2009 Selections
This year, the Ottawa International Animation Festival received a total of 2185 entries from 78 different countries. Of those, 93 short films and 7 feature films were chosen for competition. In addition, 58 showcase films were chosen to represent the efforts of the Canadian, Canadian TV, International, and Student communities.
| Title | Director(s) | Company/School | Nationality | Category |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| $9.99 | Tatia Rosenthal | Sherman Pictures, Lama Films | Israel & Australia | A - Feature |
| A dada | Hélène Astier, Mathilde Le Moal, Jia Jun Shen & Bruno Pontiroli | Supinfocom Valenciennes | France | Student Showcase |
| A Film About Poo | Anne Wilkins & Emily Howells | Emily & Anne | UK | G - Shorts for Kids |
| A Recipe For Disaster | Eric Hayes | Westmount Charter School | Canada | E - High School |
| All The Time | Benjamin Woodyard | Canterbury High School | Canada | E - High School |
| Animal | Clifford McArdle | Sheridan College | Canada | Canadian Film Showcase |
| Audi 'Unboxed' | Russell Brooke & Aaron Duffy | Passion Pictures, 1st Ave Machine | UK | F - Promotional |
| Batmilk | Brandon Blommaert | National Film Board of Canada | Canada | Canadian Film Showcase |
| BBC 'Journey to the East' | Pete Candeland, Jamie Hewlett & Rob Valley | Passion Pictures | UK | F - Promotional |
| Become Firm | Stepan Koval | Novatorfilm | Ukraine | International Showcase 2 |
| Ben and Holly's Little Kingdom 'Daisy and Poppy' | Mark Baker & Neville Astley | The Elf Factory | UK | G - TV for Kids |
| BIGBOX SINGSONG 'Mustache' | Warren Brown | Canada | Canadian Film Showcase | |
| Birth | Signe Baumane | Pierre Poire Productions | USA & Italy | D - Narrative |
| Bookkeeper of the Universe | Andrew Gallagher | Massachusetts College of Art and Design | USA | Student Showcase |
| Bowery | Gary Leib | Twinkle LLC | USA | F - TV for Adults |
| Busytown Mysteries 'The Numbered Papers Mystery' | Larry Jacobs | Cookie Jar Entertainment | Canada | TAC Canadian TV Showcase |
| Changeling | Leena Jääskeläinen | Edith Film | Finland | D - Narrative |
| Chick | Michal Socha | Platige Image | Poland | E - Graduation |
| Clear Conscience | Jeremy Diamond & Luke Gustafson | Smiley Guy Studios, Duopoly | Canada | Canadian Film Showcase |
| Colchique | Jean-Luc Greco | Les Films à Carreaux | France | G - Shorts for Kids |
| Comcast 'Anthem 60' | Alan Smith & Adam Foulkes | Nexus | UK & USA | F - Promotional |
| Consoul | Lasse Gjertsen | Norway | International Showcase 2 | |
| Coraline | Henry Selick | LAIKA | USA | A - Feature |
| Cottonballs | Igor Coric & Sheldon Lieberman | Bigfish.tv | Australia | F - Music Video |
| Coup Mirror | Claudio Diaz | ICONOANIMA | Chile | International Showcase 1 |
| Crocodile | Kaspar Jancis | Eesti Joonisfilm | Estonia | International Showcase 2 |
| Dahlia | Michael Langan | Langan Films and Slamdance Film Festival | USA | D - Experimental |
| Daniel's Journey | Luis Zamora Pueyo | Luis Zamora Pueyo | Spain | D - Narrative |
| Danko Jones 'King of Magazines' | Nick Cross & Dave Cooper | Do It For Me Productions | Canada | F - Music Video |
| Darfur Drawings PSA | Bruce Alcock | Global Mechanic | Canada | F - Promotional |
| Debt | Mike Weiss | Delicious Nougat | Canada | Canadian Film Showcase |
| Dialogue | Judith Poirier | Canada | D - Experimental | |
| Did U see that? | Yuri Rhee, Ha Jung Kim, Hyun Jung Lee & Pual Kim | Korea Animation High School | South Korea | E - High School |
| Dried Up | Isaiah Powers, Stuart Bury & Jeremy Casper | Kansas City Art Institute | USA | E - Undergraduate |
| Edison and Leo | Neil Burns | Perfect Circle Productions & Infinity Features | Canada | A - Feature |
| Enter the Sandbox | Kevin Adams | Starz Animation | Canada | G - Shorts for Kids |
| Entering the Mind Through the Mouth | Jin Sung Choi | Academy of Art University, San Francisco | South Korea & USA | Student Showcase |
