On Tuesday 24 January 2023 Serge Bromberg, former Artistic Director of Annecy International Animation Festival and founder of Lobster Films was sentenced to a 5-year suspended prison sentence with 1 year of house arrest under electronic surveillance for his negligence in a nitrate film fire that resulted in the death of 2 people in August 2020.
In his triumphant return to the exotic world of Pandora, director James Cameron once again employs the most vibrant and stunning visual artistry to share with audiences his central theme of diversity.
Nancy Denney-Phelps has been awarded the Giannalberto Bendazzi at the Paris International Animation Film Festival
FANTOCHE - CALL FOR ENTRY UNTIL 14 MAY 2023
Last Call for Entries - Annecy 2023
CALL for ENTRIES International Animation Film Festival (IAFF) Golden Kuker submission deadline is16th of APRIL
After a 2-year hiatus, Scotland’s animation and VFX gathering is back
The Animattikon Project has traditionally taken place in Paphos
Some narrative animations owe their brilliance to simultaneously evoking pleasure and angst.
FIAF is delighted to present the sixth edition of Animation First, the only U.S. festival dedicated to showcasing the legacy and innovation of French animation!
2022 will be remembered as the year that AI came in like a wrecking ball.
Created and written by Pamela Ribon, and directed by Sara Gunnarsdóttir, the Annecy Cristal winner and Oscar-shortlisted animated short, a refreshing tale of a 15-year-old girl’s discovery of sexuality and her fearless rite of passage, is now a Staff Pick on Vimeo.
Animator, director, character designer, teacher, and writer Nancy Beiman concludes her 2-part story – complete with dead body - on her introduction to 'commercial' animation, when she snagged her first job, at Jack Zander’s Animation Parlour in NYC, while still managing to graduate Cal Arts, in the third of an ongoing series of articles - and eventual blog - she’s penning for AWN.
Returning in April as ‘climate-friendly’ certified, the event will feature discussions on sustainability in film and media production; programming announcements include a look at animated shorts ‘A Flammable Planet’ and ‘Can’t Negotiate the Melting Point of Ice,’ and advancements of AI Rotoscoping.
Alice Walker once wrote, ‘Time moves slowly, but passes quickly.’ How do you pack a 24-hour narrative into a 3-minute film? By animating time. In conversation with the filmmaker.
Snow in the north, sunny and hot in the south? It must be time for gift giving! Here’s my 2022 indie animator gift-giving guide – this year, it’s about books!
Top honors went go ‘BusLine35A,’ directed by Elena Felici, winner of the Grand Prize, with special jury awards going to ‘Canary’ and ‘Code Rose;’ save the date for VIEW Conference 2023, October 15-20 – see you in Turino!
Last Call for Films - Anifest 2023: The Deadline is 31 December 2022
In this Oscar- qualified film, courage against terrifying odds at the water park can mean much more than becoming a hero to your friends.
A joint venture of the Stuttgart International Festival of Animated Film and FMX, ADP runs April 25-28; deadline for submission of projects in film, TV series, mobile content, games, cross- and transmedia is February 9.
Bob Iger’s re-entry upon Bob Chapek’s exit highlights Disney’s C-suite succession problems.
The Oscar-winning director’s timely masterpiece about a father and son finally united in the simple knowledge, and unconditional acceptance, that each of them is who he is, reminds us that acceptance of diversity is vitally important, perhaps more now than ever before.
Syros is a magical island any time of the year, and for six days every September AnimaSyros and the Agora transform it into a wonderland of animation.
All-access tickets provide 3-months streaming of all keynotes, panels, talks, workshops, and masterclasses from the October 2022 event; Also announced - VIEW Conference returns to Torino, Italy October 15-20, 2023
The 4-day hybrid event returns to Stuttgart with 1-day devoted to online presentations from around the world; BAFTA-winning and Oscar-nominated producer Jinko Gotoh serves as the next program chair.
