Platinum Goats 2021
Doctor Andreasen is Danish citizen, born in the USA, living in Bornholm. She studied at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor and received her PhD in dentistry from the University of Copenhagen. She is an odontologist. The Internet tells us that she is actively involved in dental trauma research and has over 120 scientific publications, primarily related to pulp response to acute injury, distant prognosis after acute trauma and post-traumatic dental restoration. “Hands off – and save teeth!” is a common theme in her lectures, where clinicians are introduced to proper examination, diagnosis and clinical decision-making, with an emphasis on a conservative and teeth-protection-oriented philosophy of treating dentition after acute trauma. What does such a persona have to do with children’s film, you might ask. Be patient because our Laureate, while extremely successful in the dental field, has yet another passion.
She first came to the Festival in 2001, as the co-author of THE FANTASTIC FLOWERSHOP (dir. Paweł Partyka), for which she wrote the screenplay and, even more importantly, designed and made extraordinary, airy wire puppets. The film received the prestigious Marcinek Award granted by the children’s jury, as well as won awards at other festivals, including Lato Filmów in Kazimierz, Salerno Film Festival and Mar del Plata International Film Festival. Everyone liked the movie, while the Laureate herself came to like the Ale Kino! Festival. For twenty years, she was with us almost every year. Active, always willing to talk, full of curiosity and enthusiasm, sharing her creative passion, giving us food for thought, she has always made the Festival more dynamic and colourful. It was also here that she looked for partners for her artistic endeavours. And she certainly did find them. Those Festival encounters resulted in works such as the animated film The Flax directed by Joanna Jasińska, made to commemorate the 200th birthday of Hans Christian Andersen, or the enthusiastically-received graphic novel A Quest for Light devoted to Marie Curie-Skłodowska, created and written by the Laureate, and beautifully painted by Anna Błaszczyk, an illustrator, but above all a creator of beautiful animated films.
The Platinum Goats 2021 goes to Frances Andreasen Østerfelt in recognition of the designed and execution of the puppets, designed scenography as well as the script for the film The Fantastic Flowershop directed by Paweł Partyka, made in the Se-ma-for Studio as a coproduction with Danish Partyflex, as well as for her excellent, effective input in the co-creation of the image of the Ale Kino! Festival through her faithful and creative presence at our events for twenty years.
You will always be most welcome here, Frances!
Jerzy Moszkowicz, Director of the Ale Kino! Festival
