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Animation Magazine The\u00a0Ottawa International Animation Festival\u00a0(OIAF) will celebrate its 50th anniversary this September with an all-Canadian jury, underscoring five decades of championing Canadian animation and the artists shaping its future. This is the first all-Canadian jury in OIAF history.<\/p>\n The jury brings together leading voices in Canadian animation:\u00a0Luc Chamberland,\u00a0Lillian Chan,\u00a0Dave Cooper,\u00a0Barry Doup\u00e9,\u00a0Alexandra Myotte\u00a0and\u00a0Alisi Telengut. Together, the jurors represent a wide range of creative practices and perspectives across Canadian animation and the broader arts community.<\/p>\n Given that it\u2019s our 50th anniversary and that we\u2019re taking time to celebrate five decades of Canadian animation (more on that soon!), I thought, why not have an all-Canadian jury as well, just to spice things up. We\u2019ve got such a dynamic, diverse, and large community, I thought it would be nice to add some established voices, new voices and people who skirt the lines between the animation and art world.<\/p>\n Chris Robinson, OIAF\u2019s Artistic Director<\/p>\n The jury will be divided into short film and feature film juries. Jury members will view the official selections during the festival and select award winners, to be announced Sept. 26, 2026, at the National Arts Centre in Ottawa.<\/p>\n The OIAF is accepting film submissions until 11:59 p.m. EDT on May 31, 2026. There is no submission fee. Selected films will screen at the festival and be eligible for awards.<\/p>\n Each year, OIAF attracts over 27,000 filmmakers, industry professionals and animation fans from around the world. The festival serves as a major international showcase for animated work and brings global attention to Canadian and international artists alike.<\/p>\n About Luc Chamberland<\/p>\n Luc Chamberland is a Montreal-based filmmaker, comic-book author and animator whose work spans commercials, documentaries, music videos, television and film. He restored the 1914 classic\u00a0Gertie the Dinosaur\u00a0and directed the creative bible and pilot for\u00a0Wild Kratts. He has also made several films at the National Film Board of Canada, including the award-winning\u00a0Seth\u2019s Dominion, and has taught directing, storyboarding and animation in Denmark, the UK and Canada.<\/p>\n About\u00a0Lillian Chan<\/p>\n Lillian Chan is a Toronto-based animation filmmaker. Her National Film Board children\u2019s film\u00a0Jaime Lo, Small and Shy\u00a0won the public prize at both the Ottawa International Animation Festival and Anima Mundi in Brazil. Chan served as production designer and head of story for Kid Koala\u2019s animated feature\u00a0Space Cadet, which screened at Berlinale, Annecy and TIFF in 2025. She was also the mentoring director for Hothouse 15, the National Film Board\u2019s mentorship program for emerging filmmakers. Her other credits include contributions to Ann Marie Fleming\u2019s animated feature\u00a0Window Horses\u00a0and commercial work for DisneyXD, Guru Studios and TED-Ed. Chan is a professor of animation at Seneca Polytechnic in Toronto.<\/p>\n About Dave Cooper<\/p>\n Dave Cooper emerged in the 1990s with a series of underground comics published by Fantagraphics, most notably Weasel and Ripple, the latter featuring an introduction by David Cronenberg. He later shifted into oil painting, exhibiting in Los Angeles, New York, Paris and Angoul\u00eame, while also publishing several monographs of his artwork. Around 2008, he moved into animation, co-creating\u00a0Pig Goat Banana Cricket\u00a0and\u00a0The Bagel\u00a0and\u00a0Becky Show\u00a0before releasing the acclaimed short film\u00a0The Absence of Eddy Table. In 2024, Cooper unveiled a wave of new work in Paris, including the first issue of his comic series\u00a0Dog Head, a new vinyl toy version of his character Mimi Wobbly and his largest gallery exhibition to date, Swollen in Paris, at Galerie Daniel Maghen. He has since returned to painting, completed the short film\u00a0Squash, published\u00a0Dog Head\u00a0and continues to work from Ottawa.<\/p>\n About\u00a0Barry Doup\u00e9<\/p>\n Barry Doup\u00e9 is an artist working primarily in computer animation, digital painting and sculpture. His work uses imagery and language derived from the subconscious, developed through writing exercises and automatic drawing. Doup\u00e9\u2019s films are often characterized by fragmented narrative structures, richly textured characters and surreal, poetic situations.<\/p>\n His films have been screened throughout Canada and internationally, including at the Vancouver Art Gallery, the Chicago Underground Film Festival, the International Film Festival Rotterdam, e-flux screening room in New York, Swallow Gallery in Lithuania, DOK Leipzig in Germany, Hors Pistes at Centre Pompidou in Paris and Deluge Contemporary in Victoria. In 2024, he was longlisted for the Sobey Art Award. Doup\u00e9 lives and works in Vancouver on the traditional and ancestral unceded territories of the Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh First Nations.<\/p>\n About\u00a0Alexandra Myotte<\/p>\n Alexandra Myotte is an independent Canadian film director known for her animated shorts. She works with her partner Jean-S\u00e9bastien Hamel in the Montreal-based studio Semaphore Films. Their 2023 short film\u00a0A Crab in the Pool\u00a0screened at more than 130 festivals and won more than 30 awards before making the 2025 Academy Awards shortlist. In 2026,\u00a0What We Leave Behind\u00a0premiered at Locarno, TIFF, Clermont-Ferrand and SXSW. Their next short film,\u00a0Drink Me, will be released in 2027. The duo is currently working on their first animated feature.<\/p>\n About\u00a0Alisi Telengut<\/p>\n Alisi Telengut is a Canadian artist of Mongolian roots, living between Berlin, Germany, and Tiohti\u00e0:ke\/Montr\u00e9al. Her practice consists of frame-by-frame, under-the-camera animation using mixed media, generating painterly, handmade visuals. Her work has been exhibited and screened at the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures, the Whitney Biennial, Sundance Film Festival, Toronto International Film Festival and TIFF\u2019s Canada\u2019s Top Ten, the Annecy International Animation Festival and elsewhere. She is an assistant professor in film animation at Concordia University and recently defended her PhD at Filmuniversit\u00e4t Babelsberg Konrad Wolf.<\/p>\n
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