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Sun Xun discusses the decade-long production of ‘Magic Atlas,’ its handmade animation, shifting visual styles, political themes, and spiritual ideas.
OIAF programmer Chris Robinson and his colleagues consider boycotts, Russian and Israeli films, and if artists should be judged by their countries’ actions.
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.
Filmmaker Matea Radic revisits war-torn Sarajevo decades later in ‘Paradaïz,’ blending memory, loss, and identity in a moving animated short.
This year’s fest received 2,850 submissions from 99 countries, with six features and 79 shorts selected for official competition.
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.