TELETOON expands animation scholarship

TORONTO – TELETOON is partnering with the Ottawa International Animation Festival to give the network’s Canadian Student Animation Scholarship wider exposure. Now in its ninth year, the scholarship program has awarded over $230,000 to 87 students across Canada. This year, winners and finalists will have their films screened during the festival. Also new this year, students can apply directly to the festival for selection: in the past, animation schools chose up to 15 applicants from each program to submit their works. The 2006 scholarship will offer $30,000 to nine students as an entrance scholarship (high school students applying to an...