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Vassilis Kroustallis
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Head Editor, zippyframes.com
Tallinn
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Biography
Greek film and animation journalist and scholar, based In Estonia. He has studied Classics, Philosophy (Greece /UK), and film journalism (Glasgow University). Since 2011, he has been the Head Editor of Zippy Frames, an online journal promoting exclusively European and independent animation worldwide, with readership from more than 129 countries overall. He writes regularly for High On Films, and has his website Film Is A Fine Affair. Into LGBTQ+ film reviews. RT-approved critic.
finance, Wall Street
Content
"Shaping the Film Through Mutual Trust": Interview with BAFTA-Awarded Antonin Niclass (Swiss Focus @ ITFS 2025)
By Vassilis Kroustallis| zippyframes.com@ Home INTERVIEWS Špela Čadež Interview: Honesty Matters Vassilis Kroustallis 16 April 2025 Swiss animation artist and director Antonin Niclass is one of the future indie talents to watch. He came to the forefront with the 2021 stop-motion 'Do Not Feed the Pigeons', a NFTS film and cardboard story in a coach full of strangers. The film granted him a number of festival presences and awards, including the BAFTA award for Best Animation Short. His subsequent presence was as an animator in the...
Leibniz: Chronicle of a Lost Painting (2025): A Serene, Playful Meditation into Art as the Mirror of the Universe
By Vassilis Kroustallis| filmisafineaffair.com@ Vassilis Kroustlalis reviews Edgar Reitz's film on Leibniz world premiered at the 2025 Berlin Film Festival (Berlinale Special). Is a painting a frozen portrait of a moment in time (and therefore cannot capture the depths of a polymath like Leibniz? Or, something more is in place here.
By Vassilis Kroustallis| zippyframes.com@ Shorts Vassilis Kroustallis 13 February 2025 The Clermont-awarded and European Film Award nominated (Short Film) 'Love, Dad' by Vietnamese animation director Diana Cam Van Nguyen is now online. Based in the Czech Republic, the animation director crafted a film based on her memories with her father. The author rediscovers letters from prison that her dad used to write. In the breezy yet poignant film, animation alternates with live-action and fiction with documentary in an epistemological...
Company Info
zippyframes.com
Zippy Frames is an animations news online journal launched in September 2011, with one very specific aim in mind: to promote European and independent US/Australasian animation worldwide, a severely under-represented area in film and animation journalism. 7 years later, we now have more than 2,600 articles in our Zippy Frames database, and a wide international exposure. Here's just one glimpse of the areas we cover: Instant news coverage thorough animation film reviews comprehensive and updated animation festival coverage interviews with independent animation filmmakers short films and projects in production awards co-production opportunities academics and animation (conferences, symposia etc.)
Founded: 2011