One World Film Festival
| October 11, 2012 | to | October 14, 2012 |
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The One World Film Festival brings together filmmakers, activists, students, and members of the public concerned about human rights and environmental sustainability. Now in its 22nd year, the OWFF features 5 programs of documentary film screenings, panel discussions, Q&As with visiting filmmakers, a workshop, kiosks and presentations from NGOs.
Event Highlights:
- Film screenings
- Panel discussions
- Filmmaker Q&As
- Workshops
- Information kiosks
- Cinema café
- Presentations from NGOs
Festival Information:
General information: 613.238.4659
General information email: oneworldfilmfestival@oneworldarts.ca
Volunteer information: www.oneworldarts.ca
Location: Library of Archives
On the Web:
Website: www.oneworldarts.ca
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/#!/groups/5573310226/
Twitter: www.twitter.com/OneWorldFilm
Fut le Moment d’Eventements
- Projections de films
- Discussions
- Séances de questions avec les cinéastes
- Ateliers
- Kiosques
- Cinéma café
- presentations par des ONGs
L’Information de Festivale:
L’information générale: 613.238.4659
Couriel de l’information générale: oneworldfilmfestival@oneworldarts.ca
Sur le Web:
Website: www.oneworldarts.ca
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/#!/groups/5573310226/
Twitter: www.twitter.com/OneWorldFilm
Ottawa International Animation Festival
| September 19, 2012 | to | September 23, 2012 |
From September 19th to 23rd, the nation’s capital will once again become the center of the animation universe. The Ottawa International Animation Festival (OIAF) is the largest event of its kind in North America, a major film event attracting attendees from around the world. Film buffs, art lovers and cartoon fans won’t want to miss this year’s great line up of screenings taking place at ByTowne Cinema, National Gallery of Canada, Empire Theatres Rideau Centre and Arts Court Theatre.
Du 19 au 23 septembre, la capitale du pays deviendra le centre de l’univers de l’animation. Le Festival International de l’Animation d’Ottawa est un évènement prestigieux qui attire des spectateurs de partout dans le monde. Mordus de films, amateurs d’art et adeptes de dessins animés ne voudront surtout pas manquer la superbe programmation de cette année. Les projections auront lieu au Cinéma Bytowne, au Musée des beaux-arts, la Cour des Arts et Empire Theatres – Centre Rideau.
Event Highlights:
- Screenings
- Special presentations
- Workshops
- Parties
- Art exhibits
- Trade shows
Festival Information:
General information: 613.232.8769
General information email: info@animationfestival.ca
Location:
Bytowne Cinema, 325 Rideau St., Ottawa ON
National Gallery of Canada, 380 Sussex Dr., Ottawa, ON
Empire Theatres Rideau Centre, 50 Rideau St., Ottawa, ON
Arts Court Theatre, 2 Daly Ave., Ottawa, ON
On the Web:
Website: www.animationfestival.ca
Youtube: http://www.youtube.com/user/OttawaAnimationFest
Map:
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OIFF Hosts Fourth Annual 72-Hour Film Challenge
The Ottawa International Film Festival’s (OIFF) fourth 72-Hour Film Challenge kicks off on Thursday, January 26 at 6:15pm at the Lieutenant’s Pump.
The 72-Hour Film Challenge tasks filmmakers to write, cast, direct, edit – in other words –create an entire original short film in three days. To give the Challenge an added twist, filmmakers must include plot points and creative criteria set out in a mystery envelope received upon registration.
“I’m always impressed by the film talent we have in Ottawa,” says Nina Bains, Executive Director of OIFF. “With a few cues, filmmakers put together imaginative stories and wonderfully shot scenes in just three days. It’s pretty remarkable.” Last year’s winners, The Waiting Room (Voters Favourite) and Polar Bear Love (Judges Pick) went on to receive national attention.
Interested filmmakers must attend the 72-Hour Film Challenge registration briefing on Thursday, January 26 at 6:15pm at the Lieutenant’s Pump to receive the mystery envelope. Registration cost is $20 per team, and teams must submit their final product by Sunday, January 29 at 7pm.