| Fouding or Not Fouding | Youlia Rainous | ENSAD - Nicolas Bauchard | France | Student Showcase |
| French Roast | Fabrice Joubert | Pumpkin Factory, Bibo Films | France | International Showcase 2 |
| Fuzzy Insides | Michaela Olsen | Rhode Island School of Design | USA | Student Showcase |
| Gary | Clément Soulmagnon, Sébastien Eballard, Quentin Chaillet & Yann Benedi | Supinfocom Valenciennes | France | Student Showcase |
| Gemeinschaft | Ozlem Akin | Istanbul Bilgi University | Turkey | E - Undergraduate |
| Git Gob | Philip Eddolls | National Film Board of Canada | Canada | D - Narrative |
| Hazed | Matt Hammill | Guru Animation Studio, Sheridan College | Canada | Canadian Film Showcase |
| He's Barack Obama | Evan Spiridellis & Gregg Spiridellis | JibJab Media Inc. | USA | International Showcase 1 |
| History of the Meat Packing District | Gary Leib | Twinkle LLC | USA | F - TV for Adults |
| Hot Seat | Janet Perlman | Acme Filmworks | USA | F - TV for Adults |
| Inherent Obligations | Rao Heidmets | OÜ Nukufilm | Estonia | D - Narrative |
| Inner Tubes | Tim Beckhardt | Rhode Island School of Design | USA | Student Showcase |
| Insano Jazz | Hélio Coelho | Instituto Marlin Azul | Brazil | International Showcase 1 |
| Intergalactic Who's Who 'The Vegetation of Zig 5' | Carol Beecher & Kevin D.A. Kurytnik | Fifteen Pound Pink Production | Canada | Canadian Film Showcase |
| Inukshuk | Camillelvis Thery | Sip animation | France | D - Narrative |
| Jazzed | Anton Setola | Lumière & NIAF & Euroanima | Belgium & Netherlands | International Showcase 1 |
| Jelly Fishers | Steven Subotnick | USA | International Showcase 1 | |
| Jimmy Two-Shoes 'Jimmy Gets A 'Stache' | Sean Scott & Jeff Barker | Breakthrough Animation, Teletoon, Jetix Europe | Canada & UK | TAC Canadian TV Showcase |
| Josephs' Snails | Sophie Roze | JPL Films | France | G - Shorts for Kids |
| Juiced and Jazzed | Justin Weber | MAKE, LLC. | USA | International Showcase 2 |
| Kaki King 'Air and Kilometers' | Ingrid Brooker | Ingrid K Brooker | Australia | F - Music Video |
| Katakombo | Michael Zamjatnins | Michael Zamjatnins Animationsfilm | Germany | G - Shorts for Kids |
| Kid vs Kat 'Search and De-Toy' | Josh Mepham, Greg Sullivan & Rob Boutilier | Studio B Productions, YTV, Jetix Europe. | Canada | TAC Canadian TV Showcase |
| Kitchen Dimensions | Priit Tender | Eesti Joonisfilm | Estonia | D - Narrative |
| L'homme à la gordini | Jean-Christophe Lie | Prima Linea Productions, Piste Rouge, Dingo | France | International Showcase 2 |
| Laïka | Guillaume Blanchet | Cheap Production | Canada | F - Promotional |
| Land of the Heads | Cédric Louis & Claude Barras | National Film Board of Canada, Helium Films, Télévision Suisse Romande | Canada | Canadian Film Showcase |
| Lebensader | Angela Steffen | Filmakademie Baden-Wuerttemberg, Institute of Animation, Visual Effects and Digital Postproduction | Germany | E - Graduation |
| Leon 'Seagulls' | Ghislain Cyr & Annie Groovie | Sardine Productions Inc. | Canada | TAC Canadian TV Showcase |
| Lies | Jonas Odell | FilmTecknarna Animation | Sweden | D - Narrative |
| Life Without Gabriella Ferri | Olga Pärn & Priit Pärn | Eesti Joonisfilm | Estonia | A - Feature |
| Lost and Found | Philip Hunt | Studio AKA Ltd | UK | G - TV for Kids |
| Love on the Line | G Melissa Graziano | University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) | USA | E - Graduation |
| Madagascar, A Journey Diary | Bastien Dubois | Sacrebleu Production | France | F - TV for Adults |
| Magic Cube and Ping-Pong | Lei Lei | Tsinghua University, Academy of Fine Arts | China | E - Graduation |
| Mai Mai Miracle | Sunao Katabuchi | Madhouse Ltd. | Japan | A - Feature |
| Mak the Horny Mac Daddy | Ian Miller | University of the Arts | USA | E - Undergraduate |
| Mammal Planet | Shih-Chen Lin | TNNUA Graduate Institute of Sound and Image Studies in Animation | Taiwan | Student Showcase |
| Man Up | Edward Barrett | Royal College of Art, Animation | UK | E - Graduation |
