ASIFA Festival Deadline Extended!

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…

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Winter Season Update

Hello!  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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ANNY: New York Independents Part 2!

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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Buy It, Use It, Break It, FlipBooKit!

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…

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Animation Nights New York

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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The Peanuts Movie!

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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Geesink’s Fantastic Carnival

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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