IMAGINA Prizewinners
Presented at the
21st Edition of the World Film Festival

Montreal, August 5, 1997 - The World Film Festival will feature the prizewinning productions from IMAGINA, the "forum of images beyond imagination," a yearly event organized by INA (Institut national de l'audiovisuel - France) and the Monte-Carlo Television Festival. IMAGINA, which celebrated its 16th anniversary last February in Monaco, is devoted to computer graphics, virtual reality, special effects, games, information highways and augmented reality. At the end of the festival, Pixel-INA Prizes were awarded to the world's best works created with this new technology.

The 50-minute program features fourteen award winning productions: Hommage � Jessie Owens et Carl Lewis, TV credits by Pitof; �Whatever you want� Tina Turner, a music video by St�phane Sednaoui; ADN, by Patrick Ch�reau and Marc Thonon, a look at our food, with a humorous twist; Tian An Menn by Buf Compagnie, a simulation of events in Tian An Men Square; a look at Tomb Raider, a video game by Core Design; a 3-D Western, Dust City, by Christophe Mutin, Olivier Dumont and S�bastien Drouin; and finally, Cahin Caha by Michel Bret. From Japan, Sakaretei by Koji Matsuoka, the attemps to give life to a robot; from Great Britain, scenes from Sticky Business, a strange night with Ed and Ed; from Belgium, we take a ride with Ray Spencer's Superstition. From the U.S., clips from Joe's Apartment �Funky Towel� by Jon Payson and Tim Burton's Mars Attacks!; a look at the mathematical link between science and art in David Fisher's Fibonacci and the Golden Mean, and finally, a commercial, GMV1 �Appliances� by Joe Johnston.