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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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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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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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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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Academy Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences voting member Panagiotis Rappas talks to Zippy Frames. When this time of the season arrives, there are always trials and tribulations. The Academy Awards are THE institution to be praised, angered about, or...
- Type: Article
- Author: Vassilis Kroustallis
- Category: Interviews
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Zippy Frames Correspondent Eliane Gordeeff talked to Nuno Beato about the new Portuguese animation feature in production. During the 2018 edition of 3DWire, the director of My Grandfather Used To Say He Saw Demons (production: Sardinha em Lata,...
- Type: Article
- Author: Eliane Gordeeff
- Category: Interviews
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3D Wire selects 153 projects that represent the vanguard of animation end video games. The 3D Wire Market announces the 153 projects that will be part of the catalog of its 11th edition. The Segovian event will present the next works of the Goya Awards...
- Type: Article
- Author: Eliane Gordeeff
- Category: Production
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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
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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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The Argentinian animator Juan Pablo Zaramella talks to Eliane Gordeeff for Zippy Frames. I had the opportunity to be with Juan Pablo Zaramella, the renowned Argentinian animator, director of 'Luminaris' (2011), the most awarded animated short film ever...
- Type: Article
- Author: Eliane Gordeeff
- Category: Interviews
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Here's our report of the major European pitching event for animation features, CARTOON Movie, and the projects that we highlighted during the event. Three years later, perhaps one will even have to look up the dictionary or google 'coronavirus' to know...
- Type: Article
- Author: Vassilis Kroustallis
- Category: Production
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Olga Bobrowska talks to Croatian animation director Martina Meštrović on her latest acclaimed animation short, 'Her Dress for the Final'. Martina Meštrović is an animation director who does not crave attention. Yet, the continuing successes of her last...
- Type: Article
- Author: Olga Bobrowska
- Category: Interviews
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Simon Rouby talks to Zippy Frames within the framework of the Indie Online 2020 research project. French animation director and artist Simon Rouby made his own international splash when he directed the feature animation film Adama (2015). The film...
- Type: Article
- Author: ZF Team
- Category: Interviews
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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
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BusLine35A by Elena Felicihttps://www.zippyframes.com/shorts/bus-line-35a-elena-felici
A group of passengers has different things in their minds in the animation short 'Bus Line 35A' by Elena Felici. Watch the short, in its exclusive online premiere. Italian director Elena Felici has made a highly successful animation short, in which bus...
- Type: Article
- Author: Vassilis Kroustallis
- Category: Shorts



