Selection of Drawn Animation curated by Bill Plympton and Patrick Smith, IN PERSON FOR Q&A AND BOOK SIGNING. Drinks start at 7pm, screening at 8:30pm. Includes recent work by animators Ryan Woodward, Bill Plympton, Patrick Smith, David Chai, Colleen Cox, Rebecca Sugar and more! 
Are you feeling like a robot after watching too many digital films? Are Pixar and Dreamworks turning you into a machine? How would you like to see some animation that was actually created by a HAND? Imagine that! A film that looks like a piece of art but it moves. We've scoured the world looking for the best to represent the cream de la cream of hand drawn animation and on August 14 we're going to premier their game changing films. Not only that, but a number of the film makers will be there to talk about their films and how they made them.         CHECK OUT THE TRAILER HERE!

2011 4th Seoul Digital Media City Culture Open
DMC International
Seoul Digital Media Content International Festival
Sep. 29th, 2011 ~ Oct. 12th, 2011 Digital Media City in Seoul, Korea

DMC International (Digital Media Content International Festival)
DMC International is an international competition to promote the innovative uses of new media technologies for the digital audiovisual content and art works. DMC International values a critical perspective on contemporary developments in media, and it focuses on the projects for future media environment, where media, art and technology intersect.

KGIT, in conjunction with Seoul City and media industries in DMC, is organizing ‘DMC International’ and hoping to establish the global community.

Seoul, Korea
South Korea is among the world’s most technologically advanced countries and Seoul, the capital city, is widely known as the tech capital of the world. South Korean culture is also gaining significant popularity throughout the world. Technology and culture have become one of the major capitals of the country.

Digital Media City of Seoul
Located in a gateway to the northwestern region of Seoul, Digital Media City (DMC) is a state-of-the-art digital media and entertainment cluster, established by Seoul City Government. DMC, where KGIT(Korean German Institute of Technology) is located, is the high-tech complex, housing all of the major broadcasting companies, film industries, entertainment businesses, leading IT companies and Telco.

CALL FOR ENTRIES Submission deadline: August 31th, 2011

CATEGORIES
CATEGORY I: NEW-TV COMPETITION (4 sections)
· YOU-TV        : Media Content produced with Mobile Devices, DSLRs, or other personal devices
· I-TV             : Media Content produced for Smart TV and IPTV
· 3D-TV          : 3D stereoscopic videos
· VFX-TV         : Media content produced by the integration of live-action footage and CGI, Motion Graphics or Animation.
CATEGORY II: ART + TECH COMPETITION (2 sections)
·  DIGITAL MEDIA ART : Digital media art works which utilizes a variety of advanced media technology including but not limited to interactive technology, AR, physical computing, and/or robotics.
·  MEDIA FAÇADE : Single channel and interactive content in order to be performed in various media façades in DMC area.      

AWARDS  - THE INTERNATIONAL JURY GIVES OVER THE FOLLOWING AWARDS IN COMPETITION
· Best Award in each category accompanied with cash prize of $2,000 USD
· More awards given by the festival’s sponsoring companies.

IMPORTANT DATES
· Submission Dates:  Aug. 1st, 2011 ~ Aug. 31st, 2011
· Screening and Exhibition:  Sep. 29th, 2011 ~ Oct. 12th, 2011 KGIT Center and vicinity in DMC, Seoul, Korea
· Notification of acceptance for the screening and exhibition:  no later than Sep. 7th, 2011
· Awards Announcement Ceremony: Sep. 30th, 2011 5pm at KGIT Research Center 4th fl. Cinema Hall

SUBMISSION
Online and Mail Received during Aug. 1st, 2011 ~ Aug. 31st, 2011
For submission guideline and entry form, visit the official website (www.dmc-i.org)

CONTACT

Information: +82.10.3050.9905 or +82.10.6268.7534, kgit.dmci@gmail.com
Festival Office:
1601 Sangam-dong, Mapo-gu,
KGIT Research Center #1324
Digital Media City,
Seoul, South Korea (Korean Postal Code 121-270)

Pixar Artists Masterclass

Artists from Pixar are coming to Montreal, Quebec, Canada this summer to teach a Masterclass in Animation & Story Development.

