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Sea Slug Animation Festival
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Your Pacific Northwest hub for independent animation.
💢Furious Edition—Feb 27-28, 2026💢
Submissions now open.
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We’re revving up for the Furious Edition… and ready to drop the Opening Night program!

🍪 Opening Night 🍪
Rita & Endless Cookie
February 27 | 7:00PM | SIFF Cinema Uptown

Info on the films in the comments!
Opening night graphic for Sea Slug Animation festival. On a spray painted orange background there are two film stills stylized to look like wrinkled posters on a wall. One still (from Endless Cookie) is a colorful scene in a kitchen were a strange-looking, colorful man is on the phone with a cup of coffee, a little cookie-headed girl carries a cup, and another man sits across the table with a read beanie and coffee. The second still (from Rita) depicts a black and white scene with an old snail woman drawing a monster on a sheet of paper with a little long-haired bird girl looking on. On an orange spray painted background, there is a wrinkled film still from Endless Cookie depicting a globe with North America. On the northwestern end, labled SHAMattawa, a brightly colored man holds a phone where he is going to call "Brother Seth." Pointing at Toronto, a man in a red beanie is on the phone. The still is labelled above as "Endless Cookie, dir. Seth Scriver & Peter Scriver." The logo for Sea Slug Animation festival is on the bottom. On an orange spray painted background, there is a wrinkled film still from Rita depicting a black and white scene of an old snail woman on a dog-motorcycle hybrid vehicle. Behind her sits a little long-haired bird girl. The are on a beach. The still is labelled above as "Rita dir. Francesca Colombara" The logo for Sea Slug Animation festival is on the bottom.
January 29, 2026 at 11:56 PM
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Shout out to our man Zack!!!
catsuka.bsky.social Catsuka @catsuka.bsky.social · 4d
Risograph animated poster by Zack Lydon for Sea Slug Animation Festival (Seattle).
Printed by Zine Hug (black, mint, sunflower and red inks).
January 29, 2026 at 1:36 AM
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Get in, it’s poster reveal time. 😤

Our good friends @zinehug.bsky.social continued the tradition of making animation visible in print, using the “onion skin” effect to show multiple frames in one image. You can buy a limited edition RISO print from Zine Hug at our Artist Alley on February 28!
RISO printed poster for Sea Slug Animation Festival (Furious Edition) that depicts a young punk in the air kicking a helmeted, cyberpunk officer in the face. Both characters are followed by onion skins of their movements. The festival dates are noted as February 27-March 1, 2026 at SIFF Cinema Uptown in Seattle.
January 27, 2026 at 9:47 PM
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In 2025, we hosted our very first Larval Edition. It was amazing, thanks to the incredible artists and audience members who joined us. But these larvae are all grown up now. And we’re p*ssed off!

💢 THE FURIOUS EDITION 💢
February 27–28
SIFF Cinema Uptown

Save the date… 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 🐌
The Sea Slug Animation Festival logo, drippy and fuzzy as if spray painted, is on top of a pink an purple spray painted background. Above the logo reads: "The Furious Edition, Feb. 27–28, 2026, SIFF Cinema Uptown."
August 5, 2025 at 8:51 PM
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Congratulations to Julian Glander for securing distribution!! We HIGHLY recommend ‘Boys Go to Jupiter’ here at Sea Slug ❤️🍊
May 6, 2025 at 3:55 AM
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The #SIFF2025 lineup just went live! With 245 films from 74 countries around the globe, there’s an excursion for everyone. 🎞️🌎

Tickets are now on sale to SIFF members. Access for the general public begins 4/24 10:00am PT.

Explore the lineup: siff.info/festtw.
April 23, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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BREAKING: Annecy Festival selects 21 animated features for competition lineups. Here's the list accompanied by commentary from the festival's artistic director about why each film was selected for competition.

www.cartoonbrew.com/feature-film...
Annecy Selects 21 Animated Features For Competition Lineups
The Annecy Festival's artistic director provides commentary on why each feature film was selected for competition.
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April 23, 2025 at 7:51 PM
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youtu.be/BnjYR82MwAY?... begging everyone to watch these 2 gay little animals
The Meaning of Bunny's Dream (Animated Short)
YouTube video by Anatola Howard
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March 30, 2025 at 6:40 PM
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Better a pig than a gen A.I. user!
Pencil sketch of the Studio Ghibli character, Porco Rosso with a modified quote from the movie "Better a pig than a gen A.I. user!"
March 27, 2025 at 11:31 PM
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The festival has been a Park City, Utah institution for over 40 years.
The Sundance Film Festival announces its new home: Boulder, Colorado
The festival has been a Park City, Utah institution for over 40 years.
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March 27, 2025 at 6:34 PM
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Hayao Miyazaki should be allowed to kill at least one person
March 27, 2025 at 3:05 PM
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Some fantastic news amidst The Horrors!
eclectichutch.bsky.social Chase 'Hutch' Hutchinson 📽️ @eclectichutch.bsky.social · Mar 27
EXCLUSIVE: The Ark Lodge lives! However, after its now former incarnation closed for good, it's being reborn as the Tasveer Film Arts Center with the nonprofit finalizing purchasing the building this week. They've got big plans 📽️

