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Events Round-Up: ANNY Best of Fest, Animest, Fredrikstad Animation Festival

Upcoming animation events in the U.S., Romania, and Norway.

An indie Japanese feature and an experimental short from Austria won the top prizes at Ottawa 2019.

A round-up of upcoming animation festivals and events across the world.

The program includes Oscar contenders like “I Lost My Body” and “Weathering With You,” and plenty of U.S. premieres.

Gitanjali Rao’s hand-painted feature is an ambitious tale of love and loss in India’s biggest metropolis.

The 2019 edition will focus on the theme of “stop motion in the digital age.”

Mexico’s buzzing festival and conference returns to Cuernavaca, September 3–7. This year’s theme is “Roots & Tomorrow.”

Marcell Jankovic’s 1981 animation masterpiece will get a theatrical release next spring.

The first edition will be held in Utrecht and Amsterdam, November 9–17.

North America’s largest animation festival will screen 54 shorts and six features in competition.

A group of industry figures has drawn up a list of prominent women in animation. They hope it will help festivals to pick more female jurors.

The French school produced five signal films for this year’s Annecy Festival. Watch them all here.

Montreal’s Fantasia Film Festival has announced the first wave of films for its 23rd edition, which runs from July 11 to August 1.

See the full list of 24 projects chosen for the 2019 SIGGRAPH Computer Animation Festival Electronic Theater.

Is the Annecy Festival growing too big for its own good?

The organizers are calling on the global animation community to donate to a crowdfunding campaign so they can hold this year’s edition.

An unprecedented amount of data and analysis about the lack of opportunities for women in the Los Angeles animation industry.

It’s impossible to see everything at the Annecy animation festival, so here’s a few of our suggestions.

Tomek Popakul’s punky “Acid Rain” continues it successful run on the festival circuit.

Animation power players, both on the creative and executive side, are scheduled to speak at the 3rd annual Women in Animation World Summit.