A Greyhound of a Girl continues its success with another award at the recent Chicago InternationalChildren’s Film Festival where it won 1st Prize for best animated Feature Film. It has also beennominated for the European Film Awards coming up in December. This adds to the list ofscreenings which include a nomination for Best Animated Feature Film at Cinekid Festival. Thefeature... Read more...
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Animation Community FSTVS Launches Website for Crew Recruitment
Helping studios find crew and crew find careers. With the launch of their new website, FSTVS has become the destination for all your animation recruitment needs. Whether you’re a studio about to crew up or a worker in animation looking for your next job, FSTVS can help you! From starting in London in the early 2000s, the FESTIVUS community has... Read more...
‘Urban Tails’ Season 2 drops awesome beats on RTÉjr
Leading Irish animation studio Pink Kong Studios has today announced that its original preschool series, ‘Urban Tails’, will be launching Season 2 on RTÉjr on 18th December 2023. The series, which first aired in 2019, will be dropping another 26 x 2-minute episodes of awesome musical episodes. The series educates preschool children about the animals that live around urban environments... Read more...
Paper Owl Films has a New Nest
With keys for a new 5000 sq. foot studio in hand this month, Paper Owl looks forward to some quiet time over the holidays after a spell that has seen two beautiful shows ramp up into production and a development slate grow from strength to strength. At the time of writing there are over 90 Paper Owls drawing, designing, animating,... Read more...
National Talent Academies Announce New First Credit Short Film Scheme and The National Talent Academies Short Film Fund
The National Talent Academy Film & Television, together with the National Talent Academy Animation and Fís Eireann/Screen Ireland are delighted to announce two new pilot short film funding initiatives for both live-action and animation projects, which will run from March to December 2024. The First Credit Short Film Scheme and The National Talent Academies (NTA) Short Film Fund. The First... Read more...