This Week at ASIFA . . .
ANIME EXPO 2026: BREAKING INTO ANIME & ANIMATION / SHORT FILM OF THE MONTH: THE BOOT / AMPLIFYING VOICE: ERIKA SALAZAR /
AEF STUDENT SCHOLARSHIP / UPCOMING EVENTS |
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Anime Expo 2026 & ASIFA-Hollywood Present Breaking Into Anime & Animation:
How Studios Find and Hire Talent Panel |
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Want to work in anime or animation? Industry insiders reveal how studios discover, recruit, and hire new talent. Producers, executives, and creative leaders discuss what anime and animation studios look for and how artists, writers, animators, and creators can break in. Panelists will include Mitsuhisa Ishikawa (Chairperson of Production I.G), Maki Terashima-Furuta (Production IG USA President), Frank Gladstone (President, ASIFA-Hollywood), Stephanie Sheh (Writer, Producer, Voice Actor), and Michael Sinterniklaas (Producer, Voice Director). This panel will be moderated by Charles Solomon (Animation Historian, Author, and Film Critic).
Saturday, July 4th 2026, 4:15pm-5:05pm
Anime Expo 2026, Location 409AB
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| SHORT FILM OF THE MONTH: THE BOOT |
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Rated PG Iran nurtured me as an artist and gave me the voice to express my deepest, wordless emotions through animation. Yet the same country branded me a traitor simply because I succeeded independently on the international stage, as a Student Academy Awards Finalist.
The Boot is rooted in this painful, unresolved contradiction: the eternal struggle between staying and leaving, between love for my homeland and being rejected by it. A contradiction that, ironically, grows even stronger with time. An intimate visual journey through one artist’s inner exile. |
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To view this screener, please visit https://www.asifa-hollywood.org/membership to become a member and receive screener details. Please note that membership must be activated at least one week in order to receive the screener information.
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ASIFA-Hollywood's Animation Educators Forum (AEF) is pleased to announce that this year's Student Scholarship program is now open!
This is an international opportunity designed to help students complete their education in accredited college-level animation programs. Applications are accepted from undergraduate students entering the sophomore year or higher and from graduate students working toward degree completion.
The awards of up to $5,000 USD may be applied to tuition, books and supplies, animation equipment (including computer hardware or software), formal academic research (including travel), and senior or graduate thesis work.
Submissions are now open and close at 11:59 PM PDT on August 1st, 2026. To apply, go to http://scholarships.animationeducatorsforum.org
For specific questions, please contact us by email at: [email protected] |
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| AMPLIFYING VOICES INTRODUCES ERIKA SALAZAR |
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As a recent CalArts graduate in the Character Animation program, I focus on everything storytelling; I am a storyboarder, character designer, independent creator, and filmmaker. Exploring fantasy and sci-fi worlds from my point of view is my thing. I was born in Mexico City, so I feel I have a very unique point of view of the world.
Celebrating sensible, kind-hearted characters overcoming the adversities of life is what I do best. I'm excited about creating new worlds and characters inspired by underrepresented people I grew up with, especially Hispanic women and their surroundings. |
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