CALL FOR ENTRY
Participate in the 17th edition of the BARCELONA INTERNATIONAL AUDIOVISUAL FESTIVAL in November 2013.

We invite directors, screenwriters, producers, and students to submit their audiovisuals for all ages. Any type of audiovisual will be entered into pre-selection with photochemical or electronic media support. The audiovisuals competing for the Humanitarian prize should contain certain humanitarian values which favor democratic coexistence and growth of social citizenry, especially directed toward children or about childhood.

THEME: Children and youth – values that favor coexistence – all genres
-Productions for children and youth, productions about children and/or those that deal with childhood issues
-Productions made by children or teens in a framework of media literacy
-Productions made by students in audiovisual schools or universities
-Productions of general subject matter, for all audiences, that contain values and favor coexistence.

As in previous years, we are particularly interested in audiovisuals and that not only entertain but also educate and teach. The prestigious HUMANITARIAN and CREATIVE prize categories will be awarded.

Included this year:
-Professional Area, organized by the Association of Audiovisual Professionals of Catalunya (CPAC)
-Visit to the CaixaForum Mediatheque and CaixaForum exhibits
- Workshop and feature films in the afternoon

REGISTRATION DEADLINE: May 31, 2013
To register online and obtain more information about the rules and regulations of the Festival visit our website: www.oeti.org
Please submit audiovisuals to the following address so that they arrive no later than June 30, 2013 for the pre-selection:

Doina Bird – Barcelona International Audiovisual Festival
Aragon, 290-292, 5O B
08009 Barcelona SPAIN
And if you would like to program a visit to the Festival with a group of students:
• call 34 93 488 1914
• email: fiab@oeti.org

Kinematifest is Webster University’s International Animation and Interactive Media festival. Our mission is to showcase student work and foster a worldwide interest in animation and interactive media. We strive to give students an opportunity to have their work critiqued by industry professionals, facilitate networking opportunities and advocate learning through workshops and seminars. Additionally, we hope to provide a fun, warm, and welcoming atmosphere for all attendees.

 

Dates: April 19-20, 2013

 

Speakers: TBA

 

Submissions due by: March 23rd, 2013

 

Information for Submissions and Registration on:

http://www.kinematifest.com

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

DOCartoon-The Drawing of Reality
Pietrasanta, Italy - OCT. 6-12 2012

Call for entries is open.

 

Launched last year, DOCartoon is ‘the first festival in the world to be primarily dedicated to animated documentaries and non-fiction comics’. A mix of short and feature-length animadoc films, meetings and exhibitions takes place in the old Tuscan town of .Pietrasanta, between seaside and mountains, where Michelangelo would stop after choosing the marble blocks who would work on. No competition, no awards but a good selection of quality feature and short animated documentary films, encounters with artists, events and art exhibitions in the best locations in town.

There’s a Call for Entries on the home page for the this year’s event, to be held in October. Check it out:
http://www.docartoon.it/index_eng.html

See also last year's catalogue here:

http://issuu.com/claudianeri65/docs/docartoon_web?mode=window

We like our films short, sweet ... and silent!

The Toronto Urban Film Festival (TUFF) returns for a sixth year to digital platform screens across the Toronto subway system, September 7 - 17, 2012, concurrent with the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF).

Named one of MovieMaker Magazine's "20 Coolest Film Festivals" (2010), TUFF is a 10-day long celebration of the art of the urban silent screen. TUFF films screen on the Pattison Onestop network of digital platform screens to over 1.3 million daily commuters.

Filmmakers, video artists and animators are invited to submit their work to TUFF now at http://www.torontourbanfilmfestival.com

The festival accepts all genres of silent, one-minute film, video and animation that are of interest to a cosmopolitan audience.

Submission deadline is July 15, 2012. Submit free before May 31, 2012. After June 1, 2012 a $20 fee will apply.

TUFF is open to Canadian and international artists, and awards thousands of dollars in cash and prizes. Animation prizes include softward from Toon Boom Animation. 

TUFF is co-produced by Pattison Onestop and Art for Commuters.

Deadline: July 15, 2012
Free Submission: Before May 31, 2012
Paid Submission: $20 CAD. After June 1, 2012.

Films can be submitted online through the TUFF Website or visit http://www.torontourbanfilmfestival.com/submit for more details.

