When Did Animated Shorts Get So Long? An Investigation Into The Uncomfortable Rise Of Long Shorts
As animation directors explore longer film formats, the trend is causing headaches for producers, distributors, festival programmers, and educators.
As animation directors explore longer film formats, the trend is causing headaches for producers, distributors, festival programmers, and educators.
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.
A slug doesn’t move any faster than a peeing scout.
“Bob Spit – We Do Not Like People” is the first Latin American feature to win the top feature prize at the Ottawa Int’l Animation Festival.
The festival’s program runs the gamut from indie to industry, tech talks to rare retrospectives.
The virtual edition of Ottawa will run from September 22 to October 3.
The festival looks to build on the “huge success” of its first virtual edition.
Polish film “Kill it and Leave This Town” took the feature film prize.
Nihei’s new film “Polka-Dot Boy” premieres this week at the Ottawa International Animation Festival.
The Ottawa International Animation Festival has picked 92 shorts and 6 features in competition for its 2020 edition.
An indie Japanese feature and an experimental short from Austria won the top prizes at Ottawa 2019.
For his new film, acclaimed animator Theodore Ushev adopted a style of painting pioneered by Egyptians thousands of years ago.