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Animation scholar and professor Georges Sifianos writes about Phidias and animation in the classical Greek Parthenon. (Guest Article) It is widely acknowledged that Phidias was one of the greatest sculptors of Classical Greece. However, what has not...
- Type: Article
- Author: ZF Team
- Category: Academic
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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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Olga Bobrowska interviews Mr. Zhang Chi 张驰 from ASIFA China. In Xiamen, Fujian province, the city famous for pearls, seafood and nature sites, we talked to Mr. Zhang Chi from ASIFA-China, attempting to map Chinese animated film's walking patterns in...
- Type: Article
- Author: Olga Bobrowska
- Category: Interviews
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Olga Bobrowska critically reflects upon the premiere European Animation Awards for Zippy Frames. The premiere European Animation Awards ceremony was held on December 8th. While traveling around rainy France, I was critically recalling what happened...
- Type: Article
- Author: Olga Bobrowska
- Category: Awards & Prizes
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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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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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Interview with three members of the curator team of the 8th Primanima Festival: Anna Ida Orosz co-founder and artistic director, Dóra Bartal and Zsófi Herczeg curators. ZF: What are you proud of this year's Primanima programme, and I mean really proud....
- Type: Article
- Author: ZF Team
- 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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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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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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Meet the juries for the 2021 CEE Animation Forum pitching event to take place online. The pitching competition organized within the CEE Animation Forum will showcase 40 animated projects in development and be judged by 15 jury members. The 5 juries are...
- Type: Article
- Author: ZF Team
- Category: Production
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Nimuendaju by Tania Anayahttps://www.zippyframes.com/feature-animation/nimuendaju-by-tania-anaya
Eliane Gordeeff interviews Tania Anaya for her new feature animation in production, Nimuendaju. Curt Unkel, a 22-year-old German, arrived in Brazil in 1905 and then moved to live with the Guarani people in the interior of São Paulo state. He is there...
- Type: Article
- Author: Eliane Gordeeff
- Category: Feature Animation
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In the Beginning by Shaun Clarkhttps://www.zippyframes.com/shorts/in-the-beginning-shaun-clark
UK animation director Shaun Clark revisits a Royston insignium and signs a story of trepidation and acknowledgement in the short animation In the Beginning. He talks to Zippy Frames. Shaun Clark (The Key, Lady and the Tooth, Angry Dogs) has his own way...
- Type: Article
- Author: ZF Team
- Category: Shorts
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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



