Qc
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Maya Academy of Advanced Cinematics (MAAC) is India’s leading educator in high-end 3D Animation and Visual Effects. Founded in 2001, MAAC has trained over 30000 students across the country. It has over 70 centers with cutting edge infrastructure in over 40 cities.
MAAC offers industry relevant Diploma courses on 3D Animation & Visual Effects validated by the University of Cambridge International Examinations & Degree courses in association with IGNOU. It offers Real-life training environment to the students backed by an excellent faculty, infrastructure, and the latest technical educational tools.
MAAC’s students are placed as Modeling Artists, Lighting Artist, Render Artist, Character Animator, Layout Artist , Digital Sculptor, Rigging Artist, FX Artist, Roto Artist, Match Mover, Video Editor, Motion Graphics Artist, Compositors, Visualizes, Content Developers and Pre and Post Production executives in blue chip animation studios and entertainment companies like Prime Focus, Rhythm & Hues Studios, Crest Animation Studios, BIG Animation, Cornershop, EFX, Toonz Animation, DQ Entertainment, Paprikaas Animation Studios, NDTV, Studio 9, Redchillies.VFX, Vaibhav Studios, IBN7, Animax, Pixion and Tata Elxsi Ltd. to name a few.
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