Please view details here:
http://www.vanarts.com/events/pixar-artists-masterclass-2011-montreal-quebec

Thanks,
-- VanArts

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This event is part of the 2011 Tour that stops in: New York City, NY | Austin, Texas | Montreal, Quebec
http://www.vanarts.com/events/pixar-artists-masterclass-2011-tour

Anima Mundi is the International Animation Festival of Brazil.

A festival that aims to inform, train, educate and entertain by using the infinite possibilities of the language of animation.

In 2010 Anima Mundi celebrates its 18th anniversary by promoting, beyond the annual festival in Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo, a series of activities that are reflected in this website.

Participate in Anima Mundi by entering your film, joining our virtual community and glancing through our windows the universe of International Animation.

The 19th edition of the International Animation Festival of Brazil, Anima Mundi 2011 takes place from July 27 to 31 in Sao Paulo.

Please go to our website for an online entry-form, entry rules and transportation label: www.animamundi.com.br.

The deadline for entries and for sending the promotional material is March 23rd.

If you need additional information on the pre-selection process please send email to: entry@animamundi.com.br.

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

There will also be awards for:
Best Animation
Best Script
Best Soundtrack
Best Art-Direction
Best Commissioned Film

The North American premiere screening of Pixar’s La Luna followed by a special presentation of "The Making of Pixar’s La Luna" by its director Enrico Casarosa.  This keynote presentation is loaded with original artwork and insightful looks into Pixar's production process.  

Enrico will discuss the journey that led him to create this very personal short, and along the way demonstrate the singularly artistic style by which the film was crafted. Sunday 12noon July 24.

 

We are a not-for-profit festival celebrating the wealth of talent working across all genres of short film including live action drama, documentary, animation, music video, and broadcast design including online or mobile content, title sequences, and idents.

The work of newcomers and established filmmakers is promoted by screening work at cinemas, screening rooms and cafes throughout Soho and London’s West End.

We consider a short film to be under 12minutes, the time limit for most our competitive categories but we also consider longer short format work in our Long Form selection which includes work up to 30 minutes in length.

Our annual activities centre around a 10 day festival (2o to 29 July 2011) where the work of both established filmmakers and newcomers is viewed and judged on a completely level platform. These are joined by UK and international programmes and guest curators providing a total of 24 film programmes (each screend 3 times) and 45 plus events within the festival.

The competitive categories are:

The International AwardThe Long Form AwardThe Documentary AwardThe Short Film AwardThe Animation AwardThe Music Video AwardThe Broadcast Design AwardThe Newcomers Award

Through the Autumn and Spring we curate programmes of work at other festivals and events, while also encouraging production companies and organisations to view content from the most recent festival. Hopefully resulting in those filmmakers being invited to pitch on new projects and jobs as they arise.

Productions entered consistently feature a host of recognisable names and faces alongside gifted ‘unknowns’ giving everyone the opportunity to see, unmistakably, the british aptitiude for filmmaking and showcasing global filmmaking talent. Sue Johnston, James Fox, Mackenzie Crook, Dita Von Teese, David Tennant, David Thewlis, Saffron Burrows, Jimi Mistry, David Soul, Patsy Palmer, Jack Dee, Phil Jupitus, Natalie Press and Michael Sheen are but a few of the people who give their time, often for free, to play characters in these films providing an interest for a broader public audience.

At the conclusion of the festival the Rushes Awards are held to  announce the most acclaimed production from each category. Judges ranging across the creative industries vote for their prefered film, the 3 finalists from each category being invited to attend to hear the announcement, with all attendees then invited to celebrate and commiserate at an after party.

Rushes Soho Shorts Festival is now calling for submissions

Rushes Soho Shorts is now calling for submissions for their 13th celebration of everything short. Renowned for maintaining a significant bridge between the independent and commercial filmmaking communities, the annual not-for-profit festival celebrates the previous year’s best director in each of eight competition categories.

Work should have been completed between 1st January 2010 and April 2011.

