Anifilm Festival Highlights 2025: Science Fiction Meets Animationhttps://www.zippyframes.com/festivals/anifilm-highlghts-2025

14 April 2025 programme Animo, and in the midnight screenings of Anifilm Festival, securing an overall festival presence. Scavengers Reign 2023 sci-fi animated HBO TV series Several prominent guests, such as Xavier Kawa-Topor, the renowned French historian and author...

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• Author: ZF Team
• Category: Festivals

'Perfect Sense' by Marcus Grysczokhttps://www.zippyframes.com/shorts/perfect-sense-by-marcus-grysczok

30 April 2025 on this project was Nika Beaton from Wellington, New Zealand, whom I met during a stop-motion workshop I conducted in 2023. Since then, we've collaborated remotely via video conferences and Google Drive, meticulously planning the entire pre-production...

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• Author: ZF Team
• Category: Shorts

'Hypersensitive' NFB Animation Short at Cannes 2025 : Interview with Martine Frossardhttps://www.zippyframes.com/shorts/hypersensitive-interview-with-martine-frossard

12 May 2025 What were the main challenges in making the film? MF: The film was genuinely a form of art therapy for me. In the fall of 2023, I began experiencing major physical upheavals for no apparent reason, right in the middle of production. Though it wasn’t my...

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• Author: Joseph Norman
• Category: Shorts

FLAMIN Animation Commissioning Programme for Black-Identifying UK Animatorshttps://www.zippyframes.com/news/awards/flamin-animation-commissioning-programme-for-black-identifying-uk-animators

15 May 2023 as such). Applicants must be 18-30 years old, and current students are not eligible for the programme. Deadline: 22 May 2023 More information and application form {loadposition articlenewsletter}

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• Author: ZF Team
• Category: Awards & Prizes

Wild Summon by Karni Arieli, Saul Freed : Film Reviewhttps://www.zippyframes.com/shorts/wild-summon-karni-arieli-saul-freed

24 November 2023 directors expose the aquatic life cycle of a wild salmon in human form. Film Review (Olga Bobrowska, Annecy Festival 2023): From the award-winning duo involved in experimental filmmaking, animation, photography, and visual effects since the early 2000s,...

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• Author: ZF Team
• Category: Shorts

Zima by Tomasz Popakul & Kasumi Ozekihttps://www.zippyframes.com/shorts/zima-tomasz-popakul

24 November 2023 narrated with magical realism. The film won the Best Narrative Short at the Ottawa International Animation Festival 2023. Read Also: Our full interview with Tomek Popakul & Kasumi Ozeki 'Zima' Review (Mikhail Gurevich): ‘Zima’ (‘Winter’, dir. Tomek...

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• Author: ZF Team
• Category: Shorts

Lei Lei Designs the 2024 OIAF Posterhttps://www.zippyframes.com/festivals/lei-lei-designs-oiaf-2024-poster

05 April 2024 ever with OIAF audiences.” The 2024 OIAF Poster: Lei Lei’s OIAF design will join the works of past artists Matthew Rankin (2023), Angela Stempel and Amanda Bonaiuto (2021), Koji Yamamura (2012), Gary Panter (2005), and Dave Cooper (2001), among others.

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• Author: ZF Team
• Category: Festivals

BIAF Trailer 2024 by Sébastien Laudenbach & Chiara Malta: Breezy and Sprightlyhttps://www.zippyframes.com/festivals/biaf-trailer-2024

04 June 2024 Sébastien Laudenbach and Chiara Malta (Chicken for Linda!). The animation directing duo has won the Korean festival's 2023 Grand Prize, as well as the Kinolights Prize for Feature, with the comedy 'Chicken for Linda!' The children run, rush downstairs,...

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• Author: ZF Team
• Category: Festivals

CEE Animation Network Welcomes New Members from Estonia, Azerbaijan, Czech Republichttps://www.zippyframes.com/news/production/cee-animation-new-members-2024

10 September 2024 in the CEE Animation Grouping. Find more about the upcoming CEE Animation Forum 2024 (cover photo: CEE Animation Forum 2023 -pitching session)

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• Author: ZF Team
• Category: Production