May 13, 2016
Blush is in the Official Selection at CutOut Fest, Queretaro, Mexico (Nov 21 – 24, 2024)
Blush has been selected for the 37th edition of the Festival Les Instants Vidéo, Marseille, France (Oct 18 2024 – Jan 19 2025)
Brown Boy is selected for the Commissioned Films Competition at LINOLEUM Animation Festival, Kyiv, Ukraine (Sept 4 – 8, 2024)
Brown Boy is the Kaboom Animation Festival 2024 leader, Amsterdam, The Netherlands (Apr 5 – 14, 2024)
Wow has been selected for the Kaboom Animation Festival, Amsterdam, The Netherlands (Apr 5 – 14, 2024)
Wow is in the Official Selection under the Experimental category at CutOut Fest, Queretaro, Mexico (Nov 16 – 19, 2023)
Wow has been selected for “The Net” international program of Future Vision Festival, Amsterdam, The Netherlands (Dec 7, 2023)
Wow is selected to screen at Hell de Janeiro 2023 – Rio de Janeiro International Horror Film Festival, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (Oct 28 – Nov 2, 2023)
Are You OK? screens at animest, Bucharest, Romania (Oct 6 – 15, 2023)
It is presented among many excellent pieces as a landmark in animation dedicated to DANCE in the program “Dancing with Myself” curated by Alexis Hunot
The Art of Wasting Time: Artist talk by Faiyaz Jafri at at the 2023 Ottawa International Animation Festival, Ottawa, Canada ( Sept 23, 6 pm, 2023)
Wow has been selected for the Canadian Panorama at the 2023 Ottawa International Animation Festival, Ottawa, Canada ( Sept 20 – Sept 24, 2023)
34st Society for Animation Studies Conference, (paper: ‘Transcendental Animation’, panel: ‘At the Margins of Time and Space’ with Corrie Francis Parks, Katherine O’Connor, Nea Ehrlich) Rowan University, Glassboro, NJ, USA (June 12 – 16, 2023)
Are You OK? will be part of Angaelica 2023, Pasadena, CA, USA (Aug 3 – 13, 2023)
Wow has been selected for the Official Canadian Competition in the Professional category at Les sommets du cinéma d’animation, Montreal, Canada (May 9 – 14, 2023)
Wow has been selected for the non-competitive section Extremely Short Section of Extremely Short Films at the International Animation Festival Fest Anča, Žilina, Slovakia (Jun 29 – Jul 2, 2023)
Are You OK? is selected at Currents New Media Festival, Santa Fe, USA (Jun 16 – 25, 2023)
Are You OK? will be shown at the festival Under the Radar, Vienna, Austria (Apr 17 – 23, 2023)
Shine has been selected to be part of FILE SP 2023, São Paulo, Brazil (July 4 – Aug 27, 2023)
Wow participates in the 18th Athens Animfest (Mar 16 – 19, 2023)
Are You OK? is selected at Cuerpo Transparente, Buenos Aires, Argentina (TBD 2022)
Are You OK? has been selected for the “Liminal Spaces & Vaporwave” program at Future Vision Festival
It will be screened on SALTO 1 TV NL and futurevisionfestival.com (Dec 17, 2022 – Jan 7, 2023)
Shine is in the Official Selection under the Experimental category at CutOut Fest, Queretaro, Mexico (Dec 8 – 10, 2022)
Shine & Gently (& Chainsaw) screen at Hell De Janeiro, Rio De Janeiro, Brazil (Sept 30 – Oct 1, 2022)
Are You OK? has been selected as an honorable mention at 24fps International Short Film Festivals, Abilene, Texas, United States (Nov 4 – 5, 2022)
Drowning Girl and Jack screen at FILE, São Paulo, Brazil (Aug 13 – 18, 2022)
Shine screens in the Wide Angle Section at the Sommets du cinéma d’animation, Montreal, Canada (May 10 – 15, 2022)
Shine has been selected for the non-competitive section Anča in Mordor at the 15th edition of the International Animation Festival Fest Anča, Žilina, Slovakia (Jun 29 – 3 Jul, 2022)
Drowning Girl will be part of Triple X, a very special section dedicated to the presence of eroticism in animation films at Monstra 2022, Lisbon, Portugal (Mar 17, 2022)
Shine has been selected to participate in the 17th Athens Animfest, online (Mar 17 – 20, 2022)
