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| Yellow Sticky Notes | Canadian Anijam is an OIAF highlight |
The Ottawa International Animation Festival (OIAF) announced
today the programme for the 2013 edition of the festival. OIAF, Ottawa’s
largest film experience and one of the world’s top animation events, has an
impressive line-up once again. The 2013 festival, which runs September 18-22,
offers twice as many feature films in competition than it did last year, expanding
from four to eight, which will join ninety-eight short films in competition.
Fifty showcase films were also chosen for the festival. OIAF received an
impressive 1926 entries from 76 different countries.
Notable shorts include new work from festival regular Theodore
Ushev and the excellent anidoc Yellow
Sticky Notes | Canadian Anijam, which I reviewed early this year at Hot Docs.
Ottawa also has some strong presence at the festival, as the category for Best
Television Animation for Children will enjoy some local competition between two
films by local animators, as Ottawa-based brothers Chris and Martin
Kratt will be competing for with an episode of their hit series Wild Kratts, while local animator Dave
Cooper and Canadian animator Nick Cross offer Pig Goat Banana Mantis! The
National Capital will also be repped by Mike Geiger’s independently
produced Super Duper Super Hero:
Turtle and by Algonquin College student Spencer Moreland with Eternal Bliss.
The Feature Films in Competition Are:
Amina Buenos Aires
Dir. Maria
Ramirez, Argentina
-Canadian
Premiere
Couleur de peau (Approved
for Adoption)
Dir. Laurent
Boileau & Jung, France/Belgium
Cycle
Dir. Zoltan Sostai, Hungary
-North American Premiere
It’s Such a Beautiful
Day
Dir. Don Hertzfeldt, USA
A Liar’s Autobiography:
The Untrue Story of Monty Python’s Graham Chapman
Dir. Jeff Simpson, Bill Jones, Ben Timlett; UK
O Menino e o Mundo
(The Boy and the World)
Dir. Alé Abreu, Brazil
-World Premiere
The Pain and the Pity
Dir. Phil Mulloy, UK
Tito on Ice
Dir. Max Andersson & Helena Ahonen, Sweden & Germany
-North American Premiere
The full programme of features and shorts can be found on
the OIAF website.
