During a ceremony last night hosted by Edinburgh Comedy Award winning comedian and writer Amy Gledhill, Manchester Animation Festival (MAF) unveiled the winners of the 2022 Industry Excellence Awards and Film Awards. The awards ceremony was held on Thursday 17th November at 8pm at HOME Cinema, Manchester.

This year’s Film Awards, which is the festival’s international film competition, have categories of Best Feature Film, Best Short Film, Best Student Film, Best Children’s Film, Best Commissioned Film and Best Immersive Film.

The Industry Excellence Awards, which recognise individuals working in industry in the fields of scriptwriting, storyboarding character design and character animation. .

THE 2022 INDUSTRY EXCELLENCE AWARD WINNERS ARE:

CHARACTER DESIGN:
Guia Gandi for The Adventures of Paddington – WINNER
Lorna Bailey for Scream Street
Evgenia Golubeva for Buster Saves Christmas.

STORYBOARDING:
Estrela Lourenço for Botbots ‘Crime and Bun-ishment’ – WINNER
Marie Jo Tucholski for Pip and Posy
Imo Rolfe for Obki Christmas Special.

SCRIPTWRITING:
Alan Denton & Greg Hahn for Botbots ‘Crime and Bun-ishment’ – WINNER
Evgenia Golubeva & Myles McLeod for Millie and Lou
Tiernan Douieb for Hey Duggee ‘The Accessories Badge’.

CHARACTER ANIMATION:
Arianna Gheller for Hypno Tidoo – WINNER
Oleksiy Popov for Big Tree City
Jamie Kerr for Botbots

MANCHESTER ANIMATION FILM AWARD WINNERS ARE:

CHILDREN’S FILM:
Laika and Nemo by Jan Gadermann – WINNER
The Misadventures of Sir Percival
Idodo
Fetch
The Last Straw
Patouille and the Parachute Seeds
Tanked
Andy, A Dog’s Tale

IMMERSIVE FILM:
Glimpse by Michael O’Connor, Benjamin Cleary – WINNER
Lavrynthos by Amir Admoni, Fabito Rychter – Special Mention
Synthesis
Kindred
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Lavrynthos
Beeing

COMMISSIONED FILM:
Cold Heart by Raman Djafari – WINNER
Head and Shoulders: The Chase by CRCR – Special Mention
Something Out Of Nothing
Global Women: Career Limiting Move
A Future Begins
Syria Relief: Stone by Stone
Orelsan: The Quest
Veganuary
Sumo
Hypno Tidoo
The Rebel Radio That Brought Down A War Criminal
We Tell Our Selves
Barbour: Please Look After This Bear
Syrian Oral History Archive
Hidden Heroes
Coming Home
The Boys from Summer
The Natural World, Joy, and Human Flourishing
UNICEF: Younis’ Story
California Tobacco Control Program: Harm
The Rhyming Guide to Joining the Army
Bruit Rose
#BinaryGenderNorm: Girls
The Girl Who Built a Rocket
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STUDENT FILM:
Godzalina by Lucile Paras – WINNER
Above the Clouds by Vivien Hárshegyi – Special Mention
An Ostrich Told Me the World is Fake and I Think I Believe It
Juice
Chitchat
Krak
Almost Unreal
& More
Fall of the Ibis King
Persona
Birdsong
Little Things
Small Hours
Laika & Nemo
Suburb
Klimax
Till Love Do Us Part
In His Mercy
Cost of Curiosity
At Spiral’s End
Pentola
The Story of Chaos

SHORT FILM
Pachyderm by Stéphanie Clement – WINNER
Guitar in the Bucket by Boyoung Kim – Special Mention
Black Slide
Bear Hug
Salvation Has No Name
Amok
Ice Merchants
Of Wood
Slow Light
Letter to a Pig
Miracasas
Steakhouse

FEATURE FILM:
Nayola by José Miguel Ribeiro – WINNER
My Love Affair with Marriage
Nayola
No Dogs or Italians Allowed
The Island
Unicorn Wars