Award named after Børge Ring

The Danish Animation Society (ANIS), who’s hosting the Danish Animation Award every year in conjunction with Odense International Film Festival (OFF), have just announced that they will name the main award ‘The Børge Ring Award’. With the award comes a cash prize of EUR 2,000 plus a bronze statuette designed by the Italian resident British sculptor Joanna Mallin-Davies. The statuette will be inspired from characters from Børge Ring’s Oscar winning short animation ‘Anna & Bella’, which won the Oscar for Best Animated Short in 1985.
“Børge Ring is well-respected in the entire global animation community for his outstanding animations”, says Soren Fleng, Chairman of the The Danish Animation Society, and continues, “we think this is the right time for the Danish animation scene to show Børge our respect. He has inspired so many film makers, and now it’s our time to give him something back”.
The Børge Ring Award will be the main prize at The Danish Animation Awards and will be handed out for the first time on August 24^th.