BEST OF THE FESTIVAL 2018 - Martina Scarpelli's 'Egg'
BEST BRITISH FILM 2018 - Jonathan Hodgson's 'Roughhouse'
BEST SOUND DESIGN 2018 - 'Finity Calling'
BEST ABSTRACT FILM 2018 - Jonathan Gillie's 'Max Planck'

Each year we search for the finest panel of Judges: Educators; Independent Animators; Producers; affiliates of prominent organisations (all with animation at their core); Authors, Curators and more. All are experts in their field and all possess the ‘shining’ when it comes to an informed and exploratory eye for excellence in the animation world.
This year we were honoured to welcome ...
Posted December 13, 2018 – 8:22 am
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JURY VOTING: THE AWARDS
JURY: Best of the Fest Award Egg (Martina Scarpelli, France/Denmark)
A woman is locked in her home with an egg. She eats the egg. She repents. She kills it. She lets the egg die of hunger. A brave account of overcoming anorexia.
JURY: Best British Film Award Roughhouse (Jonathan Hodgson, UK/France)
Three teenage friends embark on a new ...
Posted December 11, 2018 – 9:09 pm
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It is hard to define - let alone explain - how and why Estonian animation is so utterly unique. And unique it most certainly is.
To the extent that the profile of Estonian animation has broadened in contemporary times much of the credit must go to Chris Robinson, the Artistic Director of the Ottawa International Animation ...
Posted November 26, 2018 – 10:22 pm
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When Chintis Lundgren was three years old, her mother visited a fortune teller. When her mother returned home, she informed her daughter “one day you will be a famous artist, the fortune teller has told me” in a tone as certain and assured as if pointing to a table and saying, “this is a table”. ...
Posted November 25, 2018 – 10:27 pm
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Insane pigeons, a misguided monkey, the existential crisis of an animated GIF, stifled musicians, the poetry of Robert Burns and fracking are just some of the characters and subjects tackled in the animated worlds of Scotland’s most dynamic double-act: Will Anderson and Ainslie Henderson.
Graduates from Edinburgh College of Art’s Animation Degree in 2011 and 2012, Will and ...
Posted November 24, 2018 – 10:50 pm
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We are incredibly fortunate that the production of our annual festival trailer is integrated into the National Film & Television's curriculum. Each year, their exceptionally talented MA Directing Animation students pitch their ideas to us. We get the honour of selecting our favourite and sharing the outcome with you.
This year Daniel Quirke animated and directed our trailer with Jamie MacDonald as ...
Posted October 28, 2018 – 8:03 pm
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