The Best of Ottawa programme showcases many audience favorites and award winners from the OIAF Official Competition.
This year's highlights include Carlo Vogele's tragicomic Una Furtiva Lagrima, Hisko Hulsing's stunning grand-prize winner Junkyard, and the hilarious crowd-favourite I Am Tom Moody.
The screening tours internationally from November 2012 until mid-September 2013. Be sure to ask your local theatre, school, or film organization about the Best of Ottawa 2012 program.
We are now taking bookings for Best of Ottawa screenings around the world! For more information, or to book a screening date, please contact the festival office at 613-232-8769 or dominique@animationfestival.ca.
Best of Ottawa 2012: Canadian Tour
Running Time: 70 minutes
RECOMMENDED FOR MATURE AUDIENCES ONLY
Lay Bare | Paul Bush | Ancient Mariner | UK | 2012 | 6:00 Ballpit | Kyle Mowat | Sheridan College | Canada | 2012 | 01:45 A Morning Stroll | Grant Orchard | STUDIO AKA | UK | 2011 | 6:47 Sunny Afternoon | Thomas Renoldner | Austria | 2012 | 6:50 Rossignols en Décembre (Nightingales in December) | Theodore Ushev | Mtd:films | Canada | 2011 | 3:00 Rivière au Tonnerre (Thunder River) | Pierre Hébert | Vidéographe inc. | Canada | 2011 | 7:56 I Am Tom Moody | Ainslie Henderson | Edinburgh College of Art | UK | 2012 | 7:00 Gum | Noam Sussman | Sheridan College | Canada | 2012 | 1:00 Primus 'Lee Van Cleef' | Chris Smith | Chris Lenox Smith LLC | USA | 2012 | 3:24 Junkyard | Hisko Hulsing | il Luster Productions | Netherlands, Belgium | 2012 | 18:00 Una Furtiva Lagrima | Carlo Vogele | Luxembourg, USA | 2011 | 3:08
Best of Ottawa 2012: International Tour
Running Time: 71 minutes
RECOMMENDED FOR MATURE AUDIENCES ONLY
Ballpit | Kyle Mowat | Sheridan College | Canada | 2012 | 01:45 A Morning Stroll | Grant Orchard | STUDIO AKA | UK | 2011 | 6:47 The Great Rabbit | Atsushi Wada | Sacrebleu Productions | France | 2012 | 7:00 Sunny Afternoon | Thomas Renoldner | Austria | 2012 | 6:50 Rossignols en Décembre (Nightingales in December) | Theodore Ushev | Mtd:films | Canada | 2011 | 3:00 Rivière au Tonnerre (Thunder River) | Pierre Hébert | Vidéographe inc. | Canada | 2011 | 7:56 I Am Tom Moody | Ainslie Henderson | Edinburgh College of Art | UK | 2012 | 7:00 Gum | Noam Sussman | Sheridan College | Canada | 2012 | 1:00 Primus 'Lee Van Cleef' | Chris Smith | Chris Lenox Smith LLC | USA | 2012 | 3:24 Junkyard | Hisko Hulsing | il Luster Productions | Netherlands, Belgium | 2012 | 18:00 Una Furtiva Lagrima | Carlo Vogele | Luxembourg, USA | 2011 | 3:08
The screening tours internationally from November 2011 until mid-September 2012. Be sure to ask your local theatre, school, or film organization about the Best of Ottawa 2011 program.
12 Sketches on the Impossibility of Being Still | Magali Charrier | Royal College of Art | UK | 2010 | 8:00 Haru no shikumi (The Mechanism of Spring) | Atsushi Wada | Japan | 2011 | 4:20 The Renter | Jason Carpenter | USA | 2011 | 9:52 Joyz 'Electropia' | Noriko Okaku | UK & Japan | 2011 | 4:39 Blanche Fraise | Frédérick Tremblay | La Bande Vidéo | Canada | 2011 | 16:45 I'm Fine Thanks | Eamonn O'Neill | Royal College of Art | UK | 2011 | 4:30 Det Siste Norske Trollet (The Last Norwegian Troll) | Pjotr Sapegin | Norway | 2010 | 13:00 Moxie | Stephen Irwin | UK | 2011 | 5:15 The Goat and The Well | Ben Cady | University of Wales, Newport | UK | 2010 | 5:17
The Best of Ottawa programmes showcase many audience favorites and films awarded top honours from the OIAF Official Competition.
