The festival’s competition programme for commissioned work. The programme consists of 33 infomercials, commercials and music videos. The best film is awarded the Golden Gunnar for Best Commissioned Film. Age Limit: 12

Homecoming queen celebrates the goddess of California, Califia. In the video the artist Mimi Tempestt transforms into Califia and rides her griffin through various Californian landmarks. Jenny Jokela is a Finnish animation director currently based in Edinburgh, UK. She graduated with a M.A. in animation from Royal College of Art in 2017. Her graduation film Barbeque won several awards, including Cristal at Annecy 2018. Jenny specialises in hand painted animation, and her work often explores non-patriarchal portrayals of female sexuality.

Mimi Tempestt – Homecoming Queen

A film describing how Henther can solve organizational problems at the office and workspace. Netron was started back in 2002 with a focus on animation and flash games. Today Netron consists of three departments: Netron Film, Netron Communication, and Netron Digital. They do cross-disciplinary projects as well as independent assignments. For some clients, Netron functions as a marketing department, while others require specific services from one of our three departments. Netron has offices in Oslo, Fredrikstad, and Tallinn. Most of their 16 employees are located in Fredrikstad, Norway. Netron is independent and self-owned.

Henther

Titt-tei is a series of short animations made for the programme Minibarna on NRK Super. Fantus hides behind things the children can recognise. As with the rest of the programme, its goal is to stimulate the one-year old child to reason, and inspire to play with other children. Fantus is designed to work both alone in 3D and integrated in live action. Rune Røsting has worked in the 3D industry in Norway since 1993 and for NRK since 2006. He has worked on several idents, music videos and shorts.

Tittei and Other 3D Animation in Minikids

Welcome to the world of consumerism! Laughter, shopping, and obsoletion awaits! A group of amusement park attendees find themselves on a ride where they get more than they bargained for. Bjarne Anmarkrud is an animation director and senior animator at Animaskin. He graduated from Volda University College in 2008 with a B.A. in animation. He is a traditional animator who excels in character animation. Since 2014 Bjarne has been working as a director and animator at Animaskin.

Consumerland

As part of introducing Microsoft Teams to employees at Oslo Metropolitan University, OsloMet, we made a humorous film to get their attention, playing on their recent naming controversy. Magne Hage has worked in animation for more than 20 years, mostly doing animated ads and commissioned films. He has won several awards both nationally and internationally and is currently working at HyperRedink.

OsloMet – Teams

A man loses himself in a digital world as he reminisces about his past love and tries to let go. William Eklöf Naderi is a creative producer, editor, and VFX-artist with experience directing, writing, and producing content for a wide range of brands and products. William has a burning desire to create stories and loves being involved in every part of the process. His dream is to leave a lasting positive impact through the audio visual medium.

Anis Don Demina – Naken (feat. Timbuktu)

🏆 Winner of the Commissioned Film Competition! 🏆 Jury Statement: An appealing design ascetic where every frame is a piece of art with strong technical skill which complements the narration without detouring from its striking design choice. Explainer for FOR – The Film Association's Organisation for Rights Management in Norway. FOR support audio-visual authors and promote cultural diversity through policies that enable the dissemination of audio-visual authors’ works to the audience. Kim Holm is a Norwegian creative artist and motion designer working with both static and moving forms of design and artistic expression. His main field of interest lies within art and design in moving forms, such as main titles, idents, show openers and music videos. He works as a senior motion designer for the creative production company TRY Apt.

FOR – Supporting Audiovisual Authors

Informational film for immigrants about nutrition. Created for Diabetesforbundet. Stian Sollid Sydsæter graduated from Volda University College in 2016 with a B.A. in animation. He has since worked as a storyboarder, animator and director on both commercial shorts, and feature films. He has won several Visuelt awards, and was also nominated in Annecy for How To Get More Likes On Social Media.

Nutrition and Diabetes

Practicing mindfulness can open the mind to the biggest questions in life. What happens when those questions overwhelm you? You turn into a pure muscular powerhouse and fly into a higher plane and explode into a glowing plasma-beam in space, obviously. This film served as an opening and palette-cleanser for our own traveling animation festival. John Christian F. Apalnes is a versatile director and artist from Asker with a love for anything that moves. There is a restless progression to his body of work, evidenced by all the different types of mediums and techniques he works with – be it live action, stop motion, compositing, puppetry, prop making or 2D animation. He likes vørterøl.Ole Magnus Saxegård, originally from Sarpsborg, studied visual communication at UTS in Sydney. He directs, illustrates and animates commercials and explainers at Animasjonsdepartementet in Oslo.

DOA – 2019

The barbarian Virgil the Annihilator is sent back in time by his archenemy. With his skewed and poisonous perspective on what “masculinity” is, he beats and maims his way through the unfamiliar scenery until he himself gets killed. In the afterlife, he is confronted with his own ego, his gender normative way of life and loneliness. Andreas Emil Lund is an award-winning illustrator and animator who was born in Bergen and is based in Oslo. He is 29 years old and educated from Fagskolen Kristiania as an illustrator.

