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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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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
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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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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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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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Zippy Frames talks to Tomás Pichardo Espaillat, filmmaker of 'Olivia & the Clouds,' which plays next at the Ottawa International Animation Film Festival. A partly abstract fable of love through time and space: Dominican animator Tomás Pichardo...
- Type: Article
- Author: Olivia Popp
- 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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Oscar-shortlisted French animation short Under your fingers is a poignant and powerful film about a little-known story of a French camp. Director Marie-Christine Courtès talks about history, perception and film aesthetics to Zippy Frames. Oscar...
- Type: Article
- Author: Vassilis Kroustallis
- 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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Eliane Gordeeff talks to the creators of Brazilian children's animation hub, Núcleo de Cinema de Animação de Campinas. In addition to, and also because of, the celebrations of Monstra Festival's 25th anniversary, the festival also paid tribute to the...
- Type: Article
- Author: Eliane Gordeeff
- Category: Interviews
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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
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Here's our list of women independent animation directors to watch and learn more about their work during 2021. Our idea was to showcase the women independent animation directors talents that have made a number of films during the previous years,...
- Type: Article
- Author: ZF Team
- Category: Production
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Mr. Kropka, an animation aficionado, interviews Ove Heiborg, film producer at Qvisten Animation Studios, Norway. This story might have begun on Monday, 4th September at 10 in the morning. It was at that moment that I showed up at the given address in...
- Type: Article
- Author: Kropka
- Category: Interviews
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Eliane Gordeeff talks to Vincente Nirō, director of the animation short T-zero, a film about the feverish housing issue. One of the animation shorts that stood out at the Cinanima Festival 2024, despite not receiving an award, was Vincente Nirō's...
- Type: Article
- Author: Eliane Gordeeff
- Category: Interviews
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To Live And Die With/Out Cosmoshttps://www.zippyframes.com/festivals/to-live-and-die-without-cosmos
Mikhail Gurevich takes a few notes on both space-themed 'He Can't Live Without Cosmos' by Konstantin Bronzit and 'Cosmonaut' by Kaspar Jancis, both screened during the Stuttgart Festival of Animated Film. Not very often we can and take an effort to...
- Type: Article
- Author: Mikhail Gurevich
- Category: Festivals



