The Ottawa International Animation Festival (OIAF) announced its winners for the 2019 event on Saturday, announcing that Kenji Iwaisawa’s On-Gaku: Our Sound anime film has won the event’s Grand Prize for Feature Animation award.
The film will also compete in the sixth annual New Chitose Airport International Animation Festival in the festival’s Featured Animation Competition category in November.
Masaaki Yuasa’s The Night is Short Walk On, Girl film won the festival’s Grand Prize for Features award in 2017.
The film competed for the prize alongside Studio 4°C’s anime film of Daisuke Igarashi’s Children of the Sea (Kaijū no Kodomo) manga.