Piccolo Teatro Patafisico presents the 5th Edition of SorsiCorti Short Film Festival. Our mission is giving visibility to the works of filmmakers from all the world and offering to our audience a careful selection of quality short film.

Short film is still the prime source of innovation for the art of film - the experimental field in which future cinematic vocabularies first crystallize. Today its diversity of forms, themes and approaches across the globe is greater than ever - video or film, short fiction film or essay, installation, graduation film or artist's video, animation, documentary, and all imaginable hybrids thereof.

The International Short Film Festival Oberhausen has been part of this highly charged field for over 50 years now, as a catalyst and a showcase for contemporary developments, a forum for what are often heated discussions, a discoverer of new trends and talent, and not least as one of the most important short film institutions anywhere in the world. Some 6000 films submitted on average per year, around 500 films shown in the festival programmes and over 1100 accredited industry professionals are proof enough.

In the course of more than five decades, the International Short Film Festival Oberhausen has become one of the world's most respected film events - a place where filmmakers and artists ranging from Roman Polanski to Cate Shortland, from George Lucas to Pipilotti Rist have presented their first films. Oberhausen has managed to instigate various political and aesthetical developments, for instance through the Oberhausener Manifest, perhaps the most important group document in the history of German film. Careful programming and a pioneering choice of subjects has helped the Festival to build up its exclusive position in an increasingly unpredictable market.

The 57th International Short Film Festival Oberhausen, taking place from 5- 10 May 2011 in Oberhausen.

In October 2010 you'll find the entry form and regulations of the 57th International Short Film Festival Oberhausen here. We are looking forward to your submission!

Entry deadline for International productions: 15 Januar 2011 (date of receipt)

Entry deadline for German productions: 15 February 2011 (date of receipt

PLASTIC PAPER: WINNIPEG'S FESTIVAL OF ANIMATED, ILLUSTRATED + PUPPET FILM is an international festival that takes place May 4-7, 2011 at the Park Theatre in Winnipeg, Canada. The festival is one component of the year-round organizational activities of the Big Smash! Film Collective. PLASTIC PAPER’s programming is a mix of premieres, retrospective screenings, short films and features with special guests, workshops, multi-media presentations, installations and exhibits, artist talks, and gatherings where the artists and the audience can interact more informally.

PLASTIC PAPER is currently accepting submissions for short and feature-length animated films made after Jan. 1, 2010.  THERE IS NO ENTRY FEE. DEADLINE: Feb 1, 2011. Download the entry form at www.plastic-paper.org

Plastic Paper Trailer (Short) from clint enns on Vimeo.

The 24 Hour Film Race 2011 is an international competition that challenges filmmakers everywhere to create short films (4 minutes max.) in just 24 hours from April 29-30.  Montreal is one of the participating cities in the 24 Hour Film Race and will have a separate competition and premiere screening for the filmmakers at the Cinema du Parc.  Space is limited in Montreal, so make sure to register your team early at http://www.filmracing.com/24/24HourFilmRace.htm and use discount FILMRACER24 for $10 off the entry fee.  Good luck!

Angura!, The Toronto Animated Image Society and CaRTe bLaNChe are pleased to present:

KEIICHI TANAAMI ANIMATION RETROSPECTIVE
SATURDAY, APRIL 23, 8 PM
Cinecycle (behind 129 Spadina Ave, in laneway) - Toronto, Ontario

Screening in Toronto for the first time, these 10 animated works offer an introduction to Tanaami’s various styles and a trip through the eye-popping world of free form Japanese psychedelia. This event will also celebrate his newest release, A Portrait of Keiichi Tanaami: 14 Films 1975-2009, a beautiful edition containing a hard cover book with never-before published drawings for animated films, 14 films from 1975-2009, and two documentaries about the man himself, available for purchase at the screening. 

Keiichi Tanaami, born in 1936, is one of the preeminent pop artists of postwar Japan, producing a broad range of works since the 60s including experimental film and animation, woodblock printing, illustration, and editorial design. Tanaami’s imagery is provocative and playful, rooted in the realm of avant garde 60s pop psychedelia. In 1967 Tanaami took his first trip to New York where he discovered the works of Andy Warhol. These experiences opened him up to new artistic directions and in 1975 he became the first Art Director of Playboy Monthly (Japanese Edition). He has worked as a professor at Kyoto University of Art and Design since 1991, and his work continues to be exhibited around the world. 

