Each Family Is a Planet: Interview with Alberto Vázquezhttps://www.zippyframes.com/interviews/each-family-is-a-planet-interview-with-alberto-vazquez

05 December 2017 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

Nikola Majdak and Ana Nedeljkovic: Need to Find A Way To Make Digital Frienships Work (Indie Online 2020 Project)https://www.zippyframes.com/interviews/majdak-nedeljkovic-indie-online-interview

23 February 2021 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

Anca Damian Interview: Art Is Thinking Why We Are Alive (Indie Online 2020 Project)https://www.zippyframes.com/interviews/indie-online-research-anca-damian

02 December 2020 Romanian acclaimed director Anca Damian talks to Zippy Frames about her animation work and online content during the framework of the IndieOnline 2020 research project. How do you navigate a world of altogether digital content as an animation...

• Type: Article
• Author: ZF Team
• Category: Interviews

Julie Baltzer: There's A Balance Between Practicality and Catering Too Much to Online Users (Indie Online 2020 Project)https://www.zippyframes.com/interviews/julie-baltzer-interview

02 February 2021 Copenhagen based animation director Julie Baltzer talks to Zippy Frames within the framework of the Indie Online 2020 research project. Julie Baltzer is one of the emerging voices of independent animation in Denmark. She graduated from The Animation...

• Type: Article
• Author: ZF Team
• Category: Interviews

Sexuality Is About Communicating With Other People: Interview with 'My Year of Dicks' Director Sara Gunnarsdóttirhttps://www.zippyframes.com/interviews/sara-gunnarsdottir-interview

03 April 2023 Kropka interviews the Oscar-nominated animation director Sara Gunnarsdóttir on 'My Year of Dicks'. Based on the memories by Pamela Ribon, 'Notes to Boys: And Other Things I Shouldn't Share in Public' and produced by FX, a subsidiary of Disney...

• Type: Article
• Author: Kropka
• Category: Interviews

70 Years of Malaysian Animation: Interview with Hassan Abd. Muthalib https://www.zippyframes.com/interviews/70-years-of-malaysian-animation-interview-with-hassan-abd-muthalib

11 January 2017 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

‘It’s Not My Job’ by Kate Jessophttps://www.zippyframes.com/shorts/its-not-my-job-kate-jessop

13 January 2025 Joseph Norman talks to UK animation director Kate Jessop about her new episode in her 'Planet Pussy Willow' series, 'It's Not My Job'. Kate Jessop is a groundbreaking UK-based animation director and artist whose work explores queer perspectives. Her...

• Type: Article
• Author: Joseph Norman
• Category: Shorts

Interview with Eric Leiser: The Art World Needs to Reach Out to More Peoplehttps://www.zippyframes.com/interviews/eric-leiser-interview

12 April 2021 US independent animation filmmaker Eric Leiser (Glitch In the Grid, Apocalypsis) talks to Zippy Frames. New York based filmmaker and artist Eric Leiser is not an unknown name to Zippy Frames (check our coverage), and a very prolific filmmaker, having...

• Type: Article
• Author: Vassilis Kroustallis
• Category: Interviews

Czech Republic by Pavel Horáček: It looks hopefulhttps://www.zippyframes.com/news/country-profiles/czech-republic-by-pavel-horacek-it-looks-hopeful

28 October 2017 Pavel Horáček, programme director of International Festival of Animated Films Anifilm explores the contemporary animation scene in Czech Republic. Czech animation certainly looks hopeful – and this applies not only to student films but also to...

• Type: Article
• Author: ZF Team
• Category: Countries

Farewell to the Rooster: Chinese Animation in the 2017 Seasonhttps://www.zippyframes.com/news/production/farewell-to-the-rooster-chinese-animation-in-the-season-2017

16 February 2018 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

Cafard Animation Feature on WWI: Interview with Jan Bultheelhttps://www.zippyframes.com/interviews/cafard-animation-feature-on-wwi-interview-with-jan-bultheel

01 May 2014 A WWI animation feature comes from Belgium. Learn more about Cafard, and read the interview by film director Jan Bultheel. Cafard means cockroach, but is also a nickname for an armored car, the prestigious ACM, first ever armored car division,...

• Type: Article
• Author: Vassilis Kroustallis
• Category: Interviews

'Guard of Honour': Interview with Edmunds Jansonshttps://www.zippyframes.com/interviews/edmunds-jansons-interview

21 June 2021 His new film, Guard of Honour, premieres at Anifilm Festival 2021. Zippy Frames talks to Latvian animation director Edmunds Jansons. Edmunds Jansons (born in Saldus, Latvia) is one of the distinctive animation directors (also illustrators) of his...

• Type: Article
• Author: Vassilis Kroustallis
• Category: Interviews