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

ICLES’ Motilal Jhunjhunwala College

Presents

Bhumika International Film Festival 2012

Gaining an ever escalating support and popularity every year, since 6 years, Bhumika Film Festival stands as an encouraging platform for the young creative media students to showcase their talent and gain guidance from the experts in the industry. An initiative by the Mass Media students of ICLES’ Motilal Jhunjhunwala College, Bhumika has been an electrifying success at the amateur level platform. With a participation of all BMM and non-BMM colleges, an audience count over 1400 every day and a long list of celebrities and industry experts, the scale and response together has made Bhumika the biggest ever amateur film festival in India

 

This is the 7th year of Bhumika International Film Festival. This is festival will last for three successive days. Awards will be given to the best three films in every catagory which are

1 ANIMATED FILMS

2 Short Films (Open Category)

3 Music Videos

4 Documentaries

5 One minute videos

6 Public Service Ads

7 Commercial Ads

 

visit our website

www.bhumika.tv

 

mail us at: info@bhumika.tv

Contact For submission.

Public Relation:

Saurish +91 9773548247

Zeeshan +91 9773248719

 

You can also submit your films by uploading or sending their upload links. Just fillup the form from www.bhumika.tv or send your quries

info@bhumika.tv

biff.pr@gmail.com

 SIGGRAPH 2012 will bring thousands of computer graphics and interactive technology professionals from six continents to Los Angeles, California for the industry's most respected technical and creative programs focusing on research, science, art, animation, music, gaming, interactivity, education, and the web from Sunday, 5 August through Thursday, 9 August 2012 at the Los Angeles Convention Center. SIGGRAPH 2012 includes a three-day exhibition of products and services from the computer graphics and interactive marketplace from 7-9 August 2012. More details are available on the SIGGRAPH 2012 Facebook and Twitter.

About ACM SIGGRAPH
The ACM Special Interest Group on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques is an interdisciplinary community interested in research, technology, and applications in computer graphics and interactive techniques. Members include researchers, developers and users from the technical, academic, business, and art communities. ACM SIGGRAPH enriches the computer graphics and interactive techniques community year-round through its conferences, global network of professional and student chapters, publications, and educational activities.

About ACM
ACM, the Association for Computing Machinery is the world’s largest educational and scientific computing society, uniting educators, researchers, and professionals to inspire dialogue, share resources, and address the field’s challenges. ACM strengthens the computing profession’s collective voice through strong leadership, promotion of the highest standards, and recognition of technical excellence. ACM supports the professional growth of its members by providing opportunities for lifelong learning, career development, and professional networking.

Postponed to 15 January 2012, the deadline to participate at the ninth edition of Cortoons, International Festival of Short Animated Films.

 

This year, it will be from 14 to 18 March 2012, in the usual venue at the Palladium Theater, in Rome.

 

The competition categories are 7: Italian Short Films, International Short Films 1-4 minutes, 4-20 minutes Shorts International; Shorts Schools, Videoclips, VFX.

 

- The subject is free

- There is no fee

- The films must be made after1st January 2010

- All-animation techniques are eligible

- The deadline is on 1st January 2012

- The Festival is free of charge

 

Download the entry form from the website www.cortoons.it in the section: 'Registration and Regulation'

 

Contact us at:

info@cortoons.it

produzione@cortoons.it

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!

CALL FOR ENTRIES - CORTOONS FESTIVAL 2012

Cortoons, International Animated Film Festival, is opening registrations for its ninth edition, that will be held next March 2012 (14-18th) at Palladium Theatre in Rome (Italy).

The competition’s categories are seven:

Italian Short movie ; International Short movie from 1 to 4 minutes and from 4 to 20 minutes; Graduation Film; VFX ; Videoclip ; Feature Film

The subject is free.
Admission free.
All techniques of animation accepted.
The short films must be realized after 1st of January 2010
Deadline: 1st of Genuary 2012

The festival is totally free

WE PREFER ITALIAN OR (AT LEAST) ENGLISH SUBTITLED MOVIES

To download the entry form and for further informations visit:
http://www.cortoons.it/

Contacts:

info@cortoons.it

redazione@cortoons.it


Visit our web TV
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http://cortoons2d.twww.tv/?onair
http://cortoonskids.twww.tv/?onair

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.

Arena's Creative Minds event is being organized for the past 8 years in various regions across the country to enrich the creative potential among arena students. To promote original contents in India, Arena has decided to offer this platform to studios and individuals that are into IP creation and/or Short film making to exhibit their work to industry veteran and media.

 

CREATIVE MINDS 2011 - WEST zone is scheduled on 15th Dec 2011. Please find below the time and venue details below.

 

Time: 10 AM to 5 PM

Venue:

The Fine Arts society Auditorium

RC Marg

Chembur

Mumbai - 71

Structure of the competition

Categories

Best Animated Original IP for Film/ TV series (any medium)Best Animated Short Film (any medium)

Details of the Categories

 1. Best Animated Original IP for Film/ TV series (2D/ 3D/ Stop Motion):

International Animation Festival with competition sections for Short, Student and Greek animated films.

Cortoons TV: the Portal of short animated movie

(www.cortoons.tv)

 

Inside it, there are five dedicated channels: Cortoons TV, Cortoons Music, Cortoons 2D, Cortoons 3D, Cortoons Kids, already present on the platform Streamit at www.twww.tv

 

Tomorrow, October 28, simultaneously at the start of the International Animation Day, Cortitalia will launch the new entertainment portal: Cortoons TV at www.cortoons.tv . 

Visible for free, in three different languages ​​according to the access point, the portal includes its five dedicated TV channels - TV Cortoons, Cortoons Music Cortoons 2D, 3D Cortoons, Cortoons Kids – with a single portal interface with different instruments for each ones.

 

Each channel has of course its own different and original schedule, but all point to a common element: the vocation to transmit short animation. In this direction Cortoons Tv transmits a selection of the best short films from all around the world; Cortoons 2D give space for international products in 2D and Cortoons 3D does the same but with this different technique. Cortoons Kids, instead, speak to children for an educational and fun vision at the same time. Finally, Cortoons Music that has its focus on videoclips.

 

“Our portal will not be a classic Web Tv - says Alessandro D’Urso, artistic director of Cortitalia - and it won’t even be an exact copy of existing television content. On the contrary, relying on the platform Streamit, we define a real flow television, which offers each day a completely new programming.”

 

For a long time the five channels were present in the new platform Streamit on Twww.Tv, the TV browser founded by Gianni Armetta and Federico Luzi. Specifically, Cortoons Tv, positioned on channel 2 on the remote virtual Streamit, was one of the first to mount the platform established in 2007. The relationship between Cortitalia and Streamit is therefore a strong link that stands out in time, as demonstrated by the fact that the project “Cortoons Tv” was designed by Miller, the communication agency controlled by the two founders of the TV browser.

 

Cortitalia is a cultural association that has a strong activity in the field of short films. For years, it was involved in organizing Cortoons, International Short Film Festival of Animation in Rome, but has also created events like: the Agrigentocortofest, the P.I.A.F.F. and Casertanimata.