Awards


AWARDS 

LUMIERE AWARD
Winner - 'Best Visual VR Content' | Stereopsia 2018, Brussels
for CONSCIOUS EXISTENCE

SIGGRAPH ASIA 
Winner 'Best Student Project' | 2015, Japan
for NATURAL ATTRACTION

GRAND PRIX VR AWARD
Winner | Courant 3D 2019, France
for CONSCIOUS EXISTENCE

KINGBONN AWARD
Winner 'Best Visual Effects' | CSFF 2018
for PARIS YOU GOT ME

NEW YORK CINEMATOGRAPHER AWARD
Winner 'Best Visual Effects' | New York, 2020
for PARIS YOU GOT ME
COUP DE COEUR
Winner | 360 Filmfestival Screen4All 2016, France
for LONGONG FOR WILDERNESS

SACEM AWARD
Winner - De la composition musicale immersive - Courant 3D 2019, France
for CONSCIOUS EXISTENCE

15th ISFF PÍSEK 
'Best Interpretation of The Use of Technology'
for NATURAL ATTRACTION

FOUNDERS AWARD 
Winner | North Carolina Film Awards, 2015
for NATURAL ATTRACTION

14th ISFVF BEIJING FILM ACADEMY
Winner - 'Audience Award'
for NATURAL ATTRACTION

INTERNATIONAL NATURE FILM FESTIVAL
 Winner - 'Best Animation' | Gödöllö 2016
for NATURAL ATTRACTION

4th AZORES FRINGE FESTIVAL
Winner - 'Audience Award'
for NATURAL ATTRACTION

BIFFF 2019
'Special Mention' VR Experience | Brussels
for CONSCIOUS EXISTENCE

8th SPARK ANIMATION
Special Jury Mention - 'Best VFX'
for NATURAL ATTRACTION


2nd INTERNATIONAL YOUTH FILM FESTIVAL LANGESUND 
'Honorable Mention'
for NATURAL ATTRACTION


9th OPORTO INTERNATIONAL SHORT FILM FESTIVAL
'Honorable Mention'
for NATURAL ATTRACTION

QUEEN PALM INT. FILM FESTIVAL
Winner 'VFX' | 2019
for PARIS YOU GOT ME

OKOTOKS FILM FESTIVAL
Winner 'Best Visual/Special Effects' | 2019
for PARIS YOU GOT ME

G-DRIVEN CREATIVITY AWARD 
Winner 'Best Animation' | 2013
for START WATCHING
NOMINATIONS

ANIMAGO AWARD 2015 
Best Student Project, Nomination
for NATURAL ATTRACTION

5th FESTIVAL LE TEMPS PRESSE 2015 
Climate Prize, Nomination
for NATURAL ATTRACTION

5th WATERSPRITE FILM FESTIVAL 
Animation Award, Nomination
for NATURAL ATTRACTION
ANIMAGO AWARD 2012 
Best Student Project, Nomination
for START WATCHING

VR NOW Grand Prize 2016
VR NOW Awards, Nomination
 for LONGONG FOR WILDERNESS
VRAHMMY! AWARD
VRHAM! 2019 Hamburg, Nomination
for CONSCIOUS EXISTENCE

ANIMAGO AWARD 2018
'Best AR/VR/360° Production', Nomination
for CONSCIOUS EXISTENCE

