ASIFA East will be celebrating on Tuesday with a special screening of short films from Latin America, programmed by Robert Lyons, collaborating with Diego Akel and Lina X Aguirre. Free and open to the public!

 

ASIFA created the International Animation Day (IAD) in 2002, honoring the birth of animation, recognized as the first public performance of projected moving images: Emile Reynaud’s Theatre Optique in Paris, on the 28th October 1892. ASIFA coordinates and helps promote IAD celebrations all over the world, putting the art of animation in the limelight in a global worldwide celebration of animation. In recent years, this unique event has been commemorated in more than 50 countries, on every continent of the world.