Zippy Frames — Online Journal for European & Independent Animation

Get editorial coverage for your indie animation films. Get into our Animation Filmmaker Spotlight.

Meet our contributor, Amanda Barbour.

Meet Olivia Popp

Olivia Popp is a film writer, critic, and programmer based between Berlin and Brussels. Beyond her writing for Zippy Frames, her work can be found in Cineuropa, MUBI Notebook, Little White Lies, Senses of Cinema, Modern Times Review, and more. Olivia programmes for One World Slovakia International Documentary Film Festival and supports International Film Festival Rotterdam’s editorial team. She is an alumna of several film criticism workshops, including Locarno Critics Academy (2025) and Berlinale Talents (2024), and also serves as the publication coordinator for Cineuropa’s GoCritic! emerging film writers programme. Olivia is a member of the European Film Academy and FIPRESCI (International Federation of Film Critics).

Meet our Zippy Frames contributor, Mikhail Gurevich.

For Animation Filmmakers:

ANIMATION FILMMAKERS SPOTLIGHT

• Have an animation short to premiere/feature online, and need a comprehensive presentation (in the form of an interview, or in general editorial coverage)? Zippy Frames is a trusted independent animation news website, which has featured a vast array of short animation films, from the more narrative to the outright experimental ones. Send us your film for consideration

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• We address the story aspects of your animation film; we examine its theme, plot structure, characters, context, in accordance with your already stated idea and director's own intentions. We come up with solutions to story problems you face, and provide examples of fine practices for your project.

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CONSULTANCY FOR ANIMATION SHORTS

• Animation festival submission seems both a laborious and a mindless process for independent animation filmmakers. We can make the process seem more structured, less laborious and more promising for the festival career of your film - handled by the same people who manage Zippy Frames (via Scheriaa Productions)

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For Animation and Film Festivals & Events Professionals

FESTIVAL PROMOTION

• Zippy Frames hosts an extended database of call for entries from animation festivals. A large part of its news roundup covers animation festivals and film festival news. However, not everything can be covered with the same depth and extent as it could (and should) have been. If you're interested in getting in talks and an offer for a festival promotion agreement, contact our Head Editor (vassilis AT zippyframes DOT com)

VIDEO REPORTS

• For festivals, conferences, film promotions, companies and products related to the animation industry, we offer reviews, interviews or video reports that promote your services or products in a creative and friendly way. For more info, email: info AT zippyframes DOT com

Meet our contributor, Joseph Norman.

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Meet our editor, Ismini Karantzi.

Meet our correspondent Eliane Gordeeff.

• Get hold of our (weekly/bi-weekly) Zippy Frames Newsletter, and learn first about the European and Independent Animation News

Zippy Frames (www.zippyframes.com) is a portal started in 2011 with the mandate to promote and make more conspicuous European (including UK) and Independent animation worldwide. Festival news and reports, interviews with acclaimed animation filmmakers, feature and short films, and opinion pieces are regularly published at ZF.

We have achieved:

• A regular international readership all around the world
• a wide acclaim from animation professionals, including festival accreditations and invitations

We need:

• People who share our passion about independent animation and want to write about it
• Can contribute on a regular, monthly basis to the portal (if fewer, we don't mind

We offer:

• A chance to write with your own voice and appeal to a wider, international readership. Original contributions will appear with the contributor’s name. Contributors have their own, dedicated page at ZF
• Contact and network with animation professionals all over Europe as part of contributing assignments
• (subject to availability), Accreditations and invitations to attend animation festivals.

⇒ If you wish to cover news on a regular basis from a specific country, see our separate call for Zippy Frames Correspondents.

Interested? Email: info AT zippyframes DOT com

 Meet our contributor Kropka.