The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has officially announced their winners of the 49th Student Academy Awards competition!A total of 1,796 entries from 614 colleges and universities around the world were submitted.Congratulations to the student winners below!
Students Winners For Animation
Laika & Nemo
Photo Credit: IMDb
Names: Jan Gadermann and Sebastian GadowSchool: Konrad Wolf Film University of BabelsbergLocation: GermanyAbout:Nemo looks different. Nobody else we
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has officially announced their winners of the 49th Student Academy Awards competition! A total of 1,796 entries from 614 colleges and universities around the world were submitted. Congratulations to the student winners below!
Students Winners For Animation
Laika & Nemo
Photo Credit: IMDb
Names:Jan Gadermann and Sebastian Gadow School: Konrad Wolf Film University of Babelsberg Location: Germany About: Nemo looks different. Nobody else wears a diving suit and such a huge helmet. But then he meets Laika, an astronaut.
An Ostrich Told Me the World Is Fake and I Think I Believe It,
Photo Credit: Annecy Film Festival
Name:Lachlan Pendragon School: Griffith Film School Location: Australia About: A young office worker uncovers the flaws in his stop-motion universe with the help of a mysterious talking ostrich.
The Seine’s Tears
Photo Credit: Youtube
Names:Yanis Belaid, Eliott Benard and Nicolas Mayeur School: Pôle 3D Digital & Creative School Location: France About: Algerian workers take to the streets in October of 1961 to protest the mandatory curfew imposed by the Police prefecture.
About Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF)
The Toronto International Film Festival is officially back! Also known as TIFF, is one of Canada’s and the world’s largest and well known film festivals. Located in downtown Toronto, the festival welcomes many filmmakers from around the world to show off their skills and talents.
These are the animated shorts and films that were shown during the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) for this 2021.
Angakusajuajug – The Shaman’s Appr
The Toronto International Film Festival is officially back! Also known as TIFF, is one of Canada’s and the world’s largest and well known film festivals. Located in downtown Toronto, the festival welcomes many filmmakers from around the world to show off their skills and talents.
These are the animated shorts and films that were shown during the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) for this 2021.
About: A young shaman must face her first test-a trip underground to visit Kannaaluk, The One Below, who holds the answers to why a community member has become ill.
About: A young woman drawn in ink is forced to deal with paper breasts appearing on her chest. She must quickly come to terms with these new strange things.
About: March 2020. After China, the whole planet locks itself in. Our world, which we call real, is drained of what used to be its substance, and forms of digital life multiply, like these couples whose avatars share a common life in a virtual universe. But what if the crisis we are actually experiencing is not a pandemic, but an accelerated derealization of our lives?
About: Two boys marginalized by society in 14th-century Japan find power through dance and song, in Masaaki Yuasa’s animated tale about a disturbing curse.
About: A short film about ties and gaps between a child and a parent. The author rediscovers letters her dad used to write her from prison. That love seems to be gone now. She decides to write back in hope to find the connection again. She puts in writing what could not be said: blaming him for family’s break-up but also trying to understand.
Meneath: The Hidden Island of Ethics
Photo Credit: TIFF
Director: Terril Calder Canada 20 minutes
About: A stop-motion animation that charts a challenging journey for Baby Girl, a precocious Métis girl contemplating her path to Hell.