Animation For Adults: The AFA Podcast

Welcome back to the AFA Podcast Interview series. This time, in celebration of the release of the third 'volume' of Netflix's groundbreaking adult animated anthology Love, Death + Robots, AFA's Evan Vernon spoke with series creator Tim Miller, supervising director Jennifer Yuh Nelson and segment director Alberto Mielgo. We only had a short time to talk to them but still covered some interesting stuff about the show and adult animation as a whole.

Show Notes

Kung Fu Panda

Heavy Metal

The Windshield Wiper

The Witness

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Welcome to the latest edition of The AFA Podcast Interview series. This time Evan Vernon got the chance to sit down (virtually) with Nina Helene Hirten, a multi-hyphenate whose varied career has seen her work as editor, previsualization artist, post-production and more across live-action and animation as well as founding her own studio. Most recently she has been the head editor for the primetime animated series Duncanville. Nina spoke about her love of animation, the story of her career, the difference between animation and live-action and more.

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SHOW NOTES

Previsualization/“Previs” (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Previsualization)

Ridley Scott (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ridley_Scott)

David Silverman (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Silverman_(animator))

Duncanville (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duncanville_(TV_series))

Oh Just Peachy Productions (https://ojpstudios.com/)

Evan Vernon interviews Chani Goodman Winkler & Tali Genshaft, directors of Elephants in Space, featured in Program 69 of our In Competition Films for Season 7 of Animation Nights New York.

About ANNY: Animation Nights New York is a curated monthly screening event and annual festival first established in NYC in 2015. The event showcases animated short films and virtual reality animation experiences from all around the world and both project submission and admission to monthly screenings of in-competition films are free to the general public. If you would like to submit a VR/AR/Game or short film project, you can find Animation Nights New York on Film Freeway.

ANNY Exchange is our talent connect initiative. We connect animation talent to opportunity using our festival as a vehicle.

ANNY Best of Fest is our annual festival held in mid November.

Welcome back to another edition of The AFA Podcast Interview series. This time, AFA US co-editor Evan Vernon spoke with Aiko Fukushima, composer of the original score for the new Netflix series Samurai Rabbit: The Usagi Chronicles). They chatted about Aiko's career and her work on the series and how she came to work on the series.

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SHOW NOTES

Aiko Fukushima

Stan Sakai

Usagi Yojimbo (comic)

Gaumont Animation

Samurai Rabbit: The Usagi Chronicles on Netflix

Nicole Papadopoulos interviews Rachel Fitzgerald, Director of BUBBLES, featured in Program 70 of our In Competition Films for Season 7 of Animation Nights New York.

BUBBLES

A puppet grows tormented at the hands of her manipulator.

Rachel Fitzgerald

Specializing  in 2D animation and direction. Rachel is particularly interested in the  power of the voice on screen, especially voice-over narration and its relationship with an audience.

SHOW NOTES

00:40.000

Animation Nights New York presented “Intertwinings” (Program #70 | Season 7 | In Competition Films)

Program 70

https://www.animationnights.com/screening70/

00:56.000

https://anny.media

VOD Platform

01:41.617

IADT

National Film School in Dublin

https://iadt.ie/

05:29.296

Cell Block Tango

Chicago

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ly3ccyTI-Js

10:20.776

Winner - IndieCork film festival 2019 - Best Emerging Irish Female Director

https://indiecork.com/

11:07.992

Greta Gerwig

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1950086/

12:16.217

Aisling O’Mara

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm7643330/

13:25.272

Royal College of Art

https://www.rca.ac.uk/

Links

https://vimeo.com/rachelmfitzgerald

https://rachel-fitzgerald.com/

Interview by Nicole Papadopoulos

Theme music by Joe Lazenby

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About ANNY: Animation Nights New York is a curated monthly screening event and annual festival first  established in NYC in 2015. The event showcases animated short films and  virtual reality animation experiences from all around the world and  both project submission and admission to monthly screenings of  in-competition films are free to the general public. If you would like  to submit a VR/AR/Game or short film project, you can find Animation  Nights New York on Film Freeway.

ANNY Exchange is our talent connect initiative. We connect animation talent to opportunity using our festival as a vehicle.

ANNY Best of Fest is our annual festival held in mid November.

Welcome back to The AFA Podcast Interview Series. This time we were lucky enough to get to talk to Mr Richard Linklater, the acclaimed director of the new Netflix film Apollo 10 1/2: A Space Age Childhood, as well as Waking Life, School Of Rock, Boyhood and  numerous other acclaimed films. Linklater is one of those rare  filmmakers who is equally comfortable in animation and live action, and Evan Vernon speaks with Richard about how the new film came about.

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SHOW NOTES

SHOW NOTES

Richard Linklater

Apollo 10 1/2: A Space Age Childhood

Waking Life

A Scanner Darkly

Time's 100 Most Influential People

Welcome back to another edition of The AFA Podcast Interview series! Today, continuing our interviews with the filmmakers behind this year's Oscar-nominated short animated films, Evan Vernon spoke with UK animation legend Joanna Quinn and her regular writing and producing partner Les Mills, the duo behind the acclaimed Affairs Of The Art. They discuss how their working partnership first began, their earlier work which includes the multiple award-winning short Girls Night Out and the Charmin commercials, as well as their latest film. It's a really fascinating and in-depth interview with discussions about their process and much more.

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Afairs Of The Art on New York Times Screening Room ( US and Canada only)

Beryl Productions

National Film Board Of Canada

Shorts TV Presents 2022 Oscar Nominated Shorts Theatrical Screenings

British Animation Awards 2022 

Welcome back to another edition of The AFA Podcast Interview series! Continuing our series of interviews with 2022 Oscar-nominated short filmmakers, Evan Vernon sat down (virtually) with Alberto Mielgo, director of The Windshield Wiper.  Before directing this short, Alberto won two Annie Awards and three Primetime Emmy Awards for directing the Love, Death & Robots short The Witness and his work on Tron Uprising. He discusses his very impressive career so far and why he believes that animation is the ultimate art form.

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SHOW NOTES

Alberto Mielgo

Love, Death + Robots

Tron Uprising

Shorts TV Presents 2022 Oscar Nominated Shorts Theatrical Screenings

The Windshield Wiper

Hey there, animation fans and welcome to another brand new instalment of The AFA Podcast Interview series. This time we've got a real treat, the first of our interviews with the filmmakers behind this year's Oscar-nominated shorts! First up, we have British animators Dan Ojari and Mikey Please, who created and directed the Netflix holiday special Robin Robin for Aardman animation.  Evan Vernon chats with Dan and Mikey about their earlier career and how they came to work with their heroes at Aardman! Also, listen out for some very interesting conversation about perceptions of what 'adult'  animation should be. Don't miss it, and don't forget to check out Robin  Robin, it's not just for Christmas!

SHOW NOTES:

Dan Ojari and Mikey Please

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Bonjour mes amis, and welcome back to Le AFA Podcast! This time we join Evan Vernon, Yvonne Grzenkowicz and Kelly Barahona to discuss this year's Animation First French Animation Festival. Held annually by FIAF- French Institute Alliance Française in New York, the festival has celebrated the best in French animation for the past five years.

This year's event was a hybrid event, with both an in-person and an online component. Yvonne is able to talk about her experiences attending FIAF itself, while Evan and Kelly talk about their virtual festival experience. As well as general chat about the festival discussed titled include Last Man Season 2, Summit Of The Gods and The Crossing, the film directed by the festival's guest of honour Florence Miailhe.

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SHOW NOTES

Animation First 2022

Calamity

Long Way North

The Crossing

Florence Miailhe

Last Man