VR STORYRELLING AWARD
Lichter Filmfest 2019, Nomination
for CONSCIOUS EXISTENCE

SEHSÜCHTE INT. FILM FESTIVAL
'BEST 360° FILM', Nomination
for CONSCIOUS EXISTENCE

VR AWARD
Landshuter Kurzfilmfestival 2019, Nomination
for CONSCIOUS EXISTENCE

OFFICIAL SELECTIONS 
SIGGRAPH 2016 - Computer Animation Festival Electronic Theater
Aesthetica Short Film Festival 2019, UK
FNC Montreal 2019, Canada
CPH:DOX 2019 (Copenhagen, Denmark)
Byron Bay FF 2019, Australia
Sitges Cocoon 2019
4th ANNY Best of Fest XR Showcase
Maremetraggio ShorTS (Trieste/Italy)
BIFAN - Bucheon In.t Film Festival (Bucheon/South Korea)
VRHAM! Festival (Hamburg, Germany)
FMX Conference 2018 (Stuttgart/Germany, Sneak Peak)
Stereopsia 2018 (Brussels/Belgium, BOZAR)
VR NOW Conference 2019 (Berlin/Germany)
VR-Kinotour der Telekom (Berlin/Cologne/Munic/Hamburg - Germany)
Laval Virtual2019 - Showcase (Laval/France)
Series Mania 2019 (Lille, France)
Landshut Filmfestival 2019 (Landshut/Germany)
Oxford Int. Film Festival (Berlin, Germany)
Lichter Filmfest 2019 (Frankfurt/Germany)
Sehsüchte Int. Film Festival 2019 (Berlin/Germany)
Harlem Int. Film Festival 2019 (New York/USA)
Brussels Int. Fantasy Filmfestival (Brussels/Belgium)
Isola del Cinema 2019, Italy
TIFF Romania 2019
Shanghai Int. Film Festival 2019
2019 World XR Forum, Switzerland
Guanajuato Film Festival 2019, Mexico
Tacoma Film Festival 2019, Washington USA
Courant 3D 2019, France
35. Internationales Kurzfilmfestival Berlin - "Virtual Reality meets Full Dome"
VRE Fest 2019, Italy
Screen4all 360 film festival, Satis 2019
23rd Stuttgart Festival Of Animated Film 2015
Shorts At Moonlight Kurzfilmfestival 2015 
5th Ars Independent Festival
7th International Market 3d Wire
14th Innsbruck Nature Film Festival
22nd Visionaria - Competition
13th International Festival Of Outdoor Films
9th Klik! Amsterdam Animation Festival
Artfutura Festival 2016
11th Early Bird Student Film Festival
39th Cinanima – International Animated Film Festival
7th Cutout Fest - Competition
21st Filmschau Baden-württemberg
1st Lyon International Film Festival
6th Filums’16 Int’l Film Festival
2nd Göttinger Kurzfilmfestival
11th Durango Film – An Independent Film Festival
The Haida Gwaii Film Festival
7th Roanne Animation Short Film Festival
18th Independent Days International Filmfestival - Competition, Best Microfilms
12th Akbank Short Film Festival - Non-competitive Section ’perspective’
32nd European Film Festival Of Lille
18th Memminger Kurzfilmnacht Mauflimmern - Screening
4th Headwaters Film Fest 2016
4th Clujshorts – Int’l Short Film Festival
6th Capital City Film Festival
10th Taos Shortz Film Festival
26th Mediawave – Int’l Film Festival And Music Gathering - Int’l Competition
7th Film Score And Scruffy City Film & Music Festival
44th Festival Of Nations
51st Werkstatt Der Jungen Filmszene
Film Leben Festival 2016
18th Backup – Kurzfilmfestival Weimar - Back.up.art.screen Section
11th Hoboken Int’l Film Festival
14th Kimera Int’l Film Festival
12th Nouveaux Cinemas Festival
7th Hyart Film Festival
17th On Location: Memphis Int'l Film & Music Festival 2016
23rd Openeyes Filmfest 2016
5th Inigo Film Festival
4th Aiff – Ariano Int'l Film Festival
40th Open Air Filmfest Weiterstadt - Kurzfilm Poetry Slam
Indieflicks – Season 2. Ep 1
9th Filmzeit Kaufbeuren
4th Uni Shorts Int’l Student Film Festival
3rd Pigrecozen Filmfest
2016 Edition Of Underground Filmfest
3rd Navi Mumbai Int’l Film Festival
2016 Ludwigsburger Sommernachts-open-air-kino
...
REVIEWS 
Natalia Kaniak, Ars Independent Festival about NATURAL ATTRACTION:
"If Godfrey Reggio and Ron Fricke made animations, they would probably look just as majestic. [...]"

James Hedley (Director) about CONSCIOUS EXISTENCE:
"Thank you for taking me on this journey – it was hypnotic, mesmerising and emotional. I knew I was going to be in for a ride of a lifetime, it being your work, but wasn’t expecting that - came out of watching it and wanted to return to that state of mind. What I like about your work, Conscious Existence, is that you give the viewer the agency and the space to feel for themselves, rather than be told how to feel. It’s very special."

Juan Bossicard (Co-Founder New Digital Reality) about CONSCIOUS EXISTENCE:
"It really touched me on a very high level."

Philipp Verschüren (Hobby-Filmkritiker) about CONSCIOUS EXISTENCE:
"[...] Ihr Film ist ein Meisterwerk. [...] Die Raffinesse, mit der Sie die Existenz abbilden, sucht im Kino seinesgleichen. Gäbe es mehr Filmschaffende in Deutschland wie Sie, dann wäre das wunderbar. Wie Sie den kleinsten und größten Nenner des Seins bildlich verknüpfen ist brilliant. Wegen Ihres Werkes habe ich die VR-Brille vollgeheult, danke dafür, wirklich."

