The 30th Ottawa Int’l Animation Festival came to a close on Sunday, Sept. 24, 2006, with the awarding of its prizes. The jury consisting of Konstantin Bronzit, Rob Coleman and Jeff Scher awarded the Nelvana Grand Prize for Best Independent Short Animation to Joanna Quinn’s DREAMS & DESIRES: FAMILY TIES, which previously in the year won three awards at Annecy.

The Grand Prize for Best Commissioned Animation went to FedEx STICK, directed by Framestore New York’s David Hulin, which also won the prize for Promotional Animation.

The Student Grand Prize was awarded to MR. SCHWARTZ, MR. HAZEN & MR. HORLOCKER, which was helmed by Stefan Mueller of FH Wiesbaden University of Applied Sciences in Germany.

The international jury for features, school and new media competitions consisted of Bruno Brozzetto, Arnaldo Galvao and Jonathan Hodgson.

Below is a complete list of winners.

Nelvana Grand Prize for Best Independent Short Animation
DREAMS & DESIRES: FAMILY TIES
Joanna Quinn

Grand Prize for Best Commissioned Animation
FedEx STICK
David Hulin

Grand Prize for Best Student Animation
MR. SCHWARTZ, MR. HAZEN & MR. HORLOCKER
Stefan Mueller

National Film Board of Canada Public Prize
JAIME LO – SMALL AND SHY
Lillian Chan

Canadian Film Institute Award for Best Canadian Animation
THE MAN WHO WAITED (L’HOMME QUI ATTENDAIT)
Theodore Ushev

Honorable Mention
CHANGING EVAN
Steven Woloshen

Mercury Prize for Best Animated Feature
THE CHRISTIES
Phil Mulloy

Best Animation Show Reel
Filmakademie Baden-Wuerttemberg

Best Narrative Short under 35 Minutes
HERE AND THERE (ICI PAR ICI)
Obom

Honorable Mention
THE CARNIVAL OF ANIMALS (KARNEVAL ZVIRAT)
Michaela Pavlatova

Best Experimental/ Abstract Animation under 35 Minutes
JEU
Georges Schwizgebel

Honorable Mention
BACKYARD SHADOW
Karl Staven

LIGHTNING DOODLE PROJECT [PIKAPIKA]
Takeshi Nagata & Kazue Monno

Adobe Prize for Best High School Animation
CHECK
Samuel MacKinnon

Honorable Mention
BLACK BOX
Hye Jin Park, Hyun Joo Song, Ji Na Yoon & Min Hee Jang

Best Undergraduate Animation
THE BUILDING
Marco Nguyen, Pierre Perifel, Xavier Ramonede, Olivier Staphylas & Remi Zaarour

Best Graduation Animation
MR. SCHWARTZ, MR. HAZEN & MR. HORLOCKER
Stefan Mueller

Honorable Mention
THE POSSUM
Chris Choy

Best Promotional Animation
FedEx STICK
David Hulin

Honorable Mention
United Airlines: DRAGON
Jamie Caliri

Best Music Video
Jason Forrest: WAR PHOTOGRAPHER
Joel Trussell

Best Television Animation for Adults
JOURNEY TO THE DISNEY VALT
Robert Marianetti, David Wachtenheim & Glenn Steinmacher

Best Animated Short Made for the Internet
IT’S JERRYTIME!: “The Brute”
Orrin Zucker

Kutoka Award for Short Animation Made for Children
THE MAN WHO WALKED BETWEEN THE TOWERS
Michael Sporn

Collideascope Award for Television Animation for Children
CODENAME KIDS NEXT DOOR: “L.I.C.O.R.I.C.E.”
Tom Warburton

TELETOON Canadian Student Animation Scholarship

Entrance Competition
1) CHECK / Samuel MacKinnon
2) BRUNO / Aven Fisher
3) THE LITTLE GIRL WHO STARES / Cleo Halfpenny

Continuing Education Competition
1) 2 / Kim Anderson
2) UMBRELLA BOY / Andrew Ross
3) PINCH / Jody Kramer

Most Promising Student Competition
1) L’OR ROUGE / Kent Hugo
2) LATE NIGHT COMEDY / Chay
3) Animation Test Pilot / Brad Kinley

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