2012 MIPTV MEDIA FESTIVAL

April 1st-4th Cannes, France

MIPTV is the greatest gathering in TV & Media.
It’s where the industry makes deals that will shape the future, from inspiring new projects to buying next season’s hits. Together, the entertainment community creates bridges across the diverse and expanding industry, united by a passion for TV, making new connections and unlocking new business opportunities.

What does MIPTV has to Offer you?

Showcase and acquire programmes in every genre and for all platformsMeet with key decision-makers from the entire entertainment industryFind innovative financial models and coproduction opportunitiesDiscuss the future of the industry and explore new trends and technologies

Enjpy their Comprehensive Program

Media Mastermind Keynotes Co-Production: Co-Production Summit, Co-Production for SuccessThe Connected ConsumerScreenings: World Premiere Television Screenings, Fresh TVBranded Entertainment: Branded Entertainment Showcase, Brand of the Year AwardKids: The new animation talent showcase, The Global Animation Marketplace

Modernism was enthusiastically embraced by animators of the 1950s. Led by Hollywood’s United Productions of America (UPA) studio, animators began exploring new styles and designs diametrically opposed to the fairy-tale worlds created by Walt Disney. Esteemed animation historian Jerry Beck curates and hosts two programs of theatrical cartoons, presented in conjunction with California Design. Both programs offer visually-exciting—and rarely seen—cartoons in 35mm and include several Oscar-winning shorts.

Bing Theater | $10 general admission; $7 for LACMA members, seniors (62+), and students with valid ID; $5 LACMA Film Club members. | Tickets 323 857-6010 or purchase online.

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.

The 14th edition of Future Film Festival

Bologna, Italy.  March 27th to April 1st 2012.

During the last fourteen years, Future Film Festival has become the most significant Italian event dedicated to animation and special effects. Every year, the most important film-directors, art-directors and creative-producers come to Bologna to show their own films’ premiéres, backstages of their successes and exclusive pictures from new productions. A preview of the future, but not only: Future Film Festival dedicates retrospectives to the history of animated cinema and sci-fi, as well as meetings and events about new technologies applications to other fields, like web and videogames.

Future Film Festival 2012 main focus will be “the end of the world”, according to the prophecies that look at this year as the fateful one for Planet Earth, and proposing a huge roundup of catastrophic movies, monsters and many other disasters on 35mm. From the famous Airport (1970) to the spectaculars Twister and Titanic, many times mentioned in movies and that will turn 100 years in 2012. In collaboration with Università degli Studi di Bologna.

CARTOON MOVIEMarch 7th-9th 2012 - Lyon (Rhône-Alpes, France)

 

Cartoon Movie is neither a fair nor a festival, but rather a co-production forum for European animated feature films. The concept is original and effective: for two intense days in March each year, European producers have the unique opportunity to pitch their animation projects to about 700 professionals in order to negotiate financing, find partners and interest distributors.

A special feature of Cartoon Movie is that it is possible to present projects at their different stages: projects in concept, projects in development, films in production, and completed films. Consequently, it is the whole industrial and economic network that takes part in the development of the film, which increases tenfold the producer’s opportunities for success.

A convivial atmosphere ideal for networking

Screening of trailers, pitching of projects, film screenings, business meetings, but also a welcome reception, nice relaxed dinners, a farewell party… all this is part of the convivial Cartoon Movie atmosphere.

156 films financed for 1.2 billion EUR

Started in 1999 with the support of the MEDIA Programme of the European Union, Cartoon Movie was established to increase the number of co-productions and cross-border cooperations, to speed up the financing and the production process, as well as to ensure a pan-European and international distribution of the films.
The results are considerable. Since its creation, more than 156 films have secured financing, representing a total budget of 1.2 billion EUR.

Cartoons on the Bay

March 22cnd-24th Rapallo, Italy

Cartoons on the Bay 2012 will be held from March 22nd to 25th. The 16th Edition of the Festival will take place in Rapallo, Santa Margherita Ligure and Portofino. The guest country will be India and the main theme of the year will be Sport in cartoons, to celebrate 2012 London Olympic Games.

The first day of work will be devoted to a series of meetings in which the the major animation companies will attend and a retrospective of the best products of featured and animated films in recent years.

In view of the London Olympics, the festival will focus on cartoons and sports with the celebration of the second edition of the Premio & Sport Cartoons produced in collaboration with the Circolo Sportivo della Rai. Among the novelties of the birth of the new Harlequin Award dedicated to the best cartoon taken from comic book (which is added to the Harlequin Award dedicated to cartoon and cartoon and videogames and books) and Pulcinella Award dedicated to Live Action sitcom and series for children not in animation.

