Anima, the International Animation Film Festival of Brussels will take place at the Flagey Centre from 4th to 13th March 2011 and will be celebrating its 30th edition. In fact, the first ever Anima took place in February 1982. Over one hundred films in the official competition (shorts and features, commercials and music videos), retrospectives, exhibitions, film master classes, workshops for the kids, the Futuranima professional days, round table discussions, numerous guests and cine-concerts, make Brussels THE international appointment with animation for the beginning of the year. If you add events like "the Animated Night", the Cartoon d'Or and the Cosplay, Anima has established itself as a must for the thirty thousand spectators that flock to the Flagey Centre. And a special date to mark with a cross this year: we'll be celebrating thirty years of surprises, fun and discoveries.

Anima 2011 Competition

Short-film: short animated films made after June 30, 2009 regardless of its geographic origin, except of Belgium.Student film: short animated films made after June 30, 2009 regardless of its geographic origin, except of Belgium.Music videos and Commercials : short animated films made after June 30, 2009 regardless of its geographic origin.Feature-film previews: animated feature films made after June 30, 2009, regardless of its geographic origin.Feature-film for children previews: animated feature films made after June 30, 2009, regardless of its geographic origin.Belgian shorts: Belgian animated films completed after June 30, 2009.

Amongst these categories, some shorts will constitute an international competition and some others a national competition, with money prizes from 1.000 up to 2.500 Euros.

The Festival looks after the round trips of selected films and awards anumber of cash and other prizes to the winners.

Deadlines

Entry forms: October 15, 2010 (no entry fees)
Arrival of prints: February 11, 2011

The next Anima, the Brussels International Animation Film Festival, will take place in Flagey from February 17 to 26, 2012.

Over one hundred and fifty films in the international competition (shorts and features, commercials, music videos), retrospectives, exhibitions, lessons, workshops for the kids, the Futurama professional days, round-table discussions, numerous guests and concerts make Brussels an international appointment not to be ignored. It's also the place to find out about Belgian animation with a national competition and screenings in panorama. Add to that a very "Animated Night" full of films, a special animation Cosplay show, and Anima easily confirms itself a "must" for the thirty five thousand spectators that flock to Flagey, the prestigious cultural centre of Belgium's capital city.

Anima 2012 Competition:

Awards for Best FeatureAwards for Best Shorts FilmsAwards for Best Advertising FilmAwards for Best Music VideoNomination for the Cartoon d'Or

From December 3-10, film fans flock to Leuven. For the 17th year straight, the International Short Film Festival Leuven offers a broad and very colorful selection of the best short film has to offer. Expect hundreds of new shorts, animation films, videos, documentaries and innovative cross-overs, selected out of thousands of international entries. The festival is a round-up of a great year in cinema, but also looks at the future. Besides being a platform for the short film medium, it also acts as a major talent hunt, where tomorrow’s filmmakers are able to present their first professional productions.

Festival Highlights

EUROPE IN SHORTS: Sundance, Clermont Ferrand, Regensburg, Hamburg, Locarno… our festival team travelled all over the world in search of the very best European short films. Once home, we go through over 2000 entries and select only forty, the cream of the crop of European shorts. The European competition shows films from over 17 countries.  In the non-competitive programmes dozens of new European shorts will be screened, in sections as "The Labo", "Short Films for Children", "Animation Nations" and "Finest Irish Shorts".MILESTONES IN SHORT FILM HISTORY: Milestones in Short Film History” is a collection of the most influential short films made throughout a century of cinematic history. It entails thirty movies produced between 1900 en 2000 that are typical of certain movements and evolutions in movie history or that introduced new techniques, procedures, styles, genres or directors. Together with the programma, the ISFFL presents a publication with the same title (Dutch-English) in witch all films are discussed.SHORT FILM COMPETITION:The ISFFL organises a Flemish and European Short Film Competition in which audience awards and jury awards are being granted. Besides the ISFFL awards the Flanders Audiovisual Fund grants 5 “Wildcards” for new Flemish film talent. The value of the prizes reaches almost 300.000 euro. The winners are announced at the award ceremony, on the last day of the festival, December 10thINDUSTRY ACTIVITIES: Each year, the International Short Film Festival welcomes countless young filmmakers and film professionals from all over the world. This edition boasts quite a few professional activities this year: an info session about Crowdfunding (organised by MEDIA Desk Flanders and SACD), a 2-day seminar about the Short Film in Flanders, a lecture by the Danish-American short film professor Richard Raskin “Story Design in Short fiction Film” and many more.

