Mishou

Credits

Voice Artists: Metodi Litzev, Vera Trajanova

Screenplay: Vera Trajanova, Milen Vitanov

Directed by: Milen Vitanov

Assistant director: Vera Trajanova

Director of Photography and color grading: Olaf Aue BVK

Editor: Jens Prausnitz

Set Designer and Minisets: Susanna Jerger

Additional Props: Alex Friedrich

Character Design: Milen Vitanov, Marta Andreeva

Animation: Milen Vitanov

Additional Animation: Dalibor Rajninger, Marie Josephine Tucholski

Clean-Up: Milen Vitanov, Samuel Weikopf, Jost Althoff

Sound Design and Mix: Michał Krajczok

Music: Leonard Petersen

Foley artist: Peter Roigk

Stop Motion Camera Consultant: Kathrin Woodtli

Typeface: Lettersoup

Poster Design: Sofia Dimitrova

Soft&Hardware support: Mihail Borisov

Producer Germany: Milen Vitanov, Vera Trajanova

Co-Producer Germany: ZDF - Redaktion Siebenstein

Co-Producer Bulgaria: Mina Mileva, Vesela Kazakova - Activist38

With the support of: FFA German Federal Film Board, Die Beauftragte der Bundesregierung für Kultur und Medien and Bulgarian National Film Center

Festivals & Awards

Awards:

Grand Prize for our Best Children's Animation at Rhode Island Film Festival 2020 USA

Gryphon Award - Best Short Film Elements+3 at Giffoni Film Festival 2020 Italy

FRIESE Award at Mo&Friese Film Festival Hamburg 2021 Germany

Best Family Short at Cleveland International Film Festival 2021 USA

Colour Box Audience Award at Flatpack Festival 2021 UK

Best Animation at Feel The Reel Intl Film Festival 2021 UK and Romania

Audience Award - Kids1 at Dresden Film Festival 2021, Germany

Audience Award at Festival du Film d'Animation Pour la Jeunesse de Bourg-en-Bresse 2021, France

 

Festivals:

MISHOU had great premiere at the Berlin Film Festival BERLINALE in February 2020

Sarajevo Film Festival 2020, Bosnia and Herzegovina

Film Festival Della Lessinia 2020, Italy

Rhode Island Intl. Film Festival 2020, USA

In The Palace 2020 Varna, Bulgaria

SCHLINGEL - Chemnitz 2020, Germany

Festival of Animation Berlin 2020, Germany

Festival Du Nouveau Cinéma - Montreal 2020, Canada

DOK Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany 2020

Cork, Cork, Ireland, 2020

Cinanima, Portugal 2020

Animest, Romania 2020

FACETS, Chicago, USA 2020

Giffoni, Italy 2020

Athens Int. Children's Film Festival, Greece 2020

Prisma, Göteborg Film Festival, Sweden 2020

Discovery, Dundee, Scottland 2020

Uppsala Intl Film Festival, Sweden 2020

Minimalen Film festival, Norway 2020

Mo&Friese Children's Film Festival Hamburg, Germany 2020

Festival International du film pour Enfants de Montreal (FIFEM) Canada 2021

Cleveland International Film Festival, USA 2021

Kristiansand International Children's Film Festival, Norway 2021

St. Louis Intl Film Festival, USA 2021

Atlanta Film Festival, USA 2021

MONSTRINHA of Monstra Lisbon, Portugal 2021

Short Shorts Film Festival & Asia, Japan, 2021

Short Shorts Film Festival & Asia 2021

REGARD - International Short Film Festival in Saguenay 2021

ITFS Trickfilm Festival Stuttgart, Germany 2021

Filmfestival Dresden, Germany 2021

PLAY - Lisbon's International Kids Film Festival, Potugal 2021

Huesca International Film Festival, Spain 2021

Ottawa International Animation Festival 2021, Canada

Festival International du Film de Nancy 2021, France

Winter Film Awards New Yourk 2021, USA

Salute Your Shorts Film Festival 2021, USA

Cordillera International Film Festival 2021, USA

Copenhagen Short film Festival 2021, Denmark

Cervino Cine Mountain Festival, 2021, Italy

Bolton Film Festival 2021, UK

Tirana International Film Festival, 2021, Albania

San Jose Film Festival, 2021, USA

Austin Film Festival, 2021, USA

Press

Movie review (in German) at Testkammer

Interview (in German) at Testkammer

Interview (in German) at Unicato