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86 Projects for Cartoon Forum, Spotlight on Finland

21 June
The 29th edition of Cartoon Forum presents projects from 21 countries in Toulouse. Check some of the highlights The French city of Toulouse will host the 29th edition of Cartoon...
Academic

Ülo Pikkov Gets Animation Doctorate With Anti-Animation

21 June
Estonian animator and scholar Ülo Pikkov successfully defended his PhD thesis on Eastern European Animation. Animation studies welcomes a new Doctorate and Doctor. Acclaimed...
Festivals

Animafest 2018 Feature Competition Or Why Animated Cinéma...

19 June
Olga Bobrowska reports on the latest 2018 edition of Animafest Zagreb and the feature films line-up. We've Been Blessed with Fine Programming Praise be the selectors. None of the...
Festivals

Theodore Ushev Comes to 2018 Fest Anča

19 June
The Oscar-nominated director will attend the Slovakian Žilina festival, 28 June-1 July 2018. Academy Award nominated (for Blind Vaysha ) Canadian/Bulgarian director Theodore...
Festivals

Bloeistraat 11, Funan Get 2018 Annecy Prizes

17 June
All the winners of the 42nd Annecy Festival. The juries awarded 19 prizes on Saturday 16th June at the closing ceremony of the 42nd Annecy International Animation Film Festival....

News

Ülo Pikkov Gets Animation Doctorate With...

June 21
Estonian animator and scholar Ülo Pikkov successfully defended his PhD thesis on Eastern European...

Animation Development Course: Cuba

June 19
Paul Bush, Joanna Quinn and Gerd Jockell teach animation in an 8-week training programme....

Georges Schwizgebel Designs the 17th Countryside...

June 13
Jean-Luc Slock, Élise Labbé will join Schwizgebel in the Cyprus festival jury. Renowned animation...

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...

Preview: This Magnificent Cake! by Emma De Swaef...

June 01
5 stories, one stop-motion vision. The new mid-length effort by the Belgian directors of Oh, Willy...

5th Animafest Scanner, 5-6/6/18: Complete...

May 29
Paul Wells head the international programme of the 5th Animafest Scanner Symposium (5-6/6) at the...

Jonathan Hodgson Goes Roughhouse

May 27
BAFTA-awarded UK animation director has a new animation short coming up. Here's the trailer for...

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...

Festivals

Animafest 2018 Feature Competition Or Why...

June 19
Olga Bobrowska reports on the latest 2018 edition of Animafest Zagreb and the feature films...

Theodore Ushev Comes to 2018 Fest Anča

June 19
The Oscar-nominated director will attend the Slovakian Žilina festival, 28 June-1 July 2018....

Bloeistraat 11, Funan Get 2018 Annecy Prizes

June 17
All the winners of the 42nd Annecy Festival. The juries awarded 19 prizes on Saturday 16th June at...

13 Special Prizes for Annecy 2018

June 15
Lucia Bulgheroni, Nienke Deutz, Vincent Paronnaud, Boris Labbé, This Magnificent Cake! get special...

Graduation Competition 2 @ Annecy: Two Estonians...

June 15
The French film Stockholm and Swiss/Israeli film Travelogue were also standouts of the second...

Boris Labbé,This Magnificent Cake! Win at 2018...

June 10
All the winners of the 28th Animafest Zagreb festival. Six days devoted to animation took place...

Špela Čadež and Zarja Menart Design the 2018...

June 07
Two talented artists and a fantasy behind the 2018 Animateka festival poster. The 15th edition of...

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...

Academic CFP

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.
06
Oct
Breaking the Glass Frame, 6-7/10/18: CFP
University of Southern California
Breaking the Glass Frame: Women and Animation, Past, Present, Future Los Angeles Symposium takes place 6-7 Oct 2018 at the University of Southern California.

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REVIEWS

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...

Captain Morten and the Spider Queen Review: A Sea Journey Back Home

June 08
A film easy to like and harder to cherish. Review for the stop-motion Estonian feature film, Captain Morten and the Spider Queen. They don't make films like this anymore -at least, in the US studio...

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...

Training - Pitching

86 Projects for Cartoon Forum, Spotlight on...

June 21
The 29th edition of Cartoon Forum presents projects from 21 countries in Toulouse. Check some of...

Animation Development Course: Cuba

June 19
Paul Bush, Joanna Quinn and Gerd Jockell teach animation in an 8-week training programme....

Co-Production and Networking Opportunities in...

June 18
A new network of Nordic countries animation is born, to help with info and structure of...

Christopher At Sea, Archipelago Win 2018 Annecy...

June 16
All the winners of the Short, TV and feature film pitches of the 2018 Annecy Festival. SHORT FILMS...

11 Animation Projects for the 2018 Bridging The...

June 08
The 4th Bridging the Gap Animation Lab announces its selection. Nicolas Schmerkin, Manuel...

Registration: CARTOON Forum 2018

May 30
The premiere European pitching forum for TV projects is open for registration till 29 June....

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...

Production

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...

Preview: This Magnificent Cake! by Emma De Swaef...

June 01
5 stories, one stop-motion vision. The new mid-length effort by the Belgian directors of Oh, Willy...

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
Live streaming will be available for the 2018 WIA Conference. Dorota Kobiela, Nora Twomey,...

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

April 23
A second screening has now been scheduled. Watch the teaser The director of Kirikou films, Azur...

Production: The Horn Quartet TV Special

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

INTERVIEWS

Animation Is Our Subsconscious Language: Interview with Lucia Bulgheroni

May 28
A puppet with a soul to lose. Cannes-awarded Italian director Lucia Bulgheroni talks to Zippy Frames about her stop-motion short, Inanimate . Having been awarded at the recent Cinefondation Cannes...

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...

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