This Week at ASIFA . . .
53RD ANNIE AWARDS / INVISIONS (MONUMENT) / GABBY'S DOLLHOUSE: THE MOVIE / 100 METERS / AEF ANIMATION SALON / INFINITY FESTIVAL / ADVENTURES IN ANIMATION / LOS ANGELES ANIMATION FESTIVAL / 24 HOURS ANIMATION CONTEST FOR STUDENTS / VIEW CONFERENCE / SHORT FILM OF THE MONTH: NO VACANCY / UPCOMING EVENTS |
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53RD ANNIE AWARDS SEASON CONTINUES! |
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53rd Annies Call for Judges |
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Individuals in the animation community interested in serving as a nomination committee judge can find the application at https://members.asifa-hollywood.org/judges/apply. Applicants must have an established career in animation and exemplary professional credentials in at least one of the Annie Award categories.
Annie Judge candidates do not have to be members of ASIFA-Hollywood, but, whether having applied in the past or are applying for the first time, need to submit an application. An application does not guarantee a committee position, but if you are selected, you will spend a few hours in December reviewing your committee’s submissions online and then meeting for the final nominee selection. Meetings can be done online, so judges from outside of LA are welcome.
The 53rd Annie Judge Application deadline
is Monday, October 13th, 2025 |
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53rd Annies Submissions for Juried Awards |
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Juried Awards honoring unparalleled achievement and exceptional contributions to animation. Categories include our highest honor, the Winsor McCay Award in recognition of lifetime or career contributions, the philanthropic June Foray Award for benevolent influence, the Ub Iwerks Award for technical advancement, and the Special Achievement Award for unique accomplishment not recognized within the existing award category structure.
To enter a nomination for any of these awards, please visit the Annie Juried Award Submission Form.
The Juried Award nomination submission deadline is
Monday, October 13th, 2025 |
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Announcing the 53rd Annual ‘CALL FOR ENTRIES’
List of Deadlines (Earlier Submissions Cost Less!)
Standard Deadline: October 13th, 2025
Final Deadline: November 9th, 2025
ASIFA-Hollywood has posted the 53rd Annie Awards Call for Entries! For submission rules and information, please visit https://annieawards.org/rules-and-categories. The deadline to submit projects for consideration is Sunday, November 9th, 2025, by 5 pm PST.
Honoring excellence in the field of animation, the 53rd Annie Awards™ covers 37 categories, including Animated Feature, Animated Feature-Independent, TV/Media Production, Sponsored Production, Short Subject, and Student Films, along with Achievement and Honorary awards.
Production and Achievement submissions will be from animated productions that were released in the United States between January 1 and December 31, 2025.
Details regarding Annie rules and dates can be found at the Annie Award™ website, https://annieawards.org. |
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ASIFA-Hollywood's Annual Membership Drive |
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ASIFA-Hollywood's Annual Membership Drive has officially started! The deadline to join ASIFA-Hollywood or to renew professional-level memberships and register to participate in the 53rd Annie Award™ voting is midnight Friday, January 26th, 2026.
For details on ASIFA-Hollywood memberships, please visit www.asifa-hollywood.org/membership. Now may be the best time to enroll, renew, or upgrade to an ASIFA-Hollywood professional or patron-level membership and, if you have not already done so, submit your Annie voter application to participate in the 53rd Annie Award™ voting process. (If you have already been approved to vote in the past, you do not need to apply again.) |
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Director Shunsaku Hayashi invites ASIFA-Hollywood Members to a Virtual Screening of invisions (monument) |
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Rated G, Runtime: 74 Minutes
The film begins with an absurd scene: a sunrise viewed through a wire fence. As sunlight filters through the barrier, the sun appears fragmented, transforming from a singular entity into multiple forms. As the sequences progress, the point of view shifts between subjects, with each perspective rooted in a different place and time zone. The memories carried within bodies drive their transformation into new entities. The story unfolds by linking these individual memories— etched in the body-with touches of violence and the traces left behind in the wake of oblivion.
The screener window ends October 15th, 2025 by 11:59pm PT
TO BECOME A MEMBER AND VIEW THIS SCREENER,
EMAIL IN...@ASIFA-HOLLYWOOD.ORG |
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DreamWorks Animation and Universal Pictures invite ASIFA-Hollywood Members (+3 Guests) to an In-Person Screening of Gabby's Dollhouse: The Movie |
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Rated G, Runtime: 98 Minutes
Please join us for a screening of GABBY’S DOLLHOUSE: THE MOVIE. In the new film, Gabby (Laila Lockhart Kraner, reprising her role from the series) heads out on a road trip with her Grandma Gigi (four-time Grammy Award winner Gloria Estefan) to the urban wonderland of Cat Francisco. But when Gabby’s dollhouse, her most prized possession, ends up in the hands of an eccentric cat lady named Vera (Oscar® nominee Kristen Wiig), Gabby sets off on an adventure through the real world to get the Gabby Cats back together and save the dollhouse before it’s too late.
Saturday, September 27 at 11am LOS ANGELES, CA
RSVP Deadline: September 26th, 2025 by 5pm PST
CLICK HERE TO WATCH THE TRAILER
TO BECOME A MEMBER AND RSVP, EMAIL IN...@ASIFA-HOLLYWOOD.ORG |
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GKIDS Invites ASIFA-Hollywood Members (+ 1 Guest) to a Screening and Q&A of 100 Meters |
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GKIDS proudly invites ASIFA-Hollywood to screen “100 METERS,” from Director Kenji Iwaisawa (On-Gaku: OUR SOUND) based on the manga by Uoto. An Annecy 2025 official selection, the film is a high-octane story about brotherhood and pushing yourself to the limit using the unique rotoscoping animation technique.
