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Turtledust Toons Live – Sept 26
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B|A|M : Soft Not Weak
Chris Butler is one of the founders and animation lead at Soft Not Weak. Soft Not Weak is a worker-owned game cooperative hoping to enact positive change in the game industry by challenging the current work culture, and representing a wider spectrum of characters and...
B|A|M: Oh Shari Productions
Shari B. Ellis began her animation career as an assistant at Disney Feature Animation and coordinator on Atlantis: The Lost Empire. In February of 2022 she became Associate Producer for Stillwater at Gaumont Animation, one of the oldest film companies in the world....
B|A|M: Soda Monkey Entertainment
Shawna Mills has been a story artist, director and designer since 2008. Working for studios such as Lucas Film, Dreamworks, Cartoon Network, and Marvel Studios!Her personal projects include the graphic novel Violator Union which was funded on Kickstarter for 5k,...
B|A|M: GemGfx
GemGfx, a Trinidad and Tobago based animation studio is owned and operated by husband and wife team Everard and Dixie-Ann McBain. In 2021 they released a trailer for their project Jumbie a story about a young girl who uses her misfortune to fight the evil she sees...
B|A|M: BWA Studios
Black Women Animate founded by Taylor Shaw in collaboration with JLove Calderon is harnessing the creative voice of black women animators to produce original content and drive productions for top animation studios. Since 2018 BWA has hosted the Black Women Animate...
B|A|M: Lionforge
Lionforge is the animation company behind the Oscar winning film Hair Love directed by Matthew Cherry, and produced in partnership with Sony pictures animation. The short about a father trying to do his daughters hair for the first time featured the voice of Insecure...
B|A|M: D’Art Shtajio Animation Studio
Founded by brothers Arthell and Darnell Isom along with Henry Thurlow, D’ART Shtajio is the first black owned animation studio in Japan. They sought to bring Westernized elements of art and storytelling to the Japanese animation industry. In 2020 with the world shut...
B|A|M: Felleanimtion
Episode 5 Lynnell Jones Jr., known as Felleanimated on tiktok is a black animator with over 1.5 million followers. In November Jones received a $50,000 dollar grant to develop a project under the guidance of Macro, a multiplatform media company that represents the...