Rebecca is a freelance writer from NSW, Australia. She is a film and television list writer for Collider. Rebecca also has an interest in music, and hopes to one day begin the Church of Michael ...

Animated feature films are incredibly complex. They require hundreds of people working for multiple years to produce. At any time significant story changes could be made that could require throwing ...

After decades of struggling to find a home outside of rare traveling anthology shows, animated shorts have found a new home on streaming services like with increasing prominence on Netflix and YouTube ...

This is an image from the official press website for South by Southwest 2025’s Animated Short Program. Short films are given a bad rep. They often have no published IMDb ratings, giving viewers no way ...

Last week, the Avon Cinema screened the 92nd Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film nominees in anticipation of the awards show. Out of the 92 short films that qualified for Oscar consideration, ...

"We promise: loud stories, exceptional craft." Great pitch. This amusing short film is a clever promo for an animation studio called Panic, based out of Riga, Latvia, though they're taking on creative ...

Two-time Academy Award nominee and Sundance grand jury prize winner Don Hertzfeldt has long been recognized as one of the most influential voices in independent animation. His iconic early-internet ...

Growing up, Don Hertzfeldt first fell in love with animation while attending screenings at the Palace of Fine Arts in San Francisco. Every year in the '90s, the venue held an annual animation festival ...