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Edwina Liard is one of the creative duo of IKKI Films, responsible for bringing Negative Space to life. She talks to Zippy Frames. She's responsible (along with her partner Nidia Santiago) for bringing to life the juggernaut that was the stop-motion...
- Type: Article
- Author: Vassilis Kroustallis
- Category: Interviews
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All the awards of the 2019 Animateka Festival in Ljubljana. The acclaimed film Acid Rain by Tomek Popakul took home 2 awards, both the Grand Prix and the Audience Award at the 2019 Animateka festival in Ljubljana. The jury consisted of: Waltraud...
- Type: Article
- Author: ZF Team
- Category: Festivals
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Joseph Norman ranks the animation music videos of the stellar artist, Bjork. Icelandic musician and artist Björk has a hugely influential catalog of music videos that test the boundaries of live-action, animation, and uses of interactivity....
- Type: Article
- Author: Joseph Norman
- Category: Shorts
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Ties by Dina Velikovskayahttps://www.zippyframes.com/shorts/ties-dina-velikovskaya
Family ties and the way to get hold of them / unfold them. Here's the short animation film premiere of Ties by Russian director Dina Velikovskaya. A young woman leaves her parental home to see the world. But the world of her parents is so tightly...
- Type: Article
- Author: ZF Team
- Category: Shorts
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7 animation shorts will have their world premiere at the 2024 Animafest Zagreb. Discover them all. A lot of effort and a lot of planning go into making an animation short, so a theatrical (festival) release needs to be a joy. Checking into Animafest...
- Type: Article
- Author: ZF Team
- Category: Festivals
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We review and rank the 15 Oscar-shortlisted animation candidates for the Academy Awards 2023. Here's our (completely subjective, but still informed) ranking of the Oscar-shortlisted short animation films. 5 of them will proceed to the Academy Award...
- Type: Article
- Author: Vassilis Kroustallis
- Category: Awards & Prizes
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Emel-Elizabeth Tuulik reports from Andrea Martignoni's Animateka Festival 2024 masterclass, in our series of GoCritic! reviews. Sound has fundamentally reshaped the cinematic experience over the past century. To explore how it enhances the audiovisual...
- Type: Article
- Author: ZF Team
- Category: Festivals
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The Lebanese director Nicolas Fattouh talked to Zippy Frames about his acclaimed 2D animation film 'How My Grandmother Became A Chair'. There are chairs, grandmothers, and grandmothers who become chairs. This is the initial premise of the Lebanese...
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- Author: ZF Team
- Category: Shorts
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Joseph Norman attended LIAF 2022 and reports from the festival. The 2022 London International Animation Festival has just closed. Screening an extensive range of animated content for alternative audiences, the festival was a great overview of new and...
- Type: Article
- Author: Joseph Norman
- Category: Festivals
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Natalia Mirzoyan signs a seemingly carefree but still poignant animation short Five Minutes to Sea. She talks to Zippy Frames. Armenian animation director Natalia MIrzoyan presents her multi-awarded animation short Five Minutes to Sea. The film shows a...
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- Author: ZF Team
- Category: Shorts
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Olga Bobrowska talks to Portuguese animation filmmakers Regina Pessoa and Abi Feijó during the 2019 Annecy Festival. On a humid afternoon, a day before winning the Annecy 2019 Jury Award for the film Uncle Thomas: Accounting for the Days, Regina Pessoa...
- Type: Article
- Author: Olga Bobrowska
- Category: Interviews
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A familiar but also original tale of social commitment in the animation short The Big Heinrich by Lars Kreyssig and Kim Collmer. Once upon a long, long, —not all that long— time ago, lived in a small German village, big Heinrich. A gloomy fellow....
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- Author: ZF Team
- Category: Shorts
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Our contributor Kropka reports from Piccolo Festival dell'Animazione 2022. The fifteenth edition of the Piccolo Festival dell'Animazione came to an end, celebrating another year with a program full of cultural activities such as workshops, special...
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- Author: Kropka
- Category: Festivals
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Jonathan Hodgson, Ross Hogg, and Aardman Animations are among the finalists of the 24th British Animation Awards. The finalists were announced for the prestigious British Animation Awards 2020 (12 March 2020, BFI Southbank, London). The awards reward...
- Type: Article
- Author: ZF Team
- Category: Awards & Prizes
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Stuttgart International Festival of Animated Film (ITFS) has now its online edition, 5-10 May 2020. Due to the spreading of the corona virus, the Stuttgart International Festival of Animated Film (ITFS) is not able to take place this year in the...
- Type: Article
- Author: ZF Team
- Category: Festivals