René Pinell (CEO Kaleidoscope) about CONSCIOUS EXISTENCE:
"It's beautiful. There is no one else I know who can create such beautiful environments and tell a story with those environments."

Dan Tucker (Curator Sheffield Doc/Fest) about CONSCIOUS EXISTENCE:
"One of the most beautiful VR pieces that I've seen in a long time."

Fred Galstun (CEO Sensiks) about CONSCIOUS EXISTENCE:
"These kind of creations can only come from divine inspiration. The only thing I am trying to sort out now is whether to call it beyond art or beyond EPIC. [...] your creations are touching something deep inside my soul [...} and it brings me right back to the right place and the right state of mind. Like somehow it resets the focus to the things that really matter, like mother nature is speaking through you."

CPH:DOX about CONSCIOUS EXISTENCE:
"The artist behind the VR-hit 'Longing for Wilderness' (CPH:DOX, 2017), Marc Zimmermann, is back with another visually stunning exploration of the Virtual Reality-medium, and our conscious mind."

Lichter Filmfest about CONSCIOUS EXISTENCE:
"Ein Feuerwerk aus Farben und Formen, Klängen und Musik generiert einen Bilderrausch, der vor allem eines feiern soll: die unendlichen Möglichkeiten eines entfesselten Geistes, das Geschenk des menschlichen Selbstbewusstseins. Mit großem Aufwand und technischer, sowie künstlerischer Finesse werden hier Bildwelten geschaffen, die noch lange im Gedächtnis nachhängen. Eine VR-Erfahrung, die nur im 360°-Raum ihre volle Wirkung entfalten kann und einlädt den Blick schweifen und den eigenen Gedanken, Gefühlen und Assoziationen freien Lauf zu lassen."

Fuad Abdi (Designer) about CONSCIOUS EXISTENCE:
"The day I experienced this master piece at CPH:DOX I was actually getting over a hangover, and this literally cured it. It was incredible. Thank you."

Yingran Zhao (Head of Clobal Content Acquisition, VeeR VR) about CONSCIOUS EXISTENCE:
"It was TRULY AMAZING. [...] I'm very impressed by your talent and I'm happy to see amazing talent in VR."

Ulrich Schrauth (Creative Director, VRHAM!) about CONSCIOUS EXISTENCE:
"Was für eine wundervolle Arbeit!! Ich bin absolut begeistert…"

"[...] Eine poetische Reise in wunderschöne Naturszenen, computeranimiert und befremdend real zugleich. [...] Die bildgewaltigen Welten von Marc Zimmermann berühren – und das kann eben nur VR auf einer ganz besonderen und viel direkteren Ebene. [...]"

Maxime Montagne (WIDE Management) about CONSCIOUS EXISTENCE:
"I watched it and I must say that I had a terrific experience. Something like experiencing Tree of Life in VR, there is something magical and poetical about it."

SIGGRAPH Conference Submission Jury about CONSCIOUS EXISTENCE:
"There are so many good things to say about this project. It's an amazing introspective experience that is one stunning visual after another. Some scenes I had difficulty discriminating between CG and reality. I liked the continuous camera motion forward. My favorite scene is the Aurora Borealis with the ocean reflecting it. I loved the organic particle simulations that swirled together and burst into colorful smoke."

"An extremely visually and conscience raising piece. I would put this over standard filmed 360 experiences due to all of the CG used to produce the imagery."

Paul Bouchard (Diversion Cinema) about CONSCIOUS EXISTENCE:
"[...] the team Diversion cinema has been really moved by this sensitive and spiritual journey. It is really well done and touching"

Axel Steinkuhle (CEO Evrbit) about CONSCIOUS EXISTENCE:
"Ein absolutes Highlight."

Michel Reilhac (Head of Studies at Venice Biennale College) about CONSCIOUS EXISTENCE:
"A beautiful piece."

Nancy Eperjesy (Co-Founder Mettle) about CONSCIOUS EXISTENCE:
"I love this project - really well done!"

Thomas Hoffmann (3D Content Hub) about CONSCIOUS EXISTENCE:
"Your visual language and animation skills are really outstanding."

David HJ. Lindberg (Filmmaker) about CONSCIOUS EXISTENCE:
"It was by far the best I've seen so far in VR when it comes to visuals and audio combined. But I also enjoy the subtle storytelling that lays behind the video that guide towards a spiritual experience but leave room for the audience to fill in some gaps of what it all means."
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