Giannalberto Bendazzi (1946–2021)
Friends, passionate and accomplished film historian and friend, Giannalberto Bendazzi, just left us, last night, at age 75. Matchless in his command of world animation history, it seems impossible to overstate…
NYU Seeks Assistant Arts Professor in Animation
NYU has an opportunity that will interest experienced ASIFA–East animators and educators. Their announcement follows: The Kanbar Institute’s Undergraduate Film & Television Department at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts…
Richard Williams (1933–2019)
An animation legend left us today. Richard Williams (1933-2019), at age 86, lived as long as many or most of us manage—but his surrendering this life hits unusually…
Experimental 1970s–80s American Animation February 2–4
A spectacular series of five programs of iconic experimental animated films is set to unspool February 2–4 at the Quad Cinema. If you already know these films, you’ll want to…
Animation Senior Computer/Network Technician
Tisch School of the Arts at NYU is looking for an Animation Senior Computer/Network Technician. This position monitors daily 2D and 3D animation computer lab activities to ensure provision of…
“Raggedy Ann & Andy: A Musical Adventure” at 40
This year marks the 40th anniversary of the release of Richard Williams’s lavish—and in some ways landmark—feature-length animated confection Raggedy Ann & Andy: A Musical Adventure (1977). The ambitious film, which…
Richard Protovin Films at MoMA Nov. 24
Richard Protovin (1945 – 1991) was a prolific painter, filmmaker, and, in the late 1970s, he founded the NYU Animation program that is now an important component of the NYU…
Cecile Starr Tribute Celebration
Center for Visual Music and The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center, will present a Cecile Starr Tribute Celebration on Thursday, October…
Canemaker on Fantasia at MoMA, August 1
Our good friend, world-renowned animation historian and Oscar-winning animator John Canemaker, who has just completed a new book on Disney’s feature film Fantasia, will speak at Museum of Modern Art Saturday,…
ASIFA International Online Magazine
Dear ASIFA-East International Members: The ASIFA Magazine, I am delighted to say, has returned this season in a new online edition, again edited by the incomparable Chris Robinson, with exclusive…