The 43rd annual Ottawa International Film Festival, the largest animation film festival in North America, concluded on September 30, 2019, and this year ON-GAKU: Our Sound, an anime movie based on the manga by Hiroyuki Ohashi about a group of “bad” kids who form a rock band, won the Nelvana Grand Prize for Feature Animation.
In a statement accepting the award, director Kenji Iwaisawa thanked everyone among the cast and the staff of the film.