Ottawa International Animation Festival ’06 Sept. 20 – 24
This is the 30th anniversary year of the Ottawa International Animation Festival. It is the finest animation film festival on the North American Continent. This is a unique event in the world of animation and very worth your while. Besides, it’s in beautiful Ottawa. From the Ottawa Start:
Adding local flavour to the Festival, four Ottawa animators are included in this year’s selected films. John Mark Seck‘s Vissi d’arte, a gritty urban retelling of the tragic Puccini opera ‘Tosca,†and Chris Dainty’s Emma Graves, a quirky tale of talking tombstones,will make their world premieres in the Canadian Animation Showcase. Also selected for OIAF 06 are two talented high school animators: Michelle White’s Blinky Goes to the Movies, a light-hearted look at old movies, and Boris Maras’ Flash-animated Nedrick’s Misadventures in the Montgolfier will be competing as part of the TELETOON Canadian Student Animation Scholarship program. This program, now in its 9th year, gives young animators from across Canada an extraordinary chance to be recognized for their skills.
Other notable films include:
…Joanna Quinn’s hilarious ode to film-making, Dreams and Desires, which won the Grand Prize at both the Annecy and Zagreb festivals earlier this year; The Carnival of the Animals, a delightful musical erotic fantasy by Michaela Pavlatova; three-time OIAF Grand Prize winner Andreas Hykade (Ring of Fire) returns with The Runt; legendary New York animator George Griffin’s disturbing deadpan comedy, It Pains me to Say This; the Canadian premiere of Rabbit, Run Wrake’s magical adult fairytale; and Never Like the First Time by Swedish animator extraordinaire Jonas Odell, in which four people recount their first – and very different – sexual experiences.
There’s no where else in the world where you can view such an impressive list of animated films. If you can’t make it to beautfiful Ottawa (which is awfully damn hot this year, by the way) you can still participate in the fun via the OIAF podcasts. Mark you calendar now.
[tags]OIAF, Ottawa International Film Festival, animation[/tags]
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