It’s a Wrap – LA Animation Festival Winners Announced – Animation Scoop

It’s a Wrap – LA Animation Festival Winners Announced

The LA Animation Festival had its awards evening on Sunday at The Mayflower Club and gave awards in many filmmaking and craft categories including a Best of the Fest Award for an experimental film by Louis Morton called Floreana, a Best Feature Award to renowned independent experimental filmmaker Joanna Priestley for North of Blue and a Best Comedy prize to Canadian duo Alison Snowden and David Fine for Animal Behaviour. The couple won a 1992 animated short Oscar for their film Bob’s Birthday.

Several of the main categories were sponsored by Toon Boom, the popular animation software. The festival also Honored Evette Vargas, for her “Pioneering Work in VR”, a Sangaria Ramune-sponsored Award for Excellence to animator-composer Ed Skudder for his music video Tectonic, and a Humanitarian Award in animated documentary for Land of the Free?, a group project from Sheila Sofian’s USC Documentary Animation class.

Festival Honoree and Titmouse co-founder Chris Prynoski received his Award for “Pioneering Work in Animation” during the festival’s opening night.

Chris and Shannon Prynoski. Photo by Sean Eric Pavon – XP Photography

The Awards night also raised money and awareness for WOMEN IN ANIMATION.

Here is a list of top prizes. The entire list is at http://blog.laafest.com/winners/

Pioneering Work in Animation – Chris Prynoski (Honoree)
Pioneering Work in VR – Evette Vargas (Honoree)

Best of the FestFloreana (USA) Louis Morton
Best FeatureNorth of Blue (USA) Joanna Priestly

Best ComedyAnimal Behaviour (Canada) Alison Snowden & David Fine

Best Motion GraphicsEquipoise (USA) Simo Liu

Best Short from a SeriesLullaby Theories: A Secret (USA) Jonathan Lacocque
Best Short from a Series 2nd Place& Black & White (Croatia) Darko Bakliza

Best DocumentaryNew York City Sketchbook (USA) Willy Hartland

Best Character-BasedLittle Bandits (USA) Alex Avagimian

Best ExperimentalFloreana (USA) Louis Morton

Best Music VideoEmulate-Okay Kaya (USA) Daniel Zvereff

Award of Excellence (Presented by Sangaria Ramune) – Tectonic (USA) Ed Skudder

Innovator Award – Evette Vargas

Humanitarian Award – Land of the Free (USA) USC Documentary Animation Production class: Alissa Michelle Brasington, Liam Campbell, Brian Cawley, Lakota DodgingHorse, Ken Egu, C. Leigh Goldsmith, Haley Hudkins, Hannah Kreiswirth, Kaitlyn Leewing, Sequoyah Madison, Molly Murphy, Patrice Pinardo, Chenglin Xie

Best DirectionAnimal Behaviour (Canada) Alison Snowden & David Fine
Best StoryThe Magical Mystery of Musigny (USA) Emmett Goodman
Best Character DesignHappy Foot vs. Sad Foot (USA) Mike Hollingsworth
Best Art DirectionUnexpected Discoveries (USA) James Mabery
Best DesignDiving In A Sea Of Light (USA) Micah Buzan
Best Children’s Animation 1st PlaceMi Abuelita (Guatemala) Giselle Pérez

Festival Sponsors:
Sangaria Ramune, P4STV, Octopie, Toon Boom, Bang Zoom!

Event Sponsors:
Tito’s Handmade Vodka, Yolo Rum, Leese Fitch Wines, Asombrosa Tequila, Gehricke Wines
Represented by P4STV

Jerry Beck
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