Barton Films in collaboration with Gorostilanda is organizing the 1st Bizkala International Animated Film Festival. The film festival will be a celebration of both short and full-length animated films. For more information, contact tel: +944352848, fax: +944352849 or e-mail: gorostilanda@gorostilanda.e.telefonica.net.

The Neum Animated Film Festival will take place from June 29-July 5 in Neum. The festival has two parts: a "working" festival where children can learn animation techniques, and the competition section of the festival where cartoons from all over the world are presented.

Cartoon selection is done by children who attend the working festival, and make decisions about all awards except for the Jury award.

The awards include Grand Prix, best 2D and 3D animated film, best music and best animated music video clip. NAFF 2007 developed from three working camps of animated cartoons: RAFF 2006, NEUM 2005, MOSTAR 2004 and NEUM 2004. 110 children from BiH, including 20 professors, were participants of these camps, with six short animated films made in these three camps.

Neum is the only town in Bosnia and Herzegovina at the Adriatic coast and is a main tourist destination. Information: www.naff.ba.

Anim!Arte is an international film festival of animation movies with focus in the student public. It has as objective to stimulate the culture, as soon as the professional artistic grown, of the Animation Business in Brazil. This has been instrumental in the production of animation movies, mainly among students.

During the event, competitive film festivals of movies made by students assemblage prizes for the winners. Although, there is a parallel film festival with professional moviemakers, Brazilian and international, that complete this group of selected movies.

In the competitive student’s animation film festival, there are three categories for brazilian students: basic education, highschool and college students. But, for international students, there is only one category in the competition. The best international animation done by a student (outside Brazil) wins the original Animarte´s Tropical Trophy.

The election is constructed by two juries’: the professional one, and the popular. The professional jury is composed by teachers, visual art professionals, drawers, animation moviemakers, filmmakers and journalists. Otherwise, the popular jury is composed by the spectators, who vote on the films in the festival.

Usually, the program also has lectures with professionals of the animation and of the audiovisual business, besides expositions and workshops of animation.

In its past editions, the festival already had received animations made by studen

Anima Mundi Web is Brazil's international animation Web competition. The event is open to all countries and work must be in Flash and gif formats. The festival will pre-select 20 animations and an international jury will vote for the winners. The international jury will consist of the people that have registered on the Anima Mundi Festival Web site. The winners will be announced on the closing night of the Anima Mundi Festival in Rio de Janeiro. The deadline for entries is June 1, 2000. For judging go to www.animamundiweb.com.br.

Serving as the major animation festival in South America, Anima Mundi offers the Brazilian audience the best works of independent animation, the most recent studio productions and important retrospectives. Founded in 1993, the main goal of this annual event has been to present animation in its diversity of styles, techniques and subject matters. The Festival provides the audience with a wide range of open activities, including workshops, lectures and exhibitions.

ANIMA MUNDI 2002, the 10th International Animation Festival of Brazil takes place in the cities of Rio de Janeiro from July 12th to 21st and S

Anima Mundi Web 2002 is the 3rd edition of the Internet Animation Contest of the International Animation Festival of Brazil, Anima Mundi.

The contest is open to works specially created for the internet, which may or not be previously released, produced by professional or amateur animators. There is no restrictions on themes and genres.

Works are accepted in a single category: animations produced in the ".swf" format only and not exceeding 1MB in size.

A cyber-jury - anyone who register on-line in the Anima Mundi Web site and the professional jury, will decide some of the winners.