Palindromo Wins Hon Mention at Screen Power

Palindromo Best Sci-Fi (Hon. Mention) at SPFF

Many congratulations to Paolo Amadini, director of  "Palindromo", which has won its fourth festival award - an Honourable Mention for "Best Sci-Fi" at the Screen Power Film Festival (SPFF) in London. 

"Palindromo" is an animated short created at Escape Studios, written and directed by Paolo Amadini, and overseen by Supervising Tutor Amedeo Beretta. 

Palindromo

"Palindromo" is a science-fiction short exploring the logical conundrum behind time travel, written and directed by Paolo Amadini, a student at Escape Studios, studying for his MA in the Art of Computer Animation.  

"Palindromo" was completed as part of the final MA animation module, in which students complete a short film either as a solo project or as a group collaboration.

To watch "Palindromo", see the video below. It is just over two minutes long.

Palindromo - Animated Short Film Symmetric in Time and Space from Paolo Amadini on Vimeo.

About "Palindromo"
"Palindromo" translates into English as "palindrome", meaning a short sentence which is spelled the same forwards and backwards (a famous example of a palindrome is: "a man, a plan, a canal, Panama"). Why is Paolo's film called Palindromo? Watch the short to find out - it is just two minutes long.

Paolo Amadini

About Paolo Amadini
Paolo Amadini is a student at Escape Studios, studying for his MA in 3D Animation.  

A capable animator and 3D Generalist, Paolo also worked as an animator on the award-winning short film "Moon Rockz".  "Moon Rockz" recently won "Most Witty Animation" at the Animafantasia Film Festival, and also won "Best Sci-Fi" at the Flicks Film Festival.

Festival Success

This is the fourth festival award for "Palindromo", which also won

• Hon Mention at Screen Power Film Festival
• "Best Animation" and also "Best Sci-Fi" at the Flicks Film Festival in London 
• "Honourable Mention" at the Prague International Film Festival. 

"Palindromo" at the IMDB

You can find "Palindromo" at the IMDB here. 

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