StopTrik Festival took place in Maribor, October 27 – 30, and in Lodz, November 11 to 12. Dota won the Polish Audience Award during the International Borderlands Competition in Lodz. StopTrik is dedicated to stop motion techniques of hand-made animation such as puppet film, claymation, object or photography manipulation, salt and sand animation, pixilation, cut-out etc. Two years ago, Festival’s Grand Prix went to Simulacra by Ivana Bošnjak and Thomas Johnson (Bonobostudio).

This is the fourth award for Dota: after the Best Experimental Film Award at the Days of Croatian Film, the Best Animated Film Award at the Revue of Croatian Short Films and Special  Mention at Balkanima. Dota has been produced in Kinoklub Zagreb as a part of the 50th Anniversary of the Genre Film Festival – GEFF. It was screened since at many festivals: Animafest Zagreb, Annecy, Anima Mundi and OIAF, to name just a few.