Warm weather has finally come to New York City and that means the Rooftop Film Festival is in full swing! This wonderful festival shows outdoor films all summer long throughout New York City. Many of these include animated shorts and amazing independent productions, both short form and feature length. Upcoming animated programs include a night…
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Our friends at The Graphic Artists Guild invite ASIFA-East members to their upcoming panel discussion, Not Your Sunday Funnies, for the member price of $15. Read on for more information: A spectacular panel of cartoonists joins The New York Chapter for our continuing conversation on cartooning in Not Your Sunday Funnies. The panel comprises of…
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We owe a heap of thanks to many people for helping to put this Festival, Awards Ceremony, and Reception together: Thanks to everyone who entered a film this year and to those who came out to vote. The award winners are determined exclusively by the result of the voting from members. Therefore, without you, this…
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The 45th Annual ASIFA-East Animation Awards Ceremony was held last night, May 18th, in NYC. BEST IN SHOW PEGBAR (PEGGY) AWARD: Arthur Metcalf “In the Beginning” INDEPENDENT FILMS: 1st prize: Eye in Tuna Care John Walter Lustig 2nd prize: Monkey Rag Joanna Davidovich 3rd prize: My Kingdom Debra Solomon CRAFT AWARDS: Excellence in Writing: A Life with Asperger’s Jaime Ekkens Excellence in…
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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 a volunteer run organization made up of animation enthusiasts who care deeply about the art of animation and the community we serve. We welcome your…
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ASIFA-East is very happy to announce that Liz Miele, Star Comedianne and Creator of the hit web series Damaged, will host the 45th Annual ASIFA-East Festival Awards Ceremony! Liz Miele made her debut in the New York comedy scene as a determined and precocious 16 year old. By 18 she was turning heads with a…
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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 and uneven asphalt in front of Legion bar, the last outpost before the edge of ‘East Williamsburg.’ Obscured by rain and norm-core style, the bar was…
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Join ASIFA-East on a curator led tour of The Funky Turns 40: Black Character Revolution Exhibition at the Schomburg Center For Research In Black Culture in New York City. A retrospective of 1970′s Saturday morning animation art featuring black characters, the exhibition includes 60 pieces of original animation art representative of a bygone era of…
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Don’t miss John Hubley: Two Centennial Tributes at the Film Forum coming up later this month! From the Film Forum website: Tuesday, May 20 & Tuesday, May 27 An up-and-coming art director at Disney, where he worked on Snow White, Bambi, and Fantasia, John Hubley (1914-1977) left the studio following a bitter animator’s strike. In…
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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: Behind the Magic,” part of the New York International Children’s Film Festival. The movie Coraline is a 24 FPS stop-motion animated feature, based on a…
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