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    “Bob Spit,” “A Bite of Bone,” “Night Bus” Take Top Prizes At Ottawa Animation Fest

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    A scene from "Bob Spit--We Do Not Like People," winner of the Grand Prize for Feature Animation at the 45th Ottawa International Film Festival
    OTTAWA, Canada --

    The Ottawa International Animation Festival (OIAF) unveiled the winners at its 45th anniversary edition. The marquee winners were: Bob Spit–We Do Not Like People (directed by Cesar Cabral) which earned the Grand Prize for Feature Animation; Honekami (A Bite of Bone, directed by Honami Yano), recipient of the Grand Prize for Short Animation; and Night Bus (directed by Joe Hsieh), garnering the Public Prize voted upon by festival attendees.

    Bob Spit–We Do Not Like People brings viewers into the head of cartoonist Angeli and into the post-apocalyptic world of Bob Spit.

    Honekami is an animated work reflecting on a young girl’s relationship with her father at his funeral.

    And Night Bus is an animated short taking audiences on a wild ride of intrigue and vengeance.

    Hosted on line, this year’s festival received 2,528 entries from 38 different countries from around the world. Winners were chosen from the 107 animated works selected for official competition.
     
    Canadian stop-motion animation, The Shaman’s Apprentice (Zacharias Kunuk), was also a big winner, taking home the Canadian Film Institute (CFI) Award for Best Canadian Animation along with the prize for Best Narrative Short.

    Here’s a full rundown of winners:
     
    Grand Prize for Short Animation
    Winner: Honekami (A Bite of Bone) | Honami Yano | Japan
    Jury Comment: This film was made on top of traditional techniques. But it has the power to lead us in a new direction. In an image composed of dots, we freely cross places and memories as if we are all small dots. After looking at the work, we can see why the director used these techniques. And it leaves a long lingering impression.
     
    Grand Prize for Animated Feature
    Winner: Bob Spit–We Do Not Like People | Cesar Cabral | Brazil
    Special Mention: Elulu | Gabriel Verdugo Soto | Chile
    Jury Comment: For its melange of mainstream and DIY, documentary and fiction, ingenious and visually attractive story of an artist and his universe, the Grand Prize goes to Bob Spit–We Do Not Like People by Cesar Cabral, Brazil.
     
    Public Prize
    Winner: Night Bus | Joe Hsieh | Taiwan
     
    Canadian Film Institute (CFI) Award for Best Canadian Animation
    Winner: The Shaman’s Apprentice | Zacharias Kunuk | Canada
    Special Mention: Meneath: The Island of Hidden Ethics | Terril Calder | Canada
     
    Vimeo Staff Pick Award
    Winner: Un kilomètre à pied (Ten, Twenty, Thirty, Forty, Fifty Miles a Day) | Mathieu Georis | Belgium
     
    Animated Short Competition – Category Prizes
     
    Best Non-Narrative
    Winner: Anxious Body | Yoriko Mizushiri | France and Japan
    Jury Comment: Without visual texture, the film touches our bodies through its visceral fusion of the subconscious, unconscious, and conscious states of the mind and body.
     
    Best Narrative
    Winner: The Shaman’s Apprentice | Zacharias Kunuk | Canada
    Jury Comment: The Shaman’s Apprentice is a masterful work of storytelling and the sharing of traditional Inuit knowledge utilizing impeccably detailed sets, costumes, props and puppets and told beautifully with precision and care. Using the Arctic landscape as a metaphor to the spiritual world, Zacharias Kunuk invites us to learn about Inuit shamanism and spirituality, a part of Inuit culture that was hidden for so long by colonialism. Like the Shaman, Kunuk transmits his knowledge and teachings through this film, and it is as if he is turning to us at the end and asking, “What have we learned?”

    Commissioned
    Winner: Johnny Flynn and Robert Macfarlane ‘Ten Degrees of Strange’ | Lynn Tomlinson | United States and United Kingdom

    Bento Box Award for Best Student Animation
    Winner: Space | Zhong Xian | United Kingdom
     Jury Comment: Space moves us through the cyclical nature of falling in and out of love with swooping shots, original and playful transitions, a simple yet bold and expressive style, and shows us that love, like animation, can be a cycle that repeats itself.
     
    Animation for Young Audiences (Preschool) Competition
    Winner: Bémol | Oana Lacroix | Switzerland
    Special Mention 1: Konigiri-Kun Concert | Mari Miyazawa | Japan
    Special Mention 2: S is for Spiders | Warren Brown | Canada
    Special Mention 3: Ink | Erik Verkerk & Joost van den Bosch | The Netherlands
     
    Animation for Young Audiences (Ages 6-12) Competition
    Winner: T’as vendu mes rollers (You Sold My Rollerskates?) | Margaux Cazal, Jeanne Hammel, Louis Holmes, Sandy Lachkar, Agathe Leroux & Léa Rey–Mauzaize | France
    Special Mention: Only a child | Simones Giampaolo | Switzerland
     
    Animated Series Competition
    Winner: One Day At A Time ‘The Politics Episode’ | M.R. Horhager & Phill Lewis | United States and Canada
     
    Virtual Reality Competition
    Winner: Strands of Mind | Adrian Meyer | Germany
     
    Canadian Student Competition
    Winner: Don’t Think About Her | Liza Desya | Sheridan College
    Special Mention 1: Fleeting: Here and There | Gilnaz Arzpeyma | Concordia University
    Special Mention 2: The GOAT | Alexandra Ouchev | Dawson College

    Animated Short Competition – Craft Awards
     
    Best Script
    Winner: All Those Sensations in My Belly | Marko Djeska | Croatia and Portugal
     
    Best Design
    Winner: Abandoned Village | Mariam Kapanadze | Georgia
     
    Best Animation Technique
    Winner: Steakhouse | Špela Čadež | Slovenia, Germany, and France
     
    Best Sound Design
    Winner: A Family That Steals Dogs | John C. Kelley | United States

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    “Sonic the Hedgehog 3” Tops Weekend Box Office

    Sunday, December 22, 2024

    In the holiday season battle of big-budget family movies, Paramount Pictures' "Sonic the Hedgehog 3" sped past the Walt Disney Co.'s "Mufasa: The Lion King" to take the top spot at the box office ahead of the lucrative Christmas corridor in theaters.

    "Sonic the Hedgehog 3" debuted with $62 million in ticket sales over the weekend, according to studio estimates. With strong reviews (86% fresh on Rotten Tomatoes) and a high score from audiences (an "A" on CinemaScore), "Sonic 3" is well positioned to be the top choice in cinemas during the busiest moviegoing period of the year.

    It was telling of some wider trends that "Sonic 3" — made for $122 million — bested one of Disney's top properties. Videogame adaptations, once among the most derided movie genres, have emerged as one of the most dependable box office forces in recent years. The two previous "Sonic" movies together grossed more $700 million worldwide and the third installment appears likely to do better than both of them. A fourth "Sonic" movie is already in development.

    "Mufasa," however, was humbled in its opening weekend, with its $35 million in domestic ticket sales coming in notably shy of expectations . The photorealistic "Lion King" prequel even opened wider than "Sonic 3," launching on 4,100 theaters and gobbling up most IMAX screens, compared with 3,761 locations for "Sonic 3."

    Though "Mufasa's" reviews were poor (56% fresh on Rotten Tomatoes), audiences gave it an "A-" CinemaScore.

    "Sonic 3" nearly doubled the haul for "Mufasa," which cost more than $200 million to make. Disney could look to $87.2 million in international sales to help make up the difference. The third "Sonic" will rollout in most overseas markets in the coming weeks.

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