Select Press
“Director Andrew Zimbelman Takes Us on a Ride Along ‘Moon River’ ”
“Moon River: charming animated short tracks the meandering course of love.”
“Navigating the Release of an Independent Animated Short.”
“Feminist history, but make it fashion.”
“I brainwashed myself with the internet.”
“Rooms is a dark yet delightful short film by New York-based director, designer, and animator Andrew Zimbelman based on the poem by Billy Collins.”
“Rooms, a short but lovely animation set to a poem by Billy Collins, in which the narrator attempts to find the best room in which to die.”
“Brooklyn-based filmmaker Andrew D. Zimbelman’s lovely animation of a poem by Billy Collins.”
Select Screenings,
Awards & Exhibitions
2022 Arena Art Group Award for Moon River, Rochester Contemporary Art Center, Rochester, NY
2022 “Moon River” ASIFA-SOUTH Animation Festival and Conference
2022 “Moon River” Kids Film Fest, Brooklyn Film Festival, Brooklyn, NY
2020-2021 Emmy Nomination for Outstanding Graphic Design and Art Direction for NBC 45 Weeks
2021 Animation Block Party, Brooklyn, NY
2021 Portland Film Festival, Portland, OR
2021 Flickers’ Rhode Island International Film Festival, Providence, RI
2020 “The Subway Series” Rochester Contemporary Art Center, Rochester, NY
2019 66th Rochester / Finger Lakes Exhibition, Rochester, NY
2018 Animation Block Party, Brooklyn, NY
2018 Williamsburg International Film Festival, Brooklyn, NY
2018 Peekskill Film Festival, USA
2018 Brooklyn Film Festival, USA
2018 Zebra Poetry Film Festival, Münster/ Berlin, Germany
2018 Arc Film Festival, Germany
2018 Rochester International Film Festival, USA
2017 Vimeo Staff Pick
2011 Best of Sequence: Animation Sequence Project/ KLIK Animation Festival, Amsterdam
2009 Best Animation. Hollywood Film Festival
2009 Cleveland International Film Festival
2009 CalArts Character Animation Producer Show
2007 Cleveland International Film Festival
2006 Forming Motion Animation Festival. Berlin, Germany
Select Speaking
2022 Rochester Contemporary Art Center (RoCo), Artist Talk
2022 Cleveland Institute of Art, Guest Speaker
2021 Rochester Institute of Technology, Guest Speaker
2021 Portland Film Festival 'Meet the Director', Guest Speaker
2020 NYU, Visiting Artist
2021 NYC, High School of Fashion Industries, Guest Speaker
2019 MAG Rochester FLX Exhibition, Guest Speaker/ Artist Talk
2016 NYU Studio Visit / Guest Speaker
