Article by Susan Godfrey. Truly we’ve all seen a lot of Kickstarter campaigns. Kickstarter, Indiegogo, and other crowdsourcing platforms have become a fixture in all the mission-accomplished stories of our…
Article by Jake Friedman. I love this venue. It’s hip, it’s a great night out, and it’s culture! I mean, what else would you call a cartoon about a disembodied…
Article written by Tristian Goik. Seward Park High School is, at some level, your basic New York public school. We had to trump up five flights of stairs to reach the…
Update: A second edition to our guide was written after the implementation of the Affordable Care Act. To put it simply, finding decent and affordable health care as an artist…
As ASIFA-East goes on its summer hiatus, the Viewseum wraps its first full (ASIFA-East) year on the aNYmator. And here, we have both a good way to wrap up the…
Tis that time of year again when the team here at ASIFA-East takes a break til the fall. A huge thank you to all our board members for their hard…
Guest post by Michael Sporn. This article was originally posted on the Splog. Howard Beckerman brought a DVD of his home movies of he ASIFA East Animation Festival of 1980.…
Buzz Potamkin, one of animation’s most beloved producers on both coasts, passed away from pancreatic cancer on Sunday, April 22nd. Buzz, always interested in film, left Columbia University for a job…
Article by Tristian Goik. Once or twice, I have heard of people talking about how they ‘got a table’ at the MoCCA Festival. The Museum of Comic & Cartoon Art…
Last night, ASIFA-East held its 43rd Annual ASIFA-East Awards Ceremony, a culmination of our 2012 Animated Film Festival in which films are screened throughout the month of March. The event…