| Mary and Max | Adam Elliot | Australia | A - Feature | |
| MGMT 'Kids' | Christy Karacas & Ray Tintori | USA | F - Music Video | |
| Miles Kurosky 'Dog in a Burning Building' | Fran Krause & Will Krause | Krause Brothers | USA | F - Music Video |
| Milk Dots Compilation 'Bones' | Julian Grey, Dale Hayward, James Paterson & Philippe Blanchard | Head Gear Animation | Canada | F - Promotional |
| Milk Dots Compilation 'Eyes' | Steve Angel, Julian Grey & Isaac King | Head Gear Animation | Canada | F - Promotional |
| Milk Dots Compilation 'Teeth' | Steve Angel, Paul Parvulescu & Isaac King | Head Gear Animation | Canada | F - Promotional |
| Milovan Circus | Gerlando Infuso | ensav la cambre | Belgium | Student Showcase |
| Missed Aches | Joanna Priestley | Priestley Motion Pictures | USA | International Showcase 1 |
| Must Drink More Milk | Solomon Burbridge, Paul Harrod, Randy Wakerlin, Jun seo Hahm & Rob Shaw | Bent Image Lab | USA | F - Promotional |
| My Dog Tulip | Paul Fierlinger & Sandra Fierlinger | My Dog Tulip Company LLC | USA | A - Feature |
| My Friend Rabbit 'Snowed Under' | Jason Groh | Nelvana Limited | Canada | G - TV for Kids |
| Myth Labs | Martha Colburn | Filmbank New World | Netherlands | D - Experimental |
| N.A.S.A. 'A Volta' | Alexei Tylevich | Logan | USA | F - Music Video |
| Nanu | Alex Donald | Sheridan Institute | Canada | Canadian Film Showcase |
| Nick Idents | Ljubisa Djukic, Ole Keune & Bettina Vogel | Dyrdee Media GmbH & Co. KG | Germany | F - Promotional |
| Nicolas & Guillemette | Virginie Taravel | Haikouk Film | France | G - Shorts for Kids |
| Nullsleep 'Dirty ROM Dance Mix' | Stieg Retlin | Plasticflesh | USA | F - Music Video |
| OXFAM 'Face the Music' | Ian Gouldstone | Sound Films | UK | F - Promotional |
| Partly Cloudy | Peter Sohn | Pixar Animation Studios | USA | International Showcase 2 |
| Pearl | Neely Goniodsky | National Film Board of Canada | Canada | Canadian Film Showcase |
| Pears or Aliens | Lei Lei | Tsinghua University, Academy of Fine Arts | China | E - Graduation |
| Peggy Baker: Four Phrases | Howie Shia | National Film Board of Canada | Canada | Canadian Film Showcase |
| Pellet Gunn | Tim Beckhardt | Rhode Island School of Design | USA | E - Undergraduate |
| Peripetics | Jamie Raap & Henrik Mauler | Zeitguised | UK | D - Experimental |
| Pittanko! | Motohiro Shirakawa | KOO-KI | Japan | G - Shorts for Kids |
| Please Say Something | David OReilly | David OReilly Animation | Ireland & Germany | D - Narrative |
| Postalolio | Marv Newland | International Rocketship Limited | Canada & USA | D - Experimental |
| Q&A | Mike Rauch & Tim Rauch | Rauch Brothers Animation | USA | D - Narrative |
| Roadrunner | Zachary Wong | USA | E - High School | |
| Rollbots 'Crontab Trouble' | George Elliott & Joey So | Amberwood Productions (Rollbots) Inc. & Elliot Animation | Canada | TAC Canadian TV Showcase |
| Runaway | Cordell Barker | National Film Board of Canada | Canada | D - Narrative |
| Sarah | Caroline Attia | Z Animation | USA | F - Promotional |
| Sesame Workshop 'Birds' | Julian Grey | Head Gear Animation | Canada | G - TV for Kids |
| Sesame Workshop 'Umbrella' | Isaac King | Head Gear Animation | Canada | G - TV for Kids |
| Shot in the Dark | Dustin Lincoln | Kansas City Art Institute | USA | E - Undergraduate |
| Son of Dino-Orange | Lansing Bruce Robertson | independent | Canada | D - Narrative |
| Spot and Splodge in Snowstorm | Uzi Geffenblad & Lotta Geffenblad | Zigzag Animation | Sweden | G - Shorts for Kids |
| STOKED 'Welcome to Paradise, Dudes!' | Faruk Cemalovic | Fresh TV | Canada | TAC Canadian TV Showcase |
| Swiftly | Cecilia Velasco | Canada & Mexico | Canadian Film Showcase | |
| The Art of Drowning | Diego Maclean | Emily Carr University | Canada | E - Undergraduate |
| The Astronomer's Dream | Malcolm Sutherland | Independent | Canada | D - Narrative |
| The Baader Meinhof Kit | Till Penzek & Jon Frickey | SFA | Germany | D - Narrative |
