Five outstanding animated works, widely awarded and loved at festivals worldwide, all worthy of taking the top prize at ASIFA-Hollywood’s 49th annual celebration of the best in animation, coming March 12.
Award-winning stop-motion short co-produced by Croatia’s Finta Film and Slovenia’s Bonobostudio takes traditional multiplane cut-out animation to a new level in a tale of a drunken badger set loose on the roads.
Slovenian stop-motion short co-produced by RTV Slovenija and Croatia’s Bonobostudio is the follow-up to the widely acclaimed 2013 short film ‘Boles.’
Every Tuesday, Chris Robinson screens and hastily responds to (relatively) new animation short films. Today's short is Orange is the New Black: Unraveled, a beautiful stop motion promo from Špela Čadež (Nighthawk)
Special print edition distributed at Annecy 2017 celebrates a year’s worth of creative excellence since industry professionals last gathered in France at the world’s largest and most prestigious film festival dedicated to the art of animation.
France-Belgium-Japan co-production ‘The Red Turtle,’ directed by Michael Dudok de Wit, wins the feature film Grand Prix.
The GLAS Animation Festival celebrates the closing of its second annual edition with a ‘Best of’ screening at the Los Angeles Downtown Independent on Thursday, April 20.
Every Monday, Chris Robinson serves up Animators Unearthed, a brief introduction to prominent and not-so-prominent indie animators. This week's focus is the influential Croatian company, Bonobostudio.
Poland’s ‘Impossible Figures and Other Stories II’ by Marta Pajek receives Grand Prix award; Spela Cadez’s ‘Nighthawk’ (Slovenia) wins award for best narrative short.
With an emphasis on ‘Animation without Borders,’ the 24th Stuttgart International Festival of Animated Film to spotlight Lebanese animation artist Chadi Aoun, Slovenia’s Spela Cadez, France’s Franck Dion, Germany’s Jochen Kuhn and Katrin Magnitz, Italy’s Bruno Bozzetto, Portland animator Joanna Priestley, Canadian director Ann Marie Fleming, and many more.
Jury prizes include Spela Cadez’s ‘Nighthawk,’ Koji Yamamura’s ‘Satie’s Parade’ and Phil Mulloy’s ‘Endgame.’
The NFB’s ‘I Like Girls’ won the Grand Prize at the 40th anniversary edition of the Ottawa International Animation Festival, but here are seven other animated shorts from the Narrative competition we liked even better.
