“Cracked”, an animated short by filmmaker Jessica Rizk, will make its North America Premiere at the Dances With Films: New ...

Snow Bear is a beautifully crafted hand-drawn animated short from Oscar-nominated director Aaron Blaise , and it tells a simple but emotional story about loneliness, rejection, and unexpected ...

In 1908, Émile Cohl released the short film Fantasmagorie, widely regarded as the world's first animated cartoon. From these humble beginnings, cartoons blew up into detailed theatre shorts by the ...

"There will come soft rains & the smell of the ground, and swallows circling with their shimmering sound." An eerie, ominous ...

Directors often workshop their films in several, constantly evolving formats. Years before becoming the youngest Best Director winner at the 2017 Academy Awards, Damien Chazelle was a young filmmaker ...

In 1908, Émile Cohl's short film Fantasmagorie became the world's first animated cartoon. Before this groundbreaking achievement, stop-motion techniques were used to bring inanimate objects to life.

Welcome to Cartoon Brew’s series of spotlights focusing on the animated shorts that have qualified for the 2026 Oscars. The films in this series have qualified through one of multiple routes: by ...

The idea that animation is just for kids is thankfully behind us, and more and more audiences around the globe are fully embracing it. Of course, that includes LGBTQ+ fans. While there aren't a ton of ...