Framestore has helped take PHILIPS' award-grabbing campaign, Parallel Lines, into a whole new dimension with its sixth incarnation, The Foundling.

The 6th Athens ANIMFEST 2011 includes competition sections for Shorts, Student Films and Commissioned films. 

Retrospectives, tributes, master classes, speeches, exhibitions and installations are also included.
 

Is it just me, or do Canadians like to congregate and talk hockey while blocking the entrance to every elevator, hallway, doorway and turnstile in the vicinity? It seemed every single path I took yesterday was impeded by some throng completely oblivious to those trying to navigate past them. Oh, plus I saw some good films!

So here I am in Ottawa, and the film I submitted this year to the festival was rejected. Not only this year but none of my films have made competition here. Not only that, but I'm blogging on the festival and my blogs are really positive. So I'm thinking, maybe I should put in some heavy doses of criticism so the folks at the OIAF won't think I'm kissing their royal Canadian asses. But I don't care if they think that. Let them. I'll blog what I want.

With so many fantastic events overlapping with one another, the Ottawa International Animation Festival really suffers from "too much schedule."

From the Taiwanese studio and web broadcaster NMA.tv comes their latest animated news “piece,” Brett Favre's Pecker the Talk of the Town. Pardon my cheap pun. It can’t be avoided – you’ll understand once you watch the video.

Time Magazine asks why parents cry during animated kids movies, Alan Becker's newest installment of Animator vs. Animation hits the web and Ray Grigg's political documentary I Want Your Money, highlighted by animated US Presidents past and present, hits selected theaters.

Online video sharing site Vimeo, an operating business of IAC [NASDAQ: IACI] tonight announced the winners of the Vimeo Awards at a gala awards ceremony hosted by Ze Frank at the SVA Theater in New York City.

At New York Comic-Con, MTV Geek, a new genre site focusing on comic books, games, animation, toys, sci-fi, fantasy, horror and technology content, announced content deals with Bill Plympton and Stan Lee.

Zentropa Intl. Spain, Public Frame, Muak Canarias and Goa Films are partnering on the international co-production RED DOG, reports Variety.