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Festivals

10 Animated Things For Animasyros 10

26 September
Animasyros International Animation Festival+ Agora celebrates its 10th birthday; the essential guide to the Greek animation festival...
Awards & Prizes

Nothing Happens Wins The Lumen Prize for VR/AR...

25 September
The VR project by Uri and Michelle Kranot won the Lumen prize for best AR/VR project. Right after the successful premiere at Venice Film...
Academic

Chinese Animation Forum, 11-12/11: Call for Papers

23 September
A two-day forum on Chinese animation is jointly organized by Xihua University and Southwest Minzu University. With the rapid development...
News

Isle of Dogs Has a Trailer

21 September
The new stop-motion film by Wes Anderson (Fantastic Mr. Fox). Watch the trailer. Produced by Indian Paintbrush (the company of Steven M....
Awards & Prizes

Machinima Refugee Project Wins The LUMEN Prize

21 September
Heroic Makers vs Heroic Land by Isabelle Arvers wins the LUMEN Prize for digital arts (Moving Image Award). The 2017 recipients of the...

News

Nothing Happens Wins The Lumen Prize for VR/AR...

September 25
The VR project by Uri and Michelle Kranot won the Lumen prize for best AR/VR project. Right after...

Chinese Animation Forum, 11-12/11: Call for Papers

September 23
A two-day forum on Chinese animation is jointly organized by Xihua University and Southwest Minzu...

Isle of Dogs Has a Trailer

September 21
The new stop-motion film by Wes Anderson (Fantastic Mr. Fox). Watch the trailer. Produced by...

Machinima Refugee Project Wins The LUMEN Prize

September 21
Heroic Makers vs Heroic Land by Isabelle Arvers wins the LUMEN Prize for digital arts (Moving...

Animation Educators Forum Selects 2017-18...

September 18
Our Head Editor, Vassilis Kroustallis, among the ASIFA-Hollywood scholarship recipients. With the...

Anidox: Lab Programme 2018: Call for applicants

September 18
Animation documentary programme applications from Anidox: Lab, Denmark. The Animation Workshop and...

PCA/ACA Animation Conference 2018: Call for papers

September 16
Popular Culture Association hosts a 2018 National Conference on Animation (28-31 March 2018,...

4 Animation Shorts Win at the 2017 Student...

September 14
Cradle, E-Delivery, In A Heartbeat, Life Smartphone among the Student Oscar winners. The Student...

TAIS Artist in Residence: Call for Proposals

September 12
Submit your animation project to the TAIS Artist in Residence Call for Proposals. This program...

Festivals

10 Animated Things For Animasyros 10

September 26
Animasyros International Animation Festival+ Agora celebrates its 10th birthday; the essential...

DOK Leipzig Goes Post-Angst in Animation

September 20
Franziska Bruckner curates four programmes of animation shorts in the 60th edition of DOK Leipzig....

Building A Niche: Impressions from Animanima 2017

September 18
Vassilis Kroustallis reports on the 2017 Animanima festival, Serbia. 'čačak means 'mud' in...

41 Shorts for 3DWire 2017

September 13
Discover the rich selection for Spain's market and festival in Segovia, Spain. The Segovian...

7 Features in Competition for BIAF 2017

September 11
In this Corner of the World, Revengeance, The Real October and Ethel & Ernest in the Bucheon...

Animanima, Čačak, 5-9/9/17: Essential Highlights

September 04
Essential highlights of the 11th Animanima festival in Čačak, Serbia. It is small, but...

37+40 Animation Shorts for BIAF 2017

August 31
The Bucheon International Animation Festival has revealed its 2017 selection, with world premieres...

Michael Dudok de Wit Masterclass at Fantoche (6...

August 30
The Swiss festival hosts a unique masterclass of the Oscar-awarded director. A threefold...

Sébastien Laudenbach Designs the 2017 BIAF Poster

August 25
The Asian festival's 2017 poster by the director of The Girl Without Hands premieres at Zippy...

REVIEWS

Tehran Taboo Review: Not In Persepolis Anymore

June 16
Ali Soozandeh's rotoscoped Iranian drama about the lives of 4 people in modern-day Tehran hits all the right notes in character development within a glib portrait of internalized, strict moral...

Loving Vincent Review: Neoclassical Painting Mystery

June 13
The new painted feature on Vincent Van Gogh is carefully crafted and timid at the same time. There's always a danger when you translate (transfer, adapt) lives of VIP on screen; are you too timid,...