100 METERS follows Togashi, a track star who is born to run. As a kid, he is naturally gifted and wins every 100-meter race without effort. But in sixth grade, he meets Komiya, a transfer student who is full of determination but lacks technique. In teaching him, Togashi gives Komiya a new purpose: to win no matter what. Years pass by, and Togashi and Komiya meet again as rivals on the track and reveal their true selves.
October 6th, 2025 at 7PM PT
LOS ANGELES, CA
RSVP DEADLINE: October 3rd, 2025 by 3PM PT
TO BECOME A MEMBER AND RSVP, EMAIL IN...@ASIFA-HOLLYWOOD.ORG
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AEF ANIMATION SALON:
Visual Language for Animation in the Age of Emojis,GIFs and AI |
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ASIFA-Hollywood's Animation Educators Forum will host its ninth salon event – Visual Language for Animation in the Age of Emojis, GIFs, and AI with animation educators Kathy Baur and Caroline Hu from CSU Fullerton on Sunday, October 12, 2025, at 11am PST on Zoom.
Caroline will present some of the concepts from her newly published book, Mastering Character Design: Design with Intent and Purpose. Kathy will debut her three-minute film, Romeo and Juliet, A Parody in Silhouette, and discuss how she applied these concepts while creating the short.
In addition to many years of teaching animation at the university level, both Caroline and Kathy have extensive industry experience. Hu worked as a character designer on projects such as Walt Disney's The Lion King and Warner Bros.Osmosis Jones. Baur worked as a color designer on Netflix’s Green Eggs and Ham and as a checking supervisor on Space Jam: A New Legacy. |
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Now in its eighth year, Infinity Festival Hollywood remains the original Entertainment x Tech showcase! Join industry leaders Oct 9–10 at the Academy Museum & Sony Imageworks Miracle Mile Campus.
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Triple-Oscar-winning, world-renowned animator Richard Williams’s legendary career in the world of animation is brought to the page for the first time.
Written with his wife and collaborator, Imogen Sutton, Adventures in Animation follows the life of this pivotal figure in animated features. Williams’ place in animation history is assured: he directed the Academy Award-winning 1971 adaptation of A Christmas Carol and worked as Director of Animation on Who Framed Roger Rabbit, for which he won two Academy Awards.
Williams’ first book, The Animator’s Survival Kit, saw him pass on his hard-won craft to future generations of animators. In Adventures in Animation, the story of the man behind the images will inspire them all over again.
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LOS ANGELES ANIMATION FESTIVAL |
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The entry deadlines are approaching for this year's Los Angeles Animation Festival (LAAF), which unspools December 6th and 7th at the Eastwood Performing Art Center in Hollywood,.
The regular entry deadline is September 26, but submissions are accepted until November 7th for a few dollars more. Submissions, fees, categories, and rules can be found on https://filmfreeway.com/LAAF. |
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24 HOURS ANIMATION CONTEST FOR STUDENTS |
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24 HOURS Animation Contest for Students returns on October 3rd, 2025 at 3pm PDT and ends on October 4th, 2025 at 4pm PDT.
The 24 HOURS Animation Contest for Students is a FREE international event where students compete in teams of 5 to create a mind-blowing 30-second animated film in just 24 hours. That’s right – ONE DAY to go from concept to finished film! Here’s the kicker: You won’t know the theme until the contest starts. No prep work allowed. Just pure, adrenaline-fueled creativity under pressure.
Join thousands of animation students worldwide in the most intense, exhilarating 24-hour creative animation marathon on the planet!
To register your team, visit www.24hourscontest.com/registration
To learn more about the contest, visit www.24hourscontest.com |
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Meet award-winning filmmakers, animators, artists and game designers from “KPop Demon Hunters,” “The Cat in the Hat,” “The Bad Guys 2,” “Elio,” “The Fantastic Four: First Steps,” “F1: The Movie” and more. Our extensive program embraces cutting-edge thinking in Storytelling, Virtual Production, Computer Graphics, Interactive & Immersive Media, VR/AR/Mixed Reality, Real-Time Rendering and much more. Be inspired, share ideas, and connect with creators pushing the boundaries of art and technology at https://www.viewconference.it.
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SHORT FILM OF THE MONTH: NO VACANCY |
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Rated G
"This short stems from the idea of trying to represent how thought works and unfolds, not what we think, but how our minds shift and flow from one thought to another. I’ve always been curious about how similar, or different, our streams of consciousness might be, and in making this film I attempt to represent my own. No Vacancy uses a memory-inspired structure that makes it less about independent events and more about how recurring snippets of memory come together to form a single emotional whole. I’m hoping the viewer might find a connection by seeing their own similarities to the way the film portrays the inner workings of the mind."
- Director Miguel Rodrick
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COMING SOON
LITTLE AMELIE OR THE CHARACTER OF RAIN
SCARLET
BOYS GO TO JUPITER
ZOOTOPIA 2
LOST IN STARLIGHT
IN YOUR DREAMS
THE TWITS
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