Organization’s Animation Educators Forum awards support individuals or groups with their research, scholarly activity, or creative projects in animation; 6 selected projects share in over $19K in funding.
ASIFA-Hollywood has announced its Animation Educators Forum (AEF) 2024 Faculty Grant recipients. The following six recipients received a total of $19,897:
- Kevin Cooley, Ringling College of Art and Design, $1,500 for archival visit to Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ Margaret Herrick Library for his book project, “Off-Model: Visions of Persistence in Queer Animation.”
- Elham Doust, University of Texas at Dallas, $4,966 for production and copyright for her 2D short film, The Rabbit Story and Tomato.
- Sam Gurry, USC, NYU-LA, and Cal State Los Angeles, $2,905 for production on Reclaimed Reveries, AI film and installation focusing on Lesbian representation.
- M. Javad Khajavi, Volda University College, $5,000 for companion website for the forthcoming book, “Animating in the Age of Spatial Computing, AI, and Metaverses: Immersive Animation-making inside Virtual Reality” (CRC Press).
- Jacqueline Ristola, University of Bristol, $526 for licensing fee of Abbey Bennett's “In Between” comic for forthcoming book chapter on queer animation in the third volume of “The Encyclopedia of Animation Studies” ( Bloomsbury Press).
- Lynn Tomlinson, Towson University, $5,000 for production and screening of a large-scale, panoramic, hemispheric (fulldome) expanded animation artwork, Firmamentality: Cyclical Stories in Shared Immersive Animation.
ASIFA-Hollywood, the largest chapter of the Association Internationale du Film d’Animation (International Animated Film Association), supports various animation activities and preservation efforts through its membership. Current initiatives include the Animation Archive, Animation Aid Foundation, Animation Educators Forum, animated film preservation, special events, scholarships, screenings, and the annual Annie Awards.
More information about ASIFA-Hollywood is available here.
Source: ASIFA-Hollywood
Debbie Diamond Sarto is news editor at Animation World Network.