Films can be submitted up until 21st April with the shortlisted films being announced early in June.

The Short Short Story Film Festival (SSSFF) is a unique international film festival presenting live-action and animated short films from around the world, all of which tell a story in five minutes or less.  

The festival travels to select locations in the northeastern US in November.

2011 marks the fifth year of the festival.

Note that submission to the festival is free.

For more information on the festival, including submission details, visit http://www.mergingarts.org.

It is our pleasure to inform you that you can now submit your films for the 4th edition of the International Animated Film Competition at ANIMATOR\2011 Festival!

The International Competition of Animated Films is open to artistic animated films of all techniques up to 30 min. Grand Prix of 60 000 PLN /ca. 14.000 Euros/ will be awarded by an international jury including Amy Kravitz, Piotr Dumala, Olia Lialina, Gerben Schermer and Jaroslaw Kapuscinski. Films can be submitted for selection till March 1, 2011. The entry form and regulations can be downloaded from www.animator-festival.com.

Poland, Poznan 15 – 21 July 2011

Since the first Animator we have tried to present animated film in all of its diversity, neither neglecting narratives nor "ballets of light", nor anything in between. Lovers of large productions based on verbal stories will find in this year's program, among other works, the beautiful fable by Michael Ocelota "Azur and Asmar". From the other end of the spectrum we will view the latest works of American independent artists – including George Griffin, Joanna Priestley and Emy Kravitz—who often experiment with methods of narration and means of expression. The following is a sample of what lies in between. First of all we will honor three "great masters" of world animation: Juri Norstein, Caroline Leaf and Daniel Szczechura, who incidentally will celebrate his 80th birthday on the day preceding the opening night of the festival. We will not forget another celebrant as well—the Poznan-based Studio of Animated Film, observing its thirtieth anniversary this year. We will also broadly represent preeminent artists and their works from Hungary and Israel. Especially promising is the lineup of film-related musical events? Our guests will include Nik Phelps with the Sprocket Ensemble and, returning for a second time, Compagnia d’Arte Drummatica. After two prominent Polish film music composers presented in previous years—Krzysztof Komeda and Andrzej Markowski—we will highlight the work of Włodzimierz Kotoński, the author of scores to such classic films as "Labirynt" by Jan Lenica and "Miasto" by Mirosław Kijowicz. Two thematic clusters of events also promise to be interesting: "Animation and Comics" and "Surrealist Film Inspirations." It fills us with great optimism that each year the number of films entered in the contest grows steadily. This not only indicates that animation continues to develop globally, but also that Animator is gaining an ever greater position in the world.

Marcin Gizycki

Artistic Director of the festival

Anima Mundi is the International Animation Festival of Brazil.

A festival that aims to inform, train, educate and entertain by using the infinite possibilities of the language of animation.

In 2010 Anima Mundi celebrates its 18th anniversary by promoting, beyond the annual festival in Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo, a series of activities that are reflected in this website.

Participate in Anima Mundi by entering your film, joining our virtual community and glancing through our windows the universe of International Animation.

The 19th edition of the International Animation Festival of Brazil, Anima Mundi 2011 takes place from July 15 to 24 in Rio de Janeiro and from July 27 to 31 in Sao Paulo.

Please go to our website for an online entry-form, entry rules and transportation label: www.animamundi.com.br.

The deadline for entries and for sending the promotional material is March 23rd.

If you need additional information on the pre-selection process please send email to: entry@animamundi.com.br.

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

There will also be awards for:
Best Animation
Best Script
Best Soundtrack
Best Art-Direction
Best Commissioned Film

Pixar Artists Masterclass

Artists from Pixar are coming to Austin, Texas this summer to teach a Masterclass in Animation & Story Development. This is a 2-day class.

Please see details at:
http://www.vanarts.com/events/pixar-artists-masterclass-2011-austin-texas

Thanks,
-- VanArts

 

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This event is part of the 2011 Tour that stops in: New York City, NY | Austin, Texas | Montreal, Quebec
http://www.vanarts.com/events/pixar-artists-masterclass-2011-tour