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YoungCuts Animation KUDOS

• Fiddley 2/13

  Young girl picking fiddle-heads discovers abandoned car.

• Haleiya by Seven's Project 2/13

  Where do memories go when we don't want them anymore?

• How Coyote Got His Cunning 2/13

  The creation of the world and the rankings of it's creatures.

• Incident sur la ligne orange (PC)

  An old crazy lady confronts teenager over last subway seat.

• Ollie the Day Owl 2/13

  Ollie wakes up during the daytime for the first time.

• In The End We Started Again 2/13

  A transplant heart, an odd sock, a paving stone and a spider.

• Sweet Tooth 2/13

  Audrey takes bedtime storytelling to the next level.

• Switch 2/13

  An unsuspecting dope falls through a trap door.

The Oscars telecast always makes us happy and sad. Happy that some (short) attention is being paid to short films. Sad that many of the great short films that we see every year - done on low budgets or no budgets; filmed with shoe strings, passion and hope - will never even be considered for an Academy Award.

So, this year, we thought that we would do something about that, and award the first ever YoungCuts KUDOS.
And this time, the Academy was YOU!

Above you'll see the 8 films that were nominated for Best Animation:

Fiddley (Canada) - by Michelle Lannen
Haleiya by Seven's Project (Canada) - by AJ Korkidakis
How Coyote Got His Cunning (USA) - by Claire Nierbergall
Incident Sur La Ligne Orange (Canada) - by Valérie Gadbois
Ollie the Day Owl (USA) by Janelle Santner
In the End We Started Again (Australia) by Charlotte Hamlyn
Sweet Tooth (Canada) by Audrey Meubus
Switch (USA) by Tyson Hesse

They are free to watch.

We took votes on the films until the end of the Oscars telecast. The results of that voting were:

Best Rating: 

Incident Sur la Ligne Orange

Haleiya by Seven's Project

How the Coyote Got His Cunning (tie 3rd)

Fiddley (tie 3rd)

In the End We Started Again

 

Most Votes: 

Incident Sur la Ligne Orange

Haleiya by Seven's Project

Fiddley

Switch

Ollie the Day Owl

 

Most Watched:

Incident Sur la Ligne Orange

Haleiya by Seven's Project

Fiddley

In the End We Started Again (tie 4th)

Ollie the Day Owl (tie 4th)

 

Top 5 Animation KUDOS Films:

Incident Sur la Ligne Orange (15)

Haleiya by Seven's Project (12)

Fiddley (9)

How the Coyote Got His Cunning (3 - tie)

In the End We Started Again (3 - tie)

Ollie the Day Owl (3 - tie)

 

(Points based on 5 points for 1st place, 4 points for 2nd place, 3 points for 3rd place, 2 points for 4th place and 1 point for 5th place.)

 

Congratulations to Valérie Gadbois, director of Incident Sur la Ligne Orange for her convincing first place finish!

 

Valérie wins a free submission to the YoungCuts Film Festival for her next project (or the project of a friend and fellow filmmaker) as well as free publicity for any fund-raising that she needs to do to create her next short film project. 

 

Congratulations as well to A J Korkidakis, director of Haleiya by Seven's Project and Michelle Lannen, director of Fiddley for finishing in 2nd and 3rd, and thanks to all the filmmakers who contributed their films! 

In addition to Best Animation, you can also still watch (for free!) and see the voting results for YoungCuts KUDOS in the categories of: Best Short Film, Best Documentary, Best Teen Film and Best Short Short Film.

Watch 4 Great YoungCuts Films These are 4 of the best films that we have featured in previous YoungCuts Film Festivals. You picked Dead Grass, Dry Roots as the best of the best! ...Watch Now Watch 8 Great Documentaries Just because they are non-fiction, doesn't mean that they have to be boring! Watch the winner Finding Fathers and 7 other great docs... Watch Now Watch 8 Great Short Shorts Tell your story well, but also tell it fast! These 8 films, including winner Twilite by Fire, all tell a great story in under 5 minutes! ... Watch Now Watch 8 Great Teen Films The search for the next great filmmakers starts here! These 8 films, including the winner Recipe for Love, were all done by filmmakers 19 or less - sometimes much less!... Watch Now

The YoungCuts Film Festival is the Premiere International Showcase for Great Short Films by the World's Best Young Filmmakers (29 and under).

Established in 2001, every year, the festival selects its Top 100 International Short Films from more than a thousand films from over 30 countries.

Unlike many film festivals, YoungCuts is not a black box. For filmmakers making paid submissions, we offer feedback when and where appropriate; we present their short films to our film industry partners including producers, distributors and programmers - this has led to short films being presented on TV, licensed for outdoor festivals and programmed by other film festivals who view us an expert on short films by young filmmakers. With your paid submission, you also gain privileged access to watch, vote and be inspired by great short films from young filmmakers around the world.

If you are a young filmmaker with a great short film, kick-start your career and Submit Your Film Today!

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