My story for @seattletimes.com: www.seattletimes.com/entertainmen...
Tasveer co-founder and Executive Director Rita Meher, left, reacts as staff and board members help install the final letter of the arts organization’s name onto the marquee as the new owners of Ark Lodge Cinemas in Seattle on Wednesday. (Ivy Ceballo / The Seattle Times)
March 27, 2025 at 4:44 PM
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🎤
March 27, 2025 at 12:37 AM
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We are SO ready!!
catsuka.bsky.social Catsuka @catsuka.bsky.social · Mar 21
Some concept arts from "The Twilight World" french/german animated feature project directed by Werner Herzog (Psyop / Sun Creature).
Story: Michael Arias ("Tekkonkinkreet") & Luca Vitale.
Visual development: Linnea Serte & Katsuya Terada.
March 21, 2025 at 7:17 PM
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‘Olive Place’ is a surreal cartoon set in a hotel with bizarre guests. Watch Cartoon Brew's Short Pick of the Day here:
'Olive Place' Is A Surreal Cartoon Set In A Hotel With Bizarre Guests
Jarrod Prince’s 'Olive Place' is a lo-fi technical kaleidoscope that blends puppetry, live action, pixilation, stop motion, and hand-drawn animation.
www.cartoonbrew.com
March 17, 2025 at 5:58 PM
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🍊 You asked, he answered! 🍊

Julian Glander—director of the Larval Edition’s Opening Spotlight feature, BOYS GO TO JUPITER—has sent us a transmission from the East Coast in the form of a combo Q&A/apology video.

vimeo.com/1066445060?s...
Boys Go to Jupiter — Q&A with Julian Glander
Julian Glander, director of our Opening Spotlight feature, Boys Go to Jupiter, beams in from the East Coast with a combination Q&A and apology video.
vimeo.com
March 17, 2025 at 8:12 PM
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If you are in any creative or copyright dependent org of any kind, NOW is the time to speak up. You have until March 15 11:59 pm EST to send a note to the WhiteHouse on why we need to follow our current laws.

We all lose if tech’s deranged agenda passes.

www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-st...
Public Comment Invited on Artificial Intelligence Action Plan
WASHINGTON, D.C. – President Trump’s recent Artificial Intelligence (AI) Executive Order shows that this Administration is dedicated to America’s global
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March 14, 2025 at 8:54 PM
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Thank you so much, Chase!
eclectichutch.bsky.social Chase 'Hutch' Hutchinson 📽️ @eclectichutch.bsky.social · Mar 5
For all of you in Seattle who love animation, got a new film festival that you're going to want to hear about. The Sea Slug Animation Festival, which kicks off this weekend @siffnews.bsky.social, is here to get weird. Read my piece to get all you need to know 📽️
www.thestranger.com/film/2025/03...
Stills from Boys Go to Jupiter, starring Julio Torres, Cole Escola, and Miisufy that will both be part of the first Sea Slug Animation Film Festival with the headline Sea Slug Is Oozing With the Good Kind of Weird and the subhead The Pacific Northwest Has Long Been an Animation Hub, Now It's Getting a New Film Festival of its Own.
March 6, 2025 at 3:34 AM
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rain boots
March 5, 2025 at 11:32 PM
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It's nice outside! Tonight is the first post-6pm sunset of the year! 🌞 Come by and say hi! We've got fresh store-made paper pads and blank watercolor postcards with envelopes made from fun and unique misprint/test print Riso scraps!
Hand holding up a handful of green paper pads inside the store. The gallery wall futuring the current show is in the background. Blank watercolor postcards and various colorful envelopes photographed using the floor of the store as the background.
March 5, 2025 at 10:30 PM
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cartoonbrew.bsky.social
The mini-documentary ‘Soft Skin’ profiles Palestinian children creating cut-out animated films as a means of processing and expressing their experiences through storytelling. Watch our Short Pick of the Day here:
The Mini-Documentary 'Soft Skin' Profiles Palestinian Children Creating Animated Films
The film takes viewers inside Palestinian tents where children are taught cut-out animation as a vital means of processing and expressing their experiences through storytelling.
www.cartoonbrew.com
March 6, 2025 at 2:58 AM
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Had the pleasure of animating a shot for the @seasluganimation festival trailer!! If you’re in Seattle this weekend you should come check out the festival! 🥳
March 3, 2025 at 10:54 PM
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catsuka.bsky.social
"Flow" won the Oscar for Best Animated Film ♡
March 3, 2025 at 12:50 AM
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cartoonbrew.bsky.social
Underdogs Win! Latvia’s ‘Flow’ and Iran’s ‘In the Shadow of the Cypress’ win Oscars. The winners in both the feature and short animation categories are huge upsets by little films that weren’t backed by money, celebrity, or power.
www.cartoonbrew.com/awards/under...
Underdogs Win! Latvia's 'Flow' And Iran's 'In The Shadow Of The Cypress' Win Oscars
Both the feature and short animation categories were huge upsets by little films that weren't backed by money, celebrity, or power.
www.cartoonbrew.com
March 3, 2025 at 2:21 AM
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Honestly so many animals remind me of b-man I should draw a new b-manimal daily I think it’d be good for my mental health
March 2, 2025 at 2:28 PM