– The Oscar-winning animator, Torill Kove, was glorified by SPARK ANIMATION, Western Canada’s largest festivity of animation.
– The honour: the festival’s Lifetime Achievement Award in animation.
– More celebration! Torill Kove also bagged this year’s Canadian Film Prize for her fresh short film, Maybe Elephants.
– Mighty Mikrofilm and the National Film Board of Canada (NFB) co-produced Maybe Elephants.
– This esteemed acknowledgment for Maybe Elephants adds it to Torill Kove’s creativity treasure chest.
– The revelry was sponsored by Spark Computer Graphics Society.
*Closing Paragraph: (Hot Take)*
In the Realm of Animation: A Kove Story
What an Elephantastic Day for Torill Kove!
High Fives and High Flying Elephants
Roll out the red carpet, blow up the balloons, and let those confetti cannons loose because Torill Kove just claimed the animation throne in Vancouver. Scooping SPARK ANIMATION’s Lifetime Achievement Award, this Oscar-winning animation queen proved yet again why her creativity rule! Did you hear that? That’s the sound of her new short film, “Maybe Elephants” trumpeting success after snagging the Canadian Film Prize. Co-produced by Mikrofilm and NFB, this film is another gem in her crown. As clear as a Roomba in a dust-bunny showdown, Torill Kove’s talent in 3D animation is an inspiringly unstoppable force! Keep those sharp pencils dancing, lady, ’cause we cinematic savannah creatures just can’t get enough!
Award-winning Animator Torill Kove Honored by SPARK ANIMATION
Acclaimed Oscar-winning animator Torill Kove was recently celebrated in Vancouver at SPARK ANIMATION, the biggest animation festival in Western Canada, organized by the Spark Computer Graphics Society.
Picture courtesy of the NFB
The festival recognized Torill Kove’s significant contribution in the world of animation by presenting her the Lifetime Achievement Award and the Canadian Film Prize for her latest short film, Maybe Elephants. The short film was a joint effort by Mikrofilm and the National Film Board of Canada (NFB).
The award honors Maybe Elephants which has already won four awards including the Short Film – Audience Prize at South Korea’s Bucheon International Animation Festival and Best Nordic-Baltic Animated Youth Film at Norway’s Fredrikstad Animation Festival.
“I’m deeply honored and moved by the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Spark Animation festival. This gives me an opportunity to look back on how fortunate I’ve been to have a career as an animation director with the National Film Board of Canada and the Norwegian animation studio Mikrofilm. I am exceedingly grateful to these two animation studios and everyone who has worked with me on my films. I see this award as recognition of my work and a motivation to continue creating more films.”
– Torill Kove
With this, Torill Kove has collaborated with NFB and Norway’s Mikrofilm for the fourth time. The partnership has spanned over two decades and resulted in three Academy Award-nominated shorts including her 2007 Oscar winner, The Danish Poet.
Maybe Elephants, produced by Maral Mohammadian (NFB) and Lise Fearnley (Mikrofilm), continues its festival tour this month at the London International Animation Festival, screening online and in theaters from November 22 to December 1. The film has been chosen by more than 20 festivals so far, including major ones like Annecy International Animation Film Festival in France, LA’s Animation Is Film and AFI FEST, Toronto International Film Festival and Ottawa International Animation Festival.
For more behind-the-scenes details on the making of the film, listen to Skwigly’s interview with Torill Kove in episode 30 of Animation One-To-Ones
Original article: https://www.skwigly.co.uk/torill-kove-spark-animation/