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'Sita Sings the Blues' at Annecy


June 16, 2008 Stars and stripes flew at the 32nd Annecy International Animated Film Festival, which bestowed its top prizes on U.S. titles when the six-day toon-filled fest wrapped in the southeastern French town Sunday night. A feature film jury composed of "Simpsons" creator Matt Groening, Indian director Ram Mohan and U.K. filmmaker Barry Purves gave the Cristal for best feature to Nina Paley's "Sita Sings the Blues" and a special distinction award to Bill Plympton's "Idiots & Angels." About 115,000 tickets were sold for public screenings and 6,700 professionals from 63 countries attended the festival and parallel MIFA market, a 10% jump from last year.

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