Submit your animated films!

Dear filmmakers and friends of animated films,

in 2014 Stuttgart will again open up the doors to the great world of animated film. You would like to be a part of it and show your film to an international audience? The Stuttgart Festival of Animated Film (ITFS) will offer a platform to filmmakers, directors and production companies to present their films and give to fans of animated film the chance to watch animated short and feature films of all genres for six days.

The ITFS is one of the biggest and most important international festivals for animated film. It has developed into an essential event within the field of animated film in Germany and worldwide. Around 80,000 visitors and approximately 2,500 accredited professionals attended in 2013. Be a part of it and take the chance to meet well-known filmmakers and young talents, and to participate in numerous workshops, informational events and presentations.

The festival takes into its scope the entire spectrum of current animated film productions, including the intersections between games, architecture, art, design and fashion. Both professionals and friends of animated film appreciate the quality and up-to-date programmes as well as the unique atmosphere at Stuttgart’s Schlossplatz. Information, networking, creativity and professional expertise are major topics at the festival. Together, the ITFS, the Animation Production Day (APD), and the first-class industry conference FMX (Conference on Animation, Effects, Games and Transmedia) - all taking place concurrently - have developed into a unique and very important platform for the financing and development of animated projects.

Yet it is the art of animation and the promotion of up and coming talent that makes up the core of the ITFS. The various competition categories award cash prizes totalling more than 70,000 Euros.

Be a part of it! You are kindly invited to submit animated films produced after October 01, 2012 to one of the Festival’s following competition categories:

• International Competition (Short film competition)
• AniMovie (Feature-length film competition)
• Young Animation (Student film competition)
• Tricks for Kids – shorts and series (Competition for short films and TV series for children)
• Cartoons for Teens (Competition for short films, series, animes, machinimas and cut scenes from computer games)

SUBMISSION DEADLINE: December 01, 2013

Information on the terms and conditions, the competition categories and the awards as well as entry forms and regulations can be found on our homepage.

Entry forms and film uploads or DVDs have to be received by the Film- und Medienfestival gGmbH until December 01, 2013. To submit your film, please use your ITFS community account or create one. You can access both the online registration form and upload your film with this account. Films may also be submitted on DVD. Please read the regulations carefully. On submitting a film, the applicant agrees to the regulations and accepts that the film can be selected for any of the competitions or for another programme section.

For further information please contact
Andrea Bauer
Phone: +49 (0) 711-92546-115
e-mail: bauer(at)festival-gmbh.de

There are special entry forms for the competition for applied animation Animated Com Award, the German Screenplay Award (from October 15, 2013), and for the Live Animation Competition Crazy Horse Session – 48 h Animation Jam (from November 01, 2013).

More information on the festival you find on www.itfs.de/en.

We are looking forward to your submissions!

Kind regards

Prof. Ulrich Wegenast
Managing Director Programme

and

Dittmar Lumpp
Managing Director Organisation, Finances