‘Butterfly,’ ‘Hunting’ Take Top Honors at ITFS 2025
The festival wrapped its 32nd edition with a May 10 ceremony honoring winners of the main competition, with Florence Miailhe and Lea Favre, respectively, taking home the big awards.
The festival wrapped its 32nd edition with a May 10 ceremony honoring winners of the main competition, with Florence Miailhe and Lea Favre, respectively, taking home the big awards.
Watch it from ‘cover’ to ‘cover’… in partnership with Le Truc, The Condé Nast Creative Marketing Team, and Human, the promotional project celebrates the publication’s 100th anniversary.
With the pilot episode of their webtoon-turned-series debuting May 4 at Comic Con Cape Town, the award-winning Johannesburg studio’s founders, Kabelo Maaka and Dr. Tshepo P. Maaka, continue to focus their animated storytelling on the experiences of women of all ages.
The killer conference starts next Tuesday; a variety of panels related to this year’s ‘Rhythm of Change’ theme now set, from the state of the industry and growth of AI to updates on ‘The Art of Animation’ and ‘Expanding Realities’ tracks.
Submissions open May 12 for animation creatives aged 11-22; deadline set for September 1, with nominations announced on October 1.
All 8 episodes of Eli Roth and Noah Belson’s cult stop-motion animated comedy series are now streaming on the platform in celebration of the show’s 25th anniversary.
10 new shorts, featuring dinosaur gladiators, messianic cats, and other oddities, are set to debut May 15; voice cast includes MrBeast, Kevin Hart, John Oliver, Niecy Nash, John Boyega, and Rhys Darby.
Created through traditional hand-drawn animation as well as VR puppeteering, rendered 3D assets, motion tracking, and AI tools, the show, about a dysfunctional family of birds who host a talk show, will release across social platforms.
The animated anthology returns in a longer format, with 9 new anime shorts from david production, Kamikaze Douga, Kinema citrus Co, Polygon Pictures, Production I.G, Project Studio Q, TRIGGER, and WIT Studio; hits Disney+ October 29.
For 98th Oscars, members must now watch all nominated films in a category in order to vote in final award round; each branch will judge films based on the ‘degree to which a human was at the heart of the creative authorship.’
AWN’s latest survey highlights under-the-radar animated shorts that are currently making their way through the festival circuit - or are newly available for online viewing.
Tim Miller and David Fincher’s acclaimed, Emmy-winning animated anthology returns with stories of dinosaur gladiators, messianic cats, and string-puppet rock stars; Jennifer Yuh Nelson once again serves as supervising director.
Short film ‘Beautiful Men’ also took home a top prize at the Animation Festival’s 24th edition, which wrapped up last week.
Artists in the fourth year of Film London’s commissioning program for early-career Black animators shared short film works in progress; applications for new round opens March 31.
AWN’s latest survey highlights under-the-radar animated shorts that are currently making their way through the festival circuit—or are newly available for online viewing.
The 14th Edition of the Oscar qualifying event will be online throughout Latin America and in person in Santiago de Chili between May 26-30.
Out of the 3,900 films submitted from around 100 countries, 72 films from 33 countries were selected to compete: 36 in the Official category, 9 in the Off-Limits category, 17 in the Perspectives category, and 10 in the Young Audiences category.
The 3-day international animation festival runs April 5-7 in Brighton, England; the 2025 edition will include a focus on East Asian Animation.
The 16th edition returns to the picturesque city of Peja, Kosovo July 14-20 with screenings, workshops, classes, and exhibitions.
Out of a record 103 submissions, 50 works are chosen, including 28 TV series, 10 feature films, 4 TV specials, and 8 cross-media projects; conference runs May 6-8 in Stuttgart.
Shorts born from the studio’s annual 5 Second Day will be shown for industry leaders and insiders, animation enthusiasts, and the public in Los Angeles, New York, and Vancouver.
AWN’s latest survey highlights under-the-radar animated shorts that are currently making their way through the festival circuit — or are newly available for online viewing.
The 2-day festival returns to Dingle, Ireland, on March 21 for a weekend of creativity, art, and storytelling