This year’s Ottawa International Animation Festival, running Sept. 19 to 24, plays host to a bevy of Canadian properties, most notably in the category of Independent Short Films, in which nine out of 23 independent works under 50 minutes are Canadian.

Indigenous representation in the Commissioned Film category, including tv series, is, however, much less prominent.

The selection of Canadian product is as follows:

In the Independent Short Films category, for independent works under 50 minutes: Nick Cross’ der Unterseefraulein, Paul Driessen’s The Boy Who Saw the Iceberg, Helen Hill’s Mouseholes, Claude Cloutier’s From Big Bang to Tuesday Morning, Michel Cournoyer’s The Hat, Wendy Tilby and Amanda Forbis’ When the Day Breaks, Kevin Kurytnik’s Abandon Bob Hope, All Ye Who Enter Here, and Stephen Arthur’s Fall Forward, Spring Back, and Vision Point.

Graduate Films category: Sonia Bridge’s The Day Stashi Ran out of Honey, and Rena del Pieve Gobbi’s Insurrection.

First Professional Film category: Tavis Silbernagel’s Fruit Juice Protein.

In the Commissioned Films category, for station id: Mike Gatti Jr.’s ‘HBO Family 411’ (Cuppa Coffee Animation).

Music Video category: Kris Lefcoe & Harvey Glazer’s Live the Life you Love.

tv Series category: Karen Lessman’s Bob and Margaret: Going Dutch (Nelvana), and Toshihiko Masuda’s Cybersix: Mysterious Shadow (a Japan-Canada coprod).

In the Animation for Internet category: the Canada-u.s. coprod Clown Basics (Bit Magic).