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Mikhail Gurevich reports from the latest edition of Animafest Zagreb. Again, obliged to say, I haven’t had a chance to observe this edition of Animafest Zagreb (June 2-7) in person and, again, obliviously, missing the ‘life dynamics’, atmosphere and...
- Type: Article
- Author: Mikhail Gurevich
- Category: Festivals
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Joseph Wallace talks to Zippy Frames within the framework of the Indie Online 2020 research project. Joseph Wallace, the BAFTA Cymru-nominated UK animation director, is no stranger to Zippy Frames, which has followed his latest work Salvation Has No...
- 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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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 talks about the Contemporary Animated Production from Switzerland. Humble masters of past and present, societal rebels and poets of quotidian, experimental mavericks and representatives of audience-friendly industry, acknowledged art...
- Type: Article
- Author: Olga Bobrowska
- Category: Production
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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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Eliane Gordeeff chats with Alexandra Ramires, a Portuguese animator, during the Quirino Awards 2021. Alexandra Ramires is the award-winning director of Tie (Elo) an animation short, which received the award from the National Animation Prize (PNA,...
- Type: Article
- Author: Eliane Gordeeff
- Category: Interviews
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Krooka talks to Slovenian animation director Zoel Kastelic, who premieres her short animation The Features That Smell of the Sea, to Zippy Frames. The story of the animation short by Slovenian animation director Zoel Kastelic revolves around a...
- Type: Article
- Author: Kropka
- Category: Shorts
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Mikhail Gurevich reports from the 2023 edition of the Animafest Zagreb Festival. For me that happened to be the first, over a few years of compelled hiatus (and what years!) live encounter – and a pointedly refreshing reminder of what animation...
- Type: Article
- Author: Mikhail Gurevich
- Category: Festivals
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Vassilis Kroustallis reports from the online edition of CEE Animation Forum 2020 and the pitching of its selected animation projects. CEE Animation Forum has positioned itself as an indispensable pitching forum and animation industry event. One of its...
- Type: Article
- Author: Vassilis Kroustallis
- Category: Production
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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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Kropka talks to the co-founder and program director of Primanima festival. The change in Hungary starts with women in animation. In our days, Hungary has become the leader of the Eastern countries' conservative bloc, which comprises Slovakia, the Czech...
- Type: Article
- Author: Kropka
- Category: Interviews
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Here's the top indie animation features from the 2010s decade, as selected by Head Editor Vassilis Kroustallis. It's that time of the year and the decade. European animation and independent animation feature films are now discussed, participate in...
- Type: Article
- Author: Vassilis Kroustallis
- Category: News
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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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Mikhail Gurevich reports from the recent (June 2024) edition of Animafest Zagreb. This year, I didn’t visit Animafest Zagreb (June 3-8) in person, alas; so, there were no immediate live impressions to record and report, only of major competition films...
- Type: Article
- Author: Mikhail Gurevich
- Category: Festivals