Death By Unga Bunga – Not Like The Others

Danish pig farms use soy from plantations in the Amazon rainforest, while the rainforest is diminishing at an alarming rate. These films were part of a campaign to make people aware of this fact, and get pig farmers to source more sustainable protein for their feed. Ole Magnus Saxegård, originally from Sarpsborg, studied visual communication at UTS in Sydney. He directs, illustrates and animates commercials and explainers at Animasjonsdepartementet in Oslo.

Rainforest Foundation – Soy Production in the Amazon

Freia has an annual competition. This year you could log on to Freia's chocolate inventor machine and mix your very own chocolate. The three best flavours would be put into production. In the films we are invited inside the playful chocolate factory at Grünerløkka in Oslo, where we follow the two ladies working in the lab promoting their competition. Martin Engh is from Oslo, where he lives and works. He creates and directs animated commercials at Animasjonsdepartementet.

Freia – Inventors Lab

Educational film for students, fully made of chocolate. Introduction to EU decision-making through a question about chocolate. Commissioned by the Europese Commissie den Haag. Sverre Fredriksen is a Norwegian animation artist based in Amsterdam. Sverre’s latest short film Human Nature (2019) premiered at Toronto International Film Festival and won the award for Best Dutch Short at Kaboom Animation Festival 2019.

Chocolate EU

A film about how rivers and oceans can connect cities on both sides of the Swedish-Norwegian border. Commissioned by Fredrikstad kommune. Netron was started back in 2002 with a focus on animation and flash games. Today Netron consists of three departments: Netron Film, Netron Communication, and Netron Digital. They do cross-disciplinary projects as well as independent assignments. For some clients, Netron functions as a marketing department, while others require specific services from one of our three departments. Netron has offices in Oslo, Fredrikstad, and Tallinn. Most of their 16 employees are located in Fredrikstad, Norway. Netron is independent and self-owned.

Plask

I et år arbeidet over 300 skoleelever i Nittedal, profesjonelle kulturarbeidere, lokale krefter og lærere sammen med regissør Arne Berggren og komponist Hasse Hjortek for å skape et unikt teaterstyke: «Gnist – en musikalsk anastrofe». Animasjonen ble laget på oppdrag for å tydeliggjøre historien om de to hovedpersonenes innsats for å redde verdern. Linda Fagerli Sæthren har Bachelor i animasjon fra Høyskolen i Volda. Gjennom arbeid på egne- og andres produksjoner har hun erfaring som animatør, produsent, regissør, settbygger, rigger og dukkemaker. Hun har mottatt en rekke priser for egne produksjoner, blant annet en Amanda for debutfilmen Janus.

Gnist

Why is knowledge about disasters so important? This short film attempts to explain some things about the Utøya Study, its fourth data collection and why it’s important to all of us. Trist &amp; Traurig is a small group of filmmakers working under a collective banner, sometimes making complicated and sad things a little easier to understand. For The Utøya Study they are joined by Steph Hope and her intelligent-meets-quirky animation style. Steph’s work is very often very funny, always interesting and always approachable.

The Utøya Study

Title sequence for the true crime series Falling Down. Kristian Pedersen is a filmmaker and designer who graduated with an MA in Visual Communication from Bergen Academy of Art and Design. He has developed a distinct visual signature and narrative style, visible in both commissioned work and in his own award winning shorts Bøygen and Little Boy.

Falling Down

The table is set for a lovely christmas dinner. But Pepper is looking sad. He is missing his friend Salt. The son notices and looks over at the cupboard. He gets up and reaches inside the cupboard where Salt has fallen over. Pepper lights up as the boy reveals Salt and reunites them at the table. Christmas is magic! Stian Johansen is a director with a background in advertising. His 20 years of experience as an international award-winning art director gives his directing a strong visual side, often leaning towards art and animation. He mainly directs commercials, but also develops concepts for TV and film.

Christmas is Magical

📜 Special Mention Nordic-Baltic Commissioned Film 📜 Jury Statement: A film that felt very personal and the distinct choice of styles are melted together with ease, it shows filmmakers extremely confident with the medium. A man with self-disturbances awakens one morning wondering what the day will bring. Julian Nazario Vargas (b. 1983) graduated from Volda University College in 2007 with a B.A. in animation. Since then he has gained a lot of experience from working with animation, graphics and VFX for TV series, drama series, films and documentaries. Today he works as the creative director at Animaskin, the company he established in 2013.

Basic Self Disturbances

One fish can be bullied by bigger fish. Many small fish are stronger together. Endre Skandfer is a director, animator, art director and illustrator. He has directed several short films, among them the award winning animation film Dunder (2016) and Rudy and the lightning-monster (2019). He is also one of the creators of the award winning cartoon Krügher &amp; Krogh. Skandfer is one of the founding partners of Fabelfjord.

