Andy Kennedy’s “Slow Wave” Wins ASIFA East Best-In-Show 2016

On Sunday May 15th, we held the 47th ASIFA East Animation Festival awards ceremony.  Congratulations to all the winners, thank you to all the contributing filmmakers, and we couldn’t have done it without all of our members.

 

BEST IN SHOW:  Slow Wave – Andy Kennedy

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UPDATE: Photos from the event are now available!

 

INDEPENDENT FILM Category

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1st Place:  There’s Too Many of These Crows – Morgan Miller

2nd Place:  Filthy But Fine – Arthur Metcalf

3rd Place:  The Ballad of Holland Island House – Lynn Tomlinson

 

 

STUDENT FILM Category

1st Place: Ring Around the Mulberry Bush – Nicholas D’Agostino, California Institute of the Arts

2nd Place: Scent of Geranium – Naghmeh Farzaneh, Rochester Institute of Technology,

3rd Place: Breathe – Ma-eum Ko, Hanyang University

Honourable Mentions: The Misadventures of Chubzilla – Dominik Koscinski, Elizabeth Lee, SVA; The Green Monster – Cyrus Cumming, NYU; Taking the Plunge – Elizabeth Ku-Herrero, Nicholas Manfredi, Marie Raoult, Thaddaeus Andreades, SVA

 

 

COMMISSIONED FILM Category (Under 2 min)

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1st Place:  Happy Birthday Ada! – Rob O’Neill, Inklings Creative, The Productive

 

 

COMMISSIONED FILM Category (Over 2 min)

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1st Place:  More Stuff – Simone Giampaolo, Joe Kinch, Blue Zoo Animation Studio

2nd Place:  Mirror – Chris Ware, John Kuramoto, The New Yorker, This American Life

3rd Place: Moonlight Storytime: The Wooly Dragon – Villamor M Cruz, Jr,  Kirsten Lepore, Bix Pix Entertainment, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

 

 

CRAFT AWARDS

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Best in Writing (tied):  Suffering Is the Easy Part – Jaime Ekkens, & Blankfillers – Celeste Lai, Peyton Skyler

Best in Education:  What “Orwellian” Really Means – Jeremiah Dickey, TED-ED

Best in Soundtrack:  Voyager – Loïc Magar, Roman Veiga

Best in Experimental:  Little Girl – Steven Subotnick

Best in Animation:  Life Line – Brian Larson

Best in Design:  Perfect Houseguest – Ru Kuwahata & Max Porter

 

 

and from our partner…

The WOMEN IN ANIMATION Awards

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WIA Best in Show:  The Ballad of Holland Island House – Lynn Tomlinson

WIA Student Film:  Sleep Awake – Nora Meek

WIA “Rising Star”:  The Dream – Taylor Andrews (Parkway High School)

 

UPDATE: We would also like to thank Tristian Goik, John Walter Lustig, Stefie Gan, and Oscillator / Modulator for all their hard work on this year’s signal festival!