Kenji Ebisawa’s acclaimed feature On Gaku: Our Sound and Thomas Renolder’s Don’t Know What were the winners of the Grand Prize for Feature Animation and the Nelvana Grand Prize for Independent Short this weekend at the Ottawa Intl. Animation Festival.The OIAF received a total of 2,424 entries from 93 countries and selected 117 for competition.
Here is the complete list of the winners of the 2019 edition of the popular festival:
• Canadian Film Institute (CFI) Award for Best Canadian Animation
Physique De La Tristesse / The Physics of Sorrow by Theodore Ushev
Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eenzK-QQoIk
• Honorable mentions:
Finding Uranus by Ivan Li
Trailer: https://vimeo.com/326224810
Girl In The Hallway by Valerie Barnhart
Trailer: https://vimeo.com/291701376
• Animation For Young Audiences: Preschool
Winner: Le Tigre Sans Rayures (A Tiger With No Stripes)
• Animation for Young Audiences 6-12
Winner: Looney Tunes Cartoons: Curse of the Monkey Bird
Special mention: Matches and Teofrastus
• Animated Series
Bee and the PuppyCat: Lazy in Space, “Little Fingers”
• Best Script
Acid Rain
• Best Design
The Six
• Best Technique
Erodium Thunk
• Best Sound
Slug Life
• Virtual Reality
Gymnasia
• Commissioned Animation
Tricky Women 2019 Trailer
• Non-Narrative Animation
Erodium Thunk
• Animation Guild Student Award
Alfred Fauchet, Here and There
• Cartoon Network for Best Narrative Short
Slug Life
• Canadian Student Award
Finding Uranus, Ivan Li, Emily Carr University of Art and Design
• Vimeo Staff Pick Award
Girl in the Hallway
• Public Prize
Gravedad
• Nelvana Grand Prize for Feature Animation
Our Sound: On Gaku
• Nelvana Grand Prize for Short Animation
Don’t Know What
For more info about the Ottawa International Animation Festival (OIAF) visit www.AnimationFestival.ca.
