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Seven features will compete in alongside new shorts from Don Hertzfeldt and Niki Lindroth von Bahr, industry talks, retrospectives, and Canadian showcases.
Don Hertzfeldt, Atsushi Wada, Anna Mantzaris, and Georges Schwizgebel land among the filmmakers competing at OIAF’s 50th edition.
OIAF’s biggest-ever feature competition features seven heavy films that show off the tremendous emotional range of animated storytelling. Bring your tissues.
Canadian gem ‘The Girl Who Cried Pearls’ and other standout shorts, features, and student films were also celebrated as this year’s festival wrapped things up.
This year’s fest received 2,850 submissions from 99 countries, with six features and 79 shorts selected for official competition.
The series is created by ‘Hilda’ director and producer Andy Coyle.
The Ottawa win should help reinforce the fact that ‘Flow’ is one of the best animated films of 2024 and a real Oscar contender during the upcoming awards season.
We’ve put together a list of nine shorts that demonstrate the breadth and diversity available at this year’s Ottawa Festival.
A total of 124 were selected from 2,308 entries.
Canadian titles shone at this year’s event, and for the third consecutive year a Japanese short won the grand prize.
We’ve seen all 40 of this year’s competition shorts and picked out 10 that we think everyone at the festival should watch.
Among the selections is ‘Chicken for Linda!’ which won the top feature film prize at Annecy last month.
Japanese animation shone brightly at the 2022 Ottawa International Animation Festival awards on Saturday evening.
OIAF is back in person this year, with a jam-packed program for attendees eager to meet face-to-face after two years apart.
This year’s OIAF runs September 21-25.
The showrunner of Netflix’s new satirical series talks conspiracies and creative collaborations.
The festival looks to build on the “huge success” of its first virtual edition.
Craig McCracken’s new show “Kid Cosmic” premieres today on Netflix. He speaks with INBTWN Animation about creating his first serialized series.
The Ottawa-based service studio announced last fall that it is branching out into originals.
The studio currently has 15 original series concepts in its pipeline.
Ottawa’s Mercury Filmworks is operating at only 75% capacity during the pandemic.
There’s more animation jobs in Ottawa than there are qualified workers.