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Katerina Athanassopoulou was one of the 16 artists s16 worksselected to design the MSU media facade at Animafest, Zagreb. Watch her work, Triptych I.

The Salma Hayek-produced animated feature The Prophet, based on Kahlil Gibran's book, has been picked up for distribution by the Italian company Good Films.
The Israeli animator Avi Ofer won the 2013 Annecy-Dailymotion contest, "Feet in the Water, Head in the Movies".

A new version of the prince waiting to be kissed. Watch the Gobelins students short, The Dauphin Dolphin.

A combination of lyrical live-action with stop-motion animation in Eric Leiser's If I was. Watch the music video.

Tom Jobbins, a graduate of National Film and Television School (UK) looks back to the 1977 event of sending a Golden Record into space.
Animafest Zagreb 2013 celebrates 100 years of Norwegian animation and presents its jury members

A new feature in production details the story of troubled times in Cambodia, and finds French distribution. Director Denis Do talks to Zippyframes.com about Funan.

A documentary on the ill-fated feature project of the Academy Award-winning animator, Richard Williams, illuminated aspects of the animation business usually left untold.
The premiere convention for animation, Aka-con, takes place in Dublin.