Interview with Japanese film director Masaaki Yuasa

Last June, during the last days of Annecy Film Festival, we managed to meet one of the most original animation directors we admire from Japan: Masaaki Yuasa. Yuasa-san was competing at Annecy’s official selection with his new, crowdfunded short film: Kick-Heart, a bizarre colorful love story involving wrestling and sadomasochism.

Joaquin Reyes Interview

Does Joaquin Reyes need to be introduced? One of the most ground-breaking comedians of these last years: re-inventor of the pythonian sketch, promoter of Manchegan dialect, impersonator of celebrities... In addition, he's one cartoonist of a kind -his original profession- with a really personal style.

Mercedes Marro Interview

Mercedes Marro is the director of Tomavistas, audiovisual producer specialized in animation series. We’ve talked with her about her success “Lara què fem?”(Ask Lara)-nominated to the Emmy Kids Awards last February-, about projects which are about to appear and about the real situation of Catalan and Spanish animation...

Theodore Ushev Interview

One year ago, I spent the evening of Diwali, the Festival of Lights, at the Instituto Cervantes in New Delhi preparing the presentation of the short feature Ámár. The auditorium is 200 metres from Baghat Singh Market, where the person I loved and on whose memories the film is based had grown up....

The Film of Tomorrow

One year ago, I spent the evening of Diwali, the Festival of Lights, at the Instituto Cervantes in New Delhi preparing the presentation of the short feature Ámár. The auditorium is 200 metres from Baghat Singh Market, where the person I loved and on whose memories the film is based had grown up....

Hanna Heilborn: Animation as a human and real tool

Last 8th February, Swedish documentalist Hanna Heilborn joined us as a guest of honor at Animac's 2013 presentation event, in CCCB (Contemporary Culture Centre of Barcelona).

Suzie Templeton: The fascination of imperfection

The animation narrative is more used to comedy than drama. Perhaps because it is more difficult to empathize with drawings or dolls, to suffer and feel with them, that laugh from the distance...

The Rabbi's Cat:  A triumph of New French Animation

By Alfons Moliné 01/03/2012

Today, while in America feature films made using traditional animation are increasingly “an endangered species”, Europe continues to preserve the time-honoured animated drawing while ready to combine it with other more up-to-date techniques...

The Gruffalo: An instant classic

Sometimes in literature, cinema, comics or other media, what is called an “instant classic” emerges: a work that, as soon as it is released, immediately receives the approval of both critics and audience, and is automatically considered a “classic” worthy of the major works of the past...