Animation Block Party hosted a special Animation for Kids festival on August 9, 2025 at the Simons Theatre at the New England Aquarium.
The official Aquarium festival winners are….
Audience Award: Whereabouts by Suejee Lee!
Whereabouts (Suejee Lee / Brooklyn, NY / 2 min)
A riso-printed short following a woman’s journey through NYC.
Best Student Film: Soup by Ava Azarmi!
Soup! (Ava Azarmi / CalArts / 2:36 min)
God makes soup. The soup is (somewhat) intelligent life.
Brand new animated spot produced by GBH for Animation Block Party at the Aquarium!
Awesome pack giveaways for Animation Block Party Aquarium screening*
Tootle the Turtle (Xiongliang (Ben) Li / Los Angeles, CA / 15 seconds)
Time for Tootle and his penguin pals to grab some popcorn and soda!
Surfer Puppers (Adam Ansorge / Jersey City / 30 seconds)
Puppers returns to Animation Block Party in a silly surfing cartoon.
Between Beginnings (Zora (Xiangzi) Xu / UCLA / 3 min)
Quiet moment of reflection, and reminder that beginnings are rarely clear.
The Woodland Book Nook (Amy Ninh / Loyola Marymount University / 2:48 min)
A bookstore run by rabbits is a literary haven for the small woodland creatures.
I dream about Colorful Earth (Will Kim / Los Angeles / 1:37 min)
Watercolor animation technique brings to life the director’s dreams of Earth.
Playground (Jojo Chongjaroenjai / Ventura, CA / 1:23 min)
In a hidden micro-world, a playful folivore family turns greenery into toys.
Join (Brennan Bova / Ottawa, Canada / 1:03 min)
A film about community and the joy of finding it.
Hunky Dory (Steven Vander Meer / Manila, California / 6 min)
Moving and morphing to the banjo music of Béla Fleck and his bandmates.
Brazey & D'Bruppy (Jared D. Weiss / Los Angeles / 4:50 min)
Brazey and D'Bruppy reconvene in a park after a period of time apart.
Whereabouts (Suejee Lee / Brooklyn, NY / 2 min)
A riso-printed short following a woman’s journey through NYC.
Animation Intermission: Jeff Jam Live Performance***
Kid President (Yadid Licht / Brooklyn, NY / 5:20 min)
No more lettuce, no more artichokes… no more broccoli!
Soup! (Ava Azarmi / CalArts / 2:36 min)
God makes soup. The soup is (somewhat) intelligent life.
Magical Doomsday Horsegirls of the Apocalypse (Andrea Schmitz & Abbie Bacilla / Queens & Brooklyn / 1:10 min)
These magical girls decide to take things into their own hands.
Pac-Man Pursuit (Tristan Scolnick / Los Angeles / 1:01 min)
Pac-Man runs from three Ghosts looking to take him out.
Little Body Big Heart (Teo Nalani and Eli Huang / SVA / 4:25 min)
A fish outgrows his pool, follows his heart, swimming through bigger “seas.”
Homecoming (Yuxin (Cindy) Cheng / UCLA / 1:52 min)
A joyful childhood memory inspires a woman to reconnect with her loved ones.
***Featuring aquatic loops from Mike Hollingsworth
The Animation Block Party Aquarium program will be announced on Monday, July 21st!
Animation Block Party will be premiering a one of a kind Animation for Kids festival on August 9, 2025 at the New England Aquarium!
Animation Block Party summer poster now available!
August 9, 2025 at the New England Aquarium, Boston, MA.
*illustration by https://www.robertbohnart.com/
Two new Animation Block Party productions set to premiere this August at the New England Aquarium!
Surfer Puppers features longtime Animation Block Party superstar, Puppers, in a silly surfing cartoon!
Tootle the Turtle introduces a new aquatic cartoon to the Animation Block Party universe!
Please stay tuned to the Animation Block website for original content updates.
Surfer Puppers animated by Adam Ansorge.
Tootle the Turtle animated by Xiongliang (Ben) Li.
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