Two ESMA short films win awards at the Norwegian International Comics and Animation Festival!

The I-CAN festival: an international springboard for young designers

The International Cartoon and Animation Festival of Norway (I-CAN) is a non-profit organisation run by a team of enthusiasts. Every October, the festival brings together artists, students and professionals for events dedicated to drawing, comics and animation.
I-CAN stands out for its commitment to children and young people, who make up almost 70% of its audience and benefit from free activities throughout the year.
Theorganisation is also in the process of setting up an international professional council, made up of specialists in drawing, film, digitisation and animation, to enrich the programming and encourage exchanges between generations of creators.

Rushmore, the absurd madness rewarded by the public

Directed by Oriane Azzhiri, Sarah Balanger, Alex Bruneau, Eva-Luna Delmas, Emeline Guidé, Clara Maynard, Tom Perrony and Elie Plisson, Rushmore won the Audience Award, a distinction that testifies to its immediate impact on viewers.
The film tells the story of Kurt and Freddy, two competing service station owners who set up opposite each other at the foot of Mount Rushmore, in a remote corner of South Dakota. Their monotonous lives are turned upside down when they hear on the radio that a posthumous prize will be awarded to the person who has died in the most ridiculous way, with the winner having his or her face engraved on the famous monument. What follows is a mad competition between the two neighbours, who will do anything to win this morbid honour, even at the risk of endangering a neighbouring scout camp.