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Our contributor Flaka Kokolli talks to Korean animation director Seo Sae-rom (seO) about her post-apocalyptic, 2D animation/clay film, 'Carnivorous Bean Sprouts'. Read More
Dublin Animation Film Festival, which is in its 11th year, went online in 2020, but plans are being made to ‘Go Back to the Theatre’ in 2022. The closing date for entries is the… Read More
The debut animation feature of the Oscar-nominated Japanese director Koji Yamamura will have its international premiere at PÖFF (Black NIghts Film Festival) in Tallinn Read More
Presenting your stop-motion project to a producer; do's and dont's during the Masters Workshops at ANIMARKT Stop Motion Forum (December 7-11 2021 in Łódź, and online) Read More
The 13th edition of Weird Market, International Animation, Video Games and New Media Market and 3D Wire Fest, International Animation Festival announced its winners highlighting the best par… Read More
Marta Pajek talks to Zippy Frames on her new animation short, Impossible Figures and Other Stories I, which premieres at the 2021 Ottawa International Animation Festival Read More
Acclaimed director and animation studies scholar Georges Sifianos signs his latest animation film, The Blind Writer. He talks to Zippy Frames Read More
A total of 200 projects will make up the final catalogue of the 13th edition of Weird Market, International Animation, Video Games and New Media Market and 3D Wire Fest, International Animat… Read More
Florence Miailhe's debut animation feature The Crossing was awarded at Zlin Film Festival with a Special Jury Prize in a Feature Films in the Youth Category Read More
The new short animation film The Bones by the directors of the Wolf house Cristóbal León, Joaquín Cociña won Best Short Film at Venice Film Festival 2021 Read More
11th StopTrik IFF welcomes everybody to join a 3-phases workshop of concept-based animation filmmaking where practical execution of your short animated project concludesthe process of learni… Read More
BAFTA-winning animation director Will Anderson talks to Zippy Frames on his new animation short, Betty. Read the interview and watch the history of a breakup Read More
The 23rd Bucheon International Animation Festival (BIAF2021), 22 to 26 October 2021, has unveiled 11 selected films in its VR international competition Read More
The selection committee of the IV ANIMAFILM International Animation Festival announces the list works that are included in the competition program Read More
German animation director Franz Impler talks about video games and boundaries in his Out of Bounds animation short. Watch the film and read his interview at Zippy Frames Read More
Watch the exclusive trailer for the stop-motion animation short Night by Ahmad Saleh, premiering at Locarno Film Festival. Director Ahmad Saleh talks to Zippy Frames Read More
25 July 2021 marks the 100th anniversary of the premiere of the first Chilean animation. It is the 10-minute short film 'La transmisión del mando presidencial', that make his deb… Read More
CHILEMONOS International Animation Festival will be the first animation festival in Latin America having a jury equally comprised of men and women Read More
The renowned Mexican animation director Jorge R. Gutiérrez (Book of Life) will also speak on his net Netflix production, "Maya and the Three" Read More
Greek animation director and production designer Stelios Polychronakis unveils the trailer for his latest animation short, A Night at the Cemetery Read More
Ayumu Watanabe, the renowned Japanese director who directed “Children of the Sea” designs' The Eyes of the Summer" poster for the 23rd Bucheon International Animation Festiv… Read More
Betsy de Fries and Jerry van den Beek direct a poetic reflection on a horrendous event at the Yellowstone National Park. Watch Yellowstone 88 animation short Read More
Prominent Swiss animation artist Georges Schwizgebel talks about his new film, Darwin's Notebook, in our series of Swiss Animation Portraits 2021 Read More
Here's a summer breeze. Dani Fish has made Above Alan animation short about an ordinary fish striving to find the truth about what lies above. Watch the film Read More
The Canadian/Bulgarian Oscar-nominated director teams up with MIYU Productions (France) and Bravo Charlie (Canada) for his latest short animation films Read More
A lonely young child growing up in an isolated family from where she digs into her inner fantasy world. Here's the story behind Broken Things by Hungarian animation director Panni Gyulai. Wa… Read More