The 6-day event runs August 18-23 at Portland’s OMSI with more than 170 films including 130+ animated films, 30+ stop-motion works, 30+ world premieres, and 3D short with Paul Reubens’ final on-screen performance.
Mmixed-media centerpiece of the ‘Fuck Cancer’ and VML Health’s awareness campaign blends 2D, cut-out, puppetry and live-action to explore 21 different expressions for ‘rubbing one out,’ earning major recognition at the recent New York Festivals Advertising Awards and Cannes Lions.
4th edition of the program names 5 winners named across Fiction, Non-Fiction, Animation, Student and Future Format categories, selected from a shortlist of 30 films.
Built around a French parody cover of Elvis’ ‘A Little Less Conversation,’ the director’s fast-cut rotoscoped film uses satire to probe media’s normalization of violence and police impunity.
Just released after its Oscar-qualifying festival run, director Pablo Leon and producer Jonathan Coria’s animated short follows a journalist documenting childhood loss, violence against women and the indigenous population, and regaining a sense of hope for the future.
Filmmakers across 5 categories including animation get the opportunity to attend a 4-day program at Sony Pictures Studios from June 8-11, culminating in a June 11 ceremony when category winners will be revealed.
Julia Morizawa’s 2D film explores intergenerational memory through her family’s harrowing story of surviving the 1945 Tokyo Firebombing.
Set on a stark salt-flat landscape and rendered in just three colors, Sophie Colfer and Ala Nunu’s 2D short follows a young girl’s search for a mother she can no longer fully remember, using stripped-down visuals without dialogue to explore how memory fades and returns.
Directed by Tim Fox, the indie film ‘The Maxx – I’m Out of Control Again!’ revisits Sam Kieth’s seminal 1993 comic and 1995 MTV animated adaptation, exploring the property’s psychological themes through a contemporary visual approach.
The director of the Oscar-nominated 2D animated short, initially released under the pseudonym Timur Kognov, discusses his strenuous creative process, poetic storytelling methods, and ruthless take on cutting even the most beautiful scenes.
Painter and animator Florence Miailhe’s hauntingly beautiful hand-painted short was inspired by her dad Jean’s fellow resistance fighter, Jewish French swimmer Alfred Nakache, who competed in the 1936 Berlin Olympics and 1948 London Olympics after surviving imprisonment in Auschwitz, where his wife and daughter were murdered.
ASIFA-East president Doug Vitarelli looks at Robby Gilbert’s expansive new book, the ‘definitive’ look at the key animators, studios, projects and happenings that defined the incredibly prolific and influential 3-decade period of NYC’s ever-vibrant animation community.
The hand-drawn 2D film, which explores a dark journey into a woman's mind amidst her self-neglect during a mundane daily task, will make its North American premiere on January 16.
Registration is open until January 31, 2026; submissions registered between January 1-31 will be subject to a fee of €10 per film.
Now out on all major VOD platforms, the Disney Legend’s 28-minute hand-drawn animated short, nearly a decade in the making, tells the heartwarming story of a young Ukrainian girl who must decide to save or leave in the wild an orphaned Siberian tiger cub she discovers.
Made in 2 months on a laptop using repurposed stock animated GIFS, the uniquely designed, compellingly abstract film tells the story of how Paradise Man’s obsession with golf is waylaid when his mother has an accident, causing him to look deeply within himself.
Enter the free raffle to snag your spot at the upcoming gathering in Burbank celebrating the global VOD release of the iconic Disney legend’s directorial debut – and win a day pass to CTNX 2026 as well.
The famed former Disney animator and ‘Brother Bear’ director channeled the tragic 2007 loss of his wife into his award-winning hand-drawn 2D short film about a lonely polar bear’s quest to find, and eventually make, a friend… until the weather warms up.
Indie animation legend Bill Plympton’s latest short film, directed by Emmy-winning actor Daniel Neiden and starring Bruce Vilanch, tells the emotional and uplifting story of an aging widower, a school volunteer, working with a young selective mute boy, who connect through a written journal and the true legend of the ‘loneliest’ whale.
Columnist Andrew Osmond interviews ‘Ghibliotheque’ podcasters Michael Leader and Jake Cunningham about their new book that travels the globe to dig deep into the medium (hint - it’s not a genre.)
The Disney Legend’s 28-minute hand-drawn animated short, nearly a decade in the making, tells the heartwarming story of a young Ukrainian girl who must decide to save or leave in the wild an orphaned Siberian tiger cub she discovers; coming to all major global VOD platforms.
In support of the UN’s global ’16 Days of Activism’ campaign calling for an end to violence against women, Natalia León’s animated short, about a woman who returns to Mexico but cannot reconcile her rekindled memories of violence, is now streaming.
Domhnall Gleeson stars in this quiet, poignant, and amusing tale of a 40-something man in the throes of an overstimulated, energy poor life, who fantasizes about the beauty and joy he will find in retirement.
The ‘Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse’ director, who has supported the project for the last 2 years, joins the production, from visionary filmmaker Vani Balgam, about a South Indian teenage tennis prodigy whose game changes when her father falls into a coma; the Kickstarter campaign is now live.
24 ‘Sick & Twisted’ films make up the inaugural 3-day ‘Animation Extravaganza 2025’ comeback festival that’s releasing in the U.S. on October 31.
