With the year’s end just around the corner, we wanted to look back and see which distributors had 2023s to remember and which will be hoping to turn things around in 2024. The main takeaway from the ...

Amid a year of bangers, it's never been more clear the animation space is in some need of change. Reading time 5 minutes In mid-March during the Oscars, Netflix’s Pinocchio took home the award for ...

The sixth edition of the annual animation fest has announced its award winners, including special jury prize recipient 'Robot Dreams.' By Carolyn Giardina Tech Editor Indie feature Chicken For Linda!, ...

L.A.’s Animation Is Film (AIF) festival, founded by distributor GKIDS in partnership with the Annecy International Animation Film Festival and Variety, has unveiled its competition lineup, special ...

Animation Is Film revealed Thursday that its 2023 edition next month will open with Gkids and Studio Ghibli’s The Boy and the Heron, the latest film from Hayao Miyazaki that just opened the Toronto ...

The Academy’s disdain for animation is a matter of record, sniffily referred to as “kids’ stuff” by Oscar hosts who would run screaming if presented with the scatological eschatology of a Mad God. But ...

Animation is a genre that seems to get better with each passing year, as technologies used to create these films improve and catch up with filmmakers’ ambitious visions. This year saw no shortage of ...

Is tonight’s opening-night selection of the sixth annual Animation Is Film Festival its biggest ever? Figuratively, perhaps: “The Boy and the Heron” is the rapturously received return of the most ...

Shrishty is a decade-old journalist covering a variety of beats between politics to pop culture, but movies are her first love, which led her to study Film and TV Development at UCLAx. She lives and ...

I ran into an old friend a while back, someone I hadn’t spoken to in a few years, and we got on the topic of anime. Something I’m fanatical about, but something I thought he knew nothing about. “Right ...

Animation Is Film has announced the 2023 winners of its annual film festival, with “Chicken for Linda!,” directed by Chiara Malta and Sébastien Laudenbach, winning the grand prize. The film also took ...