The 2010 Canadian and International touring programmes include such extraordinary films as: David O’Reilly’s grand prize-winning The External World; the pulsating metamorphic madness of Andreas Hykade’s Love & Theft; Dustin Grella’s deeply moving and brilliantly executed award-winning film Prayers for Peace; the mesmerizing crowd-favourite Sinna Mann (Angry Man) by Anita Killi; the snap crackling goodness of Masaki Okuda's Kuchao (A Gum Boy); and Joseph Pierce's twisted narrative short,A Family Portrait.
The Best of Ottawa program tours internationally from November 2010 until mid-September 2011. Be sure to ask your local theatre, school, or film organization about the Best of Ottawa 2010 program.
Best of Ottawa 2010 is only a sample of the outstanding animated works screened at the 2010 Ottawa International Animation Festival.
For a peek at what the Best of Ottawa has to offer check out the official trailer:
Don't miss out on the full festival experience!
Join us at the 2011 Ottawa International Animation Festival taking place September 21-25. The Best of OIAF 2010: CANADIAN TOUR
Running Time: 85 minutes
RECOMMENDED FOR MATURE AUDIENCES ONLY
OIAF 2010 Signal Film | J. J. Sedelmaier | J.J. Sedelmaier Productions, Inc. | USA | 2010 | 1:30 Playtime | Steven Woloshen | Canada | 2009 | 2:43 This is love | Lei Lei | China | 2010 | 3:00 LGFUAD | Kelsey Stark | Pratt Institute | USA | 2010 | 4:22 Little Deaths | Ruth Lingford | USA | 2010 | 11:00 Sorry film not ready | Janet Perlman | Hulascope Studio Inc. | Canada | 2010 | 0:56 Midtown Twist | Gary Leib | Twinkle LLC | USA | 2009 | 1:06 Sinna Mann (Angry Man) | Anita Killi | Trollfilm as | Norway | 2010 | 19:52 Kuchao (A Gum Boy) | Masaki Okuda | Tokyo University of the Arts | Japan | 2010 | 3:48 La Traversée | Elise Simard | Productions Dark Holiday | Canada | 2010 | 4:30 Love & Theft | Andreas Hykade | Studio FILM BILDER | Germany | 2010 | 7:00 Prayers for Peace | Dustin Grella | School of Visual Arts | USA | 2009 | 7:38 The External World | David O’Reilly | David O’Reilly, Henning Kamm @ DetailFilm | Ireland, Germany | 2010 | 17:00
The Best of OIAF 2010: INTERNATIONAL TOUR
Running Time: 84 minutes
RECOMMENDED FOR MATURE AUDIENCES ONLY
OIAF 2010 Signal Film | J. J. Sedelmaier | J.J. Sedelmaier Productions, Inc. | USA | 2010 | 1:30 Playtime | Steven Woloshen | Canada | 2009 | 2:43 This is love | Lei Lei | China | 2010 | 3:00 LGFUAD | Kelsey Stark | Pratt Institute | USA | 2010 | 4:22 A Family Portrait | Joseph Pierce | fifty nine productions | UK | 2010 | 4:44 Midtown Twist | Gary Leib | Twinkle LLC | USA | 2009 | 1:06 Little Deaths | Ruth Lingford | USA | 2010 | 11:00 Sorry film not ready | Janet Perlman | Hulascope Studio Inc. | Canada | 2010 | 0:56 Kuchao (A Gum Boy) | Masaki Okuda | Tokyo University of the Arts | Japan | 2010 | 3:48 La Traversée | Elise Simard | Productions Dark Holiday | Canada | 2010 | 4:30 Prayers for Peace | Dustin Grella | School of Visual Arts | USA | 2009 | 7:38 Jean-François | Tom Haugomat & Bruno Mangyoku | CUBE CREATIVE | France | 2009 | 5:47 Blockhead ‘The Music Scene’ | Anthony Schepperd | USA | 2010 | 5:21 Sinna Mann (Angry Man) | Anita Killi | Trollfilm as | Norway | 2010 | 19:52 Love & Theft | Andreas Hykade | Studio FILM BILDER | Germany | 2010 | 7:00
The Best of Ottawa program showcases many of the outstanding films presented in our Official Competition. The 2009 program includes such exceptional films as: David OReilly’s award-winning sci-fi drama Please Say Something; the innovative and mesmerizing The Bellow’s March, directed by Eric Dyer; Diego Maclean’s haunting student film entitled The Art of Drowning; and the crowd-favourite travelogue Madagascar, A Journey Diary, by Bastien Dubois.
