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It has established itself as the place for quirky and edgy film. Yet this year's Ottawa animation feature selection reveals a realist undertone as well.
It's that time of the year. The 43rd Annual Annie Awards kick off with their call for entries starting September, 1.
6 short animated films compete for what has been labeled the best European short competition.

She's talented, European and fights hard for her puppet world. The Slovenian stop-motion director Špela Čadež talks to Zippy Frames.
A French-Swiss philosophical animated tale wins 2 awards at the prestigious Locarno festival.

Academic conference on Subversion and Deformation in Animated Film in Poland. Open call for papers under way.
ANIBIZ 2015 is a conference focusing on the usability of animation for purposes other than entertainment, such as marketing and communication in Viborg, Denmark.
It was a French animation studio, now it becomes a cultural centre and residency. Ciclic Animation opens its doors in September 2015.
Once more the JAPIC programme helps animators in their early stage of their career to have a Tokyo residency and complete an animation project.
This project, organized by the Agency for Cultural Affairs, Government of Japan (Bunka-cho), is an artist in residence program that provides three outstanding young animation artists from around the world with an opportunity to come to Tokyo and create new works while directly interacting with Japanese animation culture. It aims to promote both the creation of excellent works of animation and a better understanding of Japanese culture.
3 applicants will be selected to stay in Tokyo for 70 days between January 7th and March 17th, 2016, and create a short animation project.

Seems ready to accept visitors. Enjoy the video for the 28th Annual Society for Animation Studies Conference.

A neo-noir animation feature from Colombia mixes live-action atrocities with animated personal settings.

A new, ambitious award and association for European animation is under way. French producer Olivier Catherin talks to Zippy Frames about the European Animation Awards.
A retrospective of the acclaimed Polish director, political themes and Špela Čadež join the programme of the 2015 Country Animafest in Cyprus.