Melissa Ferrari
Documentary & Experimental Animation Filmmaker
Phantasmagoria Magic Lanternist
Recent Writing
2018 Ecstatic Truth Symposium
Universidade Lusófona
Lisboa, Portugal
Conference Paper
Between Fantasy and Fact:
Technological Simulations of the Real Panel
Dr. Birgitta Hosea's coverage of the symposium:
https://expandedanimation.net/tag/ecstatic-truth/
Then and Now: 100 Years of Independent Animated Documentary (2018)
Article for Slamdance Film Festival
2018 Society for Animation Studies Conference
Concordia University
Montreal, Canada
Emerging Researchers Seminar Paper
Strategies for Authentication: An Inquiry into Credibility and Transparency in Nonfiction Animation
2018 Layers of Transparency: A Symposium Questioning Power, Accountability, and
Agency within Animation
California Institute of the Arts
Valencia, CA
Research Paper
Strategies for Authentication and Factual Accountability:
Conveying Truth to the Audience in Nonfiction Animation

2018 Ecstatic Truth Symposium
photo: Pedro Serrazina