Best of Ottawa 2009 is only a sample of the outstanding animated works screened at the 2009 Ottawa International Animation Festival. Don't miss out on the full festival experience! Join us at the 2010 Ottawa International Animation Festival taking place October 20th-24th.
The program began touring internationally in November 2009 and wraps up at the beginning of October 2010. Be sure to ask your local theatre, school, or film organization about the Best of Ottawa 2009 program. For complete film details, click here to download the program in PDF format (15.9MB). For more information about Best of Ottawa 2009, or to book a screening date, please contact the Festival offices at 613-232-8769 or
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The Best of OIAF 2009 features:
OIAF 2009 Signal Film | Julian Grey | Head Gear Animation | Canada | 2009 | 0:45 Love on the Line | G Melissa Graziano | University of California at Los Angeles | USA | 2008 | 5:00 Mac the Horny Mac Daddy | Ian Miller | University of the Arts | USA | 2009 | 1:07 Postalolio | Marv Newland | International Rocketship Limited | Canada & USA | 2008 | 5:02 Please Say Something | David OReilly | David OReilly Animation | Ireland & Germany | 2009 | 10:00 The Bellow's March | Eric Dyer | Ride Pictures | USA | 2009 | 5:00 Chick (Laska) | Michal Socha | Platige Image | Poland | 2008 | 5:03 The Black Dog's Progress | Stephen Irwin | UK | 2008 | 3:15 Magic Cube and Ping-Pong | Lei Lei | Tsinghua University, Academy of Fine Arts | China | 2009 | 4:07 The Art of Drowning | Diego Maclean | Emily Carr University | Canada | 2009 | 2:07 History of the Meat Packing District | Gary Leib | Twinkle LLC | USA | 2008 | 1:01 MGMT 'Kids' | Christy Karacas & Ray Tintori | USA | 2009 | 6:11 The Terrible Thing of Alpha-9! | Jake Armstrong | School of Visual Arts | USA | 2009 | 5:45
Madagascar, A Journey Diary (Madagascar, carnet de voyage) | Bastien Dubois | Sacrebleu Production | France | 2009 | 11:30
Inherent Obligations (Kaasündinud Kohustused) | Rao Heidmets | OÜ Nukufilm | Estonia | 2008 | 10:00
The Best of Ottawa program showcases many of the outstanding films presented in our Official Competition. The 2008 program includes such exceptional films as: Andy & Carolyn London's thought-provoking A Letter to Colleen; The Comic That Frenches Your Mind, a brain-melting trip by veteran director Bruce Bickford; The Control Master, a hilarious and suspenseful adventure by Run Wrake; and the intense and award-winning film from Dennis Tupicoff, Chainsaw.
Best of Ottawa 2008 is only a sample of the outstanding animated works screened at the 2008 Ottawa International Animation Festival. Don't miss out on the full festival experience! Join us at the 2009 Ottawa International Animation Festival taking place October 14th-18th.
The program began touring across North America in November 2008 and wrapped up at the beginning of October 2009.
The Best of Ottawa 2008 program features:
OIAF 08 Signal Film [2008] Ian Lagarde | Fake Studio | Canada | 1:35
C'est toujours la même histoire (It's Always the Same Story) [2007] Joris Clerté & Anne Morin | Senso Films & Doncvoilà | France | 5:00
Cattle Call [2007] Mike Maryniuk & Matt Rankin | Canada | 3:11 I Slept With Cookie Monster [2008] Kara Nasdor-Jones | Massachusetts College of Art | USA | 3:27 The Comic That Frenches Your Mind [2008] Bruce Bickford | USA | 5:28 A Letter To Colleen [2007] Andy London & Carolyn London | London Squared Productions | USA | 8:36 The Mixy Tapes [2007] David Seitz & Mike Wray | National Film Board of Canada | Canada | 6:00 Último 'Spong Ice' [2008] Bolos Quentes Design | Bolos Quentes Design | Portugal | 3:02 | 2008 The Control Master [2008] Run Wrake | Sclah Films | UK | 6:45 Chainsaw [2007] Dennis Tupicoff | Jungle Pictures | Australia | 25:10
The
Best of Ottawa program showcases many of the outstanding films
presented in our Official Competition. The 2007 program includes such
exceptional films as Tom Brown & Daniel Gray’s award winning t.o.m., Aaron Augenblick’s hilarious Golden Age, Tibor Bancozki’s dark and disturbing Milk Teeth and the humorous John and Karen by Matthew Walker.
