Vancouverite Jay White's "Boar Attack" won the C.O.R.E. Digital Pictures Award for best animated short film at the CFC Worldwide Short Film Festival.

White receives $5,000 and his film is now eligible for an Academy Award nomination.

The four-minute animation combines computer animation and watercolour paintings. The story is about a boy who tries to imagine why his father went missing.

White made the film while living in a Yukon log cabin that only had wood heat and limited access to running water.

Last year, the animated film that won the same award, "Madame Tutli-Putli", went on to garner an Oscar nomination. Unfortunately, it lost out to "Peter & the Wolf".