We are now accepting entries for our 15th edition, which will run from 24 - 28 April 2012. KICFF is looking for high quality shorts, long shorts, features and documentaries to be screened in our main section and numerous side bars of Norway's largest festival for films for children and youth. Read our guidelines below and fill in our online entry form.

Kristiansand International Children’s Film Festival (KICFF) is an annual festival established to promote film and video for children aged 3 - 14. For teenagers we promote films in the Youth Programme (14+).

PROGRAMMES
The Main Programme is devoted to new feature films for children for theatrical and video release. Titles are selected on artistic merit. The sidebars will consist of several short film programmes, Panorama, Youth Programme (14+), documentaries and long shorts. Special attention will be paid to new films from the Nordic countries, but traditionally, all parts of the world are represented.

The festival has a screening club for professionals.

The Festival management makes the selection for the Festival.

AWARDS
FILM&KINO’s Children’s Film Award: An international jury awards the best film in the Main Programme with NOK 75.000 as well as a diploma, to support Norwegian distribution for the film. Presented by FILM & KINO.

The Ludi Award:Audience award for best film in the Main Programme, including a statuette and a diploma.

The ECFA Award: A professional jury awards the best film in the Main Programme with a ECFA diploma and the winner is nominated to comepe for Best European Children’s Film of the year (announced at the 2013 Berlinale Generation).

The Don Quijote Award : An international jury awards the most outstanding film in the Youth Programme (14+). The award is presented by The International Federation of Film Societies FICC.

 

THE ENTRY FORM MUST BE ACCOMPANIED BY THE FOLLOWING:

- A DVD screener or digital file (link to e.g. Vimeo, ftp access or Dropbox)

- A synopsis of the film, maximum 50 words.

- A digital photo from the film. 300 dpi. (please upload via web form)

- A listing of the film's participation and Awards received at other Film festivals.

- The festival accepts 35 mm prints, Video (Beta SP PAL or DigiBeta), DCP, Blu-Ray Disck and digital file (Prores 4.2.2 / 4.2.2HQ) as screening formats. English subtitles are required.

ENTRIES MUST BE SENT BEFORE FEBRUARY 1st 2012

Address for DVDs and other material (please contact us if you want to send your screener with courier rather than regular mail)

Kristiansand International Children’s Film Festival,
Kristiansand Kino
P.O. Box 356
4663 Kristiansand
Norway

FOR MORE INFORMATION PLEASE CONTACT:

Programme coordinator: Even Thunes Jensen,
Tel: + 47 3810 4320 / + 47 9592 4433 Fax: + 47 3810 4201

PUPPETMAKING FOR STOP-MOTION-ANIMATION
from Armature to final Character
basic techniques for efficient puppets
Next Date: 20.-22. April 2012 (german spoken)
MORE INFO @ http://www.weirdoughmation.de/eworkshops.htm

Do you have an idea for an animated feature or TV series?
Do you want to make BIG $$$?
How do you avoid losing your shirt in production? Studio Executive & Producer of Academy Award-Winning Films (Beauty and the Beast, Aladdin), Max Howard, and independent animation producer, Mark Simon, will share their secrets that have produced award-winning and money-making animations! Date: Tuesday, April 10, 2012Time: Live, 9:00 p.m. EST/ 6:00 p.m. PST

Length: 2-3+ hours

Cost: $95Location: Anywhere. Login/phone in/ Skype inRegister: http://www.sellyourtvconceptnow.com/producing-animated-features-with-max-howard/You will discover:Where to pitch your film & TV animationWhere to raise production fundsOne piece of advice that could save you MILLION$Which animation studios are best to work withIf you should produce a pilotWhen you should set up a toy dealIndustry insider tips to estimate movie incomeHow much money the creators of South Park have madeThe best film & TV markets to attendHow Despicable Me overcame a terrible titleWhy Mars Needs Moms bombed – BIGHow Hoodwinked became one of the most successful independent animated films of all timeAnd more...

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

Submission is free! AWARDS and PRIZ€S!

Deadline 31st of May 2012.

More Info at www.scratchfilmfestival.it

email: info@scratchfilmfestival.it

Modernism was enthusiastically embraced by animators of the 1950s. Led by Hollywood’s United Productions of America (UPA) studio, animators began exploring new styles and designs diametrically opposed to the fairy-tale worlds created by Walt Disney. Esteemed animation historian Jerry Beck curates and hosts two programs of theatrical cartoons, presented in conjunction with California Design. Both programs offer visually-exciting—and rarely seen—cartoons in 35mm and include several Oscar-winning shorts.

