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Yorkton Film Festival Golden Sheaf Award - Animation
The Golden Sheaf Award for best Animation production is presented by the Yorkton Film Festival. History In 1947 the Yorkton Film Council was founded. The first Yorkton Film Festival Yorkton Film Festival (YFF) is an annual film festival held in late May in Yorkton, Saskatchewan, Canada. In 1947, the Yorkton Film Council (YFC) was founded and in 1950 the first international documentary film festival officially opened in we ... was held in 1950. During the first few festivals, the films were adjudicated by audience participation through ballot casting and winners were awarded 'Certificates of Merit' by the film council. In 1958 the film council established the Yorkton Film Festival Golden Sheaf Award for the category 'Best of Festival', awarded to the best overall film of the festival. In 1973 the Golden Sheaf Award for Animation was added to the Main Categories. The winner of this award is determined by a panel of jurors to select the best film or video that tells a stor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Golden Sheaf Award
Yorkton Film Festival (YFF) is an annual film festival held in late May in Yorkton, Saskatchewan, Canada. In 1947, the Yorkton Film Council (YFC) was founded and in 1950 the first international documentary film festival officially opened in western Canada on 11 October. The festival originally was named Yorkton International Documentary Film Festival and latter become known as Yorkton International Film Festival. In 1969, the Yorkton Film Council disbanded and the Yorkton International Film Festival Society was formed. The film festival went through several name changes and currently operates as Yorkton Film Festival. It is known as the longest running film festival held in North America. The festival is open to Canadian productions, or international productions directed by Canadians, and focuses on films that are under 60 minutes in length. It is a qualifying festival for the Canadian Screen Awards. The Yorkton Film Festival includes awards in 29 categories: 18 main categori ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Blowhard (film)
''Blowhard'' is a Canadian animated short film, directed by Brad Caslor and Christopher Hinton for the National Film Board of Canada in 1978. A satire of capitalism, the film centres on a businessman who moves to Blowhard, a town populated by dragons but without electrical power, and formulates a plan to profit and become rich by exploiting the dragons as a power source.William Beard and Jerry White, ''North of Everything: English-Canadian Cinema Since 1980''. University of Alberta Press, 2002. . p. 76. The film was made for the NFB's ''Renewable Society'' series. It also served as a subtle comment on Western Canadian alienation, as businessman J. B. Edwards was "from the East" and the town of Blowhard was "in the West". It was narrated by Maara Haas, and also featured Wayne Finucan as the voice of J. B. Edwards. The film received a Canadian Film Award nomination for Best Animated Short Film at the 29th Canadian Film Awards in 1978 and it won a Golden Sheaf Award for Best An ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Man Who Planted Trees (film)
''The Man Who Planted Trees'' (french: L'homme qui plantait des arbres) is a 1987 Canadian short animated film directed by Frédéric Back. It is based on Jean Giono's 1953 short story ''The Man Who Planted Trees''. This 30-minute film was distributed in two versions, French and English, narrated respectively by actors Philippe Noiret and Christopher Plummer, and produced by Radio-Canada. Awards The film won the Academy Award (1988) for Best Animated Short Film. It also competed for the Short Film Palme d'Or at the 1987 Cannes Film Festival. The film won the Golden Sheaf Award for Best Animation at the 1988 Yorkton Film Festival. In 1994, it was voted number 44 of the ''50 Greatest Cartoons'' of all time by members of the animation field. References Further reading *Olivier Cotte Olivier Cotte (born 20 June 1963) is a French writer, graphic novel scriptwriter, animation historian, illustrator, and a director. Biography Born into a family of artists, Olivier Cotte st ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1988 Yorkton Film Festival
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1987 Yorkton Film Festival
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