Ottawa animator Valerie Barnhart has only made one animated film. But first time lucky.
She picked up an honourable mention in the competition for the Best Canadian Animation award at this year’s Ottawa International Animation Festival. And she won the Vimeo Staff Pick Award.
Valerie Barnhart
Her win for the film Girl in the Hallway was announced Saturday evening. The winner of the Canadian Film Institute (CFI) Award is the Bulgarian-Canadian animator Theodore Ushev, who won for his film The Physics of Sorrow.
The 2019 animation festival received 2,424 entries from 93 countries and selected 117 for competition.
Here is the full list of winners:
The Grand Prize for Feature Animation — On Gaku: Our Sound, directed by Kenji Iwaisawa.
The Nelvana Grand Prize for Independent Short — Don’t Know What, directed by Thomas Renolder.
Canadian Film Institute (CFI) Award for Best Canadian Animation
The Physics of Sorrow by Theodore Ushev
Honourable mentions:
Finding Uranus, Ivan Li
Girl In The Hallway, Valerie Barnhart
ANIMATION FOR YOUNG AUDIENCES COMPETITION: PRESCHOOL
Winner:Le Tigre Sans Rayures (A Tiger With No Stripes)
Second Place: Fuwa Fuwa Hour ‘PuiPui & MuuMuu Itsumo Issyo’ (Fluffy Hour ‘PuiPui & MuuMuu Always Together’)
Third Place: Nest and I am Not Afraid of the Crocodile
ANIMATION FOR YOUNG AUDIENCES COMPETITION AGES 6 TO 12
Winner: Looney Tunes Cartoons: Curse of the Monkey Bird
Special mention: Matches and Teofrastas
ANIMATED SERIES
Bee and PuppyCat: Lazy in Space, ‘Little Fingers’
CRAFT AWARDS
BEST SCRIPT
Acid Rain
BEST DESIGN
The Six
BEST TECHNIQUE
Erodium Thunk
BEST SOUND
Slug Life
VIRTUAL REALITY
Gymansia
COMMISSIONED ANIMATION
Tricky Women 2019 Trailer
NON-NARRATIVE ANIMATION
Erodium Thunk
ANIMATION GUILD STUDENT AWARD
Alfred Fauchet, Here and There
CARTOON NETWORK AWARD FOR BEST NARRATIVE SHORT
Slug Life
CANADIAN STUDENT
Winner: Finding Uranus, Ivan Li, Emily Carr University of Art and Design
2nd place: J’ai Hiberné toute l’année, Adele Vendette, Concordia University
3rd place: The Fox and The Pigeon, various directors, Sheridan College
VIMEO STAFF PICK AWARD
Girl in the Hallway
PUBLIC PRIZE
Gravedad
NELVANA GRAND PRIZE FOR SHORT ANIMATION
Our Sound: On Gaku
NELVANA GRAND PRIZE FOR SHORT ANIMATION
Don’t Know What
