Ottawa International Animation Festival Announces 2020 Winners
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Leave This Town, by Mariusz Wilczynski (left) and KKUM, by Kang-min Kim (right)
The Ottawa International Animation Festival (OIAF), North America’s leading animated film festival, has announced the winners of the 44th annual OIAF.
The OIAF received a total of 1950 entries from 84 countries and selected 98 for competition.
The Nelvana Grand Prize for Independent Short has been awarded to KKUM by Kang-min Kim
The Grand Prize for Feature Animation has been awarded to Kill it and Leave This Town by Mariusz Wilczynski
The Public Prize has been awarded to KKUM by Kang-min Kim. It is only the third time in the long-running history of the OIAF that the same film has won both the public and the grand prize.
This year’s Short, Feature and Young Audience Competition screenings were judged by three official juries.
The Competition Feature Jury featured Brandon Blommaert, Lise Fearnley, and Amy Kravitz. Blommaert is a Montreal-based artist who has a diverse practice, including both experimental and narrative film-making, sound and still image creation. Fearnley, who co-founded the Norwegian studio Mikrofilm, has produced more than 30 animated shorts and a broad range of commissioned films. Kravitz’s animation is a testimony to the intimate collaboration between viewer and maker, and her singular teaching methods encourage students to develop individual approaches to the medium of animation.
The Competition Short Jury included Pixie Cram, Donald McWilliams and Wong Ping. Cram is a filmmaker and animator whose work centers on themes of nature, technology, and war; her films have screened at festivals across North America, Europe and in China. McWilliams was nominated for an Oscar as producer and editor of Sunrise over Tiananmen Square, taught experimental animation and documentary production in Norway, and has been a part of the NFB Animation Studio for four decades. Ping is a self-taught animator who creates light-hearted, humorous, and accessible approaches to deep psychological issues experienced by the protagonists in his films.
The Kids Jury, composed of North American children between the ages of 8-12, judged the Young Audiences: Preschool and Ages 6-12 Competitions.
The Festival award statues are designed by Ottawa-based, scrap metal artist Tick Tock Tom. The statues are working phénakisticopes featuring an animation by New York artist George Griffin.
The Festival continues Oct 3 and 4. Audiences have an opportunity to watch all the Official Competition screenings On-Demand as well as the Meet the Filmmaker sessions, special screenings, and many of Festival’s professional development talks.
Individual tickets are available for $9 or for binge-watchers, grab a weekend passes for $40.
On Sunday, October 4, passholders and ticket-buyers can view two Best of OIAF2020 screenings, which will include the award-winners and some other festival favourites.
Buy here: http://oiaf2020.eventive.org/
Students can get a $30 Netflix pass: Buy here: http://oiaf2020.eventive.org/