ASIFA Celebrates International Animation Day, 28/10

ASIFA (Association Internationale du Film d'Animation),  a non-profit corporation devoted to cultivating and promoting the art, craft, and profession of Animation. Created the International Animation Day (IAD) in 2002, honouring the first public performance of Emile Reynaud’s Theatre Optique in Paris, on the 28th October 1892.

Since then, ASIFA coordinates and helps promote IAD celebrations all over the world: a unique event that is simultaneously celebrated in several cities in over 40 countries, putting the art of animation in the limelight and approaching it to different publics and cultures.

Local events (both by ASIFA chapters and independent events):

• ASIFA- Central Michigan event 28/10
• ASIFA-South (28/10): Atlanta event
• Armenia (28/10): International Animation Day in Vanazdor
• Australia (26/10): Celebrations at Melbourne University
• Croatia, ASIFA chapter (28/10):  IAD celebrations, Zagreb
• Cyprus, Animatikon Project (28/10): Celebrating the IAD
• France, AFCA (28/10): IAD celebrations
• Germany (28/10): Partikelprojekte, Hamburg
• Greece, ASIFA Hellas (20/10): Athens IAD Celebrations
• Japan, ASIFA Japan (Nov): Nanoichi celebrations
• Mexico, ASIFA Chapter (28/10): IAD celebrations
• Poland (25-27/10): IAD screenings, Wroclaw
• Ukraine (28/10):  IAD celebration, Zhytomyr 

The creators of the 2017 IAD Poster are  Noureddin Zarrinkelk and Negar Zarrinkelk.

Nooreddin Zarrin Kelk was born on April 6, 1936, in Mashhad, Iran. Known as the father of Iranian animation, Zarrinkelk founded the first school of animation in Iran, which later merged with the prestigious faculty of fine art of Tehran University. Zarrinkelk continued being a professor of animation and graphic arts well into his retirement age. Since 1971, Zarrinkelk has been a Jury member of various international animation festivals and illustration biennials. He served as the president of ASIFA in 2003. He is a director and writer, known for Donya-ye divane divane divane (1975), Amir Hamza the Lover and the Dancing Zebra (1977), and Cheshm-e tang-e donyadar (1980).

Negar Zarrinkelk was born in 1976 in Tehran, Iran. He attended Azadegan School of Arts and Architecture (1995) and Azad University of Tehran, graduating with a B.A degree in Industrial Design in 2000. He has worked as a Graphic Designer since 1997 in Studio Zarrinkelk, as Noureddin Zarrinkelk's Assistant.