Gently (& Chainsaw) was awarded the Grand Prize in the AbEx (Abstract Experimental) competition at Supernova, Denver, USA (Oct 1, 2021)
Are You OK? screens at the the 30th Annual Whitaker St. Louis International Film Festival, Narrative Shorts: Experimental, St. Louis, USA (Nov 4 – 21, 2021)
Are You OK? has been selected for the Music Animation Competition at New Chitose Airport International Animation Festival 2021, Chitose, Japan (Nov 5 – 8, 2021)
Leaders has been selected to take part in the International Competition at Countryside Animafest Cyprus, Salamiou, Cyprus (Aug 11 – 14, 2021)
Are You OK? has been selected for the Canadian Panorama at the 2021 Ottawa International Animation Festival, Ottawa, Canada ( Sept 22 – Oct 3, 2021)
Leaders screens at Pictoplasma 2021, Berlin, Germany (Aug 26 – 29, 2021) & online (Sept 17 – 18, 2021)
Drowning Girl has been selected for the competition program of the international festival of auteur cinema KINOLIKBEZ – XI, St.Petersburg, Russia (July 29 – Aug 1, 2021)
Gently (& Chainsaw) screens at Malt Adult #21, Columbus, OH, USA (June 25, 2021)
Leaders has been selected for the international competition Animation Avantgarde at Vienna Shorts 2021, Vienna, Austria (May 27 – June 1, 2021)
Leaders has been selected to be part of the OPEN AIR PROGRAMME at the 33 Filmfest Dresden, Germany (July 13 – 18, 2021)
Drowning Girl screens at the 2021 Zeitgeist Film Festival, Huntington Beach, California, USA (June 4 – 6, 2021)
Leaders has been selected for the International Competition – Abstract and Non-Narrative Animation category at Anifilm 2021, Liberec, Czech Republic (May 4 – 9, 2021)
Jack screens in the Very Short Films International Competition at Les Sommets du cinéma d’animation, Montreal, Canada (Dec 1 – 6, 2020)
Jack has been selected for the competition program Eject at Interfilm, Berlin, Germany (Nov 10 – 15, 2020)
Jack to screen at the St. Louis International Film Festival (SLIFF), St. Louis, MO, USA (Nov 5 – 22, 2020)
Jack has been selected for the Hairy Nut Disco shorts block at Cucalorus Independent Film Festival Celebration, Wilmington, NC, USA (Nov 11 – 25, 2020)
Drowning Girl is a contestant in the Animation Volda Festival, Volda, Norway (Oct 2 – 3, 2020)
Jack screens at Semana por la Soberania Audiovisual, Quilmes, Argentina (Sept 23 – 28, 2020)
Jack will be part of the Official Selection at Shnit Worldwide Shortfilmfestival (Oct 15 – 25, 2020)
Jack has been selected to participate in the International Competition for Experimental Animated Shorts at Animatou, Geneva, Switzerland (Oct 4 -12, 2020)
Jack has been selected for the World Panorama at the Ottawa International Animation Festival, Ottawa, Canada, Online (Sept 23 – Oct 4, 2020)
Jack is selected for Commissioned Film Competition of LINOLEUM Animation Festival, Kyiv, Ukraine, Online (Sept 2 – 6, 2020)
Jack has been selected for the Festival International du film de Nancy, Toul, France (Aug 28 – Sept 8, 2020)
Jack has been selected for the International Program of the 31st Sao Paulo International Short Film Festival, Sao Paulo, Brazil (Aug 20 – 30, 2020)
Jack has been selected to play in the Oregon State International Film Fest 2020, Online (Summer 2020)
Jack has been selected for the Bilbao International Animation Community Festival – ANIMAKOM FEST, Bilbao, Spain (July 6 – 12, 2020)
Drowning Girl will screen at the Odense International Film Festival, Odense, Denmark (Aug 24 – 30, 2020)
Jack has been selected for the international competition Animation Avantgarde at Vienna Shorts 2020, Vienna, Austria (May 28 – June 2, 2020)
Jack screens at DAS NYC Experimental Microshorts, 56 Bogart St. Brooklyn, USA (March 2020)
Drowning Girl has been selected for the competitive section Oblique Animation at the 22nd Mecal Pro, Barcelona International Short and Animation Festival, Spain (Mar 19 – April 5, 2020)
