The Festival International du Film d'Aubagne is a film festival which highlights composers and soundtracks as well as directors! Animation plays a big part in their selection, and there is now a Call For Entries for both short and feature works.
For six days live action film and animation directors and their composers took center stage at the International Festival of Music and Cinema in Aubagne, France. The aim of the festival is to bring together young artists with professional film makers and composers. With more than 140 composers at the festival along with other people involved in all branches of the film and animation industry, networking was a high priority.
The KLIK Amsterdam Animation Festival call for Entries closes on 1 June 2017. Don’t wait too long - fill out the entry form at www.klik.amsterdam.
Annecy 2017 will take place from 12th to 17th June, 2017.
You can submit films or be selected for the Mifa Pitch sessions with your projects.
9,000 Animators watching over 500 Films Screened in 6 Days: IT MUST BE ANNECY - 13 – 18 June, 2016, Annecy, France
Submission deadline is December 1, 2016 for the 24th Stuttgart Festival of Animated Film (May 2 –7, 2017) for films produced after October 1, 2015.
Fan-made stop-motion animated shorts featuring the new line of toys from the forthcoming movie launch on the ‘Star Wars’ YouTube channel.
In the 7 years since its inception the Golden Kuker International Animation Festival has become an important event in Sofia. Under the guidance of founder Nadezhda Slavova, the festival continues to grow. This year 935 short films and 15 feature films were submitted to the selection committee.
Weekend-long event running July 9-11 connects rising talent with mentors with opportunity for college students to create original animation based on the imaginative world of Ian Jones-Quartey’s ‘O.K. KO! Let’s Be Heroes.’
The Cinanima 40th International Animated Film Festival in Espinho, Portugal is accepting entries until 10 July, 2016.
Anima Brussels, from 5 February to 14 February, is packed full of film, workshops and special informative sessions.
International award for new creative talent in animated design.
Over the years animators have asked me “aren’t you afraid to go to Russia?” and “what would happen if you got seriously ill there?” The answer to the first question has always been no, attending KROK is very safe and I have never been afraid in Russia. Now I can answer the second question with firsthand knowledge. The KROK staff will make sure that you get excellent medical treatment if you should get seriously ill.
My only previous encounter with Belarus was when I was thrown off the train in Minsk and sent back to Poland because I didn’t have a Belarus travel visa on my trip from Belgium to Moscow. This all changed when I was invited to be a juror at the Animaevka Animation Festival.
Call for entries for the 7th International Animation Film Festival - Golden Kuker in Sofia, Bulgaria, held from May 9 - 15 May, 2016.
Online debut marks the first time a mini-movie from the ‘Despicable Me’ franchise has been made available in its entirety prior to the home entertainment release.
Just like in Hollywood, it would seem that there is also a glass ceiling at the Annecy Festival.
The Taiwan International Graphic Design Award (TIGDA) 2015 competition has opened for entries and designers from all regions and countries are invited to participate.
The Competition is open for innovative works in two categories – Poster Design and Corporate Identity Design – through individual or group registration.
Almost 30 separate awards – medals and certificates – will be announced in November 2015 and the best works will be features in a special publication prepared by the organizer.
Each of the two main competition categories have subcategories:
Submitted entries must be original creations of the contestants completed after 30 June 2013.
The competition is organized by the Department of Commerce, Ministry of Economic Affairs of China in collaboration with International Council of Design (ico-D) and Japan Graphic Designers Association (JAGDA).
No Entry Fee!
It's free to enter.
FESA – Festival of European Student Animation, was established in 2012
under the auspices of Serbian Ministry for Culture.
The main goal of the festival is to promote the art of animation
from the European countries and to create conditions that will enable
the younger generation to conquer new concepts and new technologies.
The Festival of European Student Animation is going to be held
in the period of August 29th to 30th 2015.
The Festival comprises of Students Competition programme
(film schools and single student authors)
This year’s competition theme is SYMBOLS
in the widest sense of the terms.
Deadline: September 9, 2015 (18:00 Japan Standard Time)
The Japan Media Arts Festival is a comprehensive festival of Media Arts (Media Geijutsu) that honors outstanding works from a diverse range of media - from animation and comics to media art and games. The festival gives awards in each of its four divisions: Art, Entertainment, Animation, and Manga. Since its inception in 1997, the festival has recognized significant works of high artistry and creativity, and in addition to a yearly Exhibition of Award-winning Works has held other events, such as symposiums, screenings, and showcases.
Entries are sought from professional, amateur, independent and commercial creators across the globe. Works completed or released between September 3, 2014 and September 9, 2015 are eligible for entry in the four divisions - Art, Entertainment, Animation and Manga.
When ANIFILM International Festival of Films comes to town for one week each year the historic spa town of Trebon becomes the animation capitol of the Czech Republic. The festival combines the best of the new animation with screenings of historic Czech films. The festival is a puppet animator’s dream, with screenings of films by such masters of the art as Jiri Trnka and Vlasta Pospisilova. There were even live puppet shows in the park which surrounds the castle in the center of town.
Each year the Fete De l’Anim brings students from all over Europe together with a small group of international professionals for three days of master classes, screenings, and hands on projects. It is a marvellous opportunity for students to hear some of the top professionals from the world of independent animation as well as people from such studios as Pixar and Disney talk about the processes they use to create their work. The students also have the opportunity to ask questions and show their portfolios to the masters to get feedback.
ANIMA Brussels ushered in the year of the sheep in grand style with the Belgian premier of Shaun the Sheep Movie on their opening night. Aardman Studio is back doing what it does best, pure entertainment in flawless claymation. The 85 minute film brings Shaun and his fellow sheep to the big screen with all of the usual suspects from the television series.
KLIK! INTERNATIONAL ANIMATION FESTIVAL at THE EYE in AMSTERDAM, 4 - 9 November 2014
KLIK! is always a perfect blend of excellent animation and fun, Fun, FUN, but when Lesley the Pony pranced into the Eye this year he brought a whole new meaning to fun! The spirit of Lesley the Pony, created by Christian Larrave as his junior year project at the Rhode Island School of Design (USA), fit right in with this year’s festival theme of Gender Bending: Girls, Boys, and Beyond.
