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ASIFA-Hollywood’s Annie Awards are the highest accolade in animation, celebrating excellence in the art form since 1972. This year, in an amazing achievement for Denmark, Fleng Entertainment and Tumblehead Productions's The Swineherd has been nominated for the Best Short Subject Annie Award. The Swineherd is a
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The Ekko Shortlist Awards are back, celebrating the best short films to have graced Denmark’s unique interactive streaming platform over the past year. The event, now in its 11th edition, is one of the most significant showcases of Danish filmmaking talent, providing a springboard for both emerging creators and
Festivals
Fredrikstad Animation Festival dates back to 1994, and has become one of the leading animation festivals in the region. It boasts a celebrated Nordic-Baltic film competition, a host of important speakers and industry events, and is a European Animation Awards-qualifying festival. This year, Fredrikstad Animation Festival has a
Profiles
VAF Guest Artist Total Refusal Changes the Narrative of Mainstream Games This year’s VAF guest artist is the Austrian art collective Total Refusal. Total Refusal upcycles video games into an art medium, using them as a lens to analyze underlying assumptions about how we live and work. Founded in
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Saturday night was a big night for animation at the annual Oscar-qualifying Odense International Film Festival. Besides the two animation awards, specifically awarded to animation, animation also took home the main prize at the festival, the H. C. Andersen Award, awarded to the best short film in the international
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Thank you to the Academy! Jonas Poher Rasmussen and Flee didn’t win the Academy Awards, but he and the film won our hearts. Here’s the acceptance speech we had all hoped to hear from the stage on March 27th 2022. Many people from the Danish animation and documentary
Industry
The incredible success of Danish Animation 2021 was a banner year for Danish animation at home and abroad, proving yet again the incredible cultural and economic impact of Denmark’s animation industry. The Covid crisis of the past two years has affected every part of society, not least the creation