Asifa-Hollywood, the nonprofit organization behind the Annie Awards, has championed the toon industry for nearly five decades, but never has its growth been felt as much as in the last few years after the organization went through a major organizational shift in 2011.
“We’ve done quite a lot in the last three or four years, building on what’s been done before with the other generations of Asifa,” says executive director Frank Gladstone.
Gladstone was elected president in early 2011, along with a new board of directors, and they went to work to change perceptions that Asifa had become more of a fan-based group and that
its Annie voting practices were skewed.
Current president Jerry Beck says the org sees itself as “kind of the United Nations of the animation industry worldwide. We did have a problem. We had to address it. … One of those changes that Frank first instituted as...
“We’ve done quite a lot in the last three or four years, building on what’s been done before with the other generations of Asifa,” says executive director Frank Gladstone.
Gladstone was elected president in early 2011, along with a new board of directors, and they went to work to change perceptions that Asifa had become more of a fan-based group and that
its Annie voting practices were skewed.
Current president Jerry Beck says the org sees itself as “kind of the United Nations of the animation industry worldwide. We did have a problem. We had to address it. … One of those changes that Frank first instituted as...
- 1/30/2015
- by Terry Flores
- Variety - Film News
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