The 2007 Festival received a record number of entries, with 2078 film
submissions from 73 countries around the world. Of the entries
submitted, 97 were chosen to compete in the Official Competition, which
took place September 19-23, in Ottawa, Ontario. The selected films
competed in six main competitions: Feature Film, New Media, Independent
Short Films, Commissioned Films, Student Films and Animation Made for
Children. Prizes were awarded for each competition and individual
competition category.
The program began touring across North America in November and
wrapped up the beginning of September 2008.
The Best of Ottawa 2007 program features:
OIAF 07 Signal Film [2007] Jonas Odell, Anders Mehring, Jonas Dahlbeck, David Nord & Johanna Andersson | Filmtecknarna | Sweden | 0:35
Lapsus [2007] Juan Pablo Zaramella | JPZtudio | Argentina | 3:30
John and Karen [2007] Matthew Walker | Arthur Cox Ltd. | UK | 3:30
L'eau Life [2007] Jeff Scher | Fez Films, Originally published in TimesSelect | USA | 2:35
t.o.m. [2006] Tom Brown & Daniel Gray | International Film School of Wales | UK | 2:57
Doxology [2007] Michael Langan | Rhode Island School of Design | USA | 6:10
OOIOO 'UMO' [2007] Shoji Goto | Japan | 3:37
Framing (Bildfenster / Fensterbilder) [2007] Bert Gottschalk | Germany | 6:00
I Met the Walrus [2007] Josh Raskin | I Met the Walrus Inc. | Canada | 5:10
The Waif of Persephone [2006] Nick Cross | Do It For Me Productions | Canada | 12:26
The Old, Old, Very Old Man [2007] Elizabeth Hobbs | Spellbound Animation | UK | 6:38
Teat Beat of Sex [2007] Signe Baumane | USA | 4:00
Milk Teeth [2007] Tibor Banoczki | National Film and Television School | UK | 11:22
Golden Age (excerpt) [2007] Aaron Augenblick | Augenblick Studios | USA | 6:46
The
Best of Ottawa programme showcases many of the outstanding films
presented in its Official Competition. The 2006 programme includes such
exceptional films as Joanna Quinn’s award winning Dreams & Desires: Family Ties from the United Kingdom, past OIAF grand prize winner, Andreas Hykade’s The Runt, the energetic Mr. Schwartz, Mr. Hazen & Mr. Horlocker by German animation student Stefan Mueller and American Joel Trussell’s music video for Jason Forrest titled War Photographer.
The festival received a record number of entries with 1948 film
submissions from 66 countries around the world. Of the entries
submitted, 106 were chosen to compete in the Official Competition,
which took place September 20-24, in Ottawa, Ontario. The selected
films competed in five main competitions: Feature Film, New Media,
Independent Short Films, Commissioned Films, Student Films and
Animation Made for Children. Prizes were awarded for each competition
and individual competition category.
OIAF 06 Signal Film (2006) Nathaniel Akin & Bruce Alcock / Global Mechnic / Canada / 0:30 guy101 (2005) Ian Gouldstone / Royal College of Art / UK / 8:00 Dreams & Desires: Family Ties (2006) Joanna Quinn / Beryl Productions International Ltd / UK / 9:50
Mr. Schwartz, Mr. Hazen & Mr. Horlocker (2006) Stefan Mueller / FH Wiesbaden University of Applied Sciences / Germany / 7:40
Tyger (2006) Guilherme Marcondes / Brazil / 4:30 The Possum (2005) Chris Choy / California Institute of the Arts / USA / 5:20 Lightning Doodle Project [pikapika] (2006) Takeshi Nagata & Kazue Monno / Tochka Factory / Japan / 4:00 Rabbit (2005) Run Wrake / Sclah Films / UK / 8:30 Crossing the Stream (2006) Skip Battaglia / Skip Battaglia / USA / 4:00 The Runt (2006) Andreas Hykade / Studio Film Bilder / Germany / 10:00
The Carnival of the Animals (Karneval Zvirat) (2006) Michaela Pavlátová / Negativ Film Productions / Czech Republic / 12:00
Jason Forrest: War Photographer (2005) Joel Trussell / USA / 4:12 Who I Am and What I Want (2005) Chris Shepherd & David Shrigley / Slinky Pictures / UK / 7:30
The
Best of Ottawa 2005 is a rare opportunity to see the best of the best
in animation from Canada and around the world. The program features an
exciting array of animated films from the 2005 Ottawa International
Animation Festival.
The program
showcases animation in a variety of forms consisting of animated short
films, TV series and commercials, music videos, internet shorts and
more.
