Best of Ottawa International Animation Festival Screening
Thursday, July 15, 2010, 7 PM
NFB Cinema, 150 John Street, Toronto ON
$6, $4 for TAIS members, students, seniors, Front Row passholders

Enjoy highlights from the 2009 edition, co-presented by the Toronto Animated Image Society and the NFB Mediatheque. The Ottawa International Animation Festival (OIAF) is the largest of its kind in North America, attracting film buffs, art lovers, filmmakers, and cartoon fans from around the world to the nation's capital. The 2010 Festival takes place October 20th-24th.

Featuring:

OIAF 2009 Signal Film
Julian Grey, Canada | 2009 | 0:45

Love on the Line
G Melissa Graziano, USA | 2008 | 5:00

Mac the Horny Mac Daddy
Ian Miller, USA | 2009 | 1:07

Postalolio
Marv Newland, Canada & USA | 2008 | 5:02

Please Say Something
David OReilly, Ireland & Germany | 2009 | 10:00

The Bellow's March
Eric Dyer, USA | 2009 | 5:00

Chick (Laska)
Michal Socha, Poland | 2008 | 5:03

The Black Dog's Progress
Stephen Irwin, UK | 2008 | 3:15

Magic Cube and Ping-Pong
Lei Lei, China | 2009 | 4:07

The Art of Drowning
Diego Maclean, Canada | 2009 | 2:07

History of the Meat Packing District
Gary Leib, USA | 2008 | 1:01

MGMT 'Kids'
Christy Karacas & Ray Tintori, USA | 2009 | 6:11

The Terrible Thing of Alpha-9!
Jake Armstrong, USA | 2009 | 5:45

Madagascar, A Journey Diary (Madagascar, carnet de voyage)
Bastien Dubois, France | 2009 | 11:30

Inherent Obligations (Kaasündinud Kohustused)
Rao Heidmets, Estonia | 2008 | 10:00

For more info, visit the TAIS website at www.tais.ca or the NFB Toronto Mediatheque website at www.onf-nfb.gc.ca/eng/mediatheque

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This year's edition of the festival was planned as seventh days event with two film competitions: students' etudes from art and film schools all over the world-ETIUDA COMPETITION and short animation, equally professional, student and independent one-ANIMA COMPETITION.

Festival's competitions programme will be enriched by many accompanying events - one of them are Animators' self-portraits (during which, while the artists are present, the audience will get to know works of: Piotr Dumala, Paul Bush and Joanna Quinn). Also festival programme will show the artists of artistic animation who after a long time making only short films started to make long feature films: T. Burton, W. Borowczyk, Brothers Quay,  J. Svankmajer and others.   At the beginning of the festival there are going to be announced results of plebiscite being prepared since March – 50 Animated Films for 50th Jubilee of ASIFA (Association Internationale du Film du d’Animation).
Finally, at the festival, there will appear long expected point of program:  comics and animation. They are two separated disciplines of art which however have a few common essential features. At present there is boom for them and more and more people of different age are interested in them.

Within seven days, for the fourth time, there will take place animation, screenplay, directing, camera and editing workshops. It is very important point of program of the festival which has good number of participants. It is directed especially to young people (pupils and students) but it doesn't exclude any of age group. For the workshops' leaders we try to invite the best lecturers and artists working in film and art schools abroad but especially in Poland.

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Nancy Denney-Phelps reports back from the 50th Annecy festivities while Don Duga once again provides a vicarious sketchbook of festival highlights.

Tricky Women 2011 - Call for Entries!

The 8th edition of Tricky Women AnimationFilmFestival will take place in Vienna 10th - 14th March, 2011.
Tricky Women is the first and only festival of animated film that is dedicated exclusively to animation by women. The festival offers an international competition of animated short films realised by female artists and produced in 2009 or 2010.

The international forum Connecting Animation with its multimedia presentations and discussions provides information about the latest developments in the animated film market.

The deadline for applications for the preliminary selection is 30th October, 2010.
Awards:
Tricky Women Award of the City of Vienna worth 4,000 Euro
Synchro Film & Video Material Prize worth 1,500 Euro
Hubert Sielecki Award worth 500 Euro (for Austrian animation)
Audience Award

Awards and prize monies will go to the directresses of the films.

Find more information and the entry form on www.trickywomen.at.

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Starting today, the National Film Board of Canada (NFB) has its own iPad app, available free of charge at the iTunes Store or at the NFB's download page at NFB.ca.