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

The organizers would like to announce the third edition of "AniFestRozafa 2012" Event. The International Festive Event of animated film for children and by children will be held in the city of Shkodra, Albania during the period September 23- 30, 2012. 

The organizers of the International Festive Event of animated film are experienced creators in this genre of film and are happy to invite colleagues to participate by sending their films to our festival.

The Festive Event “AniFestROZAFA 2012” will be contest of artistic values both in the official competition section and in the presenting section of international animated films for children, that of international films made by children themselves, as well as films made by students from international schools of animation.
The assessment of the artistic values will be made by an international jury and by a special jury composed of 30 children from different ages.

You can find more information on the website: www.anifestrozafa.com (  CATALOG 2011 & AWARDS 2011)

Animated films that are to be presented in this International Festive Event must be produced after January 1st, 2010.

Honorable colleagues who wish to participate in the International Festive Event are notified that the online registration, based on the regulation, starts on February 1st, 2012 (01. 02.2012). 

International Festival for Children and by Children

"AniFestROZAFA 2012"

rruga "Lidhja e Prizerenit", pallati "Vega" 8 apartamenti 28

postal code: 1010

Tirana  ALBANIA

tel: +355 672567527

The Stuttgart Festival of Animated Film – ITFS – (May 08 – 13, 2012) was founded in 1982 and is one of the world’s largest and most important festivals for animated film. For six whole days in May 2012 animated film fans can watch animated short and feature-length films, meet well-known filmmakers and participate in workshops and presentations for the 19th time at the Stuttgart Festival of Animated Film. There is something for everyone regardless of whether they attend the diverse competition programmes with the best animated films from all over the world or the free open-air cinema at the Schlossplatz. The Stuttgart Festival of Animated Film presents the Trickstar in seven different competition categories which cover a spectrum from short animated film and animated series to feature-length animated films. Cash prizes worth approximately 68,000 Euros will be awarded in 2012.

Call for Entries:
The submission deadline for the following categories has elapsed at December 1, 2012: International Competition, student film competition Young Animation and children’s film competition Tricks for Kids. We thank all those who have submitted their films for pre-selection during the past weeks and days.

Extended deadline: Cartoons for Teens and AniMovie
The deadline for the new competition category Cartoons for Teens and for the feature length film competition AniMovie has been extended till January 18, 2012. For participation in the category Cartoons for Teens are admitted animated series, Anime series and cut scenes for youths aged between 12 and 18 years. AniMovie is open to animated feature length films from a running length of 60 minutes up. You can register your film online at www.itfs.de. Films can be uploaded or sent on DVD.

Call for Entries: Animated Com Award
You are kindly invited to submit films that fall into the category of applied animation and were produced no earlier than October 1, 2010 to the Animated Com Award. Prize money totalling 12,500 euros will be awarded for outstanding work in the areas of advertising, spatial communication, and technology and the special award. Submission Deadline is February 15, 2012. More information about the competition you’ll find on www.itfs.de.

Call for Entries: Crazy Horse Session – 48h Animation Jam
The competition addresses animation students from international film and art schools as well as independent animators and animation producers aged 30 years or younger. The organizers will choose five teams from all of the applicants. The teams must develop an animated short film live and within 48 hours. All of the teams use the same character – the Festival mascot Trixi. The best film will be awarded. Please find the application form and the regulations at our website www.itfs.de. Deadline: February 22, 2012.

NEW JUDGES FOR 2012 VIMEO FESTIVAL + AWARDS INCLUDE JAMES FRANCO, AZIZ ANSARI, RADIOHEAD’S COLIN GREENWOOD, AND MORE

13 Days Left to Submit to Win Up to $30,000 in Grants

NEW YORK, Feb. 8, 2012 – Vimeo®, an operating business of IAC [NASDAQ: IACI], today announced its panel of judges for the 2012 Vimeo Festival + Awards. The panel consists of three judges per category across 13 categories, and includes actor and director James Franco; Parks and Recreation Star Aziz Ansari, 2012 Oscar Nominee Lucy Walker; Radiohead’s Colin Greenwood; Scott Pilgrim vs. the World director Edgar Wright; snowboard superstar Travis Rice; Thierry Mugler and UNIQLO creative director Nicola Formichetti; Shelley Page of DreamWorks Animation; Barbara London of The Museum of Modern Art; advertising legend David Droga; and many more.

"The aim of the Vimeo Festival + Awards is to become the gold standard for creative online video," said Jeremy Boxer, Director of the Vimeo Festival + Awards. “We designed the program to focus on discovering the best new talent and to give that talent a platform that will catapult their careers to the next level.  We are proud to reveal our new panel of esteemed judges."

"Vimeo created a platform that has changed the language of storytelling,” said Eliot Rausch, 2010 Vimeo Award Grand Prize Winner. “The way we share our innermost being has been flipped on its head — a true revolution of consciousness. It is indescribable, the feeling I have after winning the award, knowing my voice has been heard, that millions have been touched and maybe the world is better because of it."

“I am very glad to be back as a judge for the Vimeo awards this year,” said Lucy Walker.   “I’m very excited to see the new shortlist and the evolution of documentary as a new generation of talent comes through with new stories to tell and new ways of telling them.”

