Animation For Adults: The AFA Podcast

Evan Vernon interviews Studio Plonter, directors of HOMESICK. Hila Einy, Yoav Aluf and Noy Bar, graduates of Bezalel 2018, were born and raised in Israel. During their studies, Yoav specialized in Stop-motion and Hila and Noy specialized in 2d animation technique. The film "HOMESICK" is their graduation film they created as part of their animation studies at Bezalel Academy of Art and Design. HOMESICK was recently selected as a Winner in the Animation Nights New York 5th ANNY Best of Fest in 2021.

 HOMESICK

A crisis in a young woman's life forces her to return to her parents' home. Her reappearance shakes the delicate balance in the family nest.

Studio Plonter

Studio Plonter is a creative collaboration that specializes in animation, motion graphics, and magic tricks! We will take any idea, complex or abstract, and will turn it into an accessible, interesting, and magical story. In our studio, we believe that animation must be fun so we take our job very seriously. We will write, direct and produce your idea into the best and most beautiful story, allowing it to reach anyone around the world and leave an unforgettable impact.

https://www.plonteranimation.com/

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.

Evan Vernon interviews Daria Kashcheeva, director of DAUGHTER. Daria studies animated film at FAMU in Prague. Her student films were featured at many international festivals. Daria’s original To Accept won the Nespresso Talents 2017 film competition in Cannes.

Her Bachelor’s puppet animation Daughter received a Cristal at Annecy Animation Film Festival 2019. DAUGHTER was recently selected as a Winner in the Animation Nights New York 5th ANNY Best of Fest in 2021.

Social Media Links

https://www.instagram.com/dariaka_sh/?hl=en (Instagram)

https://www.facebook.com/dariakashcheeva/ (Facebook)

Interview by Evan Vernon

Theme music by Joe Lazenby

You can subscribe to The AFA Podcast on iTunes, Acast, and Stitcher.

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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.

The AFA Podcast is back with our first regular episode for 2022. And what a way to kick off another year of episodes than by taking a deep dive into Mamoru Hosoda's newest feature film   Belle? Rachael, Dan and Chris briefly discuss their personal perspectives on Hosoda's career before getting stuck into his latest opus. It starts off with spoiler-free thoughts, but if you haven't seen the film yet beware as things get more in-depth and spoiler-filled from 43 minutes in...   you have been warned!

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The Making Of Belle: The Costumes Of Belle

Welcome back to another edition of The AFA Podcast Interview series. This time, our man Evan Vernon chats with Stuart Forrest, the co-founder and CEO of Triggerfish, the award-winning animation studio based in Capetown, South Africa. They speak about the story behind the studio's latest feature Seal Team, now streaming on Netflix, as well as Stuart's own career path. They also discuss Triggerfish's own story, including how they came to work on Sesame Street and the burgeoning Pan-African animation industry and their upcoming project Kizazi Moto with Disney.

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Evan Vernon interviews Noah Mauchly, director of MOUSE. Noah Mauchly is a US-born animator and filmmaker whose work spans a range of human subjects (often represented by odd looking animals) and methods of traditional animation. His first film MOUSE was completed in 2021. MOUSE was recently selected as a Winner in the Animation Nights New York 5th ANNY Best of Fest in 2021.

MOUSE

A shy Mouse's simple life is thrown for a loop at the arrival of an unexpected and horrifying visitor.

Interview by Evan Vernon

Theme music by Joe Lazenby

You can subscribe to The AFA Podcast on iTunes, Acast, and Stitcher.

Join ANNY  on our Discord Server!

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.

Evan Vernon interviews Matisse Gonzalez, director of Gravedad.  Matisse Gonzalez Jordán is a Bolivian animator, illustrator and  director who graduated in 2019 from the Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg.  Her graduation Film "Gravedad" has been shown in several international  Animation Festivals, won multiple awards and was nominated for the Annie  Awards 2020. Matisse’s shorts explore deep emotions and feelings,  expressing them in tangible ways. Coming from Bolivia and living in  Germany, she connects the best of both worlds creating chaotic, yet  structured; tragic, yet funny; outgoing, yet intimate films. Matisse  recently developed a pilot episode for Cartoon Network Latinoamérica as  part of the Girl Power program for Pixelatl while also working on her  new film as part of ASF (animation sans frontières). Gravedad was  recently selected as a Winner in the Animation Nights New York 5th ANNY Best of Fest in 2021.

Social Media Links

https://vimeo.com/vendofruta (Vimeo)

https://www.matisse-gonzalez.com/ (Personal Website)

https://www.linkedin.com/in/matisse-gonzalez-jordan-6ab670189/ (Matisse)

Interview by Evan Vernon

Theme music by Joe Lazenby

You can subscribe to The AFA Podcast on iTunes, Acast, and Stitcher.

Join ANNY  on our Discord Server!

