Interviews
The Development Doesn't Move on Its Own: It Is Pushed by People
Olga Bobrowska interviews Mr. Zhang Chi 张驰 from ASIFA China. In Xiamen, Fujian province, the city famous for pearls, seafood and nature sites, we talked to Mr. Zhang Chi from ASIFA-China, attempting...
Shorts
Ooze by Kilian Vilim
An elevator boy has his own worries to face. Watch the essentially dark parable of working relations of Ooze by Kilian Vilim In his everyday life, an elevator boy is confronted with the loneliness...
Awards & Prizes
The Breadwinner, This Magnificent Cake!, Enough Win at the 2018 European...
4 Emile Awards for the Cartoon Network production The Heroic Quest of the Valiant Prince Ivandoe. View all 2018 EAA winners. It was a night of at the 2nd European Animation Emile Awards, where all...
News
Documentary: Koji Yamamura, Animator
Watch the new documentary on the Oscar-nominated Japanese artist Koji Yamamura by Archipel. Tokyo University of the Arts professor Koji Yamamura is a well-beloved name in the world of independent...
Awards & Prizes
Solar Walk, This Magnificent Cake, Ruben Brandt at the 2019 Annies
Untravel, Grandpa Walrus also within the independent choices of the 46th Annie Awards. It seems that the more the Academy Awards head towards studio American films, the more Annie Awards (organized...
News
Hedgehog's Home by Eva Cvijanović Premieres...
December 13
The stop-motion NFB/ Bonobostudio film will be available on NFB.ca, YouTube, Vimeo and Facebook....
The Development Doesn't Move on Its Own: It Is...
December 11
Olga Bobrowska interviews Mr. Zhang Chi 张驰 from ASIFA China. In Xiamen, Fujian province, the city...
The Breadwinner, This Magnificent Cake!, Enough...
December 09
4 Emile Awards for the Cartoon Network production The Heroic Quest of the Valiant Prince Ivandoe....
Creepy Xmas Film Fest Unspools in NY
December 05
25 original films screening 1-25 Dec by Glass PIx. Glass Eye Pix presents Beck Underwood ’s 10th...
Documentary: Koji Yamamura, Animator
December 05
Watch the new documentary on the Oscar-nominated Japanese artist Koji Yamamura by Archipel. Tokyo...
Beyond The Animation And The Real Image: An...
December 04
Eliane Gordeeff talks to Raúl De La Fuente, co-director of Another Day of Life. Now that History...
Solar Walk, This Magnificent Cake, Ruben Brandt...
December 03
Untravel, Grandpa Walrus also within the independent choices of the 46th Annie Awards. It seems...
12 Animation Projects To Participate in CEE...
November 29
The first edition of CEE Animation Workshop kicks off with the content development module in...
Miyu Gallery: The first Animation Gallery in...
November 14
The new gallery by the French production and distribution company opens its doors with a Simone...
Festivals
III, Love Me Fear Me Win at 2018 Animateka
December 09
Find all winners of the 15th Animateka Festival in Ljubljiana. Artistic director Igor Prassel has...
Egg, Another Day of Life Crown Anilogue 2018...
December 03
All the winners of the 16th edition of the Hungarian Budapest fest. During the 2018 Anilogue fest...
35 Animation Documentaries for Rising of...
November 30
The Liverpool festival also includes mockumentaries and direct cinema films. Discover the complete...
Chilemonos Becomes an Oscar-Qualifying Festival
November 30
The 8th edition of the Santiago fest will have its winning films eligible for an Academy Award....
Egg, Sounds Good Take Home 2018 PÖFF Shorts Prizes
November 25
The animation winners of the 2018 Tallinn PÖFF Shorts festival. Divided into two sections...
Jayne Pilling to Receive Outstanding...
November 21
The UK animation scholar to be awarded during the opening ceremony of the festival. World Festival...
Cinanima: A Noble Festival in Its Original Motto
November 20
Eliane Gordeeff shares her impressions from the 2018 Cinanima masterclasses. The Espinho Cinanima...
Obon, Agouro, 4 States of Matter Win 2018...
November 19
All winners of the 42nd Cinanima festival in Espinho, Portugal. The Jury of the 2018 Portuguese...
