Ottawa International Animation Festival

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The 2010 Best Animation School Showreel:
Tokyo Arts University (Japan)
The 2010 GRAND PRIZE for Best Animated Feature:
Goodbye Mister Christie by Phil Mulloy (United Kingdom)
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The 2010 Best Narrative Short:
This is love by Lei Lei (China)
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The 2010 Best Television Animation Made for Children:
The Gruffalo by Jakob Schuh and Max Lang (United Kingdom)
Honorable Mention:
Spliced ‘Helen’ by Matt Ferguson (Canada)
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The Canadian Film Institute (CFI) Award for Best Canadian Animation:
Lipsett Diaries by Theodore Ushev (Canada)
The 2010 Best Short Animation Made for Children:
Cul de bouteille (Specky Four Eyes) by Jean-Claude Rozec (France)
Honorable Mention:
Playtime by Steven Woloshen (Canada)
In the Beginning, a senior film made at RISD by recent grad Katie Wendt, recounts the Genesis creation myth with quirky cartoon touches and funny voice acting.

The film selections:
Watching films at #OIAF is like hitting yourself on the head with a hammer. It feels good when it stops.
Two prominent events this weekend in NYC… Tom Stathes’ Cartoon Carnival Halloweenie on Saturday, and the MoMA screening of rare Disney Laugh o Grams and Ub Iwereks cartoons on Sunday. Tom’s screening is a marathon of rare 16mm prints from his personal collection. It starts Saturday, October 30th at 2:00pm in Vaudeville Park (26 Bushwick at Devoe – L train to Graham St / G to Lorimer) in beautiful Brooklyn, New York. And don’t dare miss Serge Bromberg at MoMA on Sunday October 31st, hosting rare prints and providing piano accompaniment. Go! More info here.
Bill Plympton is in L.A. to open is new feature, Idiots and Angels. Bill has a special screening/autograph signing event planned for next Monday, November 1st at the Cinefamily/Silent Movie Theatre>. I’ll be there moderating a Q & A, and Bill will present a program of his classic shorts, new films, works-in-progress and a selection of vintage cartoons that inspired him! Bill’s session with us includes: Shuteye Hotel, a film noir murder mystery; Santa: The Fascist Years, which uncovers Santa’s un-jolly past (featuring Mathew Modine); clips from his forthcoming animated feature Cheatin’ and much much more. Click here to reserve your ticket.

Even more films:
I already let out a loud “F*ck” after one of the worst film today… @LittleAnimation was proud of me.
The 2010 National Film Board of Canada PUBLIC PRIZE:
Sinna Mann (Angry Man) by Anita Killi (Norway)
The 2010 Best Graduate Animation:
Prayers for Peace by Dustin Grella (U.S.A.)
The 2010 Best Television Animation for Adults:
Midtown Twist by Gary Leib (U.S.A.)
The 2010 Best Promotional Animation:
WWF ‘Heroes of the UAE’ by Josiah Newbolt and Ben Falk (United Kingdom)
The festival’s artistic director:
New levels of pompousness from Chis Robinson have been reached tonight.

The 2010 Walt Disney Animation Studios GRAND PRIZE for Best Student Animation:
Prayers for Peace by Dustin Grella (U.S.A.)
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Special Mention:
Fumiko no Kokuhaku (Fumiko’s Confession) by Ishida Hiroyasu (Japan)

The films again:
Those films will suck the life out of you #oiaf #fail #ineedadrink

(Thanks, Dick O’Connor)
French illustrator Beno?t Daffis has made a short film that is both stylish and poignant, Topper Goes To Space:

Opening next month is “Animators as Artists,” an exhibit at the Nan Rae Gallery at Woodbury University (7500 Glenoaks Blvd, Burbank, CA). The exhibit features personal work by eight animation artists―Rasoul Azadani, Mike Gabriel, Sunny Apinchapong-Yang, George Scribner, Margie Daniels, Mauro Maressa, Walt Peregoy, and Dan Hansen.

The 2010 Nelvana GRAND PRIZE for Best Independent Short Animation ($3,000 CDN):
The External World by David OReilly (Ireland/Germany)
Here’s an annual tradition from the Ottawa International Animation Festival that deserves more press. Every year during the festival, animator and professor Gary Schwartz shoots an experimental short―in exactly one day. This year, Gary used the striking techno-detritus festival awards, created by sculptor Tick Tock Tom,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], as the inspiration for his one-day stop-motion piece Fa Fha Pha.

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On Thursday October 28th I’ll be doing a book signing (at 6pm) and screening (at 7pm) to celebrate The 100 Greatest Looney Tunes Cartoons at the Wexner Center For the Arts at Ohio State University in Columbus. Join me, I’ll be screening several 35mm prints of classic cartoons on the big screen. Check the WexArts website for more information.

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The parties:
Getting ready for another day of torture here at the Ottawa animation film festival. Even the parties are not that great.
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Special Mention:
Tord och Tord (Tord and Tord) by Niki Lindroth von Bahr (Sweden)
“Railroad Non-Objective” (detail) by Walt Peregoy

Honorable Mention:
Rhode Island School of Design (U.S.A.)
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The reception is Wednesday, November 3, from 6-8:30pm. Make sure to attend, if only to kick it with the legendary Walt Peregoy who was responsible for color styling 101 Dalmatians. The exhibit runs through November 27. Regular gallery hours are Thursday-Sunday from 12-5pm.
Jerry and I both attended the Ottawa International Animation Festival and, like everyone else, had a wonderful time. Everyone that is except for Canadian animation artist Roxanne Ducharme who had a miserable week and tweeted every moment of the excruciating experience on her grouchily named Twitter account TrashCan Roxanne. Here’s a list of all the things she hated and why.
The 2010 Best Undergraduate Animation:
LGFUAD by Kelsey Stark (U.S.A.)
Honorable Mention:
Diversity by Anthony Dusko (U.S.A.)
The 2010 Best Experimental/Abstract Animation:
Little Deaths by Ruth Lingford

And apparently everybody else attending the festival:
In Ottawa with a bunch of lunatics
The 2010 Best Music Video:
Blockhead ‘The Music Scene’ by Anthony Schepperd (U.S.A.)

The closing awards ceremony:
No class watsoever here at the closing ceremony #oiaf #fail #chisrobinson
The 2010 GRAND PRIZE for Best Commissioned Animation:
Going West by Martin Andersen and Line Andersen (New Zealand)
Created in a four day animation workshop at Germany’s Burg Giebichenstein University of Art and Design, Susanne Wohlfahrt and Marcus Bl?ttermann’s funny take on the eternal struggle of cats and mice — finally put to rest Street Fighter style.
The winners of the 2010 Ottawa International Animation Festival were announced this evening at an awards ceremony. David OReilly took home the grand prize for his new short The External World while Phil Mulloy won the feature film grand prize for Goodbye Mister Christie. The members of the 2010 International Jury for the Short Program, Student and Commissioned Films were Frances Leeming (Canada), Munro Ferguson (Canada), and Maya Yonesho (Japan). The members of the International Jury for the Feature Film Competition were Atsushi Wada (Japan),[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], Torill Kove (Canada/Norway), and Michaela Pavlatova (Czech Republic). The complete list of winners is below:
(Thanks, Julie Svendsen)
The 2010 Adobe Prize for Best High School Animation:
Where is the love by Dae Woen Yoon and Joe Woo Shin (South Korea)