Bing Theater | $10 general admission; $7 for LACMA members, seniors (62+), and students with valid ID; $5 LACMA Film Club members. | Tickets 323 857-6010 or purchase online.

Reel Feedback is having a FREE Animation Reel Review event on March 29th in Emeryville!!
If you are an animation student bring your reel and get free advice and feedback from some of the top animators in the bay area. We'll have lead and supervising animators from ILM, Tippett studio and Massive Black!
If you don't have a reel yet, but are working on an animation clip, bring it and we'll review it. It will be a great chance to find out where your reel is at.
This is a rare opportunity for one night only. Get your notebook ready!

Here is the details: March 29th from 7-10 pm at Lanesplitters in Emeryville.
For more information, here is a link to the event site:
http://www.reelfeedback.com/march-reel-review/

We also had a Free Reel Review last December. The turnout was huge - we reviewed over 150 reels in one night.
We created a short video from that event:
http://www.reelfeedback.com/free-reel-review/

Hope to see you there.

Hans Brekke

The second edtion of Be there! Corfu Animation Festival. 2 international competitive sections for shorts and graduation shorts, tributes & retrospectives, workshops and Kids, Be there!

Animation is a specific imaging technique that is increasingly applied within a wide range of audiovisual forms of expression, such as cartoons, music videos, special effects for movies, motion graphics on TV, visual art, performances, games, web design and mobile telephone applications.

Animation is much deeper embedded in the fabric of society than most of us are aware of; we all get into contact with it in our daily lives. Many people are potentially interested in animation, but they find it hard to place this form of visual art in a context. Animation combines elements of many forms of art: painting, sculpture, photography, film, music, etc. Few artists have to be as versatile as an animation director. The label 'animation film' covers a wide variety of productions ranging from vulnerable artistic films to commercial box office hits. The medium lends itself to the most diverging subjects and appeals to both younger and older audiences, regardless of sex, educational level or cultural background.

The Holland Animation Film Festival provides an (inter)national platform for this special art form. The festival, which was founded in 1985, takes place over a period of five days at several locations in the city of Utrecht, the Netherlands. The festival started as a biennial festival and became a yearly event in 2009 so it can offer an even more up-to-date programme and really monitor developments as they unfold. In 2012 the festival dates move from the beginning of November to the end of March to fit even better in the international festival calendar.

The festival highlights the latest developments and new talent, shows theme programmes and retrospectives, and organizes activities like talk shows, master classes and lectures. Main programme sections are The Cutting Edge and the competitions. The Cutting Edge presents the often exciting and pioneering interplay between film, fine art, games and the internet. HAFF organizes international competitions for animated shorts, feature films, applied animation (animation films produced in commission) and animation for internet. HAFF organises also a European competition for student films and there’s an audience award for the best Dutch animation. Attendance figures confirm that screening animation in competition is an attractive format. The competition programmes are screened in the largest theatres, often drawing a capacity crowd.

The 14th edition of Future Film Festival

Bologna, Italy.  March 27th to April 1st 2012.

During the last fourteen years, Future Film Festival has become the most significant Italian event dedicated to animation and special effects. Every year, the most important film-directors, art-directors and creative-producers come to Bologna to show their own films’ premiéres, backstages of their successes and exclusive pictures from new productions. A preview of the future, but not only: Future Film Festival dedicates retrospectives to the history of animated cinema and sci-fi, as well as meetings and events about new technologies applications to other fields, like web and videogames.

Future Film Festival 2012 main focus will be “the end of the world”, according to the prophecies that look at this year as the fateful one for Planet Earth, and proposing a huge roundup of catastrophic movies, monsters and many other disasters on 35mm. From the famous Airport (1970) to the spectaculars Twister and Titanic, many times mentioned in movies and that will turn 100 years in 2012. In collaboration with Università degli Studi di Bologna.

Anibar International Animation Festival – Call for Entries
The 3rd annual Anibar Animation Festival is pleased to announce that the Call for Entries is now open. We invite all filmmakers to submit their animated films for consideration. The call is open till Saturday, June 30, 2012.
A link to the online application form is available here.
Additionally, films may be submitted using the online submission platform Reelport.

Anibar is scheduled for August 22nd - 27th 2012 in Peja, Kosovo.