Animation For Adults: The AFA Podcast

Yvonne Grzenkowicz and Kelly Barahona sit down to chat about the FIAF: Animation First Festival 2023. Full show notes at https://www.animationforadults.com/search/label/Podcast?&max-results=10

Welcome back to The AFA Podcast with our first episode of 2023. And for our first show of the new year Chris and Dan talk everything awards season. They take a detailed look at the nominees for this year's Annie Awards as well as the animation categories at The Oscars and The BAFTAs. Then it's time for a look further ahead as they take a look at what exciting animated films are going to be release...

Well, hello there! Can you believe The AFA Podcast is five years old this summer? We decided we needed to do something pretty special to mark this occasion. And what better way than by talking about one of our favourite films released in this podcast's lifetime (but somehow didn't managed to do a full episode on yet)? We were able to get the full original crew (as heard on the first episode) for t...

Evan Vernon interviews Jinkyu Jeon , directors of The House of Loss , featured in Program 72 of our In Competition Films for Season 7 of Animation Nights New York. THE HOUSE OF LOSS The elderly at the nursing home have their heads shaved. The protagonist who works there sees them but can't read their expressions. However, from one instance, he finds himself looking closely at their faces. Jinkyu J...

Excuse the delay but The AFA Podcast is finally back! In this watercooler focussed episode Rachael and Dan catch up and discuss Sonic The Hedgehog 2, Turning Red, Spy X Family and more.

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 s...

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...

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 expe...

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. If you enjoy the show, why not leave us a review or a 5 star rati...

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...

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 actio...

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 s poke 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 fi...

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 Witnes...

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 Verno...

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-pe...

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. HOME...

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 Wi...

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 Triggerfi...

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 s...

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 sho...

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 Baez a and Niki Lindroth von Bahr (Marc's co-director Emma De Swaef was unable to make it) First,  Evan sp...

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...

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 Cor...

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 w...

Evan Vernon interviews Nelly Michenaud , director of ALMOST THERE . Nelly Michenaud is a French animator based in London. After graduating from Central Saint Martin, she went to the NFTS for an MA in Directing Animation. The world of Nelly intends to surprise and question. She finds inspiration in daily life, remarkable or not, to transform them with humour and thus emphasise the absurdity of life...