Jul 16, 2016

Ottawa Animation selects 118 animation projects for the competition

The Ottawa International Animation Festival is just around the corner, and it promises to be an extra-special edition because the biggest and oldest animation event in North America is celebrating its 40th anniversary. The festival runs September 21-25.

The festival announced this week the official selections for its short and feature film competitions. From a total of 2,311 entries, Ottawa selected 111 short-form animation projects and 7 feature films for competition, in addition to 49 shorts for panorama screenings representing Canadian, international, and student animation.

“This is my 25th year with the OIAF and I can't recall a more challenging selection process,” said Chris Robinson, artistic director at OIAF. “Many good films-which in another year might have been selected-didn't make the cut. That's a great compliment to those that did and a greater one to the current state of international animation.”

Ottawa's short film competition presents an excellent opportunity to catch up on films from both up-and-coming talents and established filmmakers. This year offers the latest efforts by a great variety of esteemed animation creators including Phil Mulloy, Igor Kovalyov, Janet Perlman, Georges Schwizgebel, and Koji Yamamura, among others.

The seven features in competition are:

The full list of selections can be seen on the festival website.