Drowning Girl will be part of a special exhibition dedicated to the best of experimental animated films at Monstra 2020, Lisbon, Portugal (Mar 18 – 19, 2020)
Jack has been accepted to the MIDNIGHT SHORTS program of the 29th Florida Film Festival, Orlando, USA (April 17 – 26, 2020)
Jack has been selected for the International Competition – Abstract and Non-Narrative Animation category at Anifilm 2020, Liberec, Czech Republic (May 5 – 10, 2020)
Jack screens at Malt Adult Sweet #16 / Third Anniversary, Columbus, USA (Dec 7, 2019)
Remixed animated shorts by Faiyaz Jafri, Chaerin Im, Steven Lapcevic, Mark Klink, and Ryan Wurst, will be part of the Meow Wolf Dark Palace Dance Obscura, Denver, USA (Nov 22 – 24, 2019)
Jack screens at the Experimental section at CutOut Fest, Querétaro, Mexico (Nov 14 – 17, 2019)
Amoricania is selected into the Narrative Shorts: Mind Benders program at the 28th Annual Whitaker St. Louis International Film Festival, St. Louis, USA (Nov 7 – 17, 2019)
Faiyaz Jafri has a retrospective and is an artist in focus, juror and speaker at the 2019 Ottawa International Animation Festival, Ottawa, Canada (Sept 25 – 29, 2019)
Jack screens at Hell De Janeiro, Rio De Janeiro, Brazil (Sept 19 – 25, 2019)
Amoricania screens at the 7th Insomnia International Open-Air Animation Film Festival, Russia (July 20 – 21, 2019)
Disconnector screens as part of the July 2019 Issue (#36) “Exploring the Archipelago” on the science film platform Labocine.com.
Amoricania screens at Under the Radar, Vienna, Austria (July 1st, 2019)
31st Society for Animation Studies Conference, (paper: ‘The illusion of destruction’, panel: ‘Animated High-Rise Architecture: Space, Place and Symbolism’ with Alex Jukes, Max Hattler) Universidade Lusofona, Lisbon, Portugal (June 17 – 21, 2019)
The Essay Film Form And Animation: Intersectionality In Motion (paper: ‘The illusion of destruction’), Derek Jarman Lab – CAPA, London, UK (June 12 – 13, 2019)
Supersad(opus)_01 will be part of the official OFF19 Odense International Film Festival competition program, Odense, Denmark (Aug 26 – Sept 1, 2019)
• Supersad(opus)_01 has been selected for the non-competitive section Anča in Mordor at the 12th Fest Anca International Animation Festival, Zilina, Slovakia (June 27 – 30, 2019)
• Supersad screens at FILE, Sao Paulo, Brazil (June 26 – Aug 11, 2019)
• Supersad(opus)_01 has been selected for the Animation Avantgarde at VIS, Vienna Shorts Film Festival, Vienna, Austria, (May 28 – June 2, 2019)
• Supersad has been selected for the International Non-Narrative And Abstract Animation Competition at Anifilm 2019, Trebon, Czech Republic, (May 7 – 12, 2019)
• Supersad(opus)_01 gets a Special Mention at the Hazel Eye Film Festival, online (April 29, 2019)
• Supersad has been selected for the parallel section Trash at the 21st Mecal Pro, Barcelona International Short and Animation Festival, Barcelona, Spain (Mar 28 – April 14, 2019)
• Supersad is part of the Official Selection: Experimental Film at CutOut Fest, Querétaro, Mexico (Nov 1 – 4, 2018)
• Amoricania to be shown at the 4th Pori Film Festival, Pori, Finland (Nov 28 – Dec 2, 2018)
• Faiyaz Jafri to be Artist in Focus and juror at the 11th Klik Amsterdam Animation Festival (Oct 10 – 14, 2018)
• Amoricania screens at Bit Bang Fest, Buenos Aires, Argentina (Oct 3 – 6, 2018)
• Amoricania , Supersad & Miller Fisher screen at Hell De Janeiro, Rio De Janeiro, Brazil (Sept 13 – 19, 2018)
• Supersad screens in the competition program at Supernova, Denver, USA (Sept 22, 2018)
• Amoricania has been selected for the Official Competition: Non-Narrative Short Animation at the 2018 Ottawa International Animation Festival, Ottawa, Canada (Sept 26 – 30, 2018)
• Supersad selected into Erotic program of LINOLEUM animation festival, Kiev, Ukraine (Sept 6 – 9, 2018)
