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Ottawa International Animation Festival Unveils Seven-Feature Competition Lineup

This year’s OIAF runs September 21-25.

Lei Lei’s New Feature ‘Silver Bird And Rainbow Fish’ Navigates The Personal Side Of Chinese History

A look at how Lei Lei combined his own ancestry with photos picked up at flea markets to tell a timeless story about family.

Asian Shadows Nabs Sales Rights To Lei Lei’s ‘Silver Bird And Rainbow Fish’

The feature from Lei, one of the most notable Chinese indie filmmakers working today, premieres this week at Rotterdam.

Ottawa Animation Festival Announces Competition Selections For 2019 Edition

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

8 Must-See Programs At The Upcoming GLAS Animation Festival in Berkeley

Four days of animation screenings, filmmaker talks, workshops, installations, and parties are coming to Berkeley, California, next month!

Brad Bird and Masaaki Yuasa Confirmed As Guests at GLAS 2017

Berkeley, California is the place to be in early March 2017.

Animated Fragments #26

Animated Fragments is our semi-regular feature of animation tests, experiments, micro-shorts, and other bits of cartoon flotsam that doesn’t fit into other categories. To view the previous 25 installments, go to the Fragments archive.

‘This is Not a Time to Lie’ by Lei Lei

A hallucinatory short that follows a doe-eyed protagonist on a quest through an imagined world, and was created using vintage book covers, a motif that director Lei Lei inherited from his graphic-designer father. “No plots, storyboards, or scripts were involved,” says the director.

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