2024 AEF Faculty Grants Recipients Announced

BURBANK, CALIF. (September 5, 2024) — ASIFA-Hollywood recently announced its Animation Educators Forum (AEF) 2024 Faculty Grant recipients. The following six recipients received a total of $19,897:

• • Kevin Cooley, Ringling College of Art and Design, $1500 for an archival visit to the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ Margaret Herrick Library for his book project, Off-Model: Visions of Persistence in Queer Animation.
  • Elham Doust, University of Texas at Dallas, $4966 for production and copyright for her 2D short film, The Rabbit Story and Tomato.
  • Sam Gurry, USC, NYU-LA and Cal State Los Angeles, $2905 for production on “Reclaimed Reveries,” AI film and installation focusing on Lesbian representation.
  • M. Javad Khajavi, Volda University College, $5000 for companion website for the forthcoming book, Animating in the Age of Spatial Computing, AI, and Metaverses: Immersive Animation-making inside Virtual Reality (CRC Press).
  • Jacqueline Ristola, University of Bristol, $526 for a licensing fee of Abbey Bennett’s In Between comic for a forthcoming book chapter on queer animation in the third volume of The Encyclopedia of Animation Studies ( Bloomsbury Press).
  • Lynn Tomlinson, Towson University, $5000 for production and screening of a large-scale, panoramic, hemispheric (fulldome) expanded animation artwork, Firmamentality: Cyclical Stories in Shared Immersive Animation.

ASIFA-Hollywood is the world’s first and foremost professional organization dedicated to promoting the Art of Animation and celebrating the people who create it. Today, ASIFA-Hollywood, the largest chapter of the international organization ASIFA, supports a wide range of animation activities and preservation efforts through its membership. Current initiatives include the Animation Archive, Animation Aid Foundation, animated film preservation, open source software support, special events, classes, and screenings.