Animation Is Film (AIF) has announced the competition line-up and other special events for its fourth edition, which takes place in-person October 22-24, returning to its home at the TCL Chinese 6 Theatres in Hollywood. Kicking off on Friday, October 22 is the North American premiere of the highly anticipated Netflix feature, The Summit
The 29th Stuttgart International Festival of Animated Film (ITFS) will take place from May 3 to 8, 2022. Animated films completed after October 1, 2020, can now be submitted for the main festival competitions.
Entries are now being accepted in the following categories:International Competition – International competition for animated short films
Young Animation – International student
The VIEW Conference has announced that Sir Roger Deakins will receive this year’s VIEW Visionary Award. The Oscar-winning cinematographer’s films include The Shawshank Redemption, Blade Runner 2049 and 1917. Previous recipients of the award, presented for outstanding contribution to the visual arts, include pioneering visual effects supervisor Dennis Muren, animated feature director Nora Twomey
The Ottawa International Animation Festival (OIAF) will feature five National Film Board of Canada (NFB) animated shorts, including the world premiere of the final film in Marta Pajek’s acclaimed animation trilogy, Impossible Figures and other stories I, a Poland/Canada co-production. This year’s event has extended its run from September 22 to October 3, with
If there are two things that people always think about together, it’s grandmothers and wrestling. Or maybe it’s only Pixar Animation Studios artist Louis Gonzales, the director of the funny and touching new CG short, Nona. Produced by Courtney Casper Kent, and created as part of the studio’s SparkShorts program that offers Pixar employees
The National Film Board of Canada (NFB) is seeking submissions from animation creators for the 13th edition of Hothouse. The Hothouse program provides a three-month paid apprenticeship in all-inclusive, real-world animation filmmaking in the tradition of NFB animation. Applicants who are willing and able to jump headfirst into this intensive experience are invited to
Disproving the conventional wisdom that you can’t teach an old dog new tricks, Pixar Animation Studios’ Dug Days presents the beloved canine character from its Oscar-winning 2009 feature Up in a new series of comedic misadventures. Produced by Kim Collins and written and directed by Bob Petersen (the voice of Dug then and now),
In My Sunny Maad, legendary Oscar-nominated Czech director Michaela Pavlátová’s animated feature film debut, a Czech woman marries an Afghan man with no idea what her life will be in post-Taliban Afghanistan. A co-production of Negativ (CZ), Česká Televize (CZ) and Sacrebleu Productions (FR), the poignant film took home the Jury Award this past
The National Film Board of Canada has just shared news of the unfortunate passing of legendary filmmaker Jacques Drouin this past Saturday, August 28, of a cervical aneurysm. He was 78 years old.
Over the course of a 30-plus year career with the NFB, he created six unique films, including the now classic Mindscape (1976); his
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