This year the special awards of the 33rd International Young Audience Film Festival Ale Kino! – Platinum Goats – go to three artists we appreciate, admire and simply and straightforwardly – really like.

Zofia Ołdak is being awarded the Platinum Goats for lifetime achievement in films for children, in particular, for being a mom of ‘Chequered Doggy’. A series of films devoted to this friendly puppy brings joyful praise of children playing, full of spontaneous expression and creative enthusiasm, which is a fantastic way to explore the reality. The chequered doggy is a small everyman - like any child left alone at home, in a blink of an eye he can make his own, rich and vibrant world, and all that without a computer or smartphone! Today, when parents have less and less time for their kids, chequered doggy seems a very desirable companion. May he as often as possible pop up on the silver and television screens, as well as at computers, tablets, phones and all other modern devices.

Jerzy Armata is being awarded the Platinum Goats for the fact that he has been an actively engage companion of Polish cinema for children and youth for years, offering his aid, wisdom and perspicacious reflection. Two really smashing publications - "65 Years of Polish Animation for Children" (together with Natalia Chojna) and the "Polish Film for Children and Youth" (with Anna Wróblewska) - in a perfect manner show all the most important issues: a great history of Polish cinema for children, its outstanding artists, the current landscape and the problems that it nowadays faces. They are a compendium of knowledge, a highlight and a source of inspiration. We are convinced that books and speeches of Jerzy Armata are like artillery guns which with their salvos prepare the field for the attack for the renewal of Polish cinema for young audience.

Paul Driessen is being awarded the Platinum Goats in recognition of the great artistic individuality and the impact that his work has been creating for half a century on world’s animated cinema, including films dedicated for youngest viewers. Driessen’s films, although not intended for children, seem to be rich in childlike imagination, which expresses itself with the manner of storytelling, specific sense of humour, as well as a characteristic line. These features are particularly visible in our favourite movie - "The Boy Who Saw the Iceberg". In this picture created 15 years ago Driessen found a brilliant way to show the complicated relationship between the inner world of a little boy and the surrounding reality. This miniature, rich masterpiece carries an important message: many accidents could be avoided if we would just allow ourselves to entrust the sensitivity and imagination of the child.