75 winners, both students and professionals, were honored at this year’s Los Angeles Animation Festival.
The Los Angeles Animation Festival (LAAF) wrapped up its 2019 edition this past Sunday evening with an awards ceremony featuring 75 winners in various categories, both student and professional. The event was emceed by actor/comedian Adam Sartain in conjunction with the festival directors John Andrews and Miles Flanagan. ASIFA-Hollywood president, Jerry Beck, was feted as this year’s festival honoree.
The festival also announced the launch of its partnership with FilmFest Distribution, which will give all filmmakers a shot at worldwide distribution under the LAAF banner. Plans include the distribution of an anthology feature in the coming months.
LAAF 2019 Award Winners
- “The Best of the Fest Award” went to Goldie, a short created by Emily Brundige whose past credits include the Shut Up! Cartoons series Pubertina for YouTube.
- The first-place winner for “Best Character-Based Short” was The Bird and The Whale, directed by Irish animator Carol Freeman.
- “Best Student Character-Based Short” went to Out of Water by L Byrley.
Other winners include:
Character Based Short
- Silver: Spirit of The Drowning Girls:
- Bronze: Cosmos Express
Student Character Based Short
- Silver: Shoot the Moon
- Bronze: GO! Go!
Animated Pilot
- Winner: Berkowitz
Short from A Series
- Pawla Dean’s White House Kitchen
Animated Documentary
- Winner: Minor Accident of War
- Silver: A Certain Kind of Love
Student Animated Documentary
- Winner: Thread
- Silver: I Never Picked Cotton
Humanitarian Award
- SITARA
Comedy Short
- Winner: Mini Cops Winner
- Silver: Moon Dogs
Best LA First-time Filmmaker Sponsored by FILM FEST DISTRIBUTION
- Turtles Hurdle Local Hero
International Short:
- Winner: Falafel Cart
International Student Short
- Winner: Petty Thing
Commercial
- Winner: “Dulux – Colour Your Home”
Experimental Short
- Winner: The Physics of Sorrow
- Silver: Passage
- Bronze: 24
Student Experimental Short
- Winner: Cage
- Silver: There Were Four of Us
- Bronze: Reincarnation
Music Video
- Winner: Kishi Bashi – Violin Tsunami
- Silver: …And Then She Kissed Me
- Bronze: Itchy Teeth - Invisible
Experimental Music Video
- Winner: Last Meal by BIG BILL
- Silver: Wash
Goldie Winner: Children’s Animation
- Winner: Why Z?
- Silver: Ace
First-Time Filmmaker
- Winner: Saturated
- Silver: Race to The Finish
- Bronze: Lost at Shore
R.I.P. Perfect Combo Award for Excellence
- R.I.P.
Animated Vines
- Winner: Anti Bully Vines – Cartoon Network
Parallax Studioworks Award for Excellence
- On the Road
Character Design
- Winner: Goldie
Design
- Winner: Ripple Home
- Silver: Levers
- Bronze: Riptide
Student Design
- Winner: Bear Hunter
- Silver: One of a Kind
- Bronze: Bounty
Ensemble Cast
- Winner: The Grind
Student Animation
- Winner: Push
- Silver: Trash Panda
- Bronze: The Audition
Gonzo Animation
- Winner: Liquid Death
Student Gonzo Animation
- Winner: Ben & Kat Or Kat & Ben Go to Little Lake Fountain
Special Laaf Jury Award
- Asteroid Season
Stop-Motion Animation
- Winner: Sylvia
- Silver: Moth
- Bronze: Tragic Magic
Student Stop-Motion Animation
- Winner: Fire Flower
- Silver: S.O.S. – A Stop Motion Music Video
- Bronze: Moffat
Award for Excellence in Stop Motion
- Candy Filmfest
Student Motion Graphics
- Winner: Butterfly
FILMFEST Award for Excellence
- The Peak
Student CGI Animation
- Winner: Fierce
Music Score
- Winner: SITARA
Produced Screenplay
- Winner: SITARA
Unproduced Feature Screenplay
- Winner: The Oak of Dendriata
- Silver: Clayton Cadaver
Unproduced Short Screenplay
- Winner: Braving the Night
FILMFEST Award for Excellence in 2D Animation
- Between the Shadows
Audience Award
- Honest Bean
FILMFEST Award for Excellence in Motion Graphics
- Sex Recession
FILMFEST Award for Excellence in Student Animation
- Don’t Croak
FILMFEST Award for Excellence in Design
- OM NOM NOM…
FILMFEST Award for Excellence in Music Video Animation
- Sad Heart
FILMFEST Special Jury Award
- Waters of March
Prizes included software from ToonBoom, Daz 3D and HueHD Studio.
Source: Los Angeles Animation Festival
