Northwest Animation Festival

NW Animation Fest showcases amazing short films from around the world in both Portland and Eugene, Oregon.

The Northwest Animation Festival collects excellent short animated films from around the world for screening at an annual multi-day gathering in Portland, Oregon. Our goal: to create a large local community of impassioned enthusiasts and inspired artists, and an internationally recognized hub of animation culture. In 2007 Portland hosted the single largest animation festival in US history: the Pla

tform International Animation Festival. Screening over 400 films, the event generated much excitement around the country – then frustration when no sequel appeared. Wanting to make good on Platform’s promise, in 2010 animator/activist Sven Bonnichsen founded the Northwest Animation Festival. Organizing NWAF and its spin-off events is now a year-round effort that involves an ever-expanding team of collaborators. Film selection is accomplished by a handpicked, international team of festival alumni, animators and supporting artists. Host venues for the multi-day festival include the Hollywood Theatre in Portland and the Bijou Art Cinemas in Eugene. Special Portland events are produced in cooperation with arts organizations such as ASIFA-Portland, Creative Music Guild, Experimental Film Festival Portland, LAIKA, Oregon Cartoon Institute, Risk/Reward, Pacific Northwest College of Art’s Boundary Crossings program, Seattle Experimental Animation Team and White Box Gallery. The Northwest Animation Festival is part of a long-term strategy to develop the community of animation makers and appreciators, and thereby help the art form itself to evolve. We are an organization run by animators, motivated by a deep love for this challenging medium and the desire to support each other in our creative efforts. We are educators and bridge-builders, seeking to gather all of our local affinity groups, studios and students into one place. We provide an immersive experience that encourages people to become part of our “festival family,” which grows larger and more loyal each year. We inspire fellow artists to keep trying new and daring projects, and welcome the uninitiated to discover the joy of making animation themselves. We aim to present the largest, most astonishing collection of animation in the USA. We showcase the art form’s diversity and help more deserving artists get seen. Using our massive film library, we are working to bring new animation programs to cities across the region. We promote animation as one of the fine arts, and as a uniquely liberating tool for creative expression.

11/04/2019

See the avant-garde of new animation at "GLAS Animation Next." This Friday Nov 8, 7:30pm, at the Hollywood Theatre.

Buy tickets here: https://hollywoodtheatre.org/booking/tickets/1-640348/

Showcasing seven bold new shorts from the newest generation of animators to redefine what's possible in the medium, ANIMATION NEXT takes you on a prismatic journey ranging from subterranean nightmares to sun-soaked coming-of-age stories, each exploring themes relevant to the modern world.

GLAS Presents: Animation Next The best-of-the-best from the groundbreaking annual GLAS Animation Festival in Berkeley, CA. Showcasing seven bold new shorts from the newest generation to r...

10/24/2019

See the best animated shorts of 2019 at "GLAS Animation Next" — at the Hollywood Theatre, Friday Nov 8, 7:30pm.

Get tickets here: https://hollywoodtheatre.org/booking/tickets/1-640348/

Showcasing seven bold new shorts from the newest generation of animators to redefine what’s possible in the medium, ANIMATION NEXT takes you on a prismatic journey ranging from subterranean nightmares to sun-soaked coming-of-age stories, each exploring themes relevant to the modern world.

05/24/2019

The final NW Animation Fest show is tonight! Our 7pm showtime has SOLD OUT — but tickets for 9:30pm are still available. Claim your seat now for the grand finale!

Tickets @ 9:30pm: http://bit.ly/nwaf-farewell-930pm

05/23/2019

The NW Animation Fest Farewell Show is tomorrow! There are two showtimes — and it looks like 7pm will sell out in advance. Get your tickets now, or plan on coming to the 9:30 screening!

Tickets @ 7:00pm: http://bit.ly/nwaf-farewell-7pm
Tickets @ 9:30pm: http://bit.ly/nwaf-farewell-930pm

05/22/2019

The NW Animation Fest Farewell Show is this Friday! See our very best films from the past EIGHT YEARS. (Who here remembers "Operation: Fish" from 2011? 😄)

Tickets @ 7:00pm: http://bit.ly/nwaf-farewell-7pm
Tickets @ 9:30pm: http://bit.ly/nwaf-farewell-930pm

05/21/2019

NW Animation Fest's Farewell Show is this Friday!

Tickets @ 7:00pm: http://bit.ly/nwaf-farewell-7pm
Tickets @ 9:30pm: http://bit.ly/nwaf-farewell-930pm

05/10/2019

NW Animation Fest - Farewell Show! ...Tickets on sale now!

Friday May 24 @ 7pm: http://bit.ly/nwaf-farewell-7pm
@ 9:30pm: http://bit.ly/nwaf-farewell-930pm

OR, purchase a GLAS X Portland weekend pass, which encompasses BOTH the grand finale AND a full weekend of international animation screenings.

3-Day Pass: http://bit.ly/glas-portland-2019

NWAF hand-picked GLAS Animation to take up the mantle of presenting world-class animation at the Hollywood Theatre, so don't miss this epic changing of the guards!

04/05/2019

NW Animation Fest will present its final show on May 24, 2019.

We'll celebrate the end of an era with a spectacular one-night-only farewell screening. See a collection of our most astonishing short films, hand-picked from the festival's eight-year span.

Tickets go on sale later this month — be sure to save the date!

GOODBYE TO NW ANIMATION FEST...

The Northwest Animation Festival set out to find the best short films from around the world, and bring them to audiences in Oregon. It has been a joyous and exhausting adventure, and we walk away proud of what we accomplished.

The festival has been a holiday, like Halloween or Christmas, that superfans looked forward to year-round. It has been a family reunion that brought enthusiasts, creators, and industry all together in one place. We've watched young people grow up, spark with inspiration, and leave for college to become animators themselves.

Since our first event in 2011, NWAF has hosted 150 screenings, which showcased 1142 juried film selections. Behind the scenes, hundreds of animators have helped us choose the exemplary works that best represent this magical art form. The festival has been an enormous labor of love... And it's time to say goodbye.

Thank you, everyone, for sharing the adventure. Please join us on Friday May 24th for one last show: a celebration of the most popular fan favorites from these past eight years.

..HELLO GLAS!

The world of independent animation continues. On the weekend of May 25-26, NWAF and the Hollywood Theatre are pleased to introduce Portland audiences to the GLAS Animation Festival from Berkeley. Brainchild of director Jeanette Bonds, GLAS has quickly become the USA's premiere animation event. Stay tuned for more info, coming soon, about GLAS's first big satellite event in the Pacific Northwest!

03/15/2019

In 2017, The Hollywood Theatre ran a fundraising campaign to save Movie Madness Video and More. NW Animation Fest backed the effort, and sponsored the movie "Fantastic Planet" as one of our favorite discs in the store.

See the strange and amazing "Fantastic Planet" at the Hollywood Theatre this Saturday, 3/16, at 7:30pm. Tickets: https://hollywoodtheatre.org/booking/tickets/1-431426/

A Universe: Films by Laura Heit | NW Film Center

01/09/2019

See Portland animator Laura Heit's collected works at the NW Film Center. Tomorrow night, Thursday Jan 10 @ 7pm.

A Universe: Films by Laura Heit | NW Film Center At the heart of animator, filmmaker, and puppeteer Laura Heit’s creative universe is a yearning to connect to human emotions. Not just through stories, but through images that resonate on a deeper…

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