This annual festival presents the latest contemporary animation from Europe and the Visegrad 4 region in New York City. This is the best opportunity to see a top-shelf collection of new European animation, all in one place, for New Yorkers who are unable to regularly attend international animation festivals. Every year the program includes both professional and student works, panel discussions with filmmakers, academics, and other industry figures and networking events.
Animated Spirits was founded and organized by Zita Mara Vadasz and curated by Anna Ida Orosz both well-known figures in the European animation community from Budapest, Hungary.