Animated film festival Animist Tallinn is to take place for the first time ever this August. The new festival offers an overview of the best films of recent times, values animation as a form of art, promoting creative thinking and helps to spread animations, ERR s culture portal reports.
The epicenter of the festival is the Estonian Academy of Arts (EKA) in Tallinn, where the film showings, workshops, lectures and meetings with authors will take place. There is a significant history of animation, permanent national production support, several operating studios and international animation training [in Estonia] but, unfortunately, we haven t had a festival dedicated to animated films up to now, artistic director of the festival, Priit Tender, said.