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 to a very special episode of The AFA Podcast Interview series and our first episode of 2022. To celebrate the release of adult black-comedy stop-motion anthology The House arriving on Netflix, Evan Vernon sat down (virtually) with three of the film's directors, Marc Roels, Paloma Baeza and Niki Lindroth von Bahr (Marc's co-director Emma De Swaef was unable to make it)

First,  Evan spoke with Marc about his career path into animation, how he came to form a working partnership with Emma and the story behind how The  House came to be. In The second section, (from 18:45 aprox) Evan spoke with Paloma and Niki, discussing their own animation origin stories and discuss their contributions to the House.

If you enjoy the show, why not leave us a review? It can really help others discover the show. If you have any ideas for future shows, questions for us to answer or any other enquiries, feel free to email us here. GET EPISODES EARLY AND AD-FREE BY BECOMING A  PATRON or make a donation to help run the site and the show.

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Evan Vernon interviews Kilian Vilim, director of OOZE. Kilan was born in Verscio, Switzerland. He received a Bachelor of Animation from Hochschule Luzern - Design & Kunst, Switzerland in 2017. OOZE was recently selected as a Winner in the Animation Nights New York 5th ANNY Best of Fest in 2021.

OOZE

In his everyday life, an elevator boy is confronted with the loneliness and the "up and down" of his service. When he tries to attract the attention of his guests, he makes a very different, gloomy encounter with himself.

Social Media Links

https://vimeo.com/kilianvilim (Vimeo)

https://www.instagram.com/kilianvilim/?hl=de (Instagram)

Interview by Evan Vernon

Theme music by Joe Lazenby

You can subscribe to The AFA Podcast on iTunes, Acast, and Stitcher.

Join ANNY  on our Discord Server!

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.

Evan Vernon interviews Jie Weng, director of THE PEONY PAVILION. Jie Weng was born in an artistic family. Influenced by his father, an oil painter, he started to learn drawing from a very young age. He majored in sculpting in college, but he always felt that it was not something he meant to do.

During his exchange study in the United States, Jie met Dan Krall, who did the character design for Coraline by Henry Selick, and found his true passion: stop motion. After that, he taught himself animation, produced two stop motion shorts, and founded his own stop motion studio: Realwood Stop Motion Studio.

Realwood Stop Motion Studio has grown to be one of the best stop motion studios in China. Directed by Jie, the team have completed several animated shorts and won numerous awards from all over the world. THE PEONY PAVILION was recently selected as a Winner in the Animation Nights New York 5th ANNY Best of Fest in 2021.

THE PEONY PAVILION

"A Stroll in the Garden and an Interrupted Dream" is a scene from "The Peony Pavilion", a romantic tragicomedy play written by Chinese playwright Tang Xianzu during the Ming Dynasty. It depicts a love story, which takes place during the dream of Du Liniang, the heroine, and vacillates between the legend and the reality. The unique dream of Du Liniang that has been transmitted over 600 years now comes to you in the form of stop-motion animation with its subtle emotion revealed more vividly in the haunting tune and lingering sentiments of Kunqu Opera. We try to rejuvenate the long-lasting love story with the special charm of stop-motion animation. On the table-sized stage, you will see the joint dancing of Du Liniang and Flower Goddesses, and the lively and joyful performance of the judge from a netherworld and his ghosts. Entering into the dream along with Du Liniang, we, in our turn, question ourselves on the meaning of real life, and pursuit of eternal freedom and romantic love.

Interview by Evan Vernon

Theme music by Joe Lazenby

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Evan Vernon interviews Jacky de Groen, director of SPERMACETI. Jacky De Groen (1992) is an animation artist based in Ghent, Belgium. His colorfully painted and atmospheric films DIEPERIK (2013) and ECLIPSE (2014) have been shown at film festivals internationally.

After graduating from KASK |School of Arts in 2014, he worked at animation studio Film Bilder in Stuttgart for some time. In 2016 he was invited as Animation Artist in Residence in Tokyo by JAPIC. SPERMACETI (2018) is Jacky's first professional film. SPERMACETI was recently selected as a Winner in the Animation Nights New York 5th ANNY Best of Fest in 2021.

SPERMACETI

Sailors kill time under a blistering sun, awaiting a sign of their prey. A young mind turns inwards as it traces the wood grain. After bloodshed, a strong arm offers a moment of shelter. A boy gets his first tattoo.

Spermaceti evokes the transitional space-time of a young man who finds himself on the threshold of an initiation. As we fluctuate between the underwater and the above, boundaries become slippery.

Trailer: https://vimeo.com/297724853

social Media Links

https://www.jackydegroen.xyz/ (Personal Website)

https://www.instagram.com/jacky.degroen/ (Instagram)

Interview by Evan Vernon

Theme music by Joe Lazenby

You can subscribe to The AFA Podcast on iTunes, Acast, and Stitcher.

Join ANNY  on our Discord Server!

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.