Briana Yarhouse is an animator, researcher, and Director of animation for Interlochen Academy of the Arts in Interlochen, Michigan, USA where she started an animation program for high school students in 2022 at the premier arts boarding school in the world. She is also the director of International Animation Day for ASIFA International coordinating showings around the globe.
Her essays and papers have been published in the ASIFA Magazine, The International Journal of Comic Art, Society for Animation Studies Journal, among others.
She has invited speaker on animation and sequential art at conferences around the world, including in 2023 at the Jilin Animation and Comic Convention and ASIFA-CHINA International Animation Academic Conference, and most recently by Uni-France to speak at “My Animation Days” panel discussion.
She has juried at a number of festivals including ArtPrize 2023, the Woods Hole film festival, and the Xiamen International Animation Festival. In 2025 she will be jurying the ASIFA Student Prize and a honored judge for WAVES 2025 in India.
Her animation has played in many festivals. Most notably she worked as an animator on “Beyond Freedom,” which was nominated in 2006 for best short of the year at the Berlin Film Festival. In 2013 her short film “The Box” was selected as part of the Best Animation from ASIFA at the Canlandiranlar Animators Festival in Istanbul, Turkey.
In 2020 she worked to coordinate animators all around the planet to create a collective animation called Spiritus Mundi: Animating the World. Her most recent work can be seen at yarhouse.com.