TAIS SHOWCASE 2013
Short Film Entry

Have you made a short animated film during the past 2 years?
All genres, techniques and themes are acceptable.

The Toronto Animated Image Society is seeking independent animated films, 10 minutes in length or less, for TAIS’ Showcase 2013 screening: 7pm, Saturday May 11th, 2013 at Cinecycle.

There is no submission fee. Screening fees will be paid for all films selected for exhibition at the TAIS Animation Showcase 2013. Awards will be granted by a small jury panel and via an audience choice award. Come out and celebrate the art of animation with Toronto’s independent animation community.

TAIS ANIJAM 2013
UFO Theme

Unidentified Flying Objects.
Ultra Funky Ovens.
Uber Fat Onions.

Whatever UFO means to you…here’s your chance to animate it!
Give us 10 seconds of your freshest UFO’s for The TAIS Showcase Anijam 2013, UFO edition.

Deadline to Enter: 6pm, Friday April 12th, 2013
Screening: 7pm, May 11th, 2013 at Cinecycle: 129 Spadina Avenue, Toronto, ON (in the old coach house down the laneway)

Complete your submission online. Visit www.tais.ca for details.

Or mail your application and materials to:
“TAIS Showcase 2013”
1411 Dufferin Street, Unit B
Toronto, ON
M6H 4C7

We look forward to receiving your entries!

Thank you,

Janice

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Janice Schulman
TAIS Administrator
Toronto Animated Image Society
tais.animation@gmail.com
www.tais.ca

The call for entries of SorsiCorti Short Film Festival 7th Edition is online.

The event, produced by Piccolo Teatro Patafisico, will consist of three evenings that will take place May 10-11-12, 2013 in Palermo.

This year we offer four sections in contest, with a few changes from previous editions: a national competition "On any subject Italy" for works produced in Italy, the running time of which must not exceed 20 minutes for Fiction, Animation, Videoart categories and 30 minutes for Documentary category; an international competition "On any subject International Competition" for works produced outside Italy, the running time of which must not exceed 20 minutes

for Fiction, Animation and Video art categories and 30 minutes for Documentary category; the real novelty of this year "Cortissimi/a glass in a minute" for works produced in or outside Italy, the running time of which must not exceed 1 minute, with the appearance of wine in video as a prerequisite; and the last section “SorsiSound” dedicated to music video clips from and outside Italy.

Registration for the competition is open until March 4, 2013.

 

CALL FOR ENTRIES

 

APPLICATION FORM

 

Send us your short features, animations, trash movies, documentaries, music videos, etc. We bring everything on screen that is freaky, crafty, slick, hard-boiled, and witty! Anything is allowed - as long as it's short and cheap!

 

As a short film festival for low & no budget productions, ClipAward explicitly addresses independent filmmakers who make films without big money. Therefore, your submissions may not be produced within the scope of media studies and exceed 500€ per minute. The maximum length is 15 minutes. The shorts have to be subtitled in German or English.

 

The festival takes place from April 26th-28th, 2013 in the Mannheim Palace, Germany.

 

CALL4ENTRIES AS PDF

 

Submission Deadline: March, 1st 2013

VAFI is a film festival for animated films made by children or youth under 18 years.

 

VAFI has no entry fee.

FESTIVAL DATE: 25th – 28th April 2013

SUBMISSION DEADLINE: 25th January 2013

PARTNER: MTV Croatia

 

CATEGORIES:

(for films made by children and youth)

 

VAFI has three categories divided by age of the authors. In that way awards could be given more fairly. Every category has its name.

THE CITRUS CEL ANIMATION FILM FESTIVAL PRESENTED BY DRIPSBLACK

The Citrus Cel Animation Film Festival (Citrus Cel) is a non profit organization that celebrates animation as a cultural and commercial medium with three days of screenings, parties and panels in Jacksonville, Florida. Citrus Cel will act as a hub for students and professionals from the fields of animation, design, illustration, and film, as well as add to the growing cultural landscape of festivals and events in northeast Florida. 

Film Programming: The following categories will provide audiences with a broad array of animated projects to enjoy:

Feature Films

Student Short Films

Movie and Television Title Sequences

Broadcast Animations

Visual Effects

Classical Animation

Experimental and Mixed Media

2D Animation

3D Animation

Stop Motion

Gaming Animation

Shorts for Kids

CALL! -Tricky Women 2013, Vienna 

        March 6-10

Ø  The festival offers an international competition of animated short films realised by female artists and produced in 2011 or 2012.

 

Ø  Moreover, this year we are looking forward to entries dealing with the topic "distributive justice", which can also have been produced earlier than 2011/2012.

          

Ø  The deadline for applications for the preliminary selection is October 19th, 2012.

 

Ø  Please check out trickywomen.at for further information & forms.

The 2013 Byron Bay International Film Festival
REGULAR ENTRY DEADLINE: 27th September 2012
FINAL ENTRY DEADLINE: 1st November 2012

7th Byron Bay International Film Festival March 1st to 10th 2013

The 2013 BBFF will screen for 10 days in beautiful sub-tropical Byron Bay. The first place in Australia to see the sun, Byron Bay provides an exotically beautiful backdrop for the festival,  with world-class beaches only a short stroll from the venue. BBFF provides an opportunity for filmmakers to present their work at a truly distinctive film festival.