| The Bellows March | Eric Dyer | Ride Pictures | USA | D - Experimental |
| The Black Dog's Progress | Stephen Irwin | UK | D - Narrative | |
| The Butter Dilemma | Fabrice Fouquet | TeamTO | France | International Showcase 1 |
| The Cat Piano | Eddie White, Ari Gibson & Jessica Brentnall | The People's Republic of Animation | Australia | International Showcase 1 |
| The Da Vinci Time Code | Gil Alkabetz | Sweet Home Studio | Germany | International Showcase 1 |
| The Drawer and The Crow | Frédérick Tremblay | Canada | D - Narrative | |
| The Machine | Rob Shaw | Bent Image Lab | USA | International Showcase 2 |
| The Man Who Slept | Inés Sedan | Sacrebleu Productions, L'unité centrale, National Film Board of Canada | Canada | Canadian Film Showcase |
| The Mouse That Soared | Kyle Bell | Kyle Bell | USA | G - Shorts for Kids |
| The Note | Kum-byul Hwangbo | Indiestory Inc. & Hongik University | South Korea | Student Showcase |
| The Paper Prince | Hamish Lambert | Canada | E - High School | |
| The Passenger | Julie Zammarchi | USA | D - Narrative | |
| The Phantom of the Cinema | Erik van Schaaik | il luster productions | Netherlands | International Showcase 1 |
| The Royal Nightmare | Alex Budovsky | Figli Migli Productons | USA | International Showcase 1 |
| The Seed | Johnny Kelly | Nexus | UK | F - Promotional |
| The Soliloquist | Ma Kuang Pei | Tainan National University of the Arts | Taiwan | E - Graduation |
| The Spine | Chris Landreth | National Film Board of Canada, Copperheart Animation, C.O.R.E. Digital Pictures | Canada | Canadian Film Showcase |
| The Terrible Thing of Alpha-9! | Jake Armstrong | School of Visual Arts | USA | E - Undergraduate |
| The True Story of the Three Little Pigs | Konstantin Bronzit | Weston Woods Studios and Remir Productions | Russia & United States | G - Shorts for Kids |
| The Universe Cotton | Lei Lei | Tsinghua University, Academy of Fine Arts | China | E - Graduation |
| The Wonder Pets! 'Help the Monster' | Jennifer Oxley | Nickelodeon in association with Little Airplane Productions | USA | G - TV for Kids |
| Time | Kwan Ho Tse | Kwan Films | Canada | Canadian Film Showcase |
| TOM 'Tom's Band' / 'Tom and the Nice Family' | Andreas Hykade | Studio Film Bilder | Germany | G - TV for Kids |
| Tom N Jerry | Jin Sung Choi | Academy of Art University, San Francisco | South Korea & USA | Student Showcase |
| True Confessions | Ian Miller | University of the Arts | USA | E - Undergraduate |
| Twist of Fate | Karen Aqua | Karen Aqua | USA | D - Experimental |
| U2 'I'll Go Crazy If I Don't Go Crazy Tonight' | David OReilly | Colonel Blimp | UK & Ireland | F - Music Video |
| Underground Psycho | Jean-Michel Boesch, Stéphane Chung, Sophia Chevrier, Jeremy Paoletti & Stéphane Vlavonou | GOBELINS | France | Student Showcase |
| United Airlines 'Butterfly' | Aleksandra Korejwo | USA | F - Promotional | |
| Unnatural History of Wallstreet | Gary Leib | Twinkle LLC | USA | F - TV for Adults |
| Utopia City | Emmanuel Bellegarde | Première Heure | France | International Showcase 2 |
| Visit | Kang Min Kim | California Institute of the Arts | USA & South Korea | Student Showcase |
| Vive la Rose | Bruce Alcock | National Film Board of Canada & Global Mechanic | Canada | D - Narrative |
| Wait & Path | Sanjay Jangir | In the Name of Love, National Institute of Design | India | Student Showcase |
| Wallace and Gromit: A Matter of Loaf and Death | Nick Park | Aardman Animations Ltd. | UK | D - Narrative |
| What I Found in Great Aunt Nell's Closet | Melissa Bouwman | USC School of Cinematic Arts | USA | Student Showcase |
| Wings and Oars | Vladimir Leschiov | LUNOHOD Animation Studio | Latvia | International Showcase 2 |
| WWF 'Because We Are All Connected' | Celyn Brazier | Nexus | UK | F - Promotional |
| Michael Naphan | Bravo!FACT, Orange Shorts Productions | Canada | Canadian Film Showcase | |
| Yellow Belly End | Philip Bacon | National Film and Telvision School | UK | E - Graduation |