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GIFTS on Screen Web Cinema Animation Showcase

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Pandora's Lunch
(2:00 min) 1996, Computer Animation
by Cian Brown, Josh Cressman, Charlie Hughes, Stuart Kieft, Jennie Lee, Brett Liljefors

A traveller lost in the desert is tempted to open a forbidden box he finds and imagines the consequences.

Winner of the 1997 Cascadia Festival of Moving Images award for Best Graduate Computer Media.


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Pop Wars
(3:01 min) 2000, Computer Animation
by Grant Morden, Seth Gates, Laurence Cohen, Nicholas Goodchild, Ryan Lockwood

Two corporate giants (and we do mean giants) battle it out Godzilla style!!

Screened at Vancouver Island Film, Video & New Media Festival - Sooke, BC (awarded 3rd Place for Student/Amateur Animation), the National Student Film & Video Festival - Regina, SK

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head smadged

 

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resilience

I Love the Title
(2:30 min) 2000, DV
by Rickie Owens, Daren Sasges, Jason Whalley, Noah Mott


Following a song that flows through different stereotypical characters. It's fun!!

Nominated for Outstanding Achievement in Classical Animation at EyeLens 2001. Screened at the Toronto International Teen Movie Festival.



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Toonlimpics
(7:47 min) 2000, Computer Animation
by Sam Pettit, Jesse Davidge, Ryan Lockwood, Elliot English, Marek Bula

Witty parody of Olympic Games featuring an all-star toon cast.

Winner of the Award for Outstanding Achievement in Computer Animation at EyeLens 2001. Screened at the Vancouver Island Film, Video & New Media Festival - Victoria, BC.

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The City
(2:17 min) 1998, DV
by Claire Gandola, Mae Lingren, Daniel Nesseler, Jeff Pelletier

Depiction of two people's extremely contrasting points of view of the city.


Screened at the Victoria Independent Film Festival, Vancouver International Film Festival and the NFB's Reel to Reel Festival. The City also received Best Youth Entry and Best Youth Animation at the 1999 Canadian International Film Festival.

 

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BLINK
(2:10 min) 2000, Super 8 Film
by Adam Garnet Jones & Julia Feyrer

Blink to the pulsing beat of cascading images, in this scratch-and-paint cameraless film.

Screened at Out on Screen in Vancouver, BC, New York Lesbian & Gay Film Festival, Inside Out Festival in Toronto, ON, Cineworks' Kids Are Alright Youth Film Screening in Vancouver, BC, Splice This! Super 8 Film Festival in Toronto, ON, Image et Nation in Montreal, QC and the Canadian International Annual Film Festival.

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One Brick
(4:20 min) 2000, DV / Flash / Photoshop
by Daren Sasges, Allison McColl, Mia Wood, Angus McTavish, Tyler Hagen, Robyn Winsor


An exploration of humanity's relationship with nature, using 2D and 3D computer animation, claymation, stopmotion and more.

Screened at the Vancouver International Film Festival where the directors were nominated for the Telefilm Award for Best Emerging Director of a Western Canadian Short. Also screened at the Vancouver Island Film, Video & New Media Festival in Victoria, BC. Nominated for Outstanding Achievement in Digital Video Effects/Visual Effects and Animation at EyeLens 2001.

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Head Smadge
(6:30 min) 2000, DV / Flash / Photoshop
by Damon Chouinard, James Sharp, Colette Rombough, Josli Rockafella, Jesse Thompson, Evan Allen, Niall MacNeil-Richardson, Asami Morita

Through the chaos and confusion of life, may we discover the light that unites us all.


Winner of Award for Best Animation at the National Student Film & Video Festival in Regina, SK and the Award for Outstanding Achievement in Digital Video Effects / Visual Effects and Animation at EyeLens 2001. Also screened at the Victoria Independent Film & Video Festival.



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