Stronger Together

Ident for TIFF 2020. Netron was started back in 2002 with a focus on animation and flash games. Today Netron consists of three departments: Netron Film, Netron Communication, and Netron Digital. They do cross-disciplinary projects as well as independent assignments. For some clients, Netron functions as a marketing department, while others require specific services from one of our three departments. Netron has offices in Oslo, Fredrikstad, and Tallinn. Most of their 16 employees are located in Fredrikstad, Norway. Netron is independent and self-owned.

TIFF 2020

The historic injustice of Japanese-American internment camps during World War II through the experiences of survivor Aki Kurose. Lizete Upīte (b. 1987) is an animation film director from Latvia. She graduated from BFM in Estonia and Art Academy of Latvia. After finishing school of directing animation La Poudrière in France, Lizete has been working on several animation projects as well as directed her two animation shorts Night Walks (2018) and Riga's Lilac (2019).

Ugly History – Japanese American Incarceration Camps

A film describing what TONO is and what they stand for. The target audience was young artists, making it important to convey the message in a way they found interesting. We used a low poly style and also focused on finding the right music. Netron was started back in 2002 with a focus on animation and flash games. Today Netron consists of three departments: Netron Film, Netron Communication, and Netron Digital. They do cross-disciplinary projects as well as independent assignments. For some clients, Netron functions as a marketing department, while others require specific services from one of our three departments. Netron has offices in Oslo, Fredrikstad, and Tallinn. Most of their 16 employees are located in Fredrikstad, Norway. Netron is independent and self-owned.

TONO

Two online spots for Extra's new self-service, 24 hour supermarket. Ole Magnus Saxegård, originally from Sarpsborg, studied visual communication at UTS in Sydney. He directs, illustrates and animates commercials and explainers at Animasjonsdepartementet in Oslo.

Extra – Open 24 Hours

An introverted office worker daydreams of success. Chintis Lundgren is an Estonian-born animator currently living in Croatia. Self-taught, Lundgren’s body of work includes an assortment of quirky music videos, PSAs and short films featuring a light, absurdist tone along with distinct anthropomorphic characters.

Sparks – One for the Ages

There is a place in Lithuania where a cute, little bumblebee lives all year round. Only because our fellow gardener takes such good care of it. What a sweet relationship they have! Apparently, that's what makes tomatoes grow in winter, so we can enjoy them throughout the year. (Bio)

Gardener & Bumblebee

Stortinget DEMO consists of four short films made for an interactive game commissioned by the Norwegian parliament, Stortinget. The films are short informative films, introducing different concepts for the students playing the game. Ronald Kabíček is an award-winning director and animator doing mostly animated commissioned films. He is also known as one of the creators of the comic book series Krüger &amp; Krogh. Magne Hage has worked in animation for more than 20 years, mostly doing animated ads and commissioned films. He has won several awards both nationally and internationally.

Stortinget – DEMO

Five online spots for consulting agency PWC. They help their clients see the bigger picture in the vast numbers and statistics that make up their clients' companies, and wanted to visualise their expertise in these films. Ole Magnus Saxegård, originally from Sarpsborg, studied visual communication at UTS in Sydney. He directs, illustrates and animates commercials and explainers at Animasjonsdepartementet in Oslo.

PWC – See the Bigger Picture

Where do you cross the line between habit and addiction? We invite the viewer to make an introspective journey, reflecting on their own lifestyle choices. Are you negatively affecting your health or loved ones? Do you need help? At the end of the day there is still hope, and capacity to change. Bjarne Anmarkrud is an animation director and senior animator at Animaskin. Bjarne graduated from Volda University College in 2008 with a B.A. in animation. He is a traditional animator who excels in character animation.

Addiction

This is a love story, plain and simple – girl meets boy (and pizza)! Martin Engh is a Norwegian director based in Oslo. He has directed hundreds of commercials, winning awards both in Norway and abroad.

Grandiosa – Frozen Love

A young bean gets in an accident and loses his best friend, his dog. Will they ever be reunited? Music video animated by Animaskin for boy pablo. Julian Nazario Vargas (b. 1983) graduated from Volda University College in 2007 with a B.A. in animation. Since then he has gained a lot of experience from working with animation, graphics and VFX for TV series, drama series, films and documentaries. Today he works as the creative director at Animaskin, the company he established in 2013.

Boy Pablo – Feeling Lonely

Roughly half the world’s population still lives on the equivalent of about US$2 a day, with global unemployment rates of 5.7%, and having a job doesn’t guarantee the ability to escape poverty in many places. This slow and uneven progress requires us to rethink and retool our economic and social policies aimed at eradicating poverty. Bjarne Anmarkrud is an animation director and senior animator at Animaskin. He graduated from Volda University College in 2008 with a B.A. in animation. He is a traditional animator who excels in character animation. Since 2014 Bjarne has been working as a director and animator at Animaskin.

Frames for Future

Animated music video about a statue factory, where only sorcery can eventually save the day. Both director Erkki Rämet and the Peili band are from Oulu, Finland. Erkki Rämet is an illustrator, animator and filmmaker from Finland. This music video for Peili band's song Rauhanpiippu is his third animation short.

Peili – Rauhanpiippu

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