We picked up the top animation feature projects pitched at the 2021 CARTOON Movie pitching event.

Mihail Gurevich reports from the online edition of Anima Brussels 2021 Festival.

Olga Bobrowska reviews the recent monograph by Andrijana Ružić,Michael Dudok de Wit. A Life in Animation.

Vassilis Kroustallis writes about the ever-growing demand for a celebratory attitude of animation festivals- which relegates their animation film content to the background.

Kropka reports on the 13th edition of the online Piccolo Festival dell'Animazione.

Here's our list of women independent animation directors to watch and learn more about their work during 2021.

Joseph Norman reports from Cardiff Animation Festival 2020.

Mikhail Gurevich reports on the 2020 online edition of Ottawa International Animation Festival.

Joseph Norman reports for Zippy Frames from the Encounters Film Festival, Bristol, UK 2020.

Vassilis Kroustallis reports from the online edition of CEE Animation Forum 2020 and the pitching of its selected animation projects.

Mikhail Gurevich reports from the Perspective, Off-limits and Commissioned films presented during the 2020 Annecy Festival.

Kropka reports from the 2020 Annecy Festival and selects his top pick from animation shorts competition.

Mikhail Gurevich takes a few notes on both space-themed 'He Can't Live Without Cosmos' by Konstantin Bronzit and 'Cosmonaut' by Kaspar Jancis, both screened during the Stuttgart Festival of Animated Film.

Vassilis Kroustallis brings up his own festival impressions from the online version of Stuttgart International Festival of Animated Film (ITFS) 2020.

With the current proliferation of online festival and other treats (films available for a certain amount of dates, curated online playlists), sometimes it is easy to forget cultural animation festival moments captured on video.