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Sylvain Chomet to Adapt Korean Novel Familiar Things

23 May
The Illusionist director is in mid-negotiations to adapt and animate renowned Korean novelist Hwang Sok-yong’s Familiar Things for the big screen. The East-West collaboration in...
News

Animation Block Party 2018: Opening Night (26 July)

18 May
The 15th annual NY Brooklyn festival presents its opening night lineup. Animation Block Party will be celebrating its 15th annual animation festival with an opening night...
Festivals

Inanimate by Lucia Bulgheroni Wins at 2018 Cinefondation Cannes

17 May
The puppet film won the third prize at the Cannes festival Cinéfondation competition. The Cinéfondation and Short Films Jury headed by Bertrand Bonello and including Khalil...
News

Flip Book: The Revolutionary Animations of the 21th Century...

15 May
Big flipbook exhibition in Seoul (18 May-12 August 2018) at Ilmin Museum of Art in Seoul, organized by Bucheon International Animation Festival (BIAF). Flip Book: The...
News

When Zlatko Bourek's Storyboard Was Exhibited at MOMA

15 May
The Croatian animator who died 14 May 2018, and one of the members of the Zagreb School, was part of a storyboard exhibition at MOMA New York in 1968. Giannalberto Bendazzi...

News

Sylvain Chomet to Adapt Korean Novel Familiar...

May 23
The Illusionist director is in mid-negotiations to adapt and animate renowned Korean novelist...

Under The Radar Vienna Symposium, 24-28/5/18

May 19
Tomm Moore, Olivier Cotte, József Fülöp, Nikita Diakur, József Fülöp and Olga Bobrowska among the...

Animation Block Party 2018: Opening Night (26...

May 18
The 15th annual NY Brooklyn festival presents its opening night lineup. Animation Block Party will...

Flip Book: The Revolutionary Animations of the...

May 15
Big flipbook exhibition in Seoul (18 May-12 August 2018) at Ilmin Museum of Art in Seoul,...

When Zlatko Bourek's Storyboard Was Exhibited at...

May 15
The Croatian animator who died 14 May 2018, and one of the members of the Zagreb School, was part...

Keynote Speakers of the 3rd Ecstatic Truth...

May 14
Susana de Sousa Dias, Joan Fontcuberta, José Miguel Ribeiro will lead the one-day Lisbon symposium...

Buñuel In the Labyrinth of the Turtles: Trailer

May 10
Coming in 2018, the new 2D animation story on one of the greatest film directors, Luis Buñuel....

Mamoru Hosoda's Mirai to Premiere at Cannes

May 09
The new film by the director of Summer Wars will screen at the French festival, with a fall 2018...

Another Day of Life by Damian Nenow and Raúl de...

May 09
After the critically acclaimed (and Oscar-shortlisted) Paths of Hate, Damian Nenow prepares the...

Festivals

Inanimate by Lucia Bulgheroni Wins at 2018...

May 17
The puppet film won the third prize at the Cannes festival Cinéfondation competition. The...

Sunao Katabuchi to Head 2018 BIAF Jury

May 15
The director of In this Corner of the World will lead the jury of the 2018 Bucheon International...

Manivald, The Breadinner, Lei Lei Win at 2018...

May 07
All the awards of the 11th Anifilm Festival in Trebon. The Oscar-nominated The Breadwinner (Nora...

Animafest Zagreb Celebrates Horror

May 06
7 programmes of short films, features and exhibitions on horror and animation in the 2018 Croatian...

Bruce Bickford Signs 2018 OIAF Poster

May 01
Legendary animator Bruce Bickford prepares this year's Ottawa International Animation festival...

Cat Days, On Happiness Road Win 25th ITFS Awards

April 30
Full winners' list for the 25th Stuttgart ITFS festival. The Anniversary Edition of the 25th...

8 Animated Features for Animafest Zagreb 2018

April 29
Wes Anderson, Emma De Swaef, Captain Morten and the Spider Queen in the 2018 Zagreb Festival...

ITFS Stuttgart Celebrates Music and Animation

April 24
Α spectrum of musical activities during the 25th International Festival of Animated Film...

Anifilm 2018 Celebrates 3D Animation, Czech...

April 24
All the highlights of the 11th Anifilm International Festival of Animated Films, 1-6 May Trebon....

Academic CFP

05
Jun
Animafest Scanner, 5-6/6/18
Zagreb, Croatia
Animafest Zagreb invites all interested professionals and scholars to join the Animafest Scanner V 2018 international symposium.
27
Jun
3rd Ecstatic Truth Symposium, 27/6/18
Lisboa, Portugal
Ecstatic Truth is a one-day symposium (27/6/18) that will explore provocative approaches to the factual in Lisbon.
30
Jun
CFP: The Legacy of Watership Down: Animals, Adaptation, Animation
University of Warwick, UK
Call for paper for an interdisciplinary symposium on Animals, Adaptation and Animation at University of Warwick, 10/11/2018.
13
Jul
CFP: CONFIA Conference on Illustration and Animation, 13-15/7/18
Esposende, Portugal
The 6th edition of CONFIA, after previous editions in Ofir, Porto, Braga, Barcelos and Guimarães, calls for papers.
14
Aug
CFP: Visual Music Symposium, 14-16/8/18
Sonoma County, CA
Visual Music Symposium (14-16/8/18, Sonoma County, California) invites call for papers.
04
Oct
CFP: MPCA/ACA Conference, Animation and Anime, 4-7/10/18
Hyatt Regency Indianapolis
The Midwest Popular Culture Association/Midwest American Culture Association seeks proposals for papers and panels both on Western animation and on anime.

