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Festival Headline News

Ottawa Honors Schermer, Ready for Entries

Co-founder of the Holland Animation Film Festival is known for extensive support of animation in all its forms.

Awards Headline News

‘Gumball’ Dominates British Animation Awards Winners

Magic Light’s ‘Revolting Rhymes,’ Studio A.K.A.’s ‘Hey Duggee’ and Blue Zoo’s ‘Mamoon’ also among the top honorees.

Theodore Ushev Headline News

Theodore Ushev Exhibits Mixed Reality Installation, ‘In a Mirror, Dimly’

Collaboration with Danish studio NVRMIND blends animation with virtual and mixed reality to immerse viewers inside the fantasies of the Oscar-nominated director of ‘Blind Vaysha.’

Interviews ANIMATIONWorld

The Burden of Dreams

Niki Lindroth von Bahr’s stop-motion animated short ‘The Burden’ fuses Gene Kelly and Finnish filmmaker Aki Kaurismaki into a proletariat existential musical about an assortment of loners, losers and minimum wage earners working dead-end jobs in a dead-end world.

Home Entertainment Headline News

Giveaway: ‘Birdboy: The Forgotten Children’ Flies to Blu-ray March 13

Blu-ray + DVD combo pack includes theatrical trailer, interview with the filmmakers, the original ‘Birdboy’ short, and the short film ‘Decorado’ by Alberto Vázquez.

Opinion ANIMATIONWorld

Does Independent Animation Have a Chance with the Motion Picture Academy?

By Dan Sarto | Monday, March 5, 2018 at 1:24pm

Great animated shorts and feature films produced in Europe may garner nominations from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences, but nary a win.

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