The selected film entries will be screened and voted on at the Lieutenant’s Pump on Thursday, February 16 at 7pm. The top three films will automatically qualify for the 2012 Ottawa International Film Festival in August. The winning film team will take home a prize pack valued at over $10,000 that includes Adobe Creative Suite Master Collection 5.5 provided by Adobe, and a full RED ONE production/post-production rental package provided by Parktown free of cost to shoot their next short film (some conditions apply). As well, Parktown is offering a 15% discount off indie equipment rental prices to any filmmaker participating in the challenge for their submission.
The OIFF 72-Hour Film Challenge is sponsored by the Lieutenant’s Pump, Adobe, Parktown.
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OTTAWA INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL (OIFF) focuses on promoting local and Canadian talent and aims to serve as a niche platform for independent filmmaking. The festival showcases Canadian and international feature length, short and documentary films, and includes a music-video challenge, which brings together local musicians and filmmakers. The second annual OIFF was voted Best Film Festival of 2011 by Ottawa Xpress readers. For more information, visit www.oiff.ca.
Prairie invasion at NAC: $2.8-million festival to present 80 events this spring, from Buffy Sainte-Marie to Royal Winnipeg Ballet
Steven Mazey, Ottawa Citizen
Photo: Mike Carroccetto, The Ottawa Citizen
Singers Buffy Sainte-Marie and Suzie Vinnick, violinist Erika Raum, productions from Saskatoon’s Persephone Theatre and Winnipeg’s Contemporary Dancers and art shows presented by the Winnipeg Art Gallery and the Saskatchewan Craft Council will be among more than 80 events the National Arts Centre will present as part of the Prairie Scene Festival April 26 to May 8.
Created to celebrate performing and visual artists as well as writers, filmmakers and chefs from Manitoba and Saskatchewan, the festival will be presented in more than 30 venues across the Ottawa area. In Regina Thursday, NAC officials announced part of the lineup and said more performances will be announced in February.
The festival has a budget of $2.8 million, with 60 per cent of that coming from private fundraising, donors and ticket sales and the rest coming from the Manitoba and Saskatchewan governments and the federal government.
Full story on the Ottawa Citizen website: Prairie invasion at NAC
The 20th Anniversary of the One World Film Festival Presents the 2009 Opening Night Screening of Us Now
The 20th Anniversary of the One World Film Festival Presents the 2009 Opening Night Screening of Us Now followed by a presentation with Shauna Sylvester, Director of Canada’s World and ForeignPolicyCamp
Thursday, October 15th
Library and Archives Canada, 395 Wellington Street, Ottawa
Doors open at 5:30 pm. Film starts at 6:00 pm.
Admission for the full evening of three films and speakers is $12.00/$10.00 for students. See Festival line-up: wiam.ca/downloads/OWFF_Program2009.pdf
Us Now takes a look at how internet communities could transform the way that countries are governed. It tells the stories of the online networks whose radical self-organizing structures threaten the fabric of government forever. ForeignPolicyCamp is an innovative unconference conference that is using social media tools to get Canadians to rethink Canada’s role in the world.
For more information contact:
Jolynn Sommervill: jolynn@wiam.ca
Micheline Shoebridge: michelines@magma.ca
WIAM office: 613-238-4659
www.wiam.ca
One World Film Festival official program released
The official program for the 20th Anniversary of the One World Film Festival! On Program 1, you will find information on the festival’s schedule and all of the screenings, as well as contact information. On Program 2, you will find a detailed write-up of each of the films, giving you the chance to learn more about each film and the powerful stories they tell.
Go to the One World Film Festival blog to download the program.
NFB shines with nine films at the Ottawa International Animation Festival
As one of the world’s leading creators of auteur animation, the National Film Board of Canada has close ties to the world-renowned Ottawa International Animation Festival. A long-time partner of the OIAF, the NFB will present nine new shorts at the event’s 33rd edition (October 14-18, 2009), three of them in competition. The line-up displays a variety of inventive techniques and powerful themes, continuing the NFB tradition of innovation and excellence in animation art. On top of the festival’s official selection of new productions, the OIAF has curated a special Rarities Program of seldom seen NFB classics to celebrate its 70th. anniversary. The NFB will also present the Public Prize.Among other themes, NFB films selected for this year’s OIAF probe lost and regained love (Oscar winner Chris Landreth’s The Spine) and the perverse human drive toward chaos (Oscar nominee Cordell Barker’s Runaway). With classics such as Neighbours (1952) and stunning recent films such as Madame Tutli-Putli (2008), the NFB has shown that animation shorts pack considerable expressive power into their brief running times. NFB films, deploying techniques ranging from traditional hand-made animation to adventurous digital innovation, provoke strong emotions and thoughtful discussion with their eye-opening, witty and sometimes very funny explorations of life on earth.
