The Tallinn festival has a new artistic director, and prepares its November edition with a new SHUT UP Competition.

The animation studio Playables at Zürich offers a paid internship for six months.

ASIFA- Austria offers 2,000 Euros for the Best Austrian Animated Film. Deadline extended to 14 October 2016.

A new festival in town!  Between August 25 and 28 in Turku, west of the Finnish capital Helsinki, the first edition of the Turku Animated Festival TAFF will be held.

Zippy Frames animation journalist Peter Schavemaker interviewed festival director Kimmo Sillanmikko.

For all Scotland-based animators, the Thinking through the Anthropocene residency is open for projects.

Our Team:

• Vassilis Kroustallis
• Olga Bobrowska
• Eliane Gordeeff
• Ismini Karantzi
• Mr Kropka

Olga Bobrowska reports from the Poznan Animation Festival.

Symposium on Animation and the Comic Book at Canterbury.

Α Ward Kimball tribute and music videos also in the Anibar 2016 programme.

Support the UK independent (and brilliant) animation artist Bexie Bush in her online campaign and The Rumour Mill film.

Toronto Animation Image Society publishes its residency programme for international animation artists.

Sardonic comment on environmental protection. Watch the Italian short " The Age of Rust".

Animators can apply to the residency program for media artists in Japan. See details.

 The 2016 Annecy winner, French director Franck Dion, talks to Zippy Frames.

Here's the feature film selection of the 2016 Ottawa International Animation Festival.