Anibar Crowdfunding: Cinema For the City
November 16
Festival Anibar organizers launched a crowdfunding campaign to help renovate Jusuf Gërvalla...
Shorts
Ooze by Kilian Vilim
December 11
An elevator boy has his own worries to face. Watch the essentially dark parable of working...
J'Attends La Nuit / I Wait For The Night by...
December 08
A discussion between two boys on the shores of an abandoned lake will force one of them to face...
Ostrich Politic by Mohammad HouHou
December 02
Environmental destruction and uncalled for obedience are the subject of wonderfully unfolding...
An Island by Rory Byrne
November 29
A solitary man sets out to conquer an isolated island. Watch the Irish animation short An Island...
The Foundling by Leo Crane
November 28
Part of the series Untold Tales by Animated Projects and Anim18, The Foundling by Leo Crane tells...
The Blissful Accidental Death by Sergiu Negulici
November 27
Immerse yourselves in Romanian art history, watch and read about the Oscar-qualifying short The...
Last Stop Is The Moon by Birutė Sodeikaitė
November 24
A presentation of the awarded Lithuanian/Polish stop-motion short Last Stop Is the Moon by Birutė...
How Have You Been by Heather Colbert
November 17
Stop-motion director Heather Colbert signs an otheworldly sensitive music video for Tom Rosenthal....
Pépé Le Morse (Grandpa Walrus) by Lucrèce Andreae
November 12
The César-awarded film ( Best Animated Short Film 2018) is now available to watch. Our film review...
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REVIEWS
A Man is Dead (Un Homme Est Mort) Review: Cinematic Solidarity
August 21
The 1950 Brest bloodied strike gets a cinematic, animated treatment by Oliiver Cossu and Les Armateurs. Post-war French history and geography are boned up in the refreshingly solid and inviting A...
On Happiness Road Review: Decisions Are Not Forever
August 11
An engrossing autobiographical family drama, with an eye towards adults, even though it details a young girl's story in Taiwan. Review for Hsin-Yin Sung' film, On Happiness Road. It is quite a...
Mirai by Mamoru Hosoda: Lessons To Be Learned
June 15
The latest feature film by Summer Wars director Mamoru Hosoda is a gentle family comedy of manners, which really takes off at the film's final reels. This may not be one of Hosoda's more...
Seder-Masochism Review: Let's Dance
June 13
US independent animation director Nina Paley makes the story of Exodus an overwhelming musical extravaganza, which still finds time to register its gender-based raison d' être. In the beginning,...
Dilili In Paris (Dilili à Paris) Review: Defending Modernism
June 12
The new feature film by Michel Ocelot (Kirikou and the Sorceress, Azur and Asmar) has the art and science aligned to save the world from gender-based catastrophe. It would be easy to tell that...
This Magnificent Cake! Review: To Have Your Cake and Let It Go
June 09
Personal journeys of lost cause mingle with vestiges of colonial power in the stand-out stop-motion animation feature by Emma De Swaef and Marc James Roels. This is a feature animation film that has...
Training - Pitching
12 Animation Projects To Participate in CEE...
November 29
The first edition of CEE Animation Workshop kicks off with the content development module in...
CEE Animation Forum 2019: Open for Projects
November 12
See all the details about the 2019 Central Eastern European Forum (former Visegrad Animation Forum)
Joshua Hogan Gets Boulder Media Internship at...
November 09
Plus all the winners of the 2018 Dublin Animation Film Festival. The winner of the Boulder Media...
Animarkt 2018 Stop Motion Forum Part I: Pitching...
October 14
Polish director Michał Łubiński and his project Astra won the main prize of the ANIMARKT PITCHING,...
Péter Lichter & Bori Máté Primanima Workshop:...
September 29
An experimental film workshop during the Hungarian Primanima festival (22-24 Oct 2018). The aim of...
Animarkt Talks 2018: Oettinger, Randall,...
September 27
A highly selective case of key speakers during the one-day conference of Animarkt Stop-Motion...
CEE Animation Workshop, Dec18-May19
September 27
Find all the details of the upcoming Central Eastern European Animation Workshop (December 2018 -...