OFFICIAL COMPETITION (NARRATIVE CATEGORY)
Cordell Barker’s Runaway, the Winnipeg-based filmmaker’s highly anticipated third collaboration with the NFB, is a provocative, hilarious follow-up to his zany Oscar-nominated The Cat Came Back (1988) and Strange Invaders (2001). In Runaway, Barker takes a hard look at reality and asks sardonically: What would happen if the world were a driverless train thundering recklessly over bumpy tracks? Produced by Michael Scott and Derek Mazur for the NFB, the film’s wild ride careens to music by Benoît Charest, whose score for The Triplets of Belleville contributed to that film’s frantic rhythm.
Runaway rolls into Ottawa after stops at the Cannes Film Festival, where it won the Petit Rail d’Or for Best Short, and the Annecy International Animation Festival, which granted the film a Special Jury Prize. The film’s elaborate website, complete with making-of features, is at nfb.ca/runaway.
In Bruce Alcock’s bittersweet Vive la Rose, an ancient chanson performed by the late Newfoundland musician Émile Benoit is brought to life with melancholic passion. A woman dies in the film and a simple man devastated by loss sings to her in a last farewell. Co-produced by Tina Ouellette (Global Mechanic) and Annette Clarke and Michael Fukushima (NFB), Alcock’s first NFB collaboration is a spectacular animation filmed on location, with available light, in Newfoundland. Fishhooks, shells, driftwood, and rocks lend the mixed-media short an unusual texture. The film uses a unique visual triptych design to amplify the song’s emotions while honouring land, sea, and the harsh lives of local fishermen. To watch the trailer, visit nfb.ca/vivelarose.
In Phillip Eddolls’ Git Gob, produced by the NFB’s Michael Fukushima and associate produced by Maral Mohammadian within the Hothouse 5 program for emerging animators, two creatures ponder the meaning of a hole. The fuzzy, brightly coloured humanoids have different points of view. Their debate leads to an idea that changes the world. This is a story of practical magic, whimsy with a cosmic conclusion.
IN THE CANADIAN SHOWCASE
Chris Landreth’s The Spine, the director’s eagerly awaited follow-up to his groundbreaking, Oscar-winning Ryan (2004), amazed spectators at the Annecy International Animation Film Festival and was named Best of the Festival at Melbourne’s animation event. Like Ryan, Landreth’s depiction of a fallen NFB animator, The Spine raises the bar on the ability of digital animation to probe deeply into human emotions, merging realism with surrealism in the director’s trademark “psychorealist” style. A National Film Board of Canada production in Association with Copperheart Animation and C.O.R.E. Digital Pictures, the film is a strangely beautiful and highly original look at a man and a woman trapped in a spiral of mutual destruction after 26 years of marriage. The NFB’s Marcy Page produced this poignant, bravely honest story with Copperheart’s Steve Hoban and Mark Smith. The production also benefited from the creative participation of Autodesk Canada CO. and Seneca College School of Communication Arts. The Spine website at nfb.ca/thespine includes Chris Landreth’s entertaining blog.
Like the competing film Git Gob, Brandon Blommaert’s Batmilk and Neely Goniodsky’s Pearl are shorts from the NFB’s Hothouse 5 series, both produced by Michael Fukushima and associate produced by Maral Mohammadian.
Batmilk is a comically macabre film about an oafish ghoul who faces ruin when his soft exposed brain is unexpectedly killed. A bizarre form of predatory behaviour feeds the ghoul with new life. Entirely different in mood and animation style, Pearl is a tender film about longing and memory in the aged. A lonely old lady sits in an empty room, knitting. As her thoughts wander, her dreams take the shape of fanciful knitted creatures and objects that cocoon her in a pattern of wonder and comfort.
Cédric Louis and Claude Barras’ Land of the Heads swoops into Ottawa with dark, dense, and funny images reminiscent of Tim Burton’s expressionist animation. Parodying classic horror films, the film is a ghoulishly funny children’s story about a vampire forced to go out every night to separate kids from their heads. Why? His vain, domineering wife wants to replace her wrinkled head with a young and pretty one. Land of the Heads was coproduced by Michael Fukushima (NFB) and Claude Barras (Hélium Films).
