OIAF announces winners

(Source; Toon Zone)

The Ottawa Internation Animation Festival announced the 2006 winners for the various competitions on the last night of the festival. Festival goers then watched a special screening of the best films in each category.

Here they are:

- Mercury Filmworks Prize for Animated Feature: The Christies (Spectre Films, UK) dir: Phil Mulloy

- Nelvana Grand Prize for Best Independent Short Animation: Dreams & Desires: Family Ties (Beryl Productions International Ltd, Wales, UK) dir: Joanna Quinn

- Grand Prize for Best Student Animation: Mr. Schwartz, Mr. Hazen & Mr. Horlocker (FH

Wiesbaden University of Applied Sciences, Germany) dir: Stefan Mueller

- Grand Prize for Best-Commissioned Animation: FedEx: Stick (Framestore NY, USA) dir: David Hulin

- Animation School Showreel:

Filmakademie Baden-Wuerttemburg (Germany)

- Narrative Short Animation Under 35 Minutes: Here and There (Ici par ici) (National Film Board of Canada, Canada) dir: Obom

- Experimental / Abstract Animation Under 35 Minutes:

Jeu (Studio GDS, National Film Board of Canada & Télévision Suisse Romandes, Switzerland) dir: Georges Schwizgebel

- Adobe Prize for Best High School Animation: Check (Bighead Productions, Canada) dir: Samuel MacKinnon

- Undergraduate Animation: The Building (GOBELINS, l'école de l'image, France) dir: Marco Nguyen, Pierre Perifel, Xavier Ramonede, Olivier Staphylas & Rémi Zaarour

- Graduate Animation: Mr. Schwartz, Mr. Hazen & Mr. Horlocker (FH Wiesbaden University of Applied Sciences, Germany) dir: Stefan Mueller

- Promotional Animation: FedEx: Stick (Framestore NY, USA) dir: David Hulin

- Music Video: Jason Forrest: War Photographer dir: Joel Trussell (USA)

- Television Animation for Adults: Journey to the Disney Vault dir: Robert Marianetti, David Wachtenheim &

Glenn Steinmacher (USA)

- Animation Short Made for the Internet:

It's JerryTime!: The Brute (Ozone Inc., USA) dir: Orrin Zucker

- Kutoka Prize for Best Short Animation Made for Children: The Man Who Walked Between the Towers (Michael Sporn Animation Inc., USA) dir: Michael Sporn

- Collideascope Award for Television Animation for Children: Codename Kids Next Door: Operation L.I.C.O.R.I.C.E. (Mr. Warburton/

Curious Pictures, USA)

- National Film Board of Canada Public Prize: Jaime Lo - Small and Shy (National Film Board of Canada, Canada) dir: Lillian Chan

- Canadian Film Institute Award for Best Canadian Animation: The Man Who Waited (L'homme qui attendait) (National Film Board of Canada, Canada) dir: Theodore Ushev

- Teletoon Canadian Student Animation Scholarship:

Entrance Competition:

1. Check dir: Samuel MacKinnon (Bighead Productions, Canada)

2. Bruno dir: Aven Fisher (Canada)

3. The Little Girl Who Stares dir: Cleo Halfpenny (Canada)

Continuing Education Competition:

1. 2 dir: Kim Anderson (Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema & Quickdraw Animation Society, Canada)

2. Umbrella Boy (2005) dir: Andrew Ross (Sheridan College & House of Cool, Canada)

3. Pinch (2006) dir: Jody Kramer (Emily Carr Institute, Canada)

Most Promising Student Competition

1. L'Or Rouge dir: Kent Hugo (Sheridan College, Canada)

2. Late Night Comedy dir: Chay Edry (Sheridan College)

3. Animation Test Pilot dir: Brad Kinley (Sheridan College, Canada)

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