Podlasie-born Ewa Borysewicz stands out with great hand-drawn images and a striking, documentary-like sense of observation. The director has received a number of awards at international film and arts festivals. Her animation “To Thy Heart” was the only Polish short … Read more →
StopTrik is an international stop motion festival – handmade spatial animation in which puppets, plasticine worlds, bulk materials and various objects of everyday use come to live. StopTrik IFF is held in Slovenia (Maribor) and Poland (Niepołomice, Bielsko-Biala). In each … Read more →
“Yellow Sticky Notes – Canadian Anijam” is a set films by Jeff Chiba Stearns and his studio Meditating Bunny. In a documentary “One Big Hapa Family” and animation “What Are You Anyways?” the author takes us on a personal journey … Read more →
Before 1989 they didn’t make animated music videos in Slovakia. The only animated film from that time vaguely resembling a musicvideo was “A song” made in 1969 by Jaroslava Havettová and Ivan Popovič. However, it was not created to promote … Read more →
Svetlana Filippova, the most famous Russian animated film director, was born in 1968 in Alma-Ata (Kazakhstan). Having finished the philology studies at Kazakh State University, she began animation direction studies at the Higher Course for Scriptwriters and Film Directors. She … Read more →