


The International Animation Africa Film festival is an annual festival that is held in Ghana. It seeks to stand in league with other Animation festivals like Siggraph,Afrimations and the likes.This is the second time it is being held.
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The film screening started on the Monday 23rd August and ended on the 27th August,2010 6:30
The Film screened on Monday was titled "The tree of the Spirits" animated by Cilia Sawagado, Concordia University,Canada.It took her 5 years to animate movie.
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The animation film festival continued with screenings of movies from France. About 12 animated movies which included 2D and 3D were screened.
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The topic for the conference held on the Thursday August 26 was “Teaching animation in sub Saharan Africa”.Camille Abraham spoke on developing teaching in digital media, multimedia and animation. Camille is the program coordinator of the Digital Media Studies in the University of Trinidad and Tobago....
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The week long event of the Animafrik 2010 came to an end on Friday, August 27 2010...
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The film festival competition received works from all around the world. Categories for the competition were Best International Animated film, Best Animated Music Film, Best African Diaspora Animated Film,Best Experimental Animated film. . Ebele Okoye from Nigeria won the Best African Diaspora Animated Film and the best Experimental Animated film with "The Essence" (5:29 mins) and "Patterns" (10:09 mins) respectively.
The Best International Animated Film went to El Viaje de Said from Spain with "Coke Rioboo Cortes". Francis Gelinas from Canada won the Best Animated Music Film with "The SupaFly".
Members of the Jury were Dr Charles Dacosta of Savannah College -U.S.A, Cilia Sawadago, the head of the animation programme at Mel Hoppenheim School of cinema -Concordia University-Canada and Kwabena Aboagye, head of Photography Department at NAFTI-Ghana.


