Every year in the capital city of Canada, Ottawa celebrates the annual International Animation Festival, this year the Festival will be held from September 17 – 21. The nation's capital will once again become the center of the animation universe. The Ottawa International Animation Festival (OIAF) is the largest event of its kind in North America. It is a major film event attracting attendees from around the world. Film buffs, art lovers and cartoon fans won't want to miss this year's great line up of screenings taking place at the ByTowne Cinema, the National Gallery of Canada, the Canadian Museum of Civilization and the Empire Theatres Rideau Centre.
Ottawa International Animation Festival (OIAF) founded in 1975 by the Canadian Film Institute, was pulled together in nine months. First held August 10 to 15, 1976, the OIAF created a gathering place for North American animation professionals and enthusiasts to ponder the craft and business of animation. It also provided their international colleagues with a unique opportunity to gain an appreciation for and access to the North American scene.
The aim of the festival is to foster the development and growth of animation talent found within our country and region. Our animators and animation companies are among the most creative and successful in the world. The Ottawa festival helps them achieve both artistic excellence and commercial success.
The Ottawa International Animation Festival provides a means of inter-linking the regional, national, and international animation communities.
The festival exists in part to provide an artistic and commercial forum wherein aesthetic and artistic excellence, as well as commercial expertise, can be shared and exchanged among these various communities.
It also fosters a greater appreciation of the art and craft of animation among the public at large. One of the most respected and venerable of the moving image arts, animation makes an unique contribution to both popular and ‘high' culture. The purpose of the Ottawa International Animation Festival is to create a greater awareness of, and appreciation for, this contribution among members of the public.
The program is amazing, with a large variety of events including those that would interest kids and teens etc. It is also full of activities such as workshops, panels, masterclases, films and screenings, exhibitions, presentations and parties.
M.T. Al-Mansouri Ph.D, the executive –editorial secretary of Paris-Jerusalem is the member of this unique and creative institution since 2008, and well known previously as a volunteer. This year he will participate not only as a volunteer but also as a representative of Afnan Newspaper to promote and advertise it to the World’s schools, universities, organizations as well as to companies and the public. In addition, he will represent his Imaginary Form of the cartoons entitled “Devil and Cloning Spirit, and the Rooster”, examples of shown in the Canadian International Electronic Museum of War Crimes in slideshow .To get more information about this very important aspect of the arts, please access the flowing URL http://www.animationfestival.ca.
Ottawa International Poets and Writers for human Rights (OIPWHR)
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