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

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

DOCartoon

The drawing of reality

1st Animated Documentary Film and Non-Fiction Comics Festival

 Pietrasanta (ITALY), 24-30 September 2011

 

From next September 24 till 30 will take place DOCartoon, the first festival in the world to be primarily dedicated to animated documentaries and non-fiction comics.

 

Created and directed by Thomas Martinelli, the festival that will develop during the last week of September in the city of Pietrasanta –on the west coast of Tuscany and famous for its artistic vocation- will present a program full of animated documentary screenings and not only, sensitive to current events and reality narrated with the use of creative images. Among the films, quite a few will be European and national previews and premieres. About these more news will be spread towards the end of the month.

 

Along with the screenings there will be a number of exhibitions related to non-fiction comics set up in the best art galleries in town, including also illustration and painting inspired by reality.

 

The festival will host also several talks and panels with authors, journalists and intellectuals on current issues and pages of recent history treated by the filmed and drawn works in program. Inaugurations of exhibitions, thematic parties, direct encounters with animators, artists, scriptwriters will be spread throughout the lovely city center in its galleries, bookshops, cafés and public venues.

 

The logo of DOCartoon was created by Mario Addis.

 

Have you made an animated short film in the last 18 months? Want it to screen to a packed house as part of the fantastic TAIS Showcase this June in Toronto? Then submit!

The Toronto Animated Image Society (TAIS) is seeking independent animated films completed after June 2009 that are under 15 minutes in length for the TAIS ANIMATION SHOWCASE screening this June 23, 2011 at Innis Town Hall (University of Toronto, 2 Sussex Avenue). All genres, mediums, techniques, themes accepted, both narrative and non-narrative. 

There is no entry fee to submit work. Artist fees paid for all selected films.

Films should be submitted ONLY as QuickTime movie files on DVD/CD or via a download link for the file(s). Please send either a 1280 x 720 Quicktime file or a 720 x 480 Quicktime file using our preferred codecs ProRes or Photo Jpeg with 48kHz sound.

Send your submission to: 
Toronto Animated Image Society
TAIS Showcase 2011
60 Atlantic Avenue, Suite 102
Toronto, Ontario M6K 1X9 
CANADA

Please include a completed submission form ( downloadable at www.tais.ca/animationshowcase_submissionform.pdf ), an artist bio and two film stills (tiff or jpg @ 300 dpi – 2 x 3). Submission form, bio, contact info and download links may be emailed to tais@bellnet.ca or included in mailed submission package. Please do not send large files via email.

DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS:
Monday, May 16, 2011, 5:00 pm

For more info, visit  www.tais.ca

TAIS 2011 Bunny Jam - Call for Submissions

In honour of the Toronto Animated Image Society (TAIS) mascot and this year’s Chinese zodiac sign, we are proud to announce that this year’s theme for the TAIS AniJam, ten second animations that will screen in rapid succession at the TAIS Showcase in June, is ... BUNNIES! (Rabbits, hares, Thumper and Bugs, bucks, does, energizers, playboys, and any other idea you may have related to voracious procreators and twitchy noses.)

Create a ten-second long animated film that somehow encompasses our “bunny” theme. Use any animation technique you want. Submit it to TAIS and we’ll edit the submissions into a Bunny AniJam film that will screen at the TAIS Showcase in June 2011 in Toronto!

Bunny Jam submissions are eligible for awards and prizes!

Submit your film as a QuickTime file using by CD/DVD, via ftp, file hosting site or link to your webspace with attached submission form, a brief bio and two 2 x 3 stills (high res jpeg) from your film. Format of all Bunny Jam submissions should be a 1280 x 720 QuickTime/24 fps using our preferred codecs ProRes or Photo Jpeg with 48kHz sound. Bunny Jams should not be any more or less than 10 seconds. If submitting by DVD, please ensure you make a data file DVD (not instantly playable).

Submission form available at:
http://www.tais.ca/bunnyjam_submission_form.pdf

Submission deadline is May 15, 2011.

Send your submissions to:
Toronto Animated Image Society
Bunny Jam Submission
60 Atlantic Ave. Suite 102
Toronto, Ontario M6K 1X9
CANADA

If you want to submit your film digitally via file hosting or ftp link, send info to tais@bellnet.ca

For more info, visit http://www.tais.ca