Distinguished NFB animator Torill Kove honoured at Vancouvers SPARK ANIMATION [Video]

Oscar-winning animator Torill Kove was honoured in Vancouver by SPARK ANIMATION, Western Canada’s largest celebration of animation, presented by the Spark Computer Graphics Society.

Torill Kove received the festival’s Lifetime Achievement Award in recognition of her outstanding contributions to the field of animation, as well as this year’s Canadian Film Prize for her new short film, Maybe Elephants, co-produced by Mikrofilm and the National Film Board of Canada (NFB).

This new honour for Maybe Elephants brings the total to four awards and mentions to date, including the Short Film – Audience Prize at South Korea’s Bucheon International Animation Festival and Best Nordic-Baltic Animated Youth Film at Norway’s Fredrikstad Animation Festival.

I’m honoured and deeply touched to receive a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Spark Animation festival. This is an occasion for me to reflect on how fortunate I’ve been to have a career as an animation director with the National Film Board …