Japan | 76′
Swiss doctor Marcel Junod, head of the Red Cross delegation in Japan, arranged for the delivery of 15 tons of medicine and medical supplies to Hiroshima just after the atomic bomb was dropped on the city and personally treated the victims himself. There is a monument to Dr. Junod in a corner of Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park, but, unfortunately, few people are aware of his selfless achievements.
As an ICRC delegate, Dr. Junod plunged ahead through a war-torn era and saved ma...
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OIAF ANNOUNCES 2017 COMPETITION WINNERSThe Ottawa International Animation Festival (OIAF), North America’s leading animation film festival, announced the winners of its 2017 Official Competition today at an awards ceremony held at Saint Brigid’s Centre for the Arts. The OIAF received a total of 1992 entries and selected 105 short films and 5 feature films from 85 different countries.
The Nelvana Grand Prize for Independent Short went to Nikita Diakur’s Ugly, a simu...
thanks to NYTIMES
Nearly a decade after making his first foray into animation with “The Fantastic Mr. Fox,” the writer-director Wes Anderson returns to the stop-motion technique and focuses on another type of animal in “Isle of Dogs.” The trailer, released Thursday, reveals a futuristic Japanese landscape where dogs have been exiled after a flu epidemic. The story follows a boy who hijacks a plane and flies to the trash-heap in search of his missing pooch, Spo...
MIAFF is bursting into its 5th edition and will be a spectacular 5th year birthday party!
Call for entries are now open so take advantage of early bird rates until October 14
For festival strategy and consultation contact Animation Calling today!
With hundreds of submissions from all over the world MIAFF 5 will be screening your film alongside an ANIMAZING party to boot!
Animaze is an international film festival and conference dedicated to exploring the world of animation in all ...
Happening right now is the Ottawa Animation Film Festival happening all weekend long in Canada's capital of Ottawa.
Canadian Animators Shine Again at the OIAF
Ottawa International Animation Festival Competition Selections Announced
The Ottawa International Animation Festival (OIAF), North America’s leading animation film festival, is pleased to announce the Official Competition for 2017.
Several films are standouts with highly creative
t...
After the European Animation Plan's announcement at the Cartoon Forum last week, we would like to give you all the explanations you need.
The success of European animation may prove that the industry's growth lays in pursuing the same path of collaboration, innovation and creativity.
The animation sector has teamed up in a series of workshops organised by the European Commission to reflect how to unleash the potential of European animation. We would like to thank the Co...
You asked us, and we heard you! We've added the following categories for the 2018 Festival:
TV Pilots. This category is for pilots (first episodes) only of any genre. You may submit either a half-hour (21-28 minutes) or hour long (42-50 minutes) pilot.
Web Series. This category is for web series episode(s) of any genre. The maximum length for submission in 10 minutes, you may submit multiple episodes as long as the total runtime is 10 minutes or less. If your show is serialized in its stor...
SIMPLE ANIMATION CONTINUES WITH ITS WORLD LAUNCH AFTER THE SUCCESS IN SIGGRAPH 2017
Simple Animation, the first cloud based, virtual, animation studio that includes a free animation pipeline complete and scalable, was unveiled successfully during the Si...
winner takes selfie...ofcourse!
The happy winner's line gets longer!
PALMARÈS DU 41E FESTIVAL DES FILMS DU MONDE, MONTRÉAL 2017
Le lundi 4 septembre 2017
LONGS MÉTRAGES
Grand prix des Amériques (meilleur film) :
ET TOUT À COUP L’AUBE / Y DE PRONTO EL AMANECER de Silvio Caiozzi (Chili)
Grand prix spécial du Jury :
DEAR ETRANGER / OSANAGO WARERA NI UMARE de Yukiko Mishima (Japon)
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Mark your calendars! The ANNY Best of Fest is a TWO DAY symposium (Fri & Sat, Sept 29-30, 2017, 12pm-10pm) featuring animation screenings, fine art installations, virtual reality animation experiences, professional panels, and industry events at 180 Maiden Lane in the Seaport District of NYC.
Enthusiast Packages (FREE) and Industry Packages ($30) are available now! Reserve your tickets, today!
FESTIVAL SCHEDULE
ANIMATION SCREENING EVENTS
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Feature Films
Release from Heaven
by Ali Noori Oskouci
Islamic Republic of Iran
01:16:00
In a war torn country, a female writer and teacher has to accompany two of her students on a life changing journey.
Ali Noori Oskouci was born in 1981, Tehran, Iran. He is a graduate of art who has started his art career from high school as a photographer, cartoonist and film maker. He then majored in cinema and tried different genres including fiction, documentary and animation. Along with f...
by Quendrith Johnson, Los Angeles Correspondent
You can literally pin down three “F” words to describe nearly every Darren Aronofsky film from his early work in PI (1998) to best-loved film REQUIEM FOR A DREAM (2000) to Mickey Rourke in THE WRESTLER (2008) to Natalie Portman’s Oscar-winning turn in BLACK SWAN (2010) to obsessive Russell Crowe in NOAH (2014). Fixated. Fragile. Freakish. Herein lies the latest work by this Harvard-trained filmmaker, MOTHER!, complete with an exc...
First Name
Last Name
Project Title
Gerald
Potterton
Heavy Metal
feature
Clive
Smith
Rock n' Rule
feature
Laurie
Nicola
Gordon
Zavaglia
Ryan's Renaissance
documentary
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Laurie Gordon, Clive Smith and Melonny Melody with Festival Program Director KIRILL RAZLOGOV and programmer MARINA TOROPYGINA
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10 hours of canandian animation curated by Laurie Gordon for the Moscow Film Festival.
CANADIAN ANIMATED SHORTS COMPILATION
HEAVY METAL
ROCK ’N’ RULE
RYAN
RYAN’S RENAISSANCE
SPARE CHANGE
WALKING
WAPIKONI NATIVE CANADIAN FILMMAKERS SHORT FILMS COMPILATION
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The film, directed by Clive A. Smith, was part of the Canadian Animation Focus, programmed for the Moscow Festival by Laurie Gordon Animaze Festival Director.
The War was over, the only survivors were street animals, dogs, cats, and rats. From them a new race of mutants evolved, that was a long time ago
Rock & Rule was Nelvana's first animated feature film, and also the first Canadian animated feature to be produced in English.
Clive Smith and Melony Melody atte...
Studio 100 Film presents a new movie at this year’s Marché du Film: “100% Wolf” tells the story of Freddy Lupin, heir to a family of noble werewolves and desperate to become a werewolf himself! But on his 13th birthday, Freddy’s first transwolfation doesn’t quite go to plan when he turns into a ferocious, furry…poodle?! Just when Freddy thinks life can’t get any worse, he’s groomed against his will, chased into the streets and...
