Daniela Sherer received the prestigious Yoram Gross award at the ASIF 2016 awards' ceremony in Tel Aviv.

The Tallinn festival has a new artistic director, and prepares its November edition with a new SHUT UP Competition.

The animation studio Playables at Zürich offers a paid internship for six months.

ASIFA- Austria offers 2,000 Euros for the Best Austrian Animated Film. Deadline extended to 14 October 2016.

A new festival in town!  Between August 25-28 in Turku, west of the Finnish capital Helsinki, the first edition of the Turku Animated Festival TAFF will be held.

Zippy Frames animation journalist Peter Schavemaker interviewed festival director Kimmo Sillanmikko.

Α Ward Kimball tribute and music videos also in the Anibar 2016 programme.

Support the UK independent (and brilliant) animation artist Bexie Bush in her online campaign and The Rumour Mill film.

Toronto Animation Image Society publishes its residency programme for international animation artists.

Sardonic comment on environmental protection. Watch the Italian The Age of Rust short.

 The 2016 Annecy winner, French director Franck Dion, talks to Zippy Frames.

The Austrian experimental filmmaker Thomas Renoldner will organize the highly interesting  PRINTMAKINGANIMATION workshop at the Cyprus animation festival, along with Federica Pagnucco.

The 2014 Annecy winner Dahee Jeong (Man on the Chair) has a new short produced. We met her at this year's French festival to talk about The Empty.

his dismissal causedHis contract will be renewed for the next three years.

Polish animation is quintessentially auteurish, but on the other hand, it may not have to be a solitary affair.  Zofia Jaroszuk, representative for the Polish Animation Producers Association (SPPA), talks to Zippy Frames about the aims and projects of SPPA.

The new stop-motion film by Claude Barras presents a sweet but also poignant tale of children in need of care and respect.