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Official Ottawa Picks Include Coraline, Gromit and U2’s Crazy

Wednesday, August 05, 2009
By: Thomas J. McLean

Coraline, Mary and Max and $9.99 are among the official selections for feature films that will play Oct. 14-18 at the Ottawa International Animation Festival.

The festival, which chose 98 films representing 20 countries from a record 2,185 entries, also will screen such popular shorts as Wallace & Gromit: A Matter of Loaf and Death, Pixar’s Partly Cloudy, Cordell Barker’s Runaway and David O’Reilly’s animated music video for the song I’ll Go Crazy if I Don’t Go Crazy Tonight, from the new U2 album No Line on the Horizon.

The festival also will show 58 additional films in out-of-competition showcase screenings.

Also screening in the feature film category are Life Without Gabriella Ferri, My Dog Tulip, Edison & Leo and Mai Mai Miracle.

“One of the categories I’m really excited about is the animated feature category,” says artistic director Chris Robinson. “This is, by far, the strongest feature competition we’ve had to date. Normally we take a maximum of five films to compete in this category but this year it was too difficult to narrow it down, so we increased the competition to seven films.”

The complete list of films in the festival can be found at www.animationfestival.ca.

Reader Comments

  • chris Henderson : VP feature films : March Ent
    Thursday, August 06, 2009

    these HP pop up ads are unbelievably annoying! usually there is an \"x\" or \"close button, and in this case it lays over the article I want to read.
    can someone at Animation on-line please adjust this?

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