Animation Dingle nicknamed an Oscar-winning festival

The Ireland Animation Dingle Festival has been approved as an Academy Awards qualifier festival. From 2021 onwards, the recipient of Animation Dingle's Best Irish Professional Short Award will now be eligible to be considered in the Animation Short Films category of the Oscars without the standard cinematic run, provided the film otherwise complies with the rules of the Oscars. Academy.

Winner of this year's Best Irish Professional Short Film Her Song is now eligible for qualification. Described by the judges of the Animation Dingle Festival as "a powerful Irish story, a touching, emotional, dark, sad and painful film", the short film directed by Éabha Bortolozzo and Jack Kirwan and produced by Greg Connolly tells the story of Eve, who is aware of her The harrowing story of the grandmother in a mother and child home. Woven into her past is the mythological and misunderstood figure of the Banshee, whose comforting presence inspires the strength she needs to tell her story. The award was sponsored at this year's Virtual Animation Dingle by IDA.

The festival is no stranger to the nominated and Oscar-winning entertainers, who showed up at the event, including Don Hall (Big Hero 6), Madeline Sharkian (Burrow),Richie Baneham (AvatarPatrick OsborneFeast), Bonnie Arnold (How to Train Your Dragon trilogy), Bob Peterson (Finding Nemo, Up), Pietro Signore, Tom Moore, Nora Twomey (The Breadwinner), Dean De Blois and Jimmy T. Murakami (The Magic Pear).

Each year, the Animation Dingle Festival (presented by Jam Media) offers space for industry and tier three attendees to join in, celebrating the best in class animated content. The event is comprised of lectures, screenings, workshops and the annual Animation Dingle Awards, which recognizes and rewards both national and international animation talent.

Submissions are now open for the 2022 festival and can be made via FilmFreeway.

The 11th Dingle Animation Festival will be held from 12-2022 March XNUMX.

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