With the birth of the Pulcinella Awards, we also wanted include today's growing attention to hybrid products made of flesh and blood actors and animation support.

Roberto Genovesi, artistic director of Cartoons on the Bay-concludes the process of transforming the festival that today can be considered a full member of the European reference point for cross-media animation.

Super Animation on the Super Screen

Join us for two months of animated extravaganza on the Northbridge Piazza Super Screen in Perth, WA!

Every Thursday night, 8:30 – 9:30pm, Animator’s Hour will promote local Perth animators and their superb work through a set of 8 free screenings. We will also be showcasing other animated works from Australia and the World, and the amazing talents, skills and imagination of around 100 artists.

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Get involved and win one of three $500 cash prizes, a Wacom tablet and other goodies, by helping us to create a brand new animation entitled Bunny Cakes. All the crazy, quirky and awesome ideas submitted will find their way to the final piece and be pulled together and crafted by a team of savvy animators.

Even if you are not an animator or artist, you can enter the competition by drafting a script or by sketching your ideas for the animated film. Everyone is welcomed to join in the fun!

Starting from 23rd February, we’ll help to spark your imagination with our short films and give you a taste of the competition submissions thus far, which will give you opportunities to build on what has already been submitted or to take Bunny Cakes in quite different directions.

So come to the city, grab a bean bag and join in the completely free Animator’s Hour screenings.

Check out our website for more info: www.animatorshour.com

Thursday 23rd Feb – Thursday 12th Apr, 8:30 – 9:30pm

 Northbridge Piazza Super Screen, FREE

Animator’s Hour is supported by: the City of Perth, WAnimate, Wacom, The Big N, The Mustang Bar, Quest on James Apartments, Comiczone, Geláre-Northbridge and The Corner Cafe

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

The Clermont-Ferrand Short Film Festival has become the world's premier cinema event dedicated to short films. It is the second largest film festival in France after Cannes in terms of audience and professional attendance. It is at the heart of many all-year-round activities and missions conducted from La Jetée by the collective team of Sauve qui peut le court métrage. Its permanent staff of 17 all live in the Auvergne region, where a lively environment has developed around filmmaking.

In 2009, the Festival attracted 137,196 admissions and over 2,800 professional delegates.

By Filmmakers, For Filmmakers

Born out of rejection, Slamdance showcases new and emerging independent artists, filmmakers and storytellers.  We welcome films in every genre, on any topic from every country around the world. The festival program is selected from 100% blind submissions and we do not disqualify any films based on premiere status or date of completion.

This year, we are accepting films in the following categories:

Narrative Feature

Features by first time feature filmmakers* over 40 minutes in length. We consider and program from all genres and from around the world. All the films are selected from blind submissions. We are looking for filmmakers with new ideas, new ways of looking at the world, or an innovative approach to filmmaking. We are more drawn to an original voice than a high level of production. We will consider work that is not completed by the time of submission, and we consider films regardless of their premiere status.

* Films that are submitted by filmmakers that have made a previous feature will be considered for our Special Screenings.

Shorts

Non-documentary short films, under 40 minutes and from anywhere in the world, are programmed in blocks and beside narrative features. We welcome a wide variety of styles and genres: comedy, drama, horror, experimental, animation, non-narrative, music videos, underground and films that fit into multiple categories or no category at all. Please note that documentary shorts are programmed under their own category.

Documentary Feature

Competition feature-length (over 40 minutes) documentaries directed by first-time documentary filmmakers and of exceptional quality are programmed under our 100% blind submission policy. There are no premiere status or date of completion requirements. Non-fiction films under 40 minutes are considered for our short documentary competition. They will be screened before the feature documentary films. We gladly accept any type of documentary subject matter. Mockumentaries should be submitted to the narrative feature and short competitions.

Documentary Short

Competition short (under 40 minutes) documentaries directed by first-time documentary filmmakers and of exceptional quality are programmed under our 100% blind submission policy. There are no premiere status or date of completion requirements. Non-fiction films over 40 minutes are considered for our feature documentary competition. We gladly accept any type of documentary subject matter. Mockumentaries should be submitted to the narrative feature and short competitions. While no one can tell you what length to make your film, shorter films are considered more programmable due to the logistics of running a festival.

Special Screenings

Every year the Festival shows a Special Screening program comprised of several independent feature films by non-first time filmmakers. This Special Screening program is non-competitive and includes at least one underground program and sometimes films made by Slamdance alumni.