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Olga Bobrowska critically analyzes the new European Animation Awards nominations and the status of the awards themselves in the contemporary animation scene. The 2017 festival season comes to an end, but there is still one more thrill awaiting the...
- Type: Article
- Author: Olga Bobrowska
- Category: Awards & Prizes
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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 Chinese animation. Exactly 60 years earlier, this art was officially endowed with...
- Type: Article
- Author: Olga Bobrowska
- Category: Production
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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 Deer to Mouse: 70 Years of Malaysian animation". 'The...
- Type: Article
- Author: ZF Team
- Category: Interviews
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Stop motion filmmaker Irida Zhonga discusses Jan Svankmajer in the context of Mikhail Bakhtin's concept of 'the grotesque body'. [The article won the Honorable Mention in the Maureen Furniss Awards 2021 for the Best Student Papers on Animation Media,...
- Type: Article
- Author: ZF Team
- Category: Academic
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Spanish animation director and artist Alberto Vázquez discusses his feature film Birdboy: The Forgotten Children (Psiconautas) and his artistic style and mandate at Zippy Frames. He seems to be unstoppable. Spanish animation director, illustrator and...
- Type: Article
- Author: Vassilis Kroustallis
- Category: Interviews
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Serbian animation directors Nikola Majdak and Ana Nedeljkovic talk to Zippy Frames within the framework of the Indie Online 2020 research project. Ana Nedeljkovic and Nikola Majdak have made themselves a stellar career on stop-motion animation,...
- Type: Article
- Author: ZF Team
- Category: Interviews
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2026 Festival Coverage This February, join us for the ninth edition of Animation First, the biggest animation festival in the United States! This year’s festival will run from Tuesday, February 3 through Sunday, February 8, and will present six...
- Type: Event
- Event Category: ANIMATION & FILM FESTIVALS
- Event Date: 2027-02-03 00:00:00
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Find all highlights of the Catalonian Animac Lleida festival 2020. Animac 2020, the International Animation Film Festival of Catalonia, will bring together in the city of Lleida (Spain) from 27 February to 1 March the best national and international...
- Type: Article
- Author: ZF Team
- Category: Festivals
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The Best Animation Shorts of 2023https://www.zippyframes.com/news/awards/top-animation-shorts-2023
Our best animation shorts of 2023 are here. Find out all 16 animation films selected by our contributors. The top animation shorts of the year (here 2023) are a useful notion, both a celebratory one and a chance to highlight the year's most eloquent...
- Type: Article
- Author: ZF Team
- Category: Awards & Prizes
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Olga Bobrowska critically reflects upon the premiere European Animation Awards for Zippy Frames. The premiere European Animation Awards ceremony was held on December 8th. While traveling around rainy France, I was critically recalling what happened...
- Type: Article
- Author: Olga Bobrowska
- Category: Awards & Prizes
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Slovakian director and producer, and organizer of the upcoming CEE Animation Workshop in Ljubljana (2-6 Dec 2017) Juraj Krasnohorsky, answers our questions. Following this year, the European Commission developed an Animation Plan, a new initiative...
- Type: Article
- Author: ZF Team
- Category: Production
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Discover selected adult animation projects to be pitched at the 2020 Cartoon Movie. As part of our CARTOON Movie 2020 coverage (3-6 March, Bordeaux, France) we present the 15 animation feature projects to be pitched during the European event. CARTOON...
- Type: Article
- Author: Vassilis Kroustallis
- Category: Production
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Discover all the animation feature selections of the 2026 Annecy Festival. 22 animation features have been selected for this year's two competitive sections Annecy Festival (23-26 June 2026). As always, it's a mixed bag of indie films, films especially...
- Type: Article
- Author: ZF Team
- Category: Festivals
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Olga Bobrowska reports from the 2022 edition of Tricky Women/Tricky Realities Animation Festival. The 1956 John Halas’ remark that animated film, more than any other branch of cinema production, is highly dependent on the economic, geographic, and...
- Type: Article
- Author: Olga Bobrowska
- Category: Festivals
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Nimuendaju by Tania Anayahttps://www.zippyframes.com/feature-animation/nimuendaju-by-tania-anaya
Eliane Gordeeff interviews Tania Anaya for her new feature animation in production, Nimuendaju. Curt Unkel, a 22-year-old German, arrived in Brazil in 1905 and then moved to live with the Guarani people in the interior of São Paulo state. He is there...
- Type: Article
- Author: Eliane Gordeeff
- Category: Feature Animation