Commissioned by the NFB for the Governor General’s Performing Arts Awards Foundation, Howie Shia’s Peggy Baker Four Phrases is a brief animated documentary that blends spare live-action with swirling animation to depict Canadian dance legend Peggy Baker’s view of the intersection between her art and life. Produced by Michael Fukushima (NFB), the film was created to celebrate Baker at the Governor General’s Performing Arts Award gala.
In Inés Sedan’s accomplished first film, The Man who Slept, a young woman gazes lovingly at her husband, who sleeps day and night. But the slumbering body is only a memory, one that becomes increasingly oppressive. This vibrantly textured animated film is a work about resilience. It takes us on a journey through darkness toward a new awakening. The Man who Slept was coproduced by Ron Dyens and Aurélia Prévieu (Sacrebleu Productions, France), Marcel Jean and Galilé Marion-Gauvin (L’Unité centrale), and Marc Bertrand (NFB).
SPECIAL PROGRAM OF RARE NFB FILMS
Presented by the NFB and curated by the OIAF, a Rarities Program of twelve intriguing, but seldom seen animated shorts from deep within the Film Board’s archives will celebrate its 70th anniversary of producing acclaimed films. OIAF audiences will have the opportunity to see Guy Glover’s Lining the Blues (1939) Jim McKay’s Bid it Up Sucker (1944), George Dunning’s Cadet Rouselle (1947), Colin Low’s The Romance of Transportation in Canada (1952), Gerald Potterton’s My Financial Career (1962), Eliot Noyes’ Alphabet (1966), Yvon Mallette’s Boomsville (1968), George Geertsen’s Klondike Gold (1980), Donald McWilliams’ Aloud/Bagatelle (1983), John Weldon’s The Lump (1991), Anita Lebeau’s Louise (2003), and Paul Morstad’s Walking Catfish Blues (2004).
About the NFB
Canada’s public film producer and distributor, the National Film Board of Canada creates social-issue documentaries, auteur animation, alternative drama and digital content that provide the world with a unique Canadian perspective. In collaboration with its international partners and co-producers, the NFB is expanding the vocabulary of 21st-century cinema and breaking new ground in form and content, through community filmmaking projects, cross-platform media, interactive cinema, stereoscopic animation – and more. Since the NFB’s founding in 1939, it has created over 13,000 productions and won over 5,000 awards, including 12 Oscars and more than 90 Genies. In 2009, the works of NFB animation pioneer Norman McLaren were added to UNESCO’s Memory of the World Registry. The NFB’s new website features over 1,000 productions online – visit NFB.ca and start watching.
Ottawa International Animation Festival (OIAF) and Television Animation Conference (TAC) festival schedules now online
The full 2009 schedule for the Ottawa International Animation Festival (OIAF) and Television Animation Conference (TAC) are now online, so head on over and have a look! All featured programs are now listed as well, so go ahead and choose from Films and Screenings, Special Events, Workshops, and more!
The Ottawa International Animation Festival (OIAF) is the largest of its kind in North America, attracting film buffs, art lovers, filmmakers, and cartoon fans from around the world to the nation’s capital.
This year’s festival will take place from October 14 to 18, 2009.
Television Animation Conference Lines Up Talent
Kristin Brzoznowski, Worldscreen.com
David Silverman, best known for directing numerous episodes of The Simpsons as well as The Simpsons Movie, and Josh Selig, the founder and president of Little Airplane Productions, will headline this year’s Television Animation Conference, taking place October 14 and 15 at the Chateau Laurier hotel in Ottawa.
Full article: Television Animation Conference Lines Up Talent
Teen’s animation no Disaster: Short film picked to appear at Ottawa, Edmonton festivals
ALYSSA JULIE | METRO CALGARY
We’ve all had our bad days.
Luckily, on the day he submitted his short film to Ottawa’s landmark animation festival, 14-year-old Calgarian and Westmount Charter school student Eric Hayes wasn’t having one – and yet, that’s just what his film is about.
He’s one of three Canadian high school students with work appearing at the Ottawa Animation Festival in October. The festival, which received 2,185 submissions, will also showcase new work by animation heavyweights, Aardman – the creators of Wallace and Gromit, and the inspiration behind Hayes’ work.
Read the story on the Metro Calgary website: Teen’s animation no Disaster
