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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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Οrbit by Tess Martinhttps://www.zippyframes.com/shorts/orbit-by-tess-martin
Tess Martin presents her experimental animated film Orbit at Zippy Frames. Orbit is a phonotrope project by Tess Martin that explores the relationship between humanity and the sun, and is more than just a film. It comprises a 7-minute short film, an...
- Type: Article
- Author: ZF Team
- Category: Shorts
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Event Description: The industry part of the Young Horizons International Film Festival is a series of programmes and projects aimed at supporting and promoting film and series development for young audiences. The main event of our activities is an...
- Type: Event
- Event Category: PITCHING & INDUSTRY
- Event Date: 2026-09-29 00:00:00
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Circuit by Delia Hesshttps://www.zippyframes.com/shorts/circuit-delia-hess
The Swiss animator Delia Hess talks to Zippy Frames about her 2D animation short ‘Circuit’. Watch the film. Delia Hess has crafted an environmentally-focused film with an all-encompassing perspective. On a small planet, caught up in their own little...
- Type: Article
- Author: ZF Team
- Category: Shorts
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Zippy Frames talks to the Zürich-based animator Noah Erni, in our series of Swiss Animation Portraits 2022. Noah Erni is an emerging Swiss animation director who plays with our perceived opinions. A graduate of HSLU (but also a sociology graduate from...
- Type: Article
- Author: Vassilis Kroustallis
- Category: Interviews
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Vassilis Kroustallis reports from this year's StopTrik Festival in Maribor, Slovenia. There's an inherent sexiness in the duality concept proposed (and meticulously observed) at this year's StopTrik Festival in Maribor (28 Sep - 2 Oct, and continuing...
- Type: Article
- Author: Vassilis Kroustallis
- Category: Festivals
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Festival Description Primanima is an international festival and competition for first animations. Its co-founders launched the festival in 2012 with the goal of providing a platform for talented young animators to introduce their first films, as well...
- Type: Event
- Event Category: ANIMATION & FILM FESTIVALS
- Event Date: 2026-06-20 23:59:00
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Films selected in the Shorts, Student, and Croatian film competition for Animafest Zagreb have now been announced. After reviewing a record number of submitted films from 85 countries around the world, World Festival of Animated Film - Animafest Zagreb...
- Type: Article
- Author: ZF Team
- Category: Festivals
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Olivia Popp reports from the 14th edition of the StopTrik International Film Festival in Maribor, Slovenia. The superpower of smaller festivals is their ability to cut cleanly through the noise: encounters between all members of a global film community...
- Type: Article
- Author: Olivia Popp
- Category: Festivals
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2021 Dates to be confirmed, Call for Entries to Follow 2020 Festival Coverage Award winners 2020 Call for Entries (Archive) Qualification for Entry Animated works of all genres are available for theaters, TV and the Internet. Only films completed after...
- Type: Event
- Event Category: ANIMATION & FILM FESTIVALS
- Event Date: 2021-07-10 00:00:00
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An animated Russian feature and a satire of the modern world in Ku! Kin-Dza-Dza. Read the film review. Ku! Kin -Dza-Dza might be the name of a galaxy in the 2013 Russian film, but it steadfastly adheres (with the expection of a minor, bluish and dreamy...
- Type: Article
- Author: Vassilis Kroustallis
- Category: Reviews
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‘It’s Not My Job’ by Kate Jessophttps://www.zippyframes.com/shorts/its-not-my-job-kate-jessop
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
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Eliane Gordeeff was at the Portuguese animation festival Cinanima 2023 and brings to Zippy Frames readers her impressions and her top animation picks. This year’s edition of the Cinanima Festival (13-19 November 2023, Espinho, Portugal) had...
- Type: Article
- Author: Eliane Gordeeff
- Category: Festivals
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Zippy Frames and Joseph Norman recently attended the Tricky Women/Tricky Realities 2021 animation festival. Here's the report and top picks. The Austrian festival was held online and provided a unique and fresh insight into the art of animation made by...
- Type: Article
- Author: Joseph Norman
- Category: Festivals
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When Kronenberg met The Fantastic Planet. Film review for the Spanish animation feature Birdboy:The Forgotten Children. It would be easy to categorize Alberto Vázquez and Pedro Rivero's Birdboy:The Forgotten Children (Psiconautas) as a post-apocalyptic...
- Type: Article
- Author: Vassilis Kroustallis
- Category: Reviews



