OIAF 2014 Winners Revealed
This year’s edition of the Ottawa International Animation Festival revealed its prizewinners yesterday, with the Luc Chamberland-directed NFB documentary Seth’s Dominion winning the major award for Best Feature and Piotr Dumala’s controversial Hipopotamy winning Best Short. Representing the UK were winners Mikey Please (Best Narrative Short) and Tim Divall (Best Graduation Animation), with Ainslie Henderson, Alex Grigg and Nicolas Ménard garnering honorable mentions. The full list of winning filmmakers follows:
GRAND PRIZE for Best Feature
Seth’s Dominion
Luc Chamberland, Canada
GRAND PRIZE for Best Short
Hipopotamy
Dir. Piotr Dumala, Poland
Best Short Honorable Mention
Butter Ya’ Self
Dir. Julian Petschek, USA
CFI Award for Best Canadian Animation
1000 Plateaus
Dir. Steve Woloshen
CFI Honorable Mentions
SOIF
Dir. Michele Cournoyer
MTL Rush
Dir. Matthieu Guimond
Public Prize
We Can’t Live Without Cosmos
Dir. Konstantin Bronzit, Russia
Best Narrative Short Animation
Marilyn Myller
Dir. Mikey Please, UK/US
Honorable Mention
Phantom Limb
Dir. Alex Grigg, UK/Australia
Best Laika Experimental/ Abstract Animation
Eager
Dir. Allison Schulnik, US
Honorable Mention
Totem
Dir. Caleb Wood, US
Walt Disney Award for Best Graduation Animation
Things Don’t Fit
Dir. Tim Divall, UK
Best Graduation Animation Honorable Mentions
Somewhere
Dir. Nicolas Ménard, UK
Crazy Little Things
Dir. Onohana, Japan
Best Undergraduate Animation
Lesley the Pony Has an A+ Day
Dir. Christian Larrave, US
Best High School Animation
Priorities
Dir. Gints Zilbalodis, Latvia
Best High School Animation Honorable Mention
Dance of Death
Dir. Choi Ye Won/Lee Young Guen/Park So Young, South Korea
Best Animation School Showreel
Rhode Island School of Design, US
Best Animation School Showreel Honorable Mention
Tokyo School of the Arts, Japan
Best Canadian Student Animation
Soupe aux Carottes
Dir. Charles Lavoie, Concordia
Best Canadian Student Animation Honorable Mentions
Lucy & the Limbs
Dir. Edlyn Capulong, Sheridan
MTL Rush
Dir. Mathieu Guimond, Concordia
Best Promotional Animation
2014 Holland Animation Festival Leader
Dir. Andreas Hykade, Germany/Netherlands
Best Promotional Animation Honorable Mention
Fight! (2013 Festival National du Film d’Animation)
Dir. Marc Roels, Belgium/France
Best Music Video
Christopher Bono – “Unity”
Dir. Tobias Stretch, US
Best Music Video Honorable Mention
James – “Moving On”
Dir. Ainslie Henderson, UK
Best Animation Series for Adults
Crime: The Animated Series
Dir. Sam Chou & Alix Lambert, US
Honorable Mention
Heaven’s Countryland Part 1: Childhood story of Kim Jong Un
Dir. David o’Reilly, US
Best Short Animation for Children
Magic Time
Dir. Kine Aune, Norway
Best Short Animation for Children Honorable Mentions
Anatole’s Little Saucepan
Dir. Eric Montchaud, France
The Fish-Tale Girl
Dir. Serhiy Melnichenko, Ukraine
Best Animation Series for Children
Les larmes du crocodile
Dir. Agnés Lecreux/Steven De Beul/Ben Tesseur, France
Best Animation Series for Children Honorable Mentions
Regular Show “The Last Laserdisc Player”
Dir. JG Quintel, US
The Scent of Carrots
Dir. Arnaud Demuynck/ Rémi Durin, France