The International Leipzig Festival for Documentary and Animated Film -- DOK Leipzig -- is the largest German and one of the leading international festivals for artistic documentary and animated films.
The 15th Annual Austin Film Festival is dedicated to championing the work of aspiring and established filmmakers, defined as screenwriters, directors, editors, producers, actors and all artists who use the language of film to tell a story. The AFF furthers the art, craft and business of filmmaking by providing unique cultural events and services, enhancing public awareness and participation, and encouraging dynamic and long-lasting community partnerships. Short films screened in competition at the Austin Film Festival are eligible to be nominated for an Academy Award.
The Broadcast India Show is a global megamart for broadcast-related industries featuring everything to do with entertainment, from content creation to its delivery, under one roof. After the success of its 17th consecutive exhibition and symposium, the event is expected to draw more than 22,000 attendees, with more than 450 companies from 31 countries.
THE PIT AND THE PENDULUM animated short, a stop-motion adaptation of Edgar Allan Poe's classic short story, directed by animation veteran Marc Lougee and exec produced by animation and vfx icon Ray Harryhausen, is slated to screen over the TriCity Comic Con weekend, October 11, 2008.
The 3rd Annual Tri-City Independent Fan Film Festival takes place Oct. 11, 2008 in conjunction with Tri-City Comic Con (TC3).
TrickCon Treat 2008 presents a special screening of Marc Lougee's stop motion adaptation of Edgar Allan Poe's The Pit and the Pendulum!
Executive Produced by Ray Harryhausen, this short stop motion film captures the creepy, dark and foreboding tale of Edgar Allan Po's classic story of a lone prisoner's horrific experience in the grip of The Spanish Inquisition!
Be sure to join us October 3rd-5th at Holiday Inn Hotel & Suites Oklahoma City, 6200 N. Robinson Drive, OKC, OK, for a ghoulishly good time.
eDward - The Young Filmmaker's Award is the international film competition for young talents up to 30 and decided at the eDIT 11 Filmmaker's Festival. Prove your talent and creativity with a 30-second-film and win prizes up to 2.500 Euro. The competition is open to young filmmakers up to 30 born on or after January 1, 1978. Students, agency juniors and free film-creative especially are called upon worldwide to take part individually or in teams.
The theme of this year's competition is "Planet Earth."
The sixth annual Science and Engineering Visualization Challenge is now underway. Co-sponsored by the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the journal SCIENCE, the flagship publication of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the Visualization Challenge is a prestigious competition to find the photographs, illustrations, and digital media that best communicate science, engineering, and technology for education and journalistic purposes.
Stop-motion, 3D, claymation, Flash or flip book. If it's animated, you could win $2,500.
Beginning in September 2008, Super U and TAC.tv (a.k.a Tetes a claques) will be presenting quarterly animation contests. A jury, including TAC.tv creator Michel Beaudet will be awarding a prize for the best of the best at the end of August 2009.
The winning film in the first round will get $2,500, be featured on www.TAC.tv and have the chance for broadcast on Super Channel. Contest entries are being accepted until October 30, 2008 so check out the contest today.
The Toronto International Film Festival is one of the premiere film festivals in the world. The event features many debuts of films that will go on to be box-office and critical successes. This major industry event is a place where studios test their films and seek out independent features.
Programs in 2008 include Wavelengths, Sprockets Family Zone and Midnight Madness.
IFA is one of the largest consumer electronics trade shows in the world. It combines innovation and the technology of tomorrow with business sales and entertainment. According to published statistics, more than 1,200 companies from 32 countries exhibited at IFA 2007, covering a net space of more than 103,000 square meters. More than 6,600 press attended IFA 2007, including 1,371 international journalists from 62 countries. Sales at the 2007 show totaled 2.75 billion Euros. The number of trade visitors attending the show in 2007 jumped 7.5% to 101,358.
The Telluride Film Festival is one of the premiere independent film festivals in the U.S. The event is open to professional and nonprofessional filmmakers working in all aesthetic disciplines; documentary, narrative, animation, experimental, etc. Features and shorts, of all styles and lengths are eligible for consideration, provided that they are new works and will remain unseen by the public until the event. Selected short films will play either with a feature or as part of specially selected programs. For complete information, visit www.telluridefilmfestival.org/.
The first-ever Video Game Showdown will pit the most skilled POKEMON DIAMOND and POKEMON PEARL players from the United States and Japan in a battle to determine the ultimate champion. The Pokemon Video Game Showdown will take place August 16 in Orlando, Florida and will feature 32 of the most talented players from each nation.
