Woolf + Lapin’s talent was on show at the Ottawa International Animation Festival. Out of 2,185 entries Emmanuel Bellegarde’s short film Une ville was selected for the International Showcase screenings featuring the best new animation from around the world. The showcase includes a mixture of short independent films, TV commercials, series, student films, music videos, and more. Pixar’s Partly Cloudy was definitely a crowd pleaser.
My Dog Tulip was a feature competition entry (directed by the Paul & Sandra Fierlinger tandem). It’s beautiful animated watercolors about an endearing, if not at times bizarre, portrait of a man whose life is radically focused on recording the minutiae of his temperamental German shepherd’s life. It’s the biography of a snarky bitch, as it were. It is based on J.R. Ackerley’s book, which Christopher Isherwood described as one of the “greatest masterpieces of animal literature. ” The Fierlingers bring life to Ackerly’s faultless and respectful observations. It is profound and meditative while delving into the strangeness of a co-dependent relationship between a man and a canine.
Also, as we’ve said, Marie-Josée Saint-Pierre’s Passages and Patrick Boivin’s Indochine Playboy videoclip were both part of the Québec My Love series.
More to come…