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The Greek festival in Corfu invites animated films for its 5th edition.
The 2015 edition of the Bristol festival for short films (with a special, Animated Encounters section) is now open for entries.

A forum for animation researchers at the 2015 Animafest festival. Call for papers for the second Animafest Scanner.
The Oscar snub that surprised everybody.
One European film (Song of the Sea) and a Studio Ghibli feature among the 2015 Academy Award nomations. See all the nominees for short and feature animated films.
An Aardman premiere, a Spanish feature, a Signe Baumane retrospective are among the early highlights of Anima Festival 2015.

What's your date with death would look like, if it were animated? Here's an interview with the Irish director of the Oscar-shorlisted short Coda by Alan Holly.

The 2015 EE British Academy Film Awards nominations have been announced. Read the nominees in the animation categories (shorts and features).
An expanded programme which now cooperates with the European CARTOON forum filters the Animation Production Day forum during the 2015 Stuttgart International Animation Festival.
Have a look at the nominations for the 2015 Spanish Goya award in the categories of feature animation and short animated film.

Yellow Sticky Notes by an impressive array of Canadian animators. Watch the inspiring, experimental animation to-do list.

US independent animator Bill Plympton has his own, irreverent way to celebrate the Xmas period. Watch The Sad Village.
The 22nd International Animation Film Festival in Stuttgart announced its first highlights.