BlueCat Screenplay Competition offers entrants written feedback on their scripts. All screenplays entered by Dec. 1 will receive feedback by Jan. 1. Screenplays submitted by Jan. 2 will receive their analysis by Feb. 1. All early-bird submissions will be eligible for resubmission prior to the March 3 deadline for a reduced entry fee of $35.
Since 1998, the BlueCat Screenplay Competition's mission of developing the undiscovered screenwriter continues to reach more writers every year, with BlueCat having the largest cash prize for a screenplay contest offering feedback to all writers.
The Scriptapalooza Screenwriting Competition was founded in 1998, and has generated heat, publicity and a reputation that demands respect. Scriptapalooza, Inc., along with its various divisions, was created to nurture talent and create opportunities. Storytellers come from all over the world and from all walks of life, because of the simple fact that everyone has a story. Scriptapalooza's goal: to seek out that storyteller and honor their script with a grand prize of $10,000.
The call for entries for the Malescorto International Short Film Festival, the festival in Val Grande National Park, is open.
This year the competition is divided into three categories with eight money prizes from 500 to 2,500 Euros.
Short film types accepted include fiction, live action, animation and documentary.
Entry deadline: June 30 2008
For info and entry form: www.malescorto.it
Voting Ends: August 31, 2008
No cinemas, no queues, no tickets, no e-scalpers, no timetables. The third annual Portable Film Festival is an online film festival presenting the very best in international film and video culture.
Comic-Con International is the largest gathering of comic book, science fiction, film and television fans in the nation. Featuring celebrity guests, seminars on breaking into filmmaking and near 24-hour film retrospectives. Comic-Con is the place for fans of all things pop culture. For more information, visit www.comic-con.org.
Project Twenty1 is now accepting team signups for its 2008 Filmmaking Competition. Filmmakers eager to take on the challenge are invited to participate and bring a brand-new film from concept to screen in 21 Days this summer. The competition's launch event, where all filmmaking teams will learn the secret "Element" that their film must include, will take place Saturday, July 19 and their films will be due at the drop event on August 9, 21 days later.
Eastgate Films is looking for a handful of talented screenwriters to write select scenes for a motion picture titled THE SHILOH PROPHECY, open to anyone. Visit www.eastgatefilms.com/contests.htm for more details. Contact: info@eastgatefilms.com.
Deadline: January 15, 2009.
Entry Fee: $25 Dates reflect deadlines for electronic submission or postmark of mailed scripts.
Awards: $1,000 first place. Your written scene (and four other finalists) to be filmed and cut into THE SHILOH PROPHECY. A Copy of Final Draft 7 to all five contestants.
Antipode Entertainment is looking for short animated films for it’s spring line-up of pre-show entertainment. Ideally we are looking animated films that run 30 seconds to one minute long, not including credits. Films should be available in HD. The pre-show entertainment program is designed to show animated films between ads and sponsors in the pre-show videos shown in theaters, film festivals, and other entertainment venues.
To submit you can send web links to info@antipodemedia.com, or mail a DVD to:
Antipode Entertainment Inc.PO Box 19204
Located in Los Angeles, California, Anime Expo, the nation's largest anime/manga convention, serves to foster trade, commerce and the interests of the general public and animation/ comics industry. This event serves as a key meeting place for the general public to express their interest and explore various aspects of anime/manga, as well as for members of the industry to conduct business. AX 2008 will be held July 3-6, 2008 at the Los Angeles Convention Center in Southern California. More information can be found at its website (www.anime-expo.org).
Following up on last year's huge success, CGarchitect.com is hosting the 5th annual Architectural 3D Awards to be awarded at this year's Mundos Digitales Conference in La Coruna, Spain. The Awards Competition is open to everyone in the Architectural Visualization industry to highlight the best imagery and animations done in 2007 and 2008.
Vicon, developer of Academy Award-winning motion capture systems and part of the Oxford Metrics Group, is currently accepting submissions for the Vicon Film Festival online at www.vicon.com/filmfestival/.
With a grand prize of $10,000, the international competition aims to find the most creative and entertaining use of a series of motion capture sequences in an animated short. The competition is open to original short films (between two and five minutes long) using motion capture data made available for download from the Vicon Film Festival website.
Launched in 2002, Subway Cinema's New York Asian Film Festival is America's leading and most influential showcase for popular Asian cinema. Each year, the Festival selects more than 30 feature films, considering only the best, the strangest, and the most entertaining of the recent titles.
The Los Angeles Film Festival features world premieres, including independent films and major studio releases, tribute screenings, free outdoor movies, celebrity-filled red carpets, VIP parties and more. Drawing a diverse audience of more than 60,000 attendees, the festival offers interactive programming, family-friendly events and more than 75 features and 60 short film screenings from around the world.
