Today, WIA announced the five teams selected for the 2025 cohort for Stories x Women, a program aimed at increasing the diversity of voices in animation globally. Stories x Women’s concrete goal is to support access to international opportunities for women animators from emerging national film and audio-visual animation communities of Africa, Asia-Pacific, and Latin […]
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WIA recently announced the 55 global recipients — the largest group of award recipients to date — of the WIA Scholarship fund. The WIA Scholarship Program is an annual award committed to furthering deserving students who demonstrate artistic talent, a passion for animation, a financial need, and a promising future in animation, VFX, or gaming.
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WIA is seeking to commission our next featured artist for the 9th Annual WIA World Summit at Annecy. As part of our ongoing commitment to spotlighting diverse artistic voices, we are looking for an artist from Hungary to create the official summit artwork, representing Hungary as the featured country of the Annecy International Animation Film
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Remembering Fumi Kitahara The gender justice organization establishes the Fumi Kitahara Membership and Scholarship Fund to honor the long-time chair. LOS ANGELES, California — WIA leadership and staff are deeply saddened to announce the passing of our beloved friend, colleague, and longtime board member, Fumi Kitahara. She was a premier publicist, renowned awards consultant, passionate
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In its first three years, more than 300 creatives from 30 emerging markets applied to the program WIA is excited to announce that applications for the 2025 Stories x Women program are open. Now in its fourth year, Stories x Women is dedicated to increasing the diversity of voices in animation on a global scale. This
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For the first time in history, the California Legislature has officially recognized the animation industry for its incredible contributions to the state of California through Assembly Concurrent Resolution 227. Introduced by Assembly member Greg Wallis (R-CA), this groundbreaking resolution highlights the enormous impact animation has had and continues to have on the Golden State. It
Dear Friends, It’s a tough time right now in animation. We saw drastic cuts in projects from all the major streamers long before the Writers and Actors went on strike. Productions were abruptly ended, even when they were nearly or completely finished. Whole animation divisions were eradicated. I’ve heard estimations that 30% of the animation
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Re-Post Of Article From Stage32.com By Brian Smith We had two buildings when I started working at Walt Disney Feature Animation in 1999. There was the Northside building up near the Burbank Airport and the Southside building across the street from the lot off the 134 Freeway. It’s commonly referred to as the “Hat Building”
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