30/5 — 5/6/2024
64th International Film Festival
for Children and Youth

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Section: International Competition of Short Animations for Children

Patchwork Snake (2020) -

Germany | 2020 | 4 min.

The Patchwork Pals have a problem; Snake is coming to visit – but her visit is way too short! Can she find a way to make everybody happy?

CountryGermany
Year2020
Duration4 min
Rating-
LanguageEnglish
SubtitleSimultanneous translation into
Directed by Angela Steffen
Screenplay Julia Ocker, An Vrombaut
Director of Photography Angela Steffen
Music Claudia Kaiser, Martin Lickleder
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Biography

Angela Steffen was born in Dannenberg, Germany in 1979. Spending her childhood years in Saudi-Arabia, she came back to Germany in 1990 when the Gulf War started. After some basic studies in Graphic Design she studied animation at the Animation-School-Hamburg and then at the Institute of Animation, Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg, graduating in 2009. Whilst at the Filmakademie she developed a personal and poetic style culminating in Lebensader, her diploma Film. Angela Steffen works as an independent director and animator at Studio FILM BILDER since 2009. Her series „Patchwork Pals“ won the „Best Preschool Series“ at Cartoons on the Bay Festival in Venice in 2014 and the „Award for the best TV series“ at the Expotoons in Buenos Aires. The second season will be completed in 2020.This film is a part of the set Little Snowman and Other Animations.