Ottawa International Animation Festival

It is already the last weekend in September folks—this is not a drill!! Gather the gang, find a sunny patio, plan your apple picking lineup and bust out your plaid.

Get ready to get animated this September at the Ottawa International Animation Festival! From September 25-29, the capital will transform in to North America’s destination for animation. Join for the whole festival, or even just a few days, with plenty of kid friendly events, student and senior discounts, free screenings and drop-in workshops, and more […]

Ottawa will be the stage where you can enjoy the world’s most cutting-edge, thoughtful, funny and provocative animation films.

These kids will hem and haw over the short films and TV episodes before they present awards to the winning filmmakers later that evening at OIAF Awards Ceremony the National Arts Centre.

Founded in a small attic in Manotick with a staff of two, Jam Filled now has large studios in both Ottawa and Toronto employing hundreds of animators.

Brent Butt will be visiting Ottawa on Thursday September 27 as part of the Ottawa International Animation Festival (OIAF).

There were 100 films selected from a record-setting 2,469 entries.

For decades, the Ottawa International Animation Festival has attracted film and animation buffs, art lovers and filmmakers from around the globe. You won’t want to miss this year’s exciting line-up of screenings, workshops, panels and parties.

Highlights from the 40th year of the Ottawa International Animation Festival

Today is the first day of fall and, fingers crossed, this weekend’s weather may actually suit the season. With the arrival of the best season of the year (OK, I may be pushing my personal bias here), we’ve a great bunch of things on the roster, to celebrate. Festivals First off, the festivals. The Ottawa […]

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And it has been here for 40 years. See films at the Ottawa International Animation Festival in September.

After years of Ottawa International Animation Festival attendance, I’d call myself something of a veteran. And in my time covering the event, I’d have to say that I get the most out of the short film competitions. Each competition feels meaty and substantial – a huge assortment of perspectives, backgrounds, storylines and animation styles crammed […]

Animation aficionados rejoice! It’s Ottawa International Animation Festival season once again, with five full days of fantastical images and stories from Canada and around the world being presented on the big screen. Now in its 39th year, the OIAF is a well-established fixture on the Ottawa festival scene, and a much loved and anticipated one […]