Tricky Women International Animation Festival 2018

Note: Entry Form is attached!

Tricky Women is the first and only festival of animated film that is dedicated exclusively to animation by women filmmakers. Since 2001 it has been held in Vienna each March.

Since 2001 Tricky Women takes place every year in March around the date of the International Women’s Day. Tricky Women focuses on animated films made by women and therefore fills a unique position within the international festival landscape. Besides the competition the festival shows themed programs and retrospectives to present an exciting overview of the animated cinematic art of female artists from around the world and Austrian filmmakers as well. Historical curiosities and contemporary productions are part of Tricky Women’s programming.

Animated Documentaries, works of students of international film schools and academies, and the cinematographic reflection on the complex work/society were established as festival anchors.

Exhibitions, workshops and Best Practice-afternoons provide an insight into the creative work of filmmakers and offer the opportunity to get in touch with each other.

Tricky Women’s declared aim is to confront the audience with the unlimited aesthetics of animation films made by women.

Awards:

Tricky Women Award worth 4,000 Euro

3-month scholarship to live and work at Q21/MQ under the Artist-in-Residence Program

Neo-Tel Award worth 2,000 Euro

Sawczynski-Audience-Award worth 1,000 Euro

Sielecki Award worth 500 Euro (for an Austrian animation)

Tricky Women Audience Award

Awards and prize money will go to the directresses of the films.

The prizes and the amount of cash awarded may be subject to change.

The festival offers an international competition of animated short films finished after January 1st, 2016 and realised by female artists (male co-directors are welcome) or trans* inter* filmmakers.Each filmmaker, producer or distributor may submit as many films as they like. Each film submitted must be accompanied by an entry form and sent on a separate DVD. No films entered in prior Tricky Women Festivals shall be admitted.
Please don´t send any dropbox-links – we won´t accept them!

The deadline for applications for the preliminary selection is October 6th, 2017.

Special Call “Work/Work Affairs”

We welcome shorts entitled “work affairs” (work 4.0, income gap, basic income, work-life-balance, utopias, dystopias,...).

Special Call “100 Years of Women´s Suffrage, democracy & participation” (where do women stand today?).
and Animated Feature Films for our non-competitive sections.

The special calls are not limited to recent works or one film per artist only – feel free to send us as many of your films as you like, whether new or old. We are very much looking forward to receiving your entries!