ASIFA-Hollywood has announced its 50th Annual Annie Awards

The Board of Directors of ASIFA-Hollywood today announced its 50th Annie Awards , which recognizes the best of the year in the field of animation. will return to a live ceremony Saturday February 25 2023 at UCLA's Royce Hall (Los Angeles, California). A list of ceremony deadlines, rules and categories and the "Call for Entries" will be announced and available on the Annies website ( annieawards.org ) Monday 12 September 2022.

The Annie Awards span 37 categories and include Best Animated Film, Best Independent Animated Film, Special Productions, Sponsored Films, Short Films, Student Films and Outstanding Individual Achievements, as well as honorary jury awards. Look here this year's award winners!

The Telly Awards , the world's largest accolade for video and television content across all screens, announced this year's winners, including a variety of top-tier brands and organizations, as well as smaller media companies such as ViacomCBS, Warner Bros. Worldwide TV Marketing, Sony Music Entertainment, PBS Digital Studios, Nice Shoes and Crunchyroll. This year's edition received over 11.000 entries and saw an increase in global requests from Australia, Mexico, Europe (Germany, Spain, France) and Asia (Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan).

This year's animation Gold winners include The Walt Disney Company, Europe and Africa, for Disney Junior Xmas Multiproperty Spot , WeTransfor for Aline - “The French Dispatch , Ingenuity Studios for Dolly Parton - "Blue Bonnet Breeze" , Gladius Studios for Slimies ep. 1 "Bloo" and Aflac - "The park bench". Find the complete database of winners at tellyawards. com .

The winners of the 7th Program Awards of the Royal Television Society Northern Ireland (RTS NI) were announced during a glittering awards ceremony in Belfast City Hall, hosted by actress and TV presenter Denise Van Outen and sponsored by Ka-Boom. Paper Owl Films received the Children's and / o Animation Award (sponsored by Millar McCall Wylie) for his thrilling TV movie SOL , for TG4, S4C and BBC Alba. The finalists in the category were My Life: Made to Measure by Tyrone Productions e Secret Life of Boys by Zodiak Kids Studios.

If you missed the recent Clubhouse live-stream of Love, Death + Robots Vol. 3 with the directors David Fincher , Tim Miller , Jennifer Yuh Nelson e Alberto Mielgo Don't worry: a full replay of the virtual event is now available. Find out on clubhouse. com .

The cave

The 28 ° Palm Springs International Short Fest returns to hold all of its theater screenings at the Camelot in the Palm Springs Cultural Center from 21 to 27 June. The festival will screen 51 curated programs that will feature 300 films including 38 world premieres, 17 international premieres, 35 North American premieres and 18 US premieres. More than 5.800 short films from 134 countries were presented. The festival has several Oscar qualifying contests, including Best Animated Short Film (selected films below). The complete training and program can be found at psfilmfest.org .

Entrainment

• Anxious body (France / Japan) by Yoriko Mizushiri
• Bestia (Chile) by Hugo Covarrubias
• boobs (Canada) by Marie Valade
• Cat and Moth (Canada / United Kingdom) by India Barnardo
• The Cave (South Korea) by Kim Jinman, Chon Jiyoung (world premiere)
• Cradle (Romania) by Paul Mureşan
• Do Not Feed the Pigeons (UK) by Antonin Niclass (US premiere)
• The fall (Canada) by Desirae Witte
• The Fall of the Ibis King (Ireland) by Mikai Geronimo, Josh O'Caoimh
• Five cents (USA) by Aaron Hughes
• The fourth wall (Iran) by Mahboobeh Kalaee
• The girl in the water (Taiwan) by Shi-Rou Huang
• homebird (UK) by Ewa Smyk
• In His Mercy (Germany) by Christoph Büttner (first North American)
• Laika & Nemo (Germany) by Jan Gadermann, Sebastian Gadow
• Life is a particle Time is a wave (USA) by Daniel Zvereff
• Lost Brain (Switzerland) by Isabelle Favez (US premiere)

Lost Brain

• Louis I. King of the Sheep (Germany / United States) by Markus Wulf (first North American)
• The most boring grandmother in the whole world (Germany) by Damaris Zielke (first North American)
• Night (Germany / Qatar / Palestine / Jordan) by Ahmad Saleh
• The night of living terror (UK) by Ida Melum
• The Ocean Duck (United States) by Huda Razzak
• On The Surface (Iceland / United States) by Fan Sissoko
• remainder in piece (Germany / France) by Antoine Antabi (first North American)
• The Seine's Tears (France) by Yanis Belaid, Eliott Benard, Nicolas Mayeur, Etienne Moulin, Hadrien Pinot, Lisa Vicente, Filipino singer, Alice Letailleur
• Sierra (Estonia) by Sander Joon
• Someone takes the wheel (USA) by Kenzie Sutton
• Something in the garden (Chile) by Marcos Sánchez
• Sprite Fright (Netherlands) by Matthew Luhn, Hjalti Hjalmarsson
• The Spyglass (Sweden) by Malin Erixon (international premiere)
• Steak house (Slovenia / Germany / France) by Špela Čadež
• Swallow the Universe (France) by Nieto
• Sweet nothing (Switzerland) by Joana Fischer, Marie-Christine Kenov
• Theory and practice (Germany) by Leonie Minor
• What I had to leave behind (USA) by Sean David Christensen
• Wolf and cub (United States) by Marvin Bynoe
• Your mountain is waiting (UK) by Hannah Jacobs (North American premiere)
• Son (Germany) by Jonatan Schwenk

Other dates, updates and deadlines:

• It's the last week to register for the inaugural event Animation Trends (ATE 2022) by toon Boom , which brings together industry professionals, artists and animators from around the world who work with Harmony and Storyboard Pro. June 6-8. Register now (free).
• The NYICFF will present his third Industry Forum annual the 14, 21 and 28 June. The panels, presentations and online conversations will focus on inclusive media for children and are open to all (and aspiring) industry professionals. Register here,
• The Max the Mutt College of Animation will hold his Graduation Showcase 2022 both online (13pm - 00pm EST, 22nd June ) and in person in Toronto (18pm - 00pm EST, 23nd June ), a double opportunity to take a look at the work of MTM Concept Art, Animation and Illustration Graduates and meet the next generation of cartoon talent. Registration by invitation, inquire with outreach@maxthemutt.com .
• OIAF confirms the return of a Pitch THIS in person! contest for creators of Canadian animated series, presented with Mercury Filmworks as part of The Animation Conference. Deadline for submission: June 30, 2022 .

Spark Animation poster designed by Dio Ostuni

• GIO starts the eighth challenge Golden Ticket. 2D / 3D artists will create contributions that capture the theme of sustainability "Agents of change" for a chance to win a full-trip ticket to the THU Main Event (19-24 September, Tróia, Portugal), become a speaker and more. Deadline: July 17, 2022 .
• SIGGRAPH Asia has opened registration for his Computer animation festival 2022 , which will take place as part of the conference in Daegu, South Korea (6-9 December). The competition is open to computer animated shorts, feature films, music videos, advertisements, visualizations, simulations, visual effects, real-time animation and more. Deadline: July 31, 2022 .
• Spark CG announced its Oscar-accredited hybrid festival SPARK ANIMATION 2022 will be held 27 30 from October to November . The 14th edition will offer online programming available to stream worldwide for the duration (provided by Eventive) and in-person programming in Vancouver, Canada. Deadline for submission: September 16, 2022 .