• Amoricania screens at FILE – The Body is The Message, Sao Paulo, Brazil (July 4 – Aug 12, 2018)
• Natural Plastic screens at Motion Commotion, ICON10, CCS Auditorium, Detroit, USA (July 11, 2018, 6 – 8 PM)
• 30th Society for Animation Studies Conference, (paper: ‘The temporal aesthetics of the animated GIF, panel: ‘Animated Temporalities: Artist Perspectives’ with Dirk de Bruyn, Max Hattler) Concordia University, Montreal, Canada (June 18 – 22, 2018)
• The North American Premiere of Amoricania will take place at the 2018 Brooklyn Film Festival, Brooklyn, USA (June 1 – 10, 2018)
• Retrospective, artist talk, workshop and juror at Anifilm 2018, Trebon, Czech Republic (May 1 – 6, 2018)
• Sway screens at Under the Radar PART 1: Relentless Melt No. 3: Alternate Realities Hong Kong, Vienna, Austria (May 25th, 2018)
• Amoricania screens at the 14th Pictoplasma Conference and Festival, Berlin, Germany (May 2 – 6, 2018)
• Natural Plastic has been selected for Digital Graffiti at Alys Beach, Florida, USA (May 18 – 20, 2018)
• This Ain’t Disneyland screens at the 25th Internationales Trickfilm Festival, Stuttgart, Germany (April 24 – 29, 2018)
• Miller Fisher has been selected to participate in the Late Night Showcase in the 2018 GLAS Animation Festival Berkeley, USA (Mar. 22 – 25, 2018)
• Miller Fisher will be included in Animated Experiments Block at Animac, Lleida, Spain (Feb. 22 – 25, 2018)
• Amoricania to Premiere at the 13th Athens Animfest, Greece (Mar. 15 – 18, 2018)
• Miller Fisher has been selected to be part of the Parallel Section at 4FICAE, Valencia, Spain (Feb. 27, 2018)
• Miller Fisher has been selected to be part of the Special Programme section “Panorama International” at the 30th Filmfest Dresden, Germany (April 17 – 22, 2018)
• Miller Fisher will be part of the Official Selection under the Experimental category at CutOut Fest 2017, Queretaro, Mexico (Nov 9 – 12, 2017)
• Miller Fisher has been selected at the Paris International Animation Film Festival, Paris, France (Sept 20 – 26, 2017)
• Baby, I Love You. screens at Fay’s Film Festival 2017: 5th Anniversary, Amsterdam, Netherlands (Sept 9, 2017)
• Faiyaz Jafri will speak at the Denver Film Society, 7:30PM, Sie FilmCenter, Denver, USA (Aug 21, 2017)
• The North American Premiere of Miller Fisher will take place at the 2017 Brooklyn Film Festival, Brooklyn, USA (June 2 – 11)
• Faiyaz Jafri will speak at the Animation & Memory: International Conference, Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands (June 22 – 23, 2017)
• Faiyaz Jafri to be one of the jurors at the second edition of Supernova Outdoor Festival of Digital Animation and Art together with Raquel Meyers and Peter Burr. (Sept 22 – 23, 2017)
• Sway has been selected for the international Animation Avantgarde competition at VIS Vienna Shorts 2017 (June 1 – 6, 2017, Vienna, Austria)
• Mobile Fawn returns to Hong Kong to be part of the K11 Art Mall exhibit ME:MILLENNIALS (March 21 – May 21, 2017)
• Miller Fisher has been selected at the 2017 Athens Animfest (March 16 – 22, 2017)
• Miller Fisher has been selected for the International competition for abstract and non-narrative animation of International Festival of Animated Films ANIFILM 2017, Trebon, Czech Republic (May 2 – 7, 2017)
• This Ain’t Disneyland & Sway screen at FILE, São Paulo, Brazil (July 17 – Sep 3, 2017)
• Miller Fisher premieres at Holland Animation Film Festival (March 22 – 26, 2017)
• This Ain’t Disneyland screens at Filmfest Dresden (April 4 – 9, 2017)
• This Ain’t Disneyland screens at Short Waves Festival (March 21 – 26, 2017)
• Disconnector screens at the 8th Cairo Video Festival (Feb 5 – 28, 2017)
• This Ain’t Disneyland screens at the 28th Istanbul International Short Film Festival (Dec 14 – 21, 2016)
• This Ain’t Disneyland to be shown at Fantastic Planet, Horror, Sci-Fi & Fantasy Film Festival Shorts Program 6: Amazing Animations (Dec 4, 2:00pm, 2016)
