CEE Animation Forum Report (Part I): Series/TV Animation Projects

Vassilis Kroustallis reports from Trebon and CEE Animation Forum. First part: series/ TV animation projects. 9 series/ TV animation projects were pitched this year at the newly restructured Central...

Interviews

Transgender Anti-Heroes: Interview With Anais Caura

Amanda Barbour (aka Rogue Kangaroo) talks to Anais Caura about her medium-length film debut, The Man Woman Case (2017). After making its rounds on the European, Latin American and North American...

Interviews

Caroline Leaf Talks Animation Education, 3D and Hybrid Films

A one-to-one interview with the much acclaimed maverick of sand animation, Caroline Leaf. She talks to Eliane Gordeeff. During this year's Monstra Festiva l , Eliane Gordeeff spoke with Caroline...

Pitching

Barry Purves, Tim Allen, Carlos Bleycher in Animarkt 2019 Masters

The lineup for the Animarkt Masters section of the stop-motion Animarkt pitching forum in Łódź Poland, 8-12 October 2019. Workshops with the world’s top animation artists who had a hand in Wes...

Production

The Swallows of Kabul: First Trailer

The French animation studio Les Armateurs adapts the Algerian novel by Yasmina Khadra, The Swallows of Kabul, and premieres at Cannes Film Festival. Here's the trailer Les Armateurs (Kirikou, Ernest...

Animation Shorts

Welder by Roos Mattaar

May 18

Here's Welder by Roos Mttaar short animation music video for the experimental rock band My Octopus...

The Witch's Mask by Laura Nasir-Tamara

May 06

A son and his mother. Director Laura N-Tamara talks to Zippy Frames about her animation short The...

Voting In the EU by Anna Eijsbouts

April 12

Dutch animation director Anna Eijsbouts and Constitutional European Law & History Professor, Tom...

Heatwave by Fokion Xenos: Trailer Premiere

April 08

Stop-motion animation and clay summer from Greece. Here's trailer for the Annecy-selected Heatwave...

Eddie & Frankie by Katherine Hearst

April 06

Social realism in animation. Learn more about the upcoming Eddie and Frankie animation short from...

Contact by Alessandro Novelli

March 22

A voice out of dreams to get in contact with the reality. Here's Contact 2D/3D animation short by...

Man Wanted by Irida Zhonga

March 21

A new Greek stop-motion film in the making. Here's info and trailer for Man Wanted by Irida...

Monachopsis by Kim Strandli

March 05

Mr. Kropka reviews Monachopsis by Kim Strandli. Inspired by John Koenig’s The Dictionary of...

Transparency by Daniel Šuljić

March 03

A day in a life pencil tale. Watch Transparency by Daniel Šuljić. Moving through a world filled...

Animation Festivals News

8 Animation Features for 2019 Animafest Zagreb

May 07

Discover the lineup of feature animation of the 29th edition of Animafest Zagreb. As the festival...

Bloeistraat 11, Mirai Take Top Honours at 2019...

May 06

All animation winners of the 26th International Stuttgart Festival of Animated Film 2019. Six...

Selected Films: Fest Anča 2019

May 04

12th Fest Anča International Animation Festival has published the list of films that will compete...

9 VR Animation Projects for Annecy Festival

April 30

Discover the animation VR projects competing at the 2019 Annecy Festival. This year, within the...

I Lost My Body, The Swallows of Kabul Added to...

April 25

The two French feature films I Lost My Body and The Swallows of Kabul are the latest feature film...

I Lost My Body by Jérémy Clapin Premieres at...

April 22

Jérémy Clapin animation feature I Lost My Body will have its world premiere at Cannes' Critics...

Next Animation Deadlines

May

Animation Block Party, 20-22/9/19

New York City, USA

Animation Block Party is now open for submissions!

May

Interfilm Festival, 19-24/11/19

Berlin, Germany

Interfilm has established itself as one of the most important short film festivals in Europe. Its 35th edition takes place 19-24 Nov 2019.

