The KLIK! Awards
Every animated short has its own unique quality, of course. And still we ferociously kill our darlings and pick the very best for the prestigious KLIK! Awards.
What do they win? A beautiful sculpture from Joost van der Toorn, money to invest in their next prize-winning animated short (or to splurge on endless rounds of beers for all their collaborators), and most of all, eternal fame and fortune.
- KLIK! Award for Best Animated Short
- KLIK! Award for Best Animated Student Short
- KLIK! Award for Best Commissioned Animation
- KLIK! hard//hoofd Award for best Political Animated Short
- KLIK! 2Pause Award for Best Animated Music Video
- KLIK! Amsterdam Audience Award
- KLIK! Young Amsterdam Audience Award
Jury Best Animated Short and Best Political Animated Short
Nina Polak
Journalist, De Correspondent (NDL)
Nina Polak (1986) is a writer and journalist. She discusses film, books and popular culture for De Correspondent and De Groene Amsterdammer. She recently published her debut novel We zullen niet te pletter slaan.
Jury Best Animated Short and Best Political Animated Short
Jurriaan Esmeijer
Festival director, Pluk de Nacht (NDL)
After his studies Jurriaan Esmeijer (1975) worked at leading design agencies like SubmarineChannel, an innovative media production company in Amsterdam, focused on online productions, games and documentaries.
Esmeijer worked on various trans-medial projects like the awardwinning project Collapsus – Energy Risk Conspiracy and the web documentary Who Are The Champions, a film about the darker sides of the Fifa World Cup.
In 2006 he founded the open air film festival Pluk de Nacht together with some friends. A festival that aims to draw attention to unreleased films that deserve to be seen. The first eight years Pluk de Nacht was held in Amsterdam, and has since expanded to cities like Utrecht and Arnhem. Esmeijer is currently director of the festival.
He also acts as adviser and moderator at various festivals and is a member of the program council of ARCAM het Architectuur Centrum van Amsterdam.
Jury Best Animated Short and Best Political Animated Short
Jeanette Bonds
Director, GLAS Animation (USA)
Jeanette Bonds is a writer and independent
animator living in Los Angeles. She is co-founder and director of GLAS
Animation, a resource for producing gifted, innovative, and independent animators
across the globe.
She received her MFA and BFA from CalArts in Experimental
Animation. In 2012, Jeanette co-curated Platform International Animation
Festival and has programmed for Slamdance Film Festival. Her films have been
featured at Encounters Short Film and Animation Festival, London, Seoul,
Holland, and Melbourne International Animation Festival, and in 2014 was
nominated for an Annie Award.
Jury Best Animated Short and Best Political Animated Short
Maartje Smits
Journalist, hard//hoofd (NDL)
Maartje Smits (1986) is a writing
detective, filming poet, subjective journalist and beekeeper. She studied
Beeld&Taal; (Image&Language;) at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy and design
at the Sandberg Institute. She works as a writer, teaches at the Gerrit
Rietveld Academy and ArtEZ. She also is deputy editor in chief of the online
magazine hard//hoofd.
Jury Best Animated Student Short and Best Commissioned Animation
Inge Daveloose
Animator, painter (BEL)
Inge Daveloose is a freelance art director for animation. In the last 24 years Inge worked internationally on many projects and for famous directors such as Richard Williams, Raoul Servais, Don Bluth, Thilo Rothkirch, An Vrombaut… Since 2004 Inge is teaching concept design for backgrounds and environments at the Animation College Rits in Brussels. inge-daveloose.com shows a selection of her work.
Jury Best Animated Student Short and Best Commissioned Animation
Mieke Gerritzen
Museum director, MOTI (NDL)
Mieke Gerritzen (1962), designer, producer, director, was born in Amsterdam and graduated form the Gerrit Rietveld Academiy in 1987.
Gerritzen was one the first designers to be involved with digital media in the Netherlands and is currently director of MOTI, Museum of the Image.
In 2001 Gerritzen started the All Media Foundation, focused on organizing cultural events such as “The International Browserday” in New York, Berlin and Amsterdam, and “The Biggest Visual Power Shows” in Amsterdam and Los Angeles.
From 2002 – 2009 she was Head of Design at the Sandberg Institute, the masters program to the Gerrit Rietveld Academy Amsterdam. Mieke Gerritzen received many awards and gives lectures and presentations around the globe.
Jury Best Animated Student Short and Best Commissioned Animation
João Carlos Rodrigues
Creative Director, Shortcutz Amsterdam (PRT)
João Carlos Rodrigues is a Portuguese Filmmaker based in Amsterdam. Co-founder of Shortcutz Amsterdam in 2012, the fastest growing film platform in the Netherlands in 2013. He has since then been working as its Creative Director. João has been involved in all kind of projects as a Director, DoP and Editor of music videos, short films, TV, corporate, promotional and festivals such as Monstra and Lisbon Animation Film Festival.
Jury Best Animated Music Video
Maria Dicieanu
Managing editor & curator 2Pause
Maria is an editor at Submarine Channel. She’s also a right honorable movie geek. She is the living manifestation of a multimedia app and loves trawling the world wide web for the finest music videos to include on 2Pause.com.
She likes to get her digital mitts dirty with conversions, uploads and video edits for Submarine Channel, and also flirts with transmedia-related journalism, reporting from festivals like Cannes, Berlinale and IDFA for European Cinema collective NISI MASA and others.
Previously, Maria worked as a sound and film editor for short movies Vicar’s Wife, Foetus Ex Machina, and Carousel, among others.
Jury Best Animated Music Video
Sverre Fredriksen
Animator
Sverre Fredriksen (1981) is a norwegian animation artist based in Amsterdam. Besides commissioned animation work for TV and film he makes short animation films and music videos.
Sverre is currently busy with animations for the third season of Villa Achterwerk series Bikkels (VPRO) and a music video for Blood Plastic (Ideal Mix).
His work is internationally recognised with awards such as the Rockie Award (BANFF, Canada 2014) and Audience Award best Dutch music video 2010 (Shoot Me Film Festival, The Hague 2010).
Jury Best Animated Music Video
Remco Vlaanderen
Editor & Creative Producer Submarine Channel
Remco Vlaanderen has worked as an artist, designer, curator and writer in the field of new media since the mid 1990s.
Since 2005, he’s worked at the Amsterdam-based storytelling lab Submarine Channel, where he was the editor-in-chief of fun projects such as the music video platform 2Pause.com. Remco is now a creative producer of interactive animation projects.
An avid graphic novel reader, Remco loves both the tactility of print and the new interactive forms of the comics medium. He worked on the interactive graphic novel The Art of Pho, and is currently developing a distopian sci-fi motion comic, an interactive comics journalism project, and an interactive documentary about superheroes.