My Dogs, JinJin & Akida Film Review: This Is Not A Dog's Life

October 24
A feature film about kids and dogs, without ordinary kids and dogs. Jae-young is a kid like no other. An adopted child, living in the changing background of 1983 Korea, and having to face severe...

25 April Film Review: Stuff of Manhood

October 21
The 1915 disastrous Gallipoli campaign becomes an animated 3D/2D documentary, produced entirely in New Zealand. April 25th is a public holiday and a day of remembrance in New Zealand, and the day...

Cafard Review: Capturing Humanism

September 30
Jan Bultheel's feature film Cafard presents a sweeping, adamantly old-fashioned story of a distraught Belgian world champion boxer during WWI. Cafard means both cockroach and is the nickname for the...

Ma Vie de Courgette Review: Everything's Not Quiet At the Puppet Front

June 24
The new stop-motion film by Claude Barras presents a sweet but also poignant tale of children in need of care and respect. It is always more interesting and breath-taking to film uneasy situations...

Training - Pitching

Anidox: Lab Programme 2018: Call for applicants

September 18
Animation documentary programme applications from Anidox: Lab, Denmark. The Animation Workshop and...

TAIS Artist in Residence: Call for Proposals

September 12
Submit your animation project to the TAIS Artist in Residence Call for Proposals. This program...

Stop-Motion Workshop with Joseph Wallace, Peter...

September 10
Call for applicants: Peter and Joseph’s World of Stop Motion (International Workshop at Primanima...

Stop-motion pitching in Lodz: Explore Animarkt...

August 29
There are many animation pitching sessions, but here's one exclusively devoted to stop-motion...

CEE Animation Workshop, 2-6/12/17: Call for...

August 28
Apply now for the Ljubljana networking event for Central and Eastern European animation...

PITCH THIS! Competition at OIAF 2017

August 23
Send and pitch your project to Ottawa International Animation Festival. The Ottawa International...

Animarkt , Lodz, 2-6/10/17: Pitching Stop-Motion...

June 28
Call for entries for stop-motion projects to be pitched during the second edition of ANIMARKT,...

Salvation Has No Name, Castaways Top Visegrad...

May 08
Visegrad Animation Forum in Třeboň announced the winners for its 2017 edition. Visegrad Animation...

13+10 Animation Projects for Visegrad Animation...

April 26
The Central Eastern European animation forum announced its lineup. The fifth edition of the VAF...

INTERVIEWS

Women rule at Norwegian Animation Volda Festival

September 13
The Norwegian animation festival Animation Volda is being held between September 14-17. This year's theme is Women in Animation. Zippy Frames interviewed Karoline Sundet , one of the four women...

I Love Creating Worlds: Interview with Eva Cvijanović

June 25
A very daring hedgehog is waiting for your attention. Interview with Eva Cvijanović , director of the awarded stop-motion short, Hedgehog's Home . The film premiered at the 2017 Berlin Film Festival...

What About the Oscars? Panagiotis Rappas talks to Zippy Frames

January 22
Academy Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences voting member Panagiotis Rappas talks to Zippy Frames. When this time of the season arrives, there are always trials and tribulations. Academy Awards are...

70 Years of Malaysian Animation: Interview with Hassan Abd. Muthalib

January 11
It's been 70 years of Malaysian animation and Hassan Abd. Muthalib was the man to write a book about. Peter Schavemaker interviewed the animation professional pioneer on his recent book, "From Mouse...

Under Your Fingers (Sous tes doigts): Interview with Marie-Christine Courtès

January 04
Oscar-shortlisted French animation short Under your fingers is a poignant and powerful film about a little-known story of a French camp. Director Marie-Christine Courtès talks about history,...

Creating Your Own Boundaries: Interview with Veljko Popović

December 16
An indie animation talent to watch: interview with Croatian animation filmmaker Veljko Popović. The original interview with Croatian independent animation artist Veljko Popović was recorded during...

Indonesian Animation Has a High Potential: Interview with Gerryadi Agusta Sachanity

November 11
Zippy Frames animation journalist Peter Schavemaker interviewed Gerryadi Agusta Sachanity, assistant director of Baros International Animation Festival. It all started from Baros, a place located in...

Turkish Indie Animation Deserves More Visibility: Interview with Berat Ilk

September 23
We met Berat Ilk, successful Turkish animation director and producer, and president of ASIFA-Turkey, during Animasyros 9.0, and had a fine chat about Turkish animation, festivals and education....

Anibar Talks: Q&A with the new artistic director Petrit Gora

September 10
The Kosovo fest has transcended its local constraints and has been established as a fine new player in the animation festival list. Interview with the new Anibar festival director, Petrit Gora....

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