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Award winners • join us in 2011 • oiaf gift ideas • best of ottawa 2010
We are pleased to finally share the good news with our newsletter audience! Here are the award-winning films for 2010: The External World (dir. David O'Reilly) won the $3000 Nelvana Grand Prize for Best Independent Short Animation. The Grand Prize for Best Animated Feature went to Goodbye Mister Christie by Phil Mulloy. Dustin Grella won the Walt Disney Animation Studios Grand Prize for Best Student Animation for his moving Prayers for Peace. In the competitive Commissioned Animation category, the 2010 Grand Prize went to Going West by Martin Andersen and Line Andersen. For a full list of prize winners, click here. All the prize winners took home one of our fantastic awards created by designer Tick Tock Tom. We hope they all made it through customs!
Fans of outdoor pumpkin carving, rejoice! The Festival is moving back to September for 2011 (that means our business event TAC is moving too). Look forward to a week of films, workshops and parties - not to mention warmer weather! Next year's festival will take place September 20 - 24.
ATTENTION LAST-MINUTE HOLIDAY SHOPPERS! Festival merchandise is now available at a very festive price. Have a look and give us a call!
The Best of Ottawa is a touring program showcasing audience favorites and award winners from this year's Festival. The 2010 tour selections include such extraordinary films as: David O'Reilly's grand prize-winning The External World; the pulsating metamorphic madness of Andreas Hykade's Love & Theft; Dustin Grella's deeply moving and brilliantly executed award-winning film Prayers for Peace; the mesmerizing crowd-favourite Sinna Mann (Angry Man) by Anita Killi; the snap crackling goodness of Masaki Okuda's Kuchao (A Gum Boy); and Joseph Pierce's twisted narrative short, A Family Portrait. For a full list of all the films, . The Best of Ottawa program tours internationally from November 2010 until mid-September 2011. Be sure to ask your local theatre, school, or film organization about the Best of Ottawa 2010 program. For more information about Best of Ottawa 2010, or to book a screening date, please contact the Festival offices at 613-232-8769 or info@animationfestival.ca
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