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REVIEWS

Pixar – Ιmagination Κidnapped

March 27
Mr. Kropka delves critically into Pixar’s narrative and aesthetic strategies. Animation is quite commonly seen as nothing more than mere entertainment. On top of that, the idea that animation is...

The Oddsockeaters Review: We Need to Have A Gang Talk

March 17
Film review for the Czech animation feature The Oddsockeaters by Galina Miklínová. Based on the Czech writer Pavel Srut ’s bestselling book, Oddsockeaters (Lichožrouti), the book's illustrator and...

Apocalypsis by Eric Leiser: Revelation Is More Serene Than It Sounds

March 04
Review for the new experimental animation feature Apocalypsis by US director Eric Leiser. The new independent experimental feature film by CalArts graduate filmmaker Eric Leiser (Glitch in the Grid)...

Farewell to the Rooster: Chinese Animation in the 2017 Season

February 17
Olga Bobrowska reviews the most recent achievements of the Chinese animation independent and industry scene. The year 2017 (a year of the Rooster) was symbolic for the Chinese animation. Exactly 50...

Birdboy: The Forgotten Children (Psiconautas) Review: Beware of Children in Distress

December 14
When Kronenberg met The Fantastic Planet. Film review for the Spanish animation feature Birdboy:The Forgotten Children . It would be easy to categorize Alberto Vázquez and Pedro Rivero 's...

Ethel and Ernest Review: A Love Shelter Below The Rooftops of London

November 29
Ethel and Ernest feels unashamedly nostalgic, carefully researched and with a heart. The whole project started as an idea from The Snowman and When the Wind Blows producer John Coates (1927-2012),...

Training - Pitching

Animation Goes Transmedia: 5th CARTOON 360

May 04
The fifth edition of transmedia pitching event CARTOON 360 moves to Lille, with 24 participating...

Floating, Of Unwanted Things and People, Rabbit...

May 03
View all winners of the 6th Visegrad Animation Forum. The sixth edition of Visegrad Animation...

Animation Sans Frontières 2018-19: Call for...

April 13
Open call to young animation Artists, Producers, Writers and Technical Directors from the European...

Animated In Poland Pitching Call: 2018 Krakow...

April 10
For all Polish produced or co-produced animated film projects, Krakow Film Festival offers a...

(EXCLUSIVE) 6 Feature Projects for Visegrad...

April 10
The pitching forum for Central Eastern European Animation extends its mandate to feature animation...

Scholarships for CARTOON 360: Transmedia Projects

March 27
CARTOON encourages applications for scholarships to its Cartoon Masters. CARTOON 360 is a new...

170 Participants for Animation Production Day 2018

March 22
Animation Production Day 2018 – Conference Programme with top-class experts. The Conference...

Visegrad Animation Forum 2018: Selected Projects

March 20
Rastko Ciric, Chintis Lundgren, Péter Vácz and their projects are among the Visegrad Animation...

Animarket Job Fair Trebon: Open For Registration

March 13
Deadline 25 March to be part of the new Animarket section, the Anifilm Trebon (Czech Republic) job...

Production

Sylvain Chomet to Adapt Korean Novel Familiar...

May 23
The Illusionist director is in mid-negotiations to adapt and animate renowned Korean novelist...

Buñuel In the Labyrinth of the Turtles: Trailer

May 10
Coming in 2018, the new 2D animation story on one of the greatest film directors, Luis Buñuel....

Another Day of Life by Damian Nenow and Raúl de...

May 09
After the critically acclaimed (and Oscar-shortlisted) Paths of Hate, Damian Nenow prepares the...

Captain Morten and the Spider Queen Gets a Trailer

May 04
A lot of anticipation surrounds the upcoming stop-motion Estonian feature film, Captain Morten and...

Women In Animation 2018 Summit: Programme Lineup

April 25
Dorota Kobiela, Nora Twomey, Fernanda Frick, Eric Beckman among the 2018 Annecy WIA panelists....

Michel Ocelot's Dilili in Paris Opens 2018...

April 23
Michel Ocelot's next feature film, Dilili à Paris will be the opening film at the 2018 Annecy...

Production: The Horn Quartet TV Special

April 04
The French/Belgian TV special premieres in France, and screens in competition at Annecy Festival....

Un Homme Est Mort: Trailer For the French...

February 26
Another political feature comes from Les Armateurs in 2018. Coming from the adaptation from the...

Gordon & Paddy: Swedish Animation Feature at the...

February 06
The 2D animation feature competes at the Generation section of this year's Berlin Film Festival....

INTERVIEWS

Project to Watch: Floating by Jelena Milunovic

May 11
it recently won the Best Short Animation project at the Visegrad Animation Forum. Serbian director Jelena Milunovic and producer Milos Ivanovic talk about their Floating film. It's hard to invest...

Each Family Is a Planet: Interview with Alberto Vázquez

December 15
Spanish animation director and artist Alberto Vázquez talks about his feature film Birdboy:The Forgotten Children (Psiconautas), and his artistic style and mandate at Zippy Frames. He seems to be...

Building a new Jordan animation from University of Petra: Interview with Tariq Rimawi

October 14
Peter Schavemaker interviews Jordan animator and filmmaker Tariq Rimawi. On October 15, the second year of the four year bachelor’s degree program Animation and Multimedia Design - held within the...

The animation in Norway is made in the attic: Interview with Ove Heiborg

October 09
Mr. Kropka, an animation afficionado, interviews Ove Heiborg, film producer at Qvisten Animation Studios, Norway. This story might have begun on Monday 4th September at 10 in the morning. It was at...

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,...

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