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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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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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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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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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Olga Bobrowska reports from the 2022 edition of the Hungarian Anilogue animation festival. In the very center of Budapest – just a few minute-walking distances between the Hungarian State Opera and St. Stephen's Basilica – one finds Toldi Cinema, a...
- Type: Article
- Author: Olga Bobrowska
- Category: Festivals
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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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Oscar-nominated UK animation director Joanna Quinn and Les Mills talk to Zippy Frames about their new addition in the Beryl canon, Affairs of the Art. World premiering at Clermont-Ferrand International Film Festival this February, the new animation...
- Type: Article
- Author: Vassilis Kroustallis
- Category: Interviews
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Andreas Hykade talks to Zippy Frames about his new film, Altötting. German animation artist /filmmaker Andreas Hykade is a well-known name in the festival world, and his influence among emerging filmmakers seems to grow as the years go by. As his CV...
- Type: Article
- Author: Vassilis Kroustallis
- Category: Interviews
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Marbles by Natalia Spychałahttps://www.zippyframes.com/shorts/marbles-natalia-spychala
Polish animation director Natalia Spychała presents her Marbles stop-motion short to Olga Bobrowska and Zippy Frames. The hypnotizing pendulum sets a particular mechanism in motion. A body, space and variety of objects form a rhythmic system of...
- Type: Article
- Author: Olga Bobrowska
- Category: Shorts
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Eliane Gordeeff interviews the producers of the much-awaited 'They Shot The Piano Player' animation feature by Fernando Trueba & Javier Mariscal, which has its San Sebastian world premiere this September. I had the opportunity to talk with 'They Shot...
- Type: Article
- Author: Eliane Gordeeff
- Category: Feature Animation
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Sometimes it's good to revisit your own history. Zippy Frames talks with the creative team behind the acclaimed animation short Kapaemahu by Hinaleimoana Wong-Kalu, Dean Hamer and Joe Wilson. It is one of those animation shorts that bring you back in...
- Type: Article
- Author: ZF Team
- Category: Shorts
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Vassilis Kroustallis reports from the 15th StopTrik International Film Festival on stop-motion animation. StopTrik Festival has solidified itself as one of the most interesting animation festivals to attend -and not just because it's the only European...
- Type: Article
- Author: Vassilis Kroustallis
- Category: Festivals
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The Blind Writer by Georges Sifianoshttps://www.zippyframes.com/shorts/the-blind-writer-sifianos
Acclaimed director and animation studies scholar Georges Sifianos signs his latest animation film, The Blind Writer. He talks to Zippy Frames. Paris-based, Greek animation director, artist, and University teacher, Georges Sifianos, is a well-known name...
- Type: Article
- Author: ZF Team
- Category: Shorts
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Acid Rain took the Grand Prix of Stutgart International Festival of Animated Film. Find all winners of the 2020 edition. One more grand prix for Tomek Popakul in Stuttgart International Festival of Animated Film, and his Eastern European travelogue of...
- Type: Article
- Author: ZF Team
- Category: Festivals
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Our impressions from the second edition of the Black Sea Animation Workshop. Black Sea Animation 2025 Overview It was the second year for the Black Sea Animation Workshop (Sofia, 25-29 November 2025), and the whole team was there. Organized by Saqanima...
- Type: Article
- Author: ZF Team
- Category: Pitching



