Video from the 2017 UCLA Festival of Preservation Event: “Classic Animated Shorts from Paramount” screening at the Billy Wilder Theater. UCLA Film & Television Archive head of preservation Scott MacQueen, ASIFA-Hollywood president Jerry Beck and executive director Frank Gladstone discuss the animated shorts RAGGEDY ANN AND ANDY, THE RAVEN and DINAH, recently restored with funds provided by ASIFA-Hollywood in collaboration with the Archive. Video […]

If you missed the Annie Awards online streaming, there’s no need to worry. You can now watch the Annie Awards show in it’s entirety on ASIFA-Hollywood’s YouTube channel!

ASIFA-Hollywood became a headlining participant at last month’s San Diego Comic-Con with a panel discussion that included a lively panel on the state of the animation industry. The panel included Rick Farmiloe, Careen Ingel, Camille Kanengiser, Peter Ramsey and Marlon West. The panel included moderator Frank Gladstone, who led a spirited discussion on current trends of animation, as well as […]

2015 proved to be the biggest year of the annual event. In its 13th year, the contest included a record-breaking 525 students participating from 24 schools from around the world! Sponsored by ToonBoom, CSU Summer Arts, Digicel, Focal Press, Wacom, CTN, ASIFA-Hollywood, Stuart Ng Books, Dreamworks, Blue Sky, Laika, Animation Magazine and Film Roman/Starz, the event was kicked off with […]

ASIFA-Hollywood is dedicated to preserving film so that we don’t lose the treasures from the past. To ensure this, we have inaugurated our Animation Preservation Project. Through it, ASIFA-Hollywood will seek out, find, preserve, and restore those cartoon “orphans.” We will endeavor to make animation fans and the general public aware of the need to for preservation. This video is […]

Animation historian and Chair of the USC Animation Program, Tom Sito hosted a series of one-on-one interviews with animation’s movers and shakers back in the 1990s. In this episode, Tom has a lively discussion with Floyd Norman, an American animator, writer, and comic book artist. Over the course of his career, Norman has worked for a number of animation companies, […]

Animation historian and Chair of the USC Animation Program, Tom Sito hosted a series of one-on-one interviews with animation’s movers and shakers back in the 1990s. In this episode, Tom interviews Bill Melendez – a Mexican American character animator, film director, voice artist and producer, known for his cartoons for Walt Disney Productions (working on four Classical Disney films, Pinocchio, […]

This classic animated short called Mariutch was directed by Dave Fleischer, and animated by Grim Natwick and George Cannata. Fleischer Studios, Inc., was an American corporation which originated as an animation studio located at 1600 Broadway, New York City, New York. It was founded in 1921 as Inkwell Studios (or Out of the Inkwell Films) by brothers Max Fleischer and […]

Our Best Wishes for a Wonderful Holiday Season and a Happy and Healthy 2015!            

Back on February 1, 2014, acclaimed visual effects wizard Phil Tippett received the prestigious Winsor McCay Award at the 41st Annual Annie Awards. In this clip, you’ll see some of the best moments from the work he produced in his career, as well as many humorous anecdotes about the film industry. Phil is a movie director and a visual effects […]