Design the ASIFA-East Membership Card!
What does ASIFA mean to you? Your design could be used for our next membership card! ASIFA-East is holding a members-exclusive contest to design our new membership card! ASIFA-East is…
Twillerama
On the last day of April, Brooklyn had a desperate last minute shower, getting ready for whatever hipster flowers might bloom in May. Left-turning SUVs scattered light over sheets of water…
LAIKA Enchanted
On March 29th, at the Scholastic Theatre in SoHo, NY, Mark Shapiro (director of entertainment brand marketing for LAIKA) gave a special presentation of the movie Coraline. It was “LAIKA:…
ASIFA-East Animated Film Festival: Student Films
On Thursday, March 13, ASIFA-East held its annual judging of student films for the ASIFA-East International Animation festival. In the past, these screenings show student thesis work from the previous…
Falling for the First Time: Patema Inverted
March was the month of New York’s International Childrens’ Film Festival, and I have several things to say about the great screenings I attended. Today I will be discussing “Patema…
Job Board: Instructors wanted
Here’s a few job openings sent to us by our friends at CUNY- City Tech – Hello Everyone, The Dept. of Advertising Design & Graphic Arts is currently conducting searches…
A Tribute to Howard Beckerman by Meryl Rosner
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How to Develop and Sell an Animated TV Series
Lisa Goldman is going to teach her Pitch Bible Studies Class: How to Develop and Sell an Animated TV Series again in June. The goal of this course is to…
ASIFA-East Festival: Commissioned Films and Music Videos
On March 11th, 2014, members of ASIFA-East, students, and animation industry professionals gathered in Room 502 of the School of Visual Arts for a screening of animated films and music…
Minuscule: Valley of the Lost Ants at the NYICFF
If it’s one thing I’ve always loved to draw, it’s bugs. They fascinate me endlessly with their big eyes, their small, fat bodies, and all their little protrusions of antennae,…