• This Ain’t Disneyland selected to screen at VideoBabel, Cusco, Peru (Nov 21 – 25, 2016)
• This Ain’t Disneyland to be shown at the 2nd Pori Film Festival, Pori, Finland (Nov 23 – 27, 2016)
• This Ain’t Disneyland has been selected to the brand new Shut up! Competition at the 18th edition of the International animation film festival Animated Dreams. The festival is part of the Black Nights Film Festival and will be held in Tallinn, Estonia (Nov 16 – 20, 2016)
• This Ain’t Disneyland selected at DOK Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany (Nov 3, 4, 6, 2016)
• This Ain’t Disneyland screens at the St. Louis International Film Festival, St. Louis, USA (Nov 3 – 13, 2016)
• This Ain’t Disneyland screens at Locomoción Experimental Animation Festival, Mexico City, Mexico (Oct 28 – 30, 2016)
• This Ain’t Disneyland screens at Banjaluka International Animated Festival, Banja Luka, Bosnia and Herzegovina (Oct 23 – 28, 2016)
• This Ain’t Disneyland screens at the Dracula Film Festival, Brasov, Romania (Oct 12 – 16, 2016)
• This Ain’t Disneyland selected into the New York Film Week, New York, USA (Sep 28, 2016)
• Disconnector screens at the Manhattan Independent Film Festival, New York, USA (Oct 7 – 8, 2016)
• This Ain’t Disneyland screens at CutOut Fest, Querétaro, Mexico (Nov 17 – 20, 2016)
• This Ain’t Disneyland screens at the 22nd Cucalorus Film Festival, Wilmington, USA (Nov 9 – 13, 2016)
• This Ain’t Disneyland and Sway to screen at the Boston Short Film Festival, Boston, USA (Oct 10 – 13, 2016)
• This Ain’t Disneyland and Sway to screen at Animaldiçoados, Brazil, Rio de Janeiro (Sept 1 – 11, 2016) Sao Paulo (Sept 17 – 18, 2016)
• Sway wins the NEW VISION AWARD at the Verona International Film Festival 2016.
• This Ain’t Disneyland and Sway to screen at the Linoleum International Contemporary Animation and Media-Art Festival, Kiev, Ukraine (Sept 1 – 2, 2016)
• This Ain’t Disneyland has been chosen to be part of the Official Selection of SHORTS MÉXICO – Festival Internacional de Cortometrajes de México in the Category Animation Competition (September 1 – 8, Mexico City Mexico)
• This Ain’t Disneyland has been selected at the official Experimental section at the Girona Film Festival (September 28 – October 1, Girona, Spain)
• Sway screens at Supernova (September 24, Denver, USA)
• Sway has been selected as a Semi-Finalist at the 39th Elche International Independent Film Festival (July 2016, Alicante , Spain)
• This Ain’t Disneyland screens at the 3rd IndieEarth Animation Film Festival (August 20 – 21, Chennai, India)
• This Ain’t Disneyland screens at Fantasia Outer Limits of Animation (July 16, Montreal, Canada)
• This Ain’t Disneyland gets an honourable mention at the NYC Downtown Short Film Festival (June 2016, New York, USA)
• Disconnector wins a Golden Palm Award at The Mexico International Film Festival 2016 Animation Competition
• Sway has been selected to screen at the Odense Film Festival #off16 (August 29 – September 4, 2016, Odense, Denmark)
• This Ain’t Disneyland has been selected to screen at the The Lower East Side Film Festival (June 15, 2016, New York City, USA)
• This Ain’t Disneyland has been selected to screen at the 12th NYC Downtown Short Film Festival (June 8 – 11, 2016, New York City, USA)
• Sway has been selected for the Anca in Mordor (non-competitive) section at the 9th International Animation Festival Fest Anca (June 29 – July 3, 2016, Zilina, Slovakia)
• This Ain’t Disneyland at VIS – Vienna Independent Shorts Filmfestival 2016, selected for the international ANIMATION AVANT-GARDE competition (May 25 – May 31, 2016, Vienna, Austria)
• This Ain’t Disneyland at the Cannes Short Film Corner (May 16 – May 22, 2016, Cannes, France)
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