Cartoon Forum 2018: Watch the Project Trailers
September 25
The trailers for the 86 TV projects during the latest edition of the prermiere European pitching...
106 Projects for 3DWire 2018
September 14
Jose Miguel Ribeiro, The 7 Boxes and altogether a vast array of projects for the 10th edition of...
Production
Away by Gints Zilbalodis
October 31
A one-man feature animation project. Details about the upcoming feature Away by Gints Zilbalodis....
Animation Film Funding at Lodz: Facts and...
October 25
A short guideline to animation filmmaking in Lodz, Poland. Let's start from the very beginning....
Nimuendaju by Tania Anaya
September 27
Eliane Gordeeff interviews Tania Anaya for her new feature animation in production, Nimuendaju....
Where is Anne Frank? by Ari Folman
August 10
Production has now begun on the 2D animation feature by Waltz with Bashir director Ari Folman,...
4 Animation Projects Funded by Polish Film...
July 28
New Marta Pajek project, and projects from Paulina Ziółkowska, Robert Jaszczurowski, and Michalina...
5 Animation Projects Supported by Film Fund...
July 20
The Summit of the Gods (Le sommet des dieux), Allah is Not Obliged among the feature film projects...
Steven Woloshen Premieres The Dead Sea Scrolls...
July 17
Woloshen: I am incorporating every aspect of handmade manipulation into one film. For experimental...
Ruben Brandt, Collector: Ηungarian Feature on...
July 13
A new Hungarian animated feature from the awarded animator Milorad Krstic premieres at the 2018...
Preview: Agouro (Augure) by David Doutel and...
June 06
Another family in trouble. Here's the trailer for the upcoming short animation Agouro (Augure) by...
INTERVIEWS
The Development Doesn't Move on Its Own: It Is Pushed by People
December 11
Olga Bobrowska interviews Mr. Zhang Chi 张驰 from ASIFA China. In Xiamen, Fujian province, the city famous for pearls, seafood and nature sites, we talked to Mr. Zhang Chi from ASIFA-China, attempting...
Beyond The Animation And The Real Image: An Interview with Raúl De La Fuente
December 04
Eliane Gordeeff talks to Raúl De La Fuente, co-director of Another Day of Life. Now that History seems to repeat itself, it is interesting to observe the story of the war correspondent Ryszard...
Retain A Clear Ambition and Motivation: Interview with Koji Yamamura
August 05
Oscar-nominated animation director Koji Yamamura talks to Zippy Frames. Japanese animation filmmaker Koji Yamamura has already become a source of inspiration to independent animation students and...
A Glimpse of Colombian Animation: Interview with HIERROanimación
July 31
Sofia Papatsimpa talks to Carlos Smith and Hierro Animation Production team about their new feature film project, The Other Shape . A visit in HIERRO animation productions in Bogota where we found...
4 States of Matter: Interview with Miguel Pires de Matos
July 27
Our Zippy Frames Correspondent Eliane Gordeeff meets Portuguese architect and animation director Miguel Pires de Matos; they talk about the experimental short 4 States of Matter . Magnets, metal-cut...
Need to Take People Out of Their Comfort Zones: Interview with Guy Charnaux
July 20
The director of The Poet of Horrible Things talks to Zippy Frames about common taste, poetry and blood. Brazilian Guy Charnaux first came to the international attention with his graduation film A...
There's a Tiny Border Between Utopia and Dystopia: Interview with Ana Nedelković and Nikola Majdak Jr.
July 13
Two talented people talk about their politically-conscious animation work. Our interview with Serbian animation directors Ana Nedeljković and Nikola Majdak Jr. They were first heard internationally...
Painting and Other Delights: Q&A With Juan Ibañez
July 13
Spanish animation artist Juan Ibañez works and invents on El Greco, Hieronymus Bosch works. How to combine painting, animation and pedagogy? Seville-based Spanish animation artist Juan Ibañez works...
I Am Always Committed To Things Important In Life: Interview with Mats Grorud
June 26
Mr. Kropka, director of ReAnima festival, interviews Norwegian director Mats Grorud. The day was going to be sunny and without large banks of clouds in the sky; the thermal sensation of a hot summer...