This event is a fundraiser to aid the victims of the earthquake in Japan and has been made possible by the generosity of: Keiichi Tanaami, CaRTe bLaNChe, Toronto Animated Image Society, and CineCycle.

All proceeds will go to the Red Cross Japan Earthquake Fund

Presented by:
ANGURA! (www.angura.org) / Toronto Animated Image Society (www.tais.ca) / CaRTe bLaNChe (www.c-a-r-t-e-blanche.com)


* Some of the works featured contain imagery of an erotic nature. 18+

Other Tanaami Screenings in Canada:

WINNIPEG SCREENING - Friday May 6th at Plastic Paper: Winnipeg’s Festival of Animated, Illustrated + Puppet Film

MONTREAL SCREENING - Saturday May 21st at Blue Sunshine Psychotronic Film Centre

OPEN CALL for videos: DÉRAPAGE 11 

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 11.

Dérapage 11; a new category in collaboration with Cirque du soleil

Le «Moment d'apesanteur»   (moment of weightlessness)

To its usual categories − best editing, best sound, best animation, best first video and Grand Prize − Dérapage adds, in collaboration with Centre de recherche et d'innovation en performance (CRIP) of Cirque du soleil, the new category « Moment d'apesanteur » (moment of weightlessness) in acrobatic performance. From trampoline to aerial frame, from hand to hand to teeterboard and russian bars, acrobatic artists' numbers ''highlight human physical performance in all its splendor and fragility'' (taken from Cirque du Soleil website).

Dérapage initiates a dialogue between these two practices and asks artists to explore this weightlessness moment, this instant when the acrobat in suspended in the air, between elevation and fall, fixed in time and space, in an acrobatical slow-motion, and to bring to the viewers the dreamscape, the interior environment of the performer in that specific position.

This challenge asks the videoartists to elongate this weightlessness moment in order to produce a piece, using original images, archives sequences and/or footage from rehearsals and shows, playing with time and space, that satisfies intelligence and sensitivity to provoque either artistic, dramatic or oniric emotions.

·       To be eligible, you have to accept that, when submitting your video, you're also adding it to a bank of ideas that is used to inspire Cirque du soleil creators.

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

Be there! Corfu Animation Festival opens its doors in Greece. Send your animated films to the competitive program!

The festival has two main competitive sections:

1. Short films: for films completed after 1/1/09, regardless of geographic origin
2. Graduation films: for graduation short films completed after 1/1/09, regardless of geographic origin

There is no entrance fee for submission. Read the regulations and download the entry form from http://www.betherefest.gr
Send your films in DVD (Pal), along with the signed form and accompanying documents to: Be there! Corfu Animation Festival, PO Box 288, Corfu, Greece.

Address all inquiries to : info@betherefest.grThis e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

Deadline for all submissions: 10 January 2011

The Wonders of TV Paint!

Saturday April 07, 2012 11am PST

with Sergio PaezCost: $5Length: 60 minutes

 

TV paint animation is an amazing storyboard tool. In this talk we will show you why. This talk may change the way you create storyboards, and make you a TV Paint disciple.

 

System RequirementsLatest version of Adobe FlashComputer speakers or headsetSafari 2, Internet Explorer 7, Firefox 3.0 or higherBroadband connection recommended Refund policy24 hour cancellation policy. You can request a full refund up to 24 hours before the start of the class. No refunds will be granted for less than 24 hours. Sorry no refunds for missed classes. You have an opportunity to view our session recordings with your paid registration.Email your refund request to us hereAbout The InstructorSergio Paez is a San Francisco artist specializing in storyboards, animation, and visual development for TV, feature film, and games. His animation credits in the United States and Europe include projects for Pixar, Lucasfilm, Sony, and Sega.

Sergio’s work was featured in “The Art of Clone Wars” published by Chronicle Books, “The Art of Darkwatch” published by Design Studio Press, and the Totoro Forest Project Art Exhibition. Sergio recently finished up work on season 3 of the Clone Wars Animated Series for Lucas Animation.

SouthEastern Digital Animation Festival

The ACM Southeast Digital Animation Festival (SEDAF) showcases short films composed entirely or partially of computer-generated imagery that educate, entertain, or both! All entries will be judged on visual appeal and conceptual interest. Accepted works will be shown at a special screening during the ACMSE conference.