May

ANIMAPHIX International Animated Film Festival, 23-28/7/2019

Bagheria / Palermo, ITALY

ANIMAPHIX International Animated Film Festival (Sicily) takes place 18 - 22 July 2018.

May

Mister Vorky Film Festival, 29/5-2/6/19

Ruma, Serbia

Mister Vorky is an International Festival of One Minute Film, which promotes the best one minute films from all continents.

Next Animation Festivals

May

Cannes Film Festival, 14-25/5/2019

Cannes, France

The 72nd Cannes Film Festival takes place 14-25 May 2019.

May

Vienna Shorts Festival, 28/5-2/6/19

Vienna, Austria

VIS Vienna Shorts is an international short film festival organized by the association Independent Cinema in Vienna.

Jun

Animafest Zagreb, 3-8/6/19

Zagreb, Croatia

The World Festival of Animated Film in Zagreb is the second oldest festival in the world dedicated entirely to the art of animation.

Jun

Animofest, 20/6/19

Bratislava, Slovakia

The mission and goal of Animofest is the presentation of contemporary world of animated film.

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REVIEWS

Ruben Brandt, Collector Review: Artistic Obsession in Action

March 09

It's a post-modern heist film, full of references and short of surprises. Our review for Ruben Brandt, Collector by Milorad Krstic. Premiered at the71st Locarno Film Festival, a fit place for a...

Funan Review: Patience Makes Heroes

February 02

Denis Do portrays a piece in Cambodian history through the eyes of a mother looking for her child. Starting as early as 2013, the Funan project by French/Cambodian filmmaker Denis Do , it has always...

Breathless Animals Review: What You Can Reconstruct Won't Kill You

January 23

Film review for experimental feature Breathless Animals by US/Chinese artist Lei Lei, which premiered at the 2019 Berlin Film Festival. In animation, it usually helps to have animals (instead of...

Tito and The Birds Review: Joining Hands, Fly Over Walls

January 20

A welcome entry into the string of recent Brazilian animation successes. Film review for Gustavo Steinberg's Tito and The Birds. What if the inmate of Dr. Caligari suddenly met the Woman who feeds...

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...

INTERVIEWS

Transgender Anti-Heroes: Interview With Anais Caura

May 17

Amanda Barbour (aka Rogue Kangaroo) talks to Anais Caura about her medium-length film debut, The Man Woman Case (2017). After making its rounds on the European, Latin American and North American...

Caroline Leaf Talks Animation Education, 3D and Hybrid Films

May 12

A one-to-one interview with the much acclaimed maverick of sand animation, Caroline Leaf. She talks to Eliane Gordeeff. During this year's Monstra Festiva l , Eliane Gordeeff spoke with Caroline...

Video: Piotr Kardas Interview

April 14

Piotr Kardas, director of O!PLA and Rising of Lusitania: Animadoc Film Festival talks to our contributor Mr. Kropka. Jean-Paul Sartre, independent festival programming and animation babies are in...

My Grandfather Used To Say He Saw Demons by Nuno Beato

March 14

Zippy Frames Correspondent Eliane Gordeeff talked to Nuno Beato about the new Portuguese animation feature in production. During the 2018 edition of 3DWire , the director of My Grandfather Used To...

José Miguel Ribeiro Talks about Nayola

February 18

Zippy Frames Correspondent Eliane Gordeeff meets Portuguese animation director José Miguel Ribeiro at 3DWire to talk about his first animated feature film. Nayola was written by Virgílio Almeida and...

Davide Freitas Talks About The 7 Boxes: Critical And Playful

January 17

Zippy Frames Correspondent Eliane Gordeeff talks to Davide Freitas (Animais AVPL) about the highly interesting upcoming TV series The 7 Boxes . In the last 3D Wire edition, I attended the...

Change In Hungary Starts From Women In Animation: Interview with Anna Ida Orosz

December 21

Kropka talks to the co-founder and program director of Primanima festival. The change in Hungary starts from women in animation In our days, Hungary has become the leader of the Eastern countries...

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...

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