OAIF News – 2024
by Staff Editors
(June 25, 2024 – Ottawa, ON) The Ottawa International Animation Festival (OIAF) has announced their Official Selection in its Young Audiences 7+ and Teen Audiences 13+ competition categories. The newest competition category consists of ten animated works that bridge the gap between adult and child audiences, including the latest from Pixar Animation Studio’s SparkShorts program. This year’s Young Audiences 7+ includes nine selections, including a film from Portuguese high school students. The Teen Audiences 13+ will be judged by teens in the audience at the Festival, while the Young Audiences 7+ will be judged by the OIAF Kids Jury.
“Each year we try to find an array of voices and visions to introduce younger audiences to sides of animation that they can’t easily access,” says OIAF Artistic Director Chris Robinson. “These films will hopefully inspire and encourage a new generation of artists to follow their own creative paths.”
The Teen Audiences 13+ competition includes:
Crème à glace (Out for Ice Cream) (dir. Rachel Samson, Canada)
Crvotočina (Wormhole) (dir. Tara Klepac, Croatia)
Girls In Real Life Situations (dir. Ofre Sparrow Vaknin, United States)
Hairy Legs (dir. Andrea Dorfman, Canada)
J’ai avalé une chenille (My Teenage Blackout) (dir. Basile Khatir, France)
Nabu (dir. Joanna Rusinek, Poland)
Self (dir. Searit Huluf, United States)
The All-Nimal (dir. Nick Edwards, United States)
The Last Drop (dirs. Constance Braun, Mathilde Zupancie, Lauriane Devaux, Timothée Adens, Charlie Bossuyt, Raphaël Debroize, and Baptiste Janusz, France)
Unblending (dir. Michelle Ku, Canada)
The Teen Audiences 13+ competition will be judged by teens on September 27, 2024, at Teens @ OIAF Day.
The Young Audiences 7+ category includes:
Beurk ! (Yuck!) (dir. Loïc Espuche, France)
Freak of Nature (dir. Alexandra Lermer, Germany)
Kanopos ir pačiūžos (Hoofs on skates) (dir. Ignas Meilūnas, Lithuania)
Le grand party annuel des créatures de la Lune (The Great Annual Party of the Creatures of the Moon) (dir. Francis Desharnais, Canada)
Marie (dir. Jan B. Piskač, Czech Republic)
Nube (dirs. Diego Alonso Sánchez de la Barquera Estrada and Christian Arredondo Narvaez, France/Mexico/Hungary)
O krávě (About a Cow) (dir. Pavla Baštanová, Czech Republic/Switzerland)
São só diabretes (Just Little Imps) (dirs. Students from Highschool of Escola Básica Maria Pais Ribeiro, Portugal)
Tuu Tuu Til (dir. Veronica Solomon, Germany)
The Young Audiences 7+ category will be judged by the OIAF 2024 Kids Jury, which is formed by animation enthusiasts aged 8 to 12 from the Ottawa area. The application process for kid jurors is now open and closes on July 29, 2024, at 11:59 pm EDT.
SOURCE: OIAF
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