The State Prize for Austrian Corporate Films 2011

We are proud to announce that our series of animated films for the ‘Salzburg Castles and Palaces’ has been awarded the state prize for Wirtschaftsfilm (Austrian Corporate Films) 2011.

Mauterndorf Castle: The Little Wishing Door, The Beetroot Coat of Arms
Salzburg Residenz Palace: Table manners, The Thigh Measurement
Hohensalzburg Fortress: The Lion Heads, The Bull Scrubbers
Hohenwerfen Fortress: The Imprisoned Prince Bishop, The Dumb Prisoner

Producer: Benno Pichler
Production Management: Magdalena Schön
Director: Leonard Leiter
Written by: Leonard Leiter, Mirko Da Col
Camera: Jochen Russmann
Lighting: Boris Steiner
Illustrations: Stephanie Sutanto
Animation: Leonard Leiter, Fabian Brugger, Lukas Thaler, Boris Steiner
Sound Recording: Peter Gstach
Sound Effects: Boris Steiner
Sound Mixing: Alexander Wieser
Narrators: Max Hoffmann (German), Gianfranco Licandro (Italian), Steve Crilley (English)
Translation: Mirko Da Col

Commissioned by Salzburg Castles and Palaces
Mag. Maximilian Brunner, Managing Director
Birgit Meixner, Marketing

Salzburg Castles and Palaces Animated Films

The Jury’s Statement:
“The films effectively break clichés and reach their enthusiastic target audience on the webpage and in guided tours. The techniques used are perfectly suited to communicating complicated content clearly and simply. That there is still room for such innovation and originality in the area of tourism films comes as a pleasant surprise.
Eight stories based on myths and legends originating from the Salzburg region that using elements of stop motion animation, originally and wittily call to mind the cheeky Monty Python films. They whet one’s appetite for more.”