Name: Špela Čadež Contact:spelacadez@gmail.com Born: 28th November 1977 in Ljubljana, Slovenia Short biography Špela Čadež studied at Academy for Fine Arts at University of Ljubljana from 1997-2002. After her diploma degree in Visual Communication Design (2002) she continued her studies at Academy of Media Arts, Cologne, department of Media Design. “Liebeskrank” is her graduation film. Geboren 1977 in Slowenien. Studium Kommunikationsdesign an der Universität Ljubljana. Abschluss 2002. 2002-2007 Studium an der Kunsthochschule für Medien Köln mit Schwerpunkt Animation. „Liebeskrank“ ist ihr Abschlussfilm in der Fächergruppe Mediengestaltung. Špela Čadež je studirala na Akademiji za likovno umetnost v Ljubljani, na oddelku vizualnih komunikacij. Po diplomi (2002) je nadaljevala s študijem na Akademiji medijskih umetnosti v Kolnu, kjer se je usmerila v animirani film. V času študija je posnela filma „Zasukanec“ (2004) in „Liebeskrank“ (2007), ki je tudi njeno diplomsko delo. Filmography 2012 Boles, puppet animation, cca. 12 min, in production 2011 Good night missy, animated senses in feature film of Metod Pevec 2010 Last Minute, animated film, co-director Marina Rosset, 2 min 2009 Far East Film Festival Trailer, puppet animation, 40 sec 2008 “Marathon”, clay animation co-directed with Izabela Plucinska, 5 min 2007 “Liebeskrank”, puppet animation, 9 min 2004 “Zasukanec”, puppet animation 7 min 2000 “The Story About a Lost Letter”, co-directed with Brina Vogelnik Saje, animation 3 min Awards: October 2011 "VESNA"for best animated short film, Festival of Slovenian Film, Slovenia December 2008 “Audience award” Anilogeuge Inter. Animation Festival Budapest, Vienna November 2008 FIA International Animation Festival Stockholm, 1st place, People's Choice Award, Sweden July 2008 “Short Film of the Month”, FBW Pradikat with honors, Wiesbaden, Germany June 2008 “Special Jury Price”, Golden Lion Film Festival Taipei, Taiwan, May 2008 “Special Jury Price”, ANIFEST, Inter. Animation Festival, Trebon, Czech Republic April 2008 “Promotion Price”, Filmfest Dresden, Germany, March 2008 “Audience award” in “Special Award of the Jury”, Tricky Women 2008, Vienna, Austria “Best Animation”, Aubagne International Film Festival, Aubagne, France December 2007 “Best Student Film” International Animation Festival ANIMATEKA, Ljubljana, Slovenia October 2007 “Best Student Film“ Animadrid International Animation Festival; Madrid, Spain “FIPRECI Diploma“, Balkanima, International Animation Festival, Belgrade, Serbia May 2007 “Best Animation”, FICA- 35th Algarve International Film Festival, Portugal February 2006 Audience Award, The Fourth Annual Red Shift Festival, New York, USA April 2006 Nomination for promotional award of the film“Liebeskrank”, Stuttgart, Germany December 2005 FBW Pradikat with honors, Wiesbaden, Germany Debut Award, 8th festival of Slovene Film Portoroz, Slovenia November 2005 Special award of the Jury, Internationla Animated Film Festival TINDIRINDIS, Latvia September 2005 Special award of the Jury , DIFECA Seoul, Korea August 2005 Audience Award, Open Air Cinema, Cologne, Germany Award of the Film Fund DEFA, Dresden, Germany July 2005 2. place, Debut Award, Anima Mundi, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil 3. place, Debut Award, Anima Mundi, Sao Paulo, Brazil February 2005 Best Student Film, Anima - International Animation Festival, Brussels, Belgium Nomination for Cartoon D´or, European Association of Animation Film, Brussels, Belgium December 2004 Best First Five, Animateka International Festival of Animation, Ljubljana, Slovenia October 2004 Best Film, Festival of Slovene Animation Izola, Slovenia