The non-profit association of teachers and scholars honors artists and scholars whose teachings have influenced the history of animation.
With a style that ‘blended expressionism and magical realism,’ the filmmaker produced 16 shorts and one feature, including the award-winning ‘Harpya’ and ‘Nocturnal Butterflies;’ he also served as ASIFA president for a decade and founded continental Europe’s first animation training course in 1960 at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Ghent.
Festival’s genre focus includes a selection of short and feature films, exhibitions and open-air screenings.
Croatia’s leading animation festival opens 2016 edition with a Lifetime Achievement Award and retrospective screening for Raoul Servais, one of the chief representatives of existentialist animation.
