Due to popular demand, we are extending our deadline another week to (midnight) Sunday, Feb 7th!!! This is great news for any studio/company with public films from the last two years, as well as students, independents, and music video artists! APPLY HERE Debuting in 1969, the ASIFA-East Animated Film Festival is one of the longest…
DetailsHello! Just giving you a heads up about upcoming events, parties, and festival: Our film festival is coming up, and we will be accepting submissions from January 1st-31st. In brief, you can submit digital copies, as an MOV/MP4, preferably with a H264 codec. More info coming soon. The Post-Holiday Party is in early January! A…
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By Asim Khan The second installment of Animation Nights New York: New York Independents was held this past Wednesday, December 9, in partnership with host venue The Fulton Stall Market at 207A Front Street in the Fulton Seaport district of Manhattan, and Little Water Radio. Yvonne Grzenkowicz was the host and curator for this standing…
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The conclusion of Boy and the World brings us back to Alê Abreu and our world, face to face with a boy and his question. “How long has it been?” the boy asked. “44 years,” Abreu replied, “I’ve been drawing since your age.” It is opening night at the IFC Center theatre in downtown Manhattan,…
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Show goin’ up, on a Sat’day Got your flip in a book and she toon’ay… I traveled to Brooklyn on December 5th to see the opening of the FlipBooKit exhibit at GrumpyBert, a quaint shop/art-gallery in Boerum Hill. FlipBooKit is a customizable mechanical flip-book, essentially a modified mutoscope with a split-flip design. Each square-box kit…
DetailsOur friends at Eye Pop Productions have a job listing for us! Please see below for all details and contact information. Thanks! We are looking for a motion graphics artist to work with us on a feature documentary about the same sex marriage movement. We are telling the story of the 30 year journey, through court…
DetailsRichard 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 TSOA Kanbar film department. The Protovin Animation Award is given annually in his honor. On November 24 at 7 pm, the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA)…
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By Asim Khan “Animation Nights New York,” a monthly animated shorts series, was held this past Wednesday, November 11, in conjunction with host venue The Fulton Stall Market at 207A Front Street in the Fulton Seaport district of Manhattan. The event was an international showcase of animated short films, curated by Yvonne Grzenkowicz with additional…
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Today’s article is written by Monique Henry-Hudson. We will be showcasing several new bloggers over the next few months! When I first learned that the Peanuts gang was coming to the big screen AND in 3D, I can admit that I was a little nervous. We have seen MANY beloved comic and cartoon characters brought…
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Article written by Janelle Miau. Oct. 27, 2015—ASIFA-East celebrated this year’s International Animation Day with the screening of Disney of Duivendrecht, a biopic about charismatic Dutch animator Joop Geesink, whose studio produced thousands of poppenfilmpjes (puppet films) between the 1940s and 1970s. Geesink called his films Dollywood Films, for dolls and Hollywood, four decades before…
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