The current list of judges includes:

Action Sports

Stacy Peralta Travis Rice

Advertising

Benjamin PalmerDavid DrogaTraktor

Animation

Amid AmidiEran HilleliShelley Page

Captured

Charlie BucketSteve LazaridesBarbara London

Documentary

Eliot RauschSteve JamesLucy Walker

Experimental

Chris Beckman

Fashion

Nick KnightNicola FormichettiHumberto Leon, Opening Ceremony+Kenzo

Lyrical

Blake WhitmanPhilip BloomMaria Popova

Motion Graphics

Piccolo Teatro Patafisico presents the 6th edition of SorsiCorti Short Film Festival. Our mission is giving visibility to the work of filmmakers from all over the world and offering to our audience a careful selection of quality short films. SorsiCorti Festival will take place in Palermo May 11 to 13, 2012 at Piccolo Teatro Patafisico. Works are allowed in any subject in the following categories: animation, documentary and fiction, if made after January 1st, 2008.

Too Art for TV 6, a massive gallery show in New York for the Animation Industry, is currently accepting artist submissions.

 

Each year, Too Art highlights the personal fine art works of animation industry artists in an attempt to bridge gap between fine and applied art.

 

For more information, including submission guidelines, please visit:

 

http://bunnycutlet.com/submitTOO6.html

 

Feel free to contact us with any questions at:

Ebanks.email@gmail.com

Bunnycutlet@gmail.com

 

Thank you!

OPEN CALL for videos: DÉRAPAGE 12

DÉRAPAGE is a unique event of audiovisual exploration that annually invites people from all disciplines to create a non-narrative sonorized audiovisual short piece of less than three minutes. Your videos can be in realtime, in animation, working with textures; shot in red, blue or green; in black and white or in color; hysterical or contemplative; name it! they'll find their place in Dérapage. So, now is time to submit your non narrative artworks for the grand screening evening of Dérapage 12.

Dérapage 12: The big screening night

Submissions are due no later than March 16th 2012.  

Selected works will be shown Thursday April 19th, at Centre de Design de l'UQAM.

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RULES AND SUBMISSION FORM

_The piece must be original work and non-narrative.

_The piece must contain sound. The sound has to be original material.

_The work must be between 30 seconds and 3 minutes.

_All videos must be submitted as Quicktime files.

PRIZES AND MENTIONS

- Dérapage Grand Prize

- Best animation

- Best video editing

The eleventh edition of the Euganean Film Festival will take place in the Euganean Hills, and Monselice Between Este (Padua), from July 6th to 22nd 2012.

The 2012 Festival Edition is divided into three competitive sections : The 2012 Festival Edition is Divided into three competitive sections:

International Short Movies Competition International Music Competition Short

Short films produced in or outside Italy, of any kind, format or subject, up to a maximum of 30 minutes length. Short films produced in or outside Italy, of Any Kind, format or subject, up to a maximum of 30 minutes length.

International Documentary Movies Competition International Competition Documentary Movies

Documentary movies made in or outside Italy, of any format or subject, up to a maximum of 90 minutes length. Documentary movies made ​​in or outside Italy, of Any format or subject, up to a maximum of 90 minutes length.

International Animated Short Movies Competition International Competition Animated Short Movies

Short animated films produced in or outside Italy up to a maximum of 30 minutes length. Short animated films produced in or outside Italy up to a maximum of 30 minutes length.

Moreover, 2012 Festival edition will feature two more awards: Moreover, 2012 Festival edition will feature two more awards:

Euganean Hills Park Special Award , that will be given to the work that better deals with the subjects of environment and territory. Euganean Hills Park Special Award That Will Be Given To The Work That better deals with the subjects of Environment and Territory.

Veneto Movie Movement Award , that will be given to the best work produced by an author or a producer from Veneto or related to the regional territory. Movement Veneto Movie Awards, That Will Be Given to the best work produced by an author or a producer from the Veneto regional or related to the Territory.

THE DEADLING FOR ENTRIES IS MARCH 17TH 2012

 

Anima Mundi is the International Animation Festival of Brazil.

The 20th edition of the International Animation Festival of Brazil, ANIMA MUNDI 2012 takes place from July 13th to 22nd in Rio de Janeiro and from July 25th to 29th in São Paulo. We would like to invite you to enter your most recent works for the festival.

 A festival that aims to inform, train, educate and entertain by using the infinite possibilities of the language of animation. Participate in Anima Mundi by entering your film, joining our virtual community and glancing through our windows the universe of International Animation.

The deadline for entries and for sending the preview material is March 22nd. It is very important to send us only one work per DVD separately.
 
Please, go to our website for an online entry-form and rules at: www.animamundi.com.br
If you need additional information send email to:
entry@animamundi.com.br 

The categories in competition are:
Short Film
Short for Children
Feature Film / Feature for Children
Brazilian Animation
Student Film

There will also be awards for:
Best Animation
Best Script
Best Soundtrack
Best Art Direction
 
See you at ANIMA MUNDI 2012!