A must‑watch! THE GIRL WHO CRIED PEARLS, an #NFB stop-motion animated short by #montreal animation duo Chris Lavis and Maciek Szczerbowski - via @variety.com #animatedshort #nfb #NFBanimation via @variety.com variety.com/2026/biz/new...

In @nytopinion.nytimes.com “We must be willing to say that the hedge fund managers have no clothes and their parading about is an unpleasant sight for us all,” Oren Cass writes. “Your daughter has taken a job at Blackstone? My condolences.”

✨ INTERVIEW – ENTREVUE ✨ 📿 The #NFB animated short 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐆𝐢𝐫𝐥 𝐖𝐡𝐨 𝐂𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐝 𝐏𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐥𝐬 by 𝐂𝐡𝐫𝐢𝐬 𝐋𝐚𝐯𝐢𝐬 & 𝐌𝐚𝐜𝐢𝐞𝐤 𝐒𝐳𝐜𝐳𝐞𝐫𝐛𝐨𝐰𝐬𝐤𝐢has been nominated for Best Animated Short Film at the 98th Academy Awards. 🙏 Thank you to Nick Spake @cartooncontender.bsky.social for this interview!

Blender Foundation has announced that Netflix Animation Studios is joining the Blender Development Fund as Corporate Patron. www.animationmagazine.net/2026/01/netf...

In his films, text becomes material: letters blur, scatter, vanish, and take on new life. Japanese animator Ryo Orikasa explains how he transforms literature, poetry, and silence into animated form. www.cartoonbrew.com/animators/ry...

Women in Animation has opened applications for a new online portfolio review program, offering feedback from industry pros to early-career women and nonbinary artists across animation, VFX, and games. The application window is open through Jan 27. www.cartoonbrew.com/artist-right...

Today’s episode of The Ezra Klein Show. Venezuela, Renee Good and Trump’s ‘Assault on Hope’ @mashagessen.bsky.social examines how the President governs through spectacle, and the message his displays of force are meant to send. open.spotify.com/episode/78mi... youtu.be/U6DbiSMi6ik?...

Big news: We’ve partnered with ASIFA-East as the exclusive media partner for the 56th Annual ASIFA-East Animation Festival, one of the oldest in the U.S., where we'll debut the Cartoon Brew Award for Excellence in Filmmaking. www.cartoonbrew.com/awards/asifa...

Please join me in welcoming to the public domain such works as the 1930 Best Picture All Quiet on the Western Front, Faulkner's As I Lay Dying, several Nancy Drew books, some songs you've heard of (Dream a Little Dream of Me; Georgia on My Mind), and more: blog.archive.org/2026/01/01/w...

✨FYC -ANIMATED SHORT FILM ✨ 📿𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐆𝐢𝐫𝐥 𝐖𝐡𝐨 𝐂𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐝 𝐏𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐥𝐬 (#ONF/#NFB) →By allowing room for experimentation and spontaneity, 𝐂𝐡𝐫𝐢𝐬 𝐋𝐚𝐯𝐢𝐬 & 𝐌𝐚𝐜𝐢𝐞𝐤 𝐒𝐳𝐜𝐳𝐞𝐫𝐛𝐨𝐰𝐬𝐤𝐢 discovered that mistakes transformed the creative process. 👀 Français → bit.ly/4p791Wo @echampagne.bsky.social @nfb-jennifer.bsky.social

#NFB EP Christine Noël on #TheGirlWhoCriedPearls and Shaping the Future of #Animation - the executive producer discusses Chris Lavis and Maciek Szczerbowski’s #stopmotion film, her support for diverse creators and efforts to sustain the NFB’s legacy of innovation. bit.ly/48yMXOb #AnimationWorld

Decades ago, Kris Hansen showed 3M that its PFAS chemicals were in people's bodies. Her bosses halted her work. Now she wrestles with the secrets that 3M kept from her and the world. (Published May 2024)

Voici qui est, ma foi, fort amusant : en 1948, soit 40 ans avant l'explosion de l'image de synthèse et 75 ans avant l'IA, on s'inquiétait que l'animation de marionnettes, en raison de sa perfection, pourrait un jour faire disparaître les acteurs en chair et en os... (Parallèle 50, 4 mars 1948, p.5)

Pour célébrer l'Halloween, je vous propose cette pub sociétale de l'ONF, réalisée et interprétée par Grant Munro, sur les dangers du tabac. Rétrospectivement, le propos du film apparait en contradiction avec son objectif, car on apprend ici que la fumée de cigarette élimine les vampires !

Pour prendre la mesure de l'immense talent de Mary Blair, je propose l'ouvrage de John Canemaker qui lui est consacré.

Un texte de 2018 sur Philip K. Dick, assez prémonitoire de #Sora. «The bombardment of pseudo-realities begins to produce inauthentic humans very quickly, spurious humans—as fake as the data pressing at them from all sides [...] inventing fake realities and then peddling them to other fake humans.»

