Cartoon Brew has debuted the list of the thirty-three films up for consideration in the Best Animated Short category for the upcoming 2011 Oscars and I have done my very best to find a video for each and every one. Unfortunately I wasn't able to find anything for Rao Heidmets's Inherent Obligations or Don Hertzfeldt's Wisdom Teeth so if anyone out there can help find video for those either let me know in the comments or shoot me an email.
Otherwise, spend some time over the next three pages to preview some really cool videos. I had a chance to preview a few of them while putting this article together, but have yet to check them all out. So let me know which ones are your favorites and which ones don't really do it for you.
Additionally, if any of the people that made these films are reading this...
Otherwise, spend some time over the next three pages to preview some really cool videos. I had a chance to preview a few of them while putting this article together, but have yet to check them all out. So let me know which ones are your favorites and which ones don't really do it for you.
Additionally, if any of the people that made these films are reading this...
- 11/25/2010
- by Brad Brevet
- Rope of Silicon
The 7th annual Calgary Underground Film Festival is ready to start off with a bang this year on April 12 and then continue through to April 18. Opening night will see the results of the festival’s wildly popular 48-hour Movie Making Challenge, where registered teams were given a genre, a prop and a line of dialogue; then sent out to craft perfect cinematic masterpieces in just two short days.
Then, the rest of the fest is dedicated to some of the wildest films made in both the fest’s home country of Canada and from around the world, including Indonesia, Serbia, the UK and the U.S.
If you’re attending the festival, there’s one incredibly fun documentary you need to see: Michael Petersen’s Eddies: The Documentary, about the craziest beer commercial-making competition in the world — that happens to take place right in Calgary every year! Petersen profiled several...
Then, the rest of the fest is dedicated to some of the wildest films made in both the fest’s home country of Canada and from around the world, including Indonesia, Serbia, the UK and the U.S.
If you’re attending the festival, there’s one incredibly fun documentary you need to see: Michael Petersen’s Eddies: The Documentary, about the craziest beer commercial-making competition in the world — that happens to take place right in Calgary every year! Petersen profiled several...
- 4/7/2010
- by Mike Everleth
- Underground Film Journal
Toronto -- "Mary & Max," a claymation film from Oscar-winning Australian animator Adam Elliot and voiced by Toni Collette, Phillip Seymour Hoffman and Barry Humphries, earned the grand prize for best animated feature at the Ottawa International Animation Festival, which wrapped Sunday night.
The Ottawa jury also gave honorable mention to "My Dog Tulip," from U.S. directors Paul and Sandra Fierlinger, an animated feature voiced by Christopher Plummer, Isabella Rosseillini and Lynn Redgrave.
And the Estonian film "Kaasundinud Kohustused," (Inherent Obligations) by Rao Heidmets picked up the grand prize for best independent short animation.
The 33rd Ottawa animation festival also awarded "Madagascar, A Journal Diary" from French director Bastien Dubois the best adult TV animation trophy and the Nfb Public Prize.
The Ottawa jury also gave honorable mention to "My Dog Tulip," from U.S. directors Paul and Sandra Fierlinger, an animated feature voiced by Christopher Plummer, Isabella Rosseillini and Lynn Redgrave.
And the Estonian film "Kaasundinud Kohustused," (Inherent Obligations) by Rao Heidmets picked up the grand prize for best independent short animation.
The 33rd Ottawa animation festival also awarded "Madagascar, A Journal Diary" from French director Bastien Dubois the best adult TV animation trophy and the Nfb Public Prize.
- 10/19/2009
- by By Etan Vlessing
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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