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41 international short films, 27 student and 3 feature films were selected for the 2012 Cinanima festival (Espinho, Portugal).
Medical, autobiographical and funny. Watch Foxy by Stephanie Thandi Johnstone.

In a recent Guardian article, David Cox suggests that the current stop-motion animation production (culminating so far in Tim Burton's Frankenweenie) should not be overestimated.

The Anim'est trophies were given on Saturday, October 13, at Patria Cinema, Bucharest. Have a look at the winners.
5 animated feature films were nominated at the 2012 Asia Pacific Screen Awards. 4 Japanese films and an Australian-US feature film compiled the list.

The French film Day of the Crows is a most welcome, beautiful and well-constructed story of a savage environment with its long-hidden secrets.

Moon Man is the adaptation of Tomi Ungerer's 1966 eponymous book, which has been translated into 12 languages since its publication in 1966.

The Ancestor is a video clip by Darlingside, and features animation by Crazy Lake Pictures. Watch the video clip.

BFI London Film Festival will screen the latest Mamoru Hosoda (Summer Wars) film, Wolf Children.Watch the English trailer below.
The Animasyros 5.0 festival in Syros, Greece handed out its awards to US, French and German films. See the award recipients.
The 2012 Ottawa International Animation Festival has announced its winners.
The Animated Encounters (part of the 18th Encounters Short Festival, Bristol) announced the winners of its 2012 edition

The French directors Julie Rembauville and Nicolas Bianco-Levrin investigate what happens in a society that revolves around the letter R. Watch the film
The stop-motion film Oh, Willy! by Emma De Swaef and Marc James Roels won the Cartoon D'Or for the best European short animated film.

The manager of the Incubus group, Steve Rennie, responds to Gerrit van Dijk's claim that the Drive music video was based on van Dijk's "I Move, So I Am" film.

Alois Nebel, Children Who Chase Lost Voices, Daddy I'm a Zobbie, Selkirk and Fat, Bald, Short Man are the 5 choices of the 7th Anim'est.
The first excerpt for the Italian version of Pinocchio by Enzo D'Alo has now hit the web.