Le 4 octobre 1895, naissance du très grand Buster Keaton. The General, son chef-d’œuvre, est une porte d’entrée vers une œuvre qui mérite d’être aussi estimée que celle de Chaplin.

NEW: ProPublica obtained records from the Department of Agriculture that detail the millions of pounds of food, down to the number of eggs, that never reached food banks because of the Trump administration’s cuts to an aid program.

Corus has halted production at Nelvana, ending a 50-year run that made Canada a global force in animation with classics like 'Care Bears,' 'Babar,' 'Franklin,' and 'The Magic School Bus.' www.cartoonbrew.com/business/cor...

Cet article explique le rôle extraordinaire qu'a joué l'émission Sesame Street pour le soutien à l'animation indépendante et l'émergence de cette dernière. D'ailleurs, au Canada, je sais que Marv Newland a aussi réalisé des vignettes pour Sesame Street.

Once, Sesame Street was a lifeline for indie animators. It offered money and incredible freedom to create. This built an indie animation boom that powered MTV, Nickelodeon and much more. We explore: animationobsessive.substack.com/p/the-golden...

In @nytopinion.nytimes.com “Trump may have a greater impact on the English language than any president in the history of the United States, maybe ever,” writes Adam Aleksic, an American linguist known online as the Etymology Nerd.

NEW: An investigation by ProPublica and @texastribune.org found more than 60 instances of nepotism, self-dealing and conflicts of interest among 27 private schools that likely would have violated state laws had the schools been public. By Lexi Churchill and @emsimani.bsky.social

A NOTE FROM THE FRONT: THIS EPSTEIN WITNESS' AFFIDAVIT IMPLICATES TRUMP BIGLY - IN FACT IT'S THE BIGGEST, BEST... MOST DISGUSTING And it's been known about for nearly 10 years. 🧵 1/12

When ICE agents questioned a group of 11- to 14-year-olds who’d just finished batting practice, their coach, Youman Wilder, stepped in. “I’m willing to die to make sure these kids can get home,” he recounted afterward.

Listen closely as Carl Sagan explains how regular people can create change!

This Osprey is so majestic…. 🥰 And in the bird world this is considered a sick move….

Idées | La CAQ multiplie les «spins», mais il y a des limites au nombre de sapins qu’elle peut nous passer.

Wow, this is cool. Sony Pictures Animation and Imageworks along with Yellowbrick have launched a free educational resource called THIS IS ANIMATION! Find out how to sign up at @beforesmag.bsky.social: beforesandafters.com/2025/05/30/t...

From one of the greatest stop-motion films of all time: A Midsummer Night's Dream (1959), dir. Jiří Trnka, Loutkový Film Praha

TOY STORY!! Excited to reveal a really, really cool ‘Toy Story’ 30th anniversary event is happening at SIGGRAPH this year! Also, we can exclusively reveal there will be some special give-aways and surprises on the day for those who attend the screening. beforesandafters.com/2025/05/11/a...

RFK Jr. says there are no autistic poets, so we interviewed one. Hear from Elizabeth McClellan, @popelizbet.bsky.social, an award-winning poet, attorney, and legal educator based in Memphis, Tennessee.

Cinesite is hiring for Brad Bird’s ‘Ray Gunn,’ which is now in production. The Netflix-bound film is being produced by Skydance Animation.

Since President Donald Trump took office, the Park Service, an agency charged with preserving American history, has changed how its website describes key moments from slavery to Jim Crow.

#HANDSOFF #NYC

Materials on the Arlington National Cemetery website highlighting the graves of Black and female service members have vanished. The cemetery, which is operated by the Army, said it was working to restore the content. Among the obscured pages was material about civil rights.

Sound familiar?

Have you seen the documentary In Bed With an Elephant (1986) from the NFB, hosted by Laxer? www.nfb.ca/film/in_bed_...

10 years ago, Rubio Delivers Senate Floor Speech On The Crisis in Ukraine...

📢Joan Didion, l'autrice qui a démonté le #storytelling politique 🎭📖 Elle y voyait des récits fabriqués, détournant le réel pour servir une classe narrative 🔍Lire Didion, c'est voir clair dans la mise en scène langagière 🙏Merci @christiansalmon.bsky.social www.slate.fr/politique/20... #fiction

It’s insane to think that the Trump administration was more welcoming this week to the Tate brothers than to the President of Ukraine.

INFOMAN A BESOIN DE VOUS Dans une prochaine chronique de Chantal, nous lancerons le programme de désensibilisation à la culture américaine et nous avons besoin de votre contribution. Merci de nous soumettre vos idées DANS CE FORMULAIRE. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

A bounty of classic cartoon and comic characters has entered the public domain this year, including Popeye, Bosko, Tintin, and Horace Horsecollar.

Legault coupe en douce la politique du 1% du budget des bâtiments devant être alloué à l'art dans les lieux. Signez pour aider les artistes touchés par ceci ! www.change.org/p/politique-...

Fiction?