Today, Becka Barker from our festival organizing team talks in the studio with festival installation curator (and award-winning animator) Sam Decoste and fine artist/playwright (and co-founder of the Emerging Lens Cultural Film Festival) Tara Taylor about Under the Rug, AFX’s first foray into programming gallery-oriented, installation-based animated works for this year’s festival. Shannon Brownlee, Associate Director Cinema & Media Studies at Dalhousie University’s Fountain School of Performing Arts, is also in the studio to talk about moderating this year’s Big Picture Panel, focusing on the issue of animation production and labour issues.