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Boy With Autism Wins Animation Award For 2nd Time


Young PK Keith of Val­ley Vil­lage, Cal­i­for­nia, who was diag­nosed with autism spec­trum dis­or­der at age two, and whose bud­ding inter­est in ani­ma­tion and film was evi­dent at an early age, received a Best Ele­men­tary School Ani­ma­tion award Sun­day from Inter­na­tional Stu­dent Film Fes­ti­val Hol­ly­wood in recog­ni­tion of his ani­mated short Ani­mal Birth­day Party.

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Live Outside the Box Wins at Oregon Film Awards

Live Outside The Box

Directed by Shu-Hsuan Lin of Tai­wan, “Live Out­side the Box” was named the Grand Win­ner for Best Ani­ma­tion on Wednes­day at the Ore­gon Film Awards.

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Herzfeldt’s “Beautiful Day” Wins at Yosemite Animation Fest

It’s Such a Beau­ti­ful Day,” directed by Don Herzfeldt, was named Best Ani­ma­tion at the fourth inter­na­tional Yosemite Inter­na­tional Film Fes­ti­val, held in California.

It’s Such a Beau­ti­ful Day had won the First Prize Golden Zagreb Award at this year’s Zagreb World Fes­ti­val of Ani­mated Films. It also was named Best Ani­ma­tion Film (Ani­mated Short Film) a the Fant-Asia Film Fes­ti­val and received the Best Ani­ma­tion Yoram Gross Award at the Flick­er­fest Inter­na­tional Short Film Festival.

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Wolf Children, Fuga Win Awards at Sitges Animation Fest

Sitges

Mamoru Hosoda’s Ôkami Kodomo No Ame to Yuki (Wolf Chil­dren) was named best ani­mated fea­ture film at the 45th Sit­ges — Inter­na­tional Fan­tas­tic Film Fes­ti­val of Cat­alo­nia, while Fuga, by Juan Anto­nio Espi­gares of Spain, was hon­ored as best ani­mated short.

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Noodle Fish Catches Warsaw Film Festival Animation Award

Noodle Fish

South Korean direc­tor Kim Jin-man’s “Noo­dle Fish” was named Best Ani­mated Short in the Short Films Com­pe­ti­tion pro­gram at the 29th War­saw Film Festival.

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Dementia Tale Wins for Animated Short in San Pedro

The Reality Clock

Amanda Tasse’s “The Real­ity Clock,” in which a watch­maker search­ing for his lost clock loses him­self in mem­ory, was named Best Ani­mated Short at this year’s San Pedro Inter­na­tional Film Fes­ti­val (SPIFFest).

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Rise of the Guardians to get Award at Rome Fest


Rise of the Guardians

The Rome Film Fes­ti­val (Fes­ti­val Inter­nazionale del Film di Roma, Novem­ber 9 to 17, Audi­to­rium Parco della Musica) and Van­ity Fair will award the new Van­ity Fair Inter­na­tional Award for Cin­e­matic Excel­lence this year to Rise of the Guardians, the lat­est 3D film by Dream­Works Ani­ma­tion SKG.

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Win Tix for “Persistence of Vision” World Premiere

Persistence Of Vision

Want to go to the world pre­miere of “Per­sis­tence of Vision” for free?

The doc­u­men­tary fol­lows the 30-year quest of ani­ma­tor Richard Williams to make his mas­ter­piece, The Thief and the Cob­bler — per­haps the great­est ani­mated film never made.

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MacPherson wins twice at Montreal World Film Fest


MacPherson

MacPher­son,” an ani­mated tale of friend­ship between a white man and a black man in Que­bec, was named both the best short film and best Cana­dian short at the Mon­treal World Film Festival.

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Winners From The Great White North

Ottawa International Animation Festival (OIAF)

The Ottawa Inter­na­tional Ani­ma­tion Fes­ti­val (OIAF) came to a close late last night, with clos­ing cer­e­monies held at the National Arts Cen­tre. This years fes­ti­val, which ran Sep­tem­ber 19th-23rd, fea­tured a spe­cial jury of chil­dren who voted on-appropriately– Best Short Ani­ma­tion Made for Chil­dren and the Best Tele­vi­sion Ani­ma­tion Made for Children.

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Penguins Episode Wins Emmy for Animated Program

Academy of Television Arts & Sciences Emmy

The Return of the Revenge of Dr. Blow­hole,” an episode of the Nick­elodeon series The Pen­guins of Mada­gas­car, was named Out­stand­ing Ani­mated Pro­gram on Sat­ur­day after­noon at the 2012 Cre­ative Arts Emmy Awards.

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Oh Willy… Wins Award for European Animated Short

Cartoon d'or

The win­ner of this year’s Car­toon d’Or for best Euro­pean ani­ma­tion short film is Oh Willy, by Emma De Swaef and Marc James Roels.

The award was handed out Thurs­day at the Car­toon Forum at the Théâtre National de Toulouse in France. The other nom­i­nees were Zing, Edmond Was a Don­key, Tram and Flamingo Pride.

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Horrifying “Rootless Heart” wins at Korean fest

Rootless Heart

Japan­ese direc­tor Toshiko Hata’s ani­ma­tion “Root­less Heart” was named the Jury’s Choice for Short Film at the 11-day Puchon Inter­na­tional Fan­tas­tic Film Fes­ti­val, held in South Korea.

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NFB’s “Wild Life” short piles up 3 Alberta awards

Wild Life

The Oscar-nominated “Wild Life,” a 13 and a half-minute film directed by West­ern Cana­dian ani­ma­tion duo Wendy Tilby and Amanda For­bis, won three hon­ors Sat­ur­day at the 38th Annual Alberta Film and Tele­vi­sion Awards in Cal­gary, includ­ing the Rosie for Best Short.

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Three animated films win Student Academy Awards


Oscar Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences

Three films have been selected as win­ners in the Ani­ma­tion cat­e­gory of the Acad­emy of Motion Pic­ture Arts and Sci­ences’ 39th Annual Stu­dent Acad­emy Awards com­pe­ti­tion, the Acad­emy announced Tues­day morning.

The win­ners are Eyrie, by David Wolter of the Cal­i­for­nia Insti­tute of the Arts; The Jock­strap Raiders, by Mark Nel­son of the Uni­ver­sity of Cal­i­for­nia, Los Ange­les; and My Lit­tle Friend, by Eric Prah of Rin­gling Col­lege of Art and Design.

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