PRESENTED BY: |
The Official Competition section of the Ottawa 08 International Animation Festival consists of works chosen by the Festival’s selection committee from a field of 2150 submissions. NOTE: Reserved tickets are required for the 9:00pm GALA screening on Saturday, Sept. 19th. If seating remains, rush tickets will be sold at the door 15 minutes before the start. Click here for more information.
Les oeuvres de la compétition officielle du Festival International d’Animation d’Ottawa 08 ont été choisi par le comité de sélection du Festival parmi les 2150 films proposés.
The best new animation from around the world is presented in the Festival’s edgiest competition screening. It features Ottawa 07 Grand Prize winner Aaron Augenblick’s outrageous Superjail!, The Comic that Frenches your Mind by legendary underground artist Bruce Bickford, and the world premiere of Drux Flux by the NFB’s Theodore Ushev.
| Film Title | Director(s) | Production Company | Nationality | Category | ||||
| 1. | Race Across the Rainbow | Jackson He | Don Mills Collegiate Institute | Canada | E - High School | |||
| 2. | Blind Spot | Johanna Bessiere, Cecile Dubois Herry, Simon Rouby, Nicolas Chauvelot, Olivier Clert & Yvon Jardel | Gobelins l'école de l'image | France | E - Undergraduate | |||
| 3. | Cattle Call | Mike Maryniuk & Matt Rankin | Canada | D - Experimental | ||||
| 4. | Último 'Spong Ice' | Bolos Quentes Design, Duarte Amorim, Albino Tavares, Miguel Marinheiro & Sérgio Couto | Bolos Quentes Design | Portugal | F - Music Video | |||
| 5. | Superjail! 'Combaticus' | Christy Karacas | Augenblick Studios | USA | F - TV for Adults | |||
| 6. | Nishimatsuya 'Mimi in Wonderland' | Yuichi Ito | I.TOON Ltd. | Japan | F - Promotional | |||
| 7. | Sea Dog's Devotion | Anna Kalus | Germany | D - Narrative | ||||
| 8. | Like Me, Only Better | Martin Pickles | Royal College of Art | UK | E - Graduation | |||
| 9. | Dialogos | Ülo Pikkov | Eesti Joonisfilm | Estonia | D - Experimental | |||
| 10. | Cats' Gathering | Makoto Shinkai | Comix Wave Films / NHK | Japan | F - Promotional | |||
| 11. | Saturday Night Live 'The Ambiguously Gay Duo #11' | J.J. Sedelmaier | J.J. Sedelmaier Productions, Inc. | USA | F - TV for Adults | |||
| 12. | DINO-ORANGE (How Birds Fly) | Lansing Bruce Robertson | Canada | D - Narrative | ||||
| 13. | Sony Bravia 'Play-Doh' | Frank Budgen & Darren Walsh | Gorgeous and Passion Pictures | UK | F - Promotional | |||
| 14. | The Comic That Frenches Your Mind | Bruce Bickford | USA | D - Experimental | ||||
| 15. | Big Baby 'Rookie' | Robert Marianetti & David Wachtenheim | W/M Animation | USA | D - Narrative | |||
| 16. | The Mixy Tapes | David Seitz & Mike Wray | National Film Board of Canada | Canada | D - Narrative | |||
| 17. | Drux Flux | Theodore Ushev | National Film Board of Canada | Canada | D - Experimental | |||
| 18. | 1st Date | Nils Knoblich | Kunsthochschule Kassel | Germany | E - Undergraduate | |||
|
||||||||