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Film Animation graduates find success

September 22, 2015
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Recent Cinema graduate Ari Soulikias (BFA 15) won the prize for Best Animation prize at the Cannes Short Film Festival in September for his film Last Dance on the Main. Soulikias’ film also screened at dozens of other international film festivals.

Soulikias’ win comes hot on the heels of a very successful year for animation students and alumni.

Ari Soulikias: Last Dance On the Main Ari Soulikias: Last Dance On the Main

Alumna Torill Kove’s animated short film, Me and My Moulton, was nominated for an Academy Award.

At the Canadian Screen Awards (CSA), alumna Marie-Josée Saint-Pierre’s won the prize for Best Short Documentary for Jutra, while alumni Fraser Munden (The Chaperone 3D) and Luc Chamberland (Seth’s Dominion) were also nominated in the same category.

Also at the Screen Awards, alumni Johanne Ste-Marie and Mark Lomond won Best Animated Short for Migration. Assistant professor Luigi Allemano and alumna Torill Kove were also nominated for Improvisation no. 1: Cumulative Loops and Me and My Moulton, respectively.

Saint-Pierre’s Jutra also won the Jutra Award for Best Short Film, Ste-Marie and Lomond’s Migration was also a finalist in this category.

Additionally was represented at Les Gémeaux, Quebec’s excellence in television awards, when Jutra won in the animation category.

Finally, seven Concordia films were screened at the 2015 Ottawa Animation Festival, North America’s largest and most prestigious Animation festival.

Congratulations to:

  • Patrick Lostracco for Couloirs
  • Trystan Murray Warnock-Juteau for Div/Ide
  • Véronique Girard, Marie-Josée Doutre and Marie-Hélène Cournoyer for Faunétique
  • Catherine Dubeau for Kaleidoscope
  • Marie-Hélène Cournoyer for Kuekuatsheu
  • Gabriel Masella for Night of the Kordyceps
  • Véronique Girard for La dévoyée
  • Max Woodward and Michael Horowitz for Composition in Cubes

Read more about other animation students and alumni who have had recent success on the film festival scene.



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