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Lantz Foundation Ups LMU Gift
The Walter Lantz Foundation has upped its gift to Loyola Marymount University School of Film and Television’s Animation Department to just over $1 million, making this one of the largest grants the Foundation has ever bestowed on a university animation program. The school was recently ranked one of the top [...]
Simon Cowell to Make an Animated Feature
British media mogul and sharp-tongued reality show judge Simon Cowell (The X Factor, American’s Got Talent) told The Daily Star recently that the has sold an animated feature to a major studio. Although he was tight-lipped about the animation production company and the subject of his animated pic, he did [...]
One Minute Fest’s CanAnimation Challenge Open
Brazil’s One Minute Festival–now the largest video fest in Latin America–has kicked off an innovative challenge for short film makers. Now open for submissions until July 30, 2013, this year’s Festival theme is CanAnimation. Sponsored by international rolled products manufacturer and aluminum recycler Novelis, the aim is to combine cans [...]
Sullivan’s ‘Consuming Spirits’ to Screen in L.A.
L.A. audiences will have the chance to check out indie animator Christopher Sullivan’s widely acclaimed movie Consuming Spirits as the pic begins a week run at the Cinefamily theater this Friday (April 12). The highly original and very adult feature chronicles the lives of Gentian Violet, Victor Blue and Earl [...]
‘Butterflies’ Flies Home with Cinequest’s Top Prize
Australian director Isabel Peppard has taken home the top Animated Prize at this year’s Cinequest Intl. Film Festival in San Jose. The win makes the short eligible for a Best Animated Short Oscar nomination. Butterflies had its world premiere at the Melbourne International Film Festival on August 11, 2012 before [...]
Shows & Parade Planned for L.A. Puppet Festival
If you happen to enjoy puppetry as an art form, then you’ll be happy to know that April is the official month of the L.A. Puppet Fest. This citywide celebration will bring together a wide variety of events, shows, exhibits and classes for all ages, April 2nd through the 28th. [...]
SVA Sets Dates for 24th Dusty Fest
Reeves Lehmann, chair of the BFA Film, Video and Animation department at School of Visual Arts in New York City, has announced that the 24th Annual Dusty Film & Animation Festival will be held in the metropolis Saturday, May 4 through Tuesday, May 7, 2013. The four-day event will showcase [...]
U.K.’s Animation Tax Relief to Launch in April
The U.K. entertainment industry is eagerly awaiting the arrival of April. George Osborne, Britain’s chancellor of the exchequer (equivalent of a treasury secretary) recently pointed out that the introduction of the tax relief would play a big part in keeping the U.K.’s vfx sector competitive with the rest of the [...]
SND to Distribute New ‘Triplets’ Animated Series
SND will handle worldwide distribution of Nicole Lambert’s Triplets, an original 78 x 7 minute animated series based on the bestselling children books and comic strips by Nicole Lambert and produced by Media Valley and La Station Animation. The new CG-animated series will air on France 5 in France. An [...]
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