AWN Blogs
PreView Panel Set: ‘Oscar Contenders for Best Animated Feature’
Join the free February 21 online conversation and Q&A with the directors/creatives of ‘Nimona,’ ‘Elemental,’ ‘Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse,’ ‘Robot Dreams’ and ‘The Boy and the Heron,’ hosted by the VIEW Conference in partnership with the VFX Festival.
PreView Panel Set: ‘Oscar Contenders for Best Animated Short Film’
Join AWN’s own Dan Sarto on February 20 for a free online conversation and Q&A with the directors of the nominated films, ‘Letter to a Pig,’ ‘Ninety-Five Senses,’ ‘Our Uniform,’ ‘Pachyderme,’ and ‘WAR IS OVER! Inspired by the Music of John & Yoko,’ hosted by the VIEW Conference in partnership with the VFX Festival.
Animafest Zagreb 2024 Award for Outstanding Contributions to Animation Studies Goes to Ingo Petzke
Throughout his long career at university institutions from Germany to Australia and New Zealand, the film and art expert has instilled generations of young people with a love for creative work and research, especially in the field of interactive media and avant-garde film art.
View Conference 2024 Early Bird Registration Now Open
Italy’s premiere animation and visual effects event will run in-person October 14-19 in Torino, Italy featuring a program of talks, presentations, workshops, and masterclasses presented by a stellar lineup of top industry professionals.
FMX 2024 Shares Conference Programming Updates
Attendees can explore ‘Loki’ Season 2 timeline mayhem and get insight into the making of the 60th anniversary ‘Doctor Who’ special episode; 4-day event kicks off in Stuttgart on April 23, 2024.
47th CINANIMA INTERNATIONAL ANIMATED FILM FESTIVAL - 13 – 19 November 2023 Espinho, Portugal
Some festivals are such a pleasure to attend that I want to go back every year, and Cinanima is one of those festivals.
TBILISI INTERNATIONAL ANIMATION FESTIVAL – TIAF: 2 – 5 November 2023 in Tbilisi, Republic of Georgia
The Impact of AI on Hollywood in 2024: 12 Predictions
FMX 2024 Shares First Program News
The 4-day event kicks off in Stuttgart on April 23, 2024 with a focus on ‘Connecting Ideas’ and the return of the ‘Lighting & Rendering” track; annual Animation Production Days is now accepting projects through February 6.
Call for Entries Animafest Zagreb 2024
Animafest Zagreb invites you to submit your film for the 34th edition of the Festival, taking place 3-8 June 2024 in Zagreb.
FREDRIKSTAD ANIMATION FESTIVAL 19-22 October 2023
I love going to Norway but I've only been there in the Fall. Going there in the Summer this year was a bonus.
Re-VIEW: ‘Nimona’ - Fluidity is Life
Netflix’s charming, sassy, and constantly surprising film about a young shapeshifter who can transform her outward appearance in the blink of an eye challenges our ideas about what a ‘monster’ really is; by opening a window into her heart, the movie shares her humor, boundless energy, and fluidity in a world where everyone is expected to remain static.
Festival du film d'animation d'Abidjan (Abidjan Animation Film Festival) Call for Entries and Pitches
FFAA (Abidjan Animation Film Festival) is a cultural meeting that will offer its participants another vision of animation
The Journey of Virtual Humans
ANIMARKT - 4 to 8 October 2023, Łódź, Poland
Animarkt, in Łódź Poland, is the only international industry event that is dedicated solely to stop-motion animation project pitching.
‘Letter to a Pig’: Traumatic Memory Through the Eyes of Youthful Imagination
Filmmaker Tal Kantor’s first solo short film uses live-action and hand-drawn animation to tackle the heavy and complex subject of a Holocaust survivor addressing a classroom full of students, sharing a letter he wrote to the pig who saved his life, and how reality, memory, and imagination blend together in one young schoolgirl’s reaction.
VIEW Conference 2023 On-Demand Now Live
Keynotes, panels, talks, workshops, and masterclasses from Italy’s premier event on Computer Graphics, Interactive Techniques, Digital Cinema, 2D/3D Animation, VR and AR, Gaming, and VFX now streaming; All-Access and Light Pass tickets on sale now.
Katzenberg Ahoy!
Open Call 4 - SAR24 Residency
The Sustainability Animation Residency - SAR is launching its fourth open call to submit applications.