“People have problems everywhere,” says Wiola Sowa of ASIFA-Poland, with the light of the projector casting an ethereal glow around her. Sowa was speaking of a recent trip to a…
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Happy International Animation Day!!! International Animation Day is October 28, 2014. Each year, ASIFA calls upon a famous animator to create the poster of IAD. It is then adapted for…
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Mark your calendars! Animation historian John Canemaker will celebrate Gertie the Dinosaur’s 100th Birthday with a lecture and screening at the Museum of Modern Art this November 7th, 2014. MUSEUM…
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Our friends at the New York International Children’s Film Festival are offering ASIFA-East members discount tickets to a special advance screening of Big Hero 6. The NYICFF puts together a…
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ASIFA-East is happy to host Short Films From Ireland, 2014, presented by the Irish Film Board. The 93-minute program of award-winning shorts includes three animated and five live-action films. Wednesday,…
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Our member’s films were featured in an all day festival on 8th Street called the Crazy 8 Cartoon Festival. Thank you to David Hollander, The Village Alliance, and Tristian Goik…
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Our friends at the Animation Collaborative in Emeryville, CA want to let the ASIFA-East animation community know about a special two-day event coming to New York City. On December 6-7,…
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Filmmakers Torill Kove and Nicola Lemay of The National Film Board of Canada (NFB) visited NYC on October 1, 2014 to talk with animators. It was all part of a…
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CRAZY 8 Cartoon Festival is an annual (first annual), one day/night (Saturday, October 18, 2014 from 10:00am-Midnight) high visibility, signature comic-and- cartoon-art-themed event held on ONE BLOCK of West 8th…
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THE POLISH SCHOOL OF ANIMATION: Next Generations 2 A retrospective of Polish animation from the last 60 years, featuring short films by Tomasz Bagiński, Anita Kwiatkowska, Jerzy Kucia and much…
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