Category: Films

  •   Feature length animated history of poverty reviewed in the Guardian. http://www.guardian.co.uk/tv-and-radio/2012/nov/28/tv-review-poor-us-animated-history

  • Just in time for a last minute christmas present: “For the first time: a chance to see these prize-winning 1983-2007 films collected on DVD and BluRay.” www.junglepictures.com.au

  • Lies – Part 1 – Directed by Jonas Odell from FilmTecknarna on Vimeo. https://vimeo.com/32735700 If you like ‘Never Like the First Time’ you may enjoy this, the first of three first person narratives, from a film which won at Sundance 2009. Review from Short of the Week here.

  • Watch the trailer for a new film by Zagreb and Ottawa award winner Claudio Diaz at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fc4nNopowHE ‘Fraid my Spanish is not up to translating the film’s blogspot page, but you can read a review in English here. The film’s official site here: http://chileimaginario.blogspot.co.uk

  • In April 2010 a massive oil spill began in the Gulf. The entire country was glued to the news until the well was capped, and then we forgot about it.As the year anniversary was approaching I became curious, just how much oil was that exactly? Where would it have gone? What I found was shocking.…

  • As featured in our Dok Leipzig review, here is the trailer for Victor’s film. It was autumn when I arrived in Germany. I thought that in this exotic country I could distance myself a little bit from Mexico, but I was wrong. Drug traffickers managed to take me back in a ruthless way. A short…

  • Check out the trailer and campaign film for this work-in-progress from Mosaic Films, the London production company behind the two ‘Animated Minds’ series. And what a great reason to use animation – revealing the secrets of a country where the cameras just couldn’t go. http://nothingtoenvy.net There’s just a week left to go to donate to…

  • Another from the Vimeo doco-anim channel, specifically chosen as its subject centres on the life and work of being an animator. We do however disagree with the interviewees statement about Caroline Leaf! ‘Two young pencils document four Israeli animation icons. They confront them with questions, film and record every word, story or argument and by…

  • We haven’t posted anything from the Doco-anim channel over at Vimeo in a while, here’s a cute sketchbook style short about people attending La Fete National in Quebec Canada. https://vimeo.com/10239065

  • An article, published yesterday on the BFI site, on the series of films for autism charity Spectrum which we blogged back in August. http://www.bfi.org.uk/news/animating-autism-spectrum-portraits-project