The week long event of the Animafrik 2010 came to an end on Friday, August 27 2010. This event was preceded with a 2-week workshop where 13 participants were trained on animation. They completed 8 short animated projects in a week.
During the awards ceremony, the participants were given certificates and their works, a minute long animated movies were showed. Their works were actually great.
This year's 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.
Camille Abraham from the University of Trinidad & Tobago launched “The Animae Caribe Africa and The Anansi Mission V”.
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