Golden Acorn Wins Best Trailer at FOFA

"The Golden Acorn" wins Best Trailer at FoF Awards

Congratulations to the makers of "The Golden Acorn", which has won an award for Best Trailer at the Future of Film Awards.

"The Golden Acorn" is a movie trailer completed by 2nd year undergraduate Escape Studios Animation students, written & directed by Maciej Osuch, edited & produced by Miguel Teixeira. 

In The Golden Acorn a detective duo team up in NutTown to defeat an evil squirrel crime boss - two agents, one nutcase.  The Golden Acorn has won many festival awards.

The Golden Acorn

The Golden Acorn

"The Golden Acorn" is a movie trailer completed by 2nd year undergraduate Escape Studios Animation students, as part of their Studio Project module.  In The Golden Acorn a detective duo team up in NutTown to defeat an evil squirrel crime boss.  Can our heroes defeat the squirrel supervillain and foil his wicked plans? Two agents, one nutcase. 

PR5001 Studio Project
The 2nd year of animation studies at Escape Studios culminates in the Studio Project, a 12 week module worth 45 credits in which students collaborate to work together to a brief, designed as closely as possible to simulate working in an animation studio.

The Studio Project Module comes half way through the second year and is the point at which our students learn to work together in teams, pitching projects to one another, selecting the best idea, and working to create a series of short film projects.

Golden Acorn Credits

• Maciej Osuch - Writer, Director, Animator
• Miguel Teixera - Producer, Editor
• Titi-Marian Giusca - CG Supervisor, Animator
• Petroc Menuhin - Animator
• Sasha Batt - Animator
• Cuchulan O'Byrne - Animator

To see the Golden Acorn at the IMDB, follow this link.



Festival Success

The Golden Acorn, has won many festival awards:

Golden Acorn Best Trailer at the Bucharest Cinefest

• Best Trailer at the Future of Film Awards
• Best Trailer at the Robinson Film Awards
• Best Trailer at the V.I.Z Film Fest
• Best Trailer at the Onyko Film Fest.
• Best Trailer at the Art Film Awards
• Best Trailer at the Golden Eagle Indie Film Festival (GEIFF)
• Best Teaser/Trailer at the Vesuvius Film Festival
• Best Teaser/Trailer at the Golden Nugget International Film Festival
• Best Trailer (Nomination) at the Bucharest Shortcut Cinefest 

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