In 2022 there are more animated series available than ever before resulting in a high volume of submissions received by the Ottawa International Animation Festival (OIAF). From those submissions, eight animated works were selected to compete in this year’s Animated Series competition:
- Big Mouth – “A Very Big Mouth Christmas” (dir. Henrique Jardim, United States)
- Educational TV (dir. Pablo Marcovecchio, Marco Caltieri; Uruguay)
- Magical Caresses – Masturbation: “A Short History of a Great Taboo” (dir. Lori Malépart-Traversy, Canada)
- My Year of Dicks: “Sex Talk” (dir. Sara Gunnarsdóttir; United States, Iceland)
- Safe Mode: “Lana Among the Lilies” (dir.Justin Tomchuk, Canada)
- SWOP – “Dentist” (dirs. Job, Joris & Marieke; Netherlands)
- The Boys Presents: Diabolical – “John and Sun-Hee” (dir. Steve Ahn, United States)
- The Great List of Everything: “Bathtub” (dir. Francis Papillon, Canada)
“These are not your standard Saturday morning cartoons,” says OIAF Artistic Director Chris Robinson. “Swearing, nudity, sex, and anything explicit is what makes the Animated Series Competition so compelling.”
Netflix’s hit animated series about hormonal preteens, Big Mouth, returns to the OIAF (previously selected in 2019 and 2020) with a comedic Christmas episode featuring multiple animation styles.
Gunnarsdóttir’s My Year of Dicks: “Sex Talk” and Magical Caresses – Masturbation: “A Short History of a Great Taboo” joins Thomchuk’s Safe Mode: “Lana Among the Lillies” and Ahn’s The Boys Presents: Diabolical – “John and Sun-Hee” as adult-favorite animations in the Competition.
Sex Talk, a story about a young girl determined to lose her virginity, won an Annecy Cristal for TV Production at this year’s Festival.
The TV projects join the previously announced feature film competition selection.
OIAF 2022 runs from September 21-25 at venues throughout the Ottawa downtown core. Passes are available for purchase through the OIAF Box Office and individual tickets will be available closer to the Festival dates.