The Best of Ottawa 2005 program features:
2005 OIAF Signal Film | Will Krause | USA | 0:50 The Curse of the Voodoo Child | Steven Woloshen | Canada | 3:30 Ichthys | Marek Skrobecki | Poland | 16:41 Phoenix Foundation 'Hitchcock' | Reuben Sutherland | United Kingdom | 3:30 _grau | Robert Seidel | Germany | 10:01 Chestnuts Icelolly | JJ Villard | USA | 7:30 City Paradise | Gaëlle Denis | United Kingdom | 5:58 Overtime | Oury Atlan, Thibault Berland & Damien Ferrié | France | 4:55 Fish Heads Fugue and Other Tales for Twilight | Lauren Indovina & Lindsey Mayer-Beug | USA | 6:42 Die Toten Hosen 'Walkampf' | Andreas Hykade | Germany | 3:30 Morir de Amor | Gil Alkabetz | Germany | 12:40 At the Quinte Hotel | Bruce Alcock | Canada | 3:38
The
Best of Ottawa 2004 is a rare opportunity to see the best of the best
in animation from Canada and around the world. The program features an
exciting array of award-winning animated films from the 2004 Ottawa
International Animation Festival (OIAF).
The program showcases
award-winning animation in a variety of forms consisting of animated
short films, TV series and commercials, music videos, internet shorts
and more.
The Best of Ottawa 2004 program features:
2004 OIAF Signal Film #1 and #3 | Éric Barbeau & Théodore Ushev | Canada | 0:50 each The Revolution of the Crabs (La Revolution des Crabes) | Arthur de Pins | France | 5:00 Catch Me If You Can | Kuntzel & Deygas | USA & United Kingdom | 2:30 La Piccola Russia | Gianluigi Toccafondo | France & Italy | 16:30 Saddam and Osama | David Wachtenheim & Robert Marianetti | USA | 3:40 Candy Venery | Sergey Aniskov | Russia & USA | 2:30 A Musical Shop | Sonya Kravtsova | Russia | 12:30 The Shining In 30 Seconds, Re-enacted By Bunnies | Jennifer Shiman | USA | 0:30 Prudence ‘À Tort Ou À Raison' | Joris Clerte | France | 2:03 Creature Comforts ‘Cats or Dogs?' | Richard Goleszowski | United Kingdom | 8:45 Caisse D'Epargne ‘Les Triples' | Jean-Christophe Saurel & Sophie Deiss | France | 0:35 A Room Nearby | Paul Fierlinger & Sandra Fierlinger | USA | 27:00 This Land | Gregg Spiridellis & Evan Spiridellis | USA | 2:00 Son of Satan* | JJ Villard | USA | 12:30
The
program is now touring across North America and will wrap up the
beginning of September 2005. Be sure to ask your local theatre, school,
or film organization about The Best of Ottawa 2004 program. For
complete program details, click here to download the program in pdf format.
For more information on the Best of Ottawa 2007, or to book a screening date, please contact Jennifer Noseworthy at 613-232-8769 or
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*The
film SON OF SATAN may not be included in the Best of Ottawa 2004
program at certain venues. In this case, the festival will screen the
Best Narrative Short Film Grand Prize winner, RYAN by Chris Landreth.
The Best of Ottawa program showcases many of the outstanding films presented in our Official Competition. The 2009 program includes such exceptional films as: David OReilly’s award-winning sci-fi drama Please Say Something; the innovative and mesmerizing The Bellow’s March, directed by Eric Dyer; Diego Maclean’s haunting student film entitled The Art of Drowning; and the crowd-favourite travelogue Madagascar, A Journey Diary, by Bastien Dubois. 
The Best of Ottawa program showcases many of the outstanding films presented in our Official Competition. The 2008 program includes such exceptional films as: Andy & Carolyn London's thought-provoking 
The
Best of Ottawa program showcases many of the outstanding films
presented in our Official Competition. The 2007 program includes such
exceptional films as Tom Brown & Daniel Gray’s award winning 
The
Best of Ottawa programme showcases many of the outstanding films
presented in its Official Competition. The 2006 programme includes such
exceptional films as Joanna Quinn’s award winning 
The
Best of Ottawa 2005 is a rare opportunity to see the best of the best
in animation from Canada and around the world. The program features an
exciting array of animated films from the 2005 Ottawa International
Animation Festival.
The
Best of Ottawa 2004 is a rare opportunity to see the best of the best
in animation from Canada and around the world. The program features an
exciting array of award-winning animated films from the 2004 Ottawa
International Animation Festival (OIAF).