ANIMAFRIK is an animation festival dedicated to African and Caribbean animation and designed to promote its Art and animation. The festival projects films by African and Caribbean Animators on the continent and in the Diaspora. The festival has screening sessions, workshops and conferences.
Annecy International Animated Film Festival and Market
June 4th-9th
Annecy, France
Scratch! European Animation Film Festival – (1st Edition) 22/23/24 June 2012 – Lecce (Italy)
Scratch! is an European Animation Film Festival at its first edition open to short movies (max. 20 min). Two competitive categories: 3d/VFX and traditional animation, 2d digital animation, mixed media, stop motion.
Out of competition category: Music Videos
The Festival will provide also free workshops and retrospectives to participants!
Scratch! will take place in the beautiful baroque town of Lecce, Southern Italy
Deadline 31st of May 2012.
More Info at www.scratchfilmfestival.it
2012 Cannes Fil Festival
May 16th -27th Paris, France
Ever since its creation, the Festival de Cannes has remained faithful to its founding purpose: to draw attention to and raise the profile of films with the aim of contributing towards the development of cinema, boosting the film industry worldwide and celebrating cinema at an international level.
Your entries will be accepted from February 1st to April 1st, 2012.
Competition will be held during the festival, and our International Jury Members will decide Grand Prize, Hiroshima Prize, Debut Prize, Renzo Kinoshita Prize and other prizes, which will be announced and presented on the final day. Our International Selection Committee will choose competition titles by previewing all entries submitted from around the world.
Cartoons on the Bay
March 22cnd-24th Rapallo, Italy
Cartoons on the Bay 2012 will be held from March 22nd to 25th. The 16th Edition of the Festival will take place in Rapallo, Santa Margherita Ligure and Portofino. The guest country will be India and the main theme of the year will be Sport in cartoons, to celebrate 2012 London Olympic Games.
Anima-Sao - International Animation Festival in São Gonçalo
25 to 27 May 2012
Elite College
NEW JUDGES FOR 2012 VIMEO FESTIVAL + AWARDS INCLUDE JAMES FRANCO, AZIZ ANSARI, RADIOHEAD’S COLIN GREENWOOD, AND MORE
13 Days Left to Submit to Win Up to $30,000 in Grants
The organization of the 1st International Animation Festival Chilemonos 2012, announces the open call of its first competition to be realized in the city of Santiago de Chile.
This festival is created to offer Chilean and foreign artists and directors of audiovisual animation a professional space for diffusion and competition, as well as the promotion of national and international audiovisual productions with artistic qualities.
Chilemonos 2012 will be realized in the City of Santiago de Chile, between the 25th and 29th of April 2012.
Chilemonos 2012 features three competition sections (listed below) open for animated films and videos created before 2009.
ANIM'EST 2012 Submission Deadline: June 15th, 2012Festival: October 5-14, 2012. Bucharest, Romania
Entries are now being invited for AEAF Awards, an international competition and screening, now in its 16th year with entries from around the world.
The Visual Effects Society (VES) is the entertainment industry's only organization representing the full breadth of visual effects practitioners including artists, technologists, model makers, educators, studio leaders, supervisors, PR/marketing specialists and producers in all areas of entertainment from film, television and commercials to music videos and games. Comprised of a diverse group of more than 2,300 members in 26 countries, the VES strives to enrich and educate its own members and members of the entertainment community at large through a multitude of domestic and international events, screenings and programs.
The Visual Effects Society announced the nominees for its 10th Annual VES Awards ceremony recognizing outstanding visual effects artistry in 23 categories of film, animation, television, commercials, special venues and video games. Nominees were chosen Saturday, January 7 by distinguished panels of VES members who viewed submissions at the FotoKem screening facilities in Burbank and New York, FotoKem’s Spy in San Francisco, and other facilities in London, Sydney, Vancouver and Wellington, NZ. “The standard of the creative work that is being considered this year is unbelievably high across all categories,” said Jeffrey A. Okun, Chair of the Visual Effects Society. “The judges faced a huge challenge because all of the work was so far above the norm. We’re honored to have the opportunity to focus the spotlight on the outstanding work that has contributed to some of the highest grossing films and broadcast projects of all time.” As previously announced, Stan Lee will be honored with the VES 2012 Lifetime Achievement Award and Douglas Trumbull with the Georges Méliès Award.
THE 84TH ANNUAL ACADEMY AWARDS
FEDRUARY 26TH AT 7:00
Patton Oswalt, who was recently nominated by the Chicago, Toronto and Los Angeles Film Critics’ Associations for his performance in the film Young Adult starring opposite Charlize Theron, will host this year’s 39th Annual Annie Awards on Saturday, February 4, 2012, at UCLA’s Royce Hall.
The 20th edition of the International Animation Festival of Brazil, ANIMA MUNDI 2012 takes place from July 13th to 22nd in Rio de Janeiro and from July 25th to 29th in São Paulo. We would like to invite you to enter your most recent works for the festival.
The 20th edition of the International Animation Festival of Brazil, ANIMA MUNDI 2012 takes place from July 13th to 22nd in Rio de Janeiro and from July 25th to 29th in São Paulo. We would like to invite you to enter your most recent works for the festival.
A festival that aims to inform, train, educate and entertain by using the infinite possibilities of the language of animation. Participate in Anima Mundi by entering your film, joining our virtual community and glancing through our windows the universe of International Animation.
The deadline for entries and for sending the preview material is March 22nd. It is very important to send us only one work per DVD separately. Please, go to our website for an online entry-form and rules at: www.animamundi.com.br If you need additional information send email to:entry@animamundi.com.br
The eleventh edition of the Euganean Film Festival will take place in the Euganean Hills, and Monselice Between Este (Padua), from July 6th to 22nd 2012.
The 2012 Festival Edition is divided into three competitive sections : The 2012 Festival Edition is Divided into three competitive sections:
The organizers would like to announce the third edition of "AniFestRozafa 2012" Event. The International Festive Event of animated film for children and by children will be held in the city of Shkodra, Albania during the period September 23- 30, 2012. The organizers of the International Festive Event of animated film are experienced creators in this genre of film and are happy to invite colleagues to participate by sending their films to our festival.
Piccolo Teatro Patafisico presents the 6th edition of SorsiCorti Short Film Festival. Our mission is giving visibility to the work of filmmakers from all over the world and offering to our audience a careful selection of quality short films. SorsiCorti Festival will take place in Palermo May 11 to 13, 2012 at Piccolo Teatro Patafisico. Works are allowed in any subject in the following categories: animation, documentary and fiction, if made after January 1st, 2008.
The Stuttgart Festival of Animated Film – ITFS – (May 08 – 13, 2012) was founded in 1982 and is one of the world’s largest and most important festivals for animated film. For six whole days in May 2012 animated film fans can watch animated short and feature-length films, meet well-known filmmakers and participate in workshops and presentations for the 19th time at the Stuttgart Festival of Animated Film.
The 4th annual 2011 Machinima Expo (MachinExpo) will take place on the weekend of the 19th and 20th November 2011 in the virtual world of Second Life™ (www.secondlife.com) and live on the web (www.machinima-expo.com). The Festival celebrates the art of Machinima, which is 3D animation created in real-time.
The next Anima, the Brussels International Animation Film Festival, will take place in Flagey from February 17 to 26, 2012.