This Festival attracts International filmmakers, directors, producers, performers, cultural tourists and prominent members of Australia’s film industry, not to mention a wealth of appreciative audience members. The range of films and genres screened are diverse and dynamic. 

The festival’s organisers are passionate about supporting independent filmmakers in all stages of their careers. They firmly believe in the creation of positive opportunities to showcase the fresh and amazing works of talented creatives to an open intelligent audience as well as to some well connected highly respected Judges.

The festival features an award for the Best Young Australian Filmmaker and is open to Australian Directors and Producers under 25. It also offers young Australian filmmakers reduced entry fees for their films. All accepted Filmmakers are encouraged to attend the festival.

Through-out 5 venues BBFF2012 featured 47 public screenings many of which featured introductions and Q & A sessions by attending filmmakers, free workshops & panels, industry networking functions, Schools Screenings, family-friendly films, free showcases of experimental films plus a popular a balcony bar for the audience to mix with filmmakers. The festival hosted 16 World Premieres, 107 Australian Premiere’s, and over 200 films from 39 countries. Two highlights of the Festival are always the Gala Red Carpet Opening and Closing Nights with catered parties which always attract full houses.

All films entered will automatically be considered for nomination in any award categories that the film might qualify for during the selection process. BBFF awards include but are not limited to Best Film,
Documentary, Short Film, Drama, Cinematography, Surf Film, Animation, Experimental Film, Environmental Film, Music Video, Best Young Australian Filmmaker (open to Australian Director’s under 25) & an award for the Best Local Film. Filmmakers are encouraged to use the
paperless entry system Withoutabox and further details can be found at www.bbff.com.au

The Byron Bay International Film Festival is open to films of all lengths and all genres. Films in competition must have been completed after Jan 1st 2010.

The 22th International Animated Film Festival « Les Nuits Magiques » will takes place in the following places from 2012, december 5th to 18th : « Le Festival » movie theater in Bègles, « Utopia » movie theater in Bordeaux, « L'Entrepôt » auditorium in Le Haillan, « Simonde Signoret » center in Canéjan, the « Maison des Arts » in the Bordeaux 3 University.

The festival goal is to show the diversity of animation, screening animated short and feature films which come from all over the world and which use diferents animation techniques.

All animated short and feature films are eligible if they are directed after 2009 december the 31th.

We only can accept 35mm print (optical sound), DCP print or DVD as screening copies. We only can accept 35mm film if the print is allready in France or in Europe during the festival period. Otherwise, the film will be screen on DVD.

Foreign films are eligible only if they are subtitled in french, with french dialogues or without dialogues.

Entry form will be available on our website www.lesnuitsmagiques.fr. No registration fee is required.

Hey All,

I wanted to share an event with you taking place in March of 2013. The Citrus Cel Animation Film Festival is running a competition called JUICED! This is a 24hr animation competition where teams are given a few texture assets and a theme, and they are given the task of creating an animated short in a mere 24hrs.

This is our second installment of JUICED!, and we would love to get some of you talented animators from the 11 second club to participate. You do not have to be present at the festival to participate and all animation can be done remotely, and submitted to the competitions sponsored YouSendit drop box.

For more information about the festival, or to register for the competition, feel free to visit http://www.citruscel.com/juiced2013/

Do you have what it takes to get JUICED!?

Etiuda&Anima International Film Festival, organized in Krakow since 1994, is the oldest international film event in Poland confronting the achievements of art and film school students from all over the globe with the works of the authors of artistic animation including professional, student and independent filmmakers.

Among events accompanying international contest of animated films and student etudes there are: the annual award for the outstanding artist and pedagogue, Etiuda&Anima ”Top Tens” – unique sets of the best of the best animations chosen by experts, ”Classic Artists of European Animation” enabling to familiarize oneself with those achievements of the world’s animation which still remain little known in Poland,  ”Animators’ Self-Portraits”, a cycle which provides the audience with unique opportunity to watch some of the best authors of various animation genres creating their film works live, or the premieres of the most interesting feature animated films from all over the world.

For the past four years the festival has also included various film workshops in: scriptwriting, directing, cinematography, editing and animation conducted by well-known artists and pedagogues from the world’s leading film schools.

The festival enjoys highly reputable position among world’s film events of similar type and every year is becoming more and more popular among both artists and oustanding personages of the film world, as well as viewers who come to Krakow to attend it in large numbers.

 

19. Międzynarodowy Festiwal Filmowy Etiuda&Anima

19th International Film Festival Etiuda&Anima

23rd – 29th November 2012, Kraków, Poland

 

Call for entries – deadline 17th September 2012

 

Stowarzyszenie Rotunda, ul. Oleandry 1, 30-060 Kraków, Poland

tel.: +48 12 633 35 38, fax: +48 12 633 76 48

www.etiudaandanima.com 

e-mail: biuro@etiudaandanima.com