A bird with a Fear of Flying tries to avoid heading South for the winter.  Watch the sweet short by Irish animator Conor Finnegan.

The first sexual experience described in this affective animated doc by Jonas Odell.

Brazilian animator Henrique Barone contemplates a life above the ocean bed in The Man Who Saw A Boat. Watch the film.

The Italian animator Simone Massi designs the poster of the 70th Venice Film Festival, which is a tribute to the Greek auteur Theo Angelopoulos.

The CONFIA International Conference on Illustration and Animation publishes call for papers for its November conference in Portugal.

Benoît Delaunay, Albane Hertault Lacoste, Maïwenn le Borgne, and Alexia Provoost present a dramatic tale of three cats.

What is your wish? Griff and Scott Garrett investigate all possibilities -in animated form via their Wish List.

A current wave of animated features, especially in Europe, explores neglected sides of the political in animated form.

THE BAFTA-awarded film, The Making of Longbird by Will Anderson, is now online. Watch the film.

Cartoon Connection Canada will be held in the autumn of 2013.

Katerina Athanassopoulou was one of the 16 artists s16 selected to design the MSU media facade at Animafest, Zagreb. Watch her work, Triptych I.

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced its invitation to 276 artists and executives who have distinguished themselves by their contributions to theatrical motion pictures.

Mikey Please wins the Best British Animated Short award with the stop-motion Marilyn Myller at the 2013 Edinburgh International Film Festival.

The Oscar-winning Canadian animator and director Richard Williams will be honored at the 2013 Edinburgh International Film Festival.

The Salma Hayek-produced animated feature "The Prophet," based on Kahlil Gibran's book, has been picked up for distribution by the Italian company Good Films.