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

ANIMACAMPUS TALLINN 2011

November 15-19, 2011 / Tallinn, Estonia

CALL FOR TALENTS

Deadline for application: September 5, 2011.

 

AnimaCampus Tallinn is a brand new networking platform and training event for up-and-coming young filmmakers working in the field of animation. The five-day creative summit takes place in parallel with the Animation Film Festival Animated Dreams, the sub-festival of Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival. 

In the frame of several lectures, presentations, discussions, screenings and workshops international animation experts share their experience in making cinéma d'auteur animation films as well as commercial productions. A mix of animation art and industry. A mix of traditional animation techniques and new media technologies. AnimaCampus Tallinn provides young professionals from East and West the opportunity to learn from top animation experts and build international networks in  inspiring European Capital of Culture atmosphere.

PROGRAMME

The programme of AnimaCampus Tallinn consists of the following activities:

Inspiration talks:

• Lectures, presentations and panel discussions to address the breaking issues in the animation history and today. * Open to all participants, guests and public.

 

Hands-on trainings:

• Practical workshops, case studies and meeting-the-expert sessions in different fields of work promoting direct interaction between young and experienced professionals. * Open to participants and guests.

Mentoring and guidance:

• Specialized master classes. * Open only to participants.

• Individual project consultations. * Open only to participants.

 

Networking and entertainment:

• Film screenings at the Animation Film Festival Animated Dreams. 

• Excursions to Estonian animation studios and Museum of Puppets.

• Match-making sessions.

• Social events and concerts in the evenings.

REGIONS IN FOCUS

In 2011 AnimaCampus Tallinn is setting its focus on the following regions: Nordic countries (Sweden, Norway, Finland, Denmark, Iceland), Baltic states (Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania), South Caucasus (Armenia, Georgia, Azerbaijan) and Central Asia (Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan). Emerging animation filmmakers from the above mentioned countries are eligible to apply through the open call for entries. However, motivated applicants from the other European countries wishing to explore the animation scene in those regions are also encouraged to send their application.

The Oklahoma Electronic Game Expo and Multimedia Conference (OEGE) is a one day conference that seeks to bring together students, educators, professionals and enthusiasts in all areas of Computer-Aided Technology and highlight Oklahoma as a creative outlet for these industries.

Computer-Aided Technology encompasses all creative industries that use computers for the development of their designs, such as video game, multimedia, graphic design, web design, CAD, GIS, video editing, animation, and digital art.

By offering an educated workforce, we strive to make Oklahoma a prime location for game development, multimedia, animation, etc., thus expanding this growing creative industry.

From September 17-20, 2009, Klik! Amsterdam will host the second edition of the KLIK! Amsterdam Animation Festival, a true multimedia festival that will screen animated shorts from all over the world, combined with interactive gaming fun, fascinating animated sidebar activities and the finest festivities.

No entry fee.

Open competition
Student competition
Best Design Award
Best Politically Engaged Film Award

E-card Competition:
http://www.boomerang.nl/opdrachten/upload-a-short-sendable-animation-and-win

For more information and submission of your film, visit http://www.klikamsterdam.nl

ANIMA'09 will take place in the city of Cordoba, Argentina, from October 8 through 10, 2009. The festival is organized by the Centro Experimental de Animacion and the Secretaria de Extension Universitaria, National University of Cordoba. This fifth edition of the ANIMA will be dedicated to exploring the concept of Identity Traits. Therefore, we open the following: -- Call for entries, for short and feature animation films of every genre and topic. Special interest is granted to those films where the filmmaker's expressive intention stands out from marketing requirements; and also to school productions. Participation is open for animation movies from all over the world - produced for theatrical screenings, television, video or the Internet - with special interest in those from Latin America. -- Call for papers and multimedia presentations on the concept "Identity Traits" No Entry Fee Call for entries has been extended until July 17, 2009 Deadlines: July 3, 2009 (Film, video and television animation entries) July 3, 2009 (Papers and Multimedia presentation entries) July 17, 2009 (Internet animation entries) Rules and Entry Form are available at the festival's website, http://www.animafestival.com.ar The festival will also hold a series of non-competitive screenings, seminars, workshops, specialized forums, retrospectives, and a meeting point.

It's time for us to have some chatting and hanging out time at Lelabar on Monday, June 29th, from 5:30 p.m. - 7:30 p.m. There will be a special Women In Animation happy hour price of $7 for wine. Everyone is welcome! Please join us at Lelabar: 422 Hudson St. between Leroy & Morton (www.lelabar.com) RSVP to Lisa by noon on Friday, June 26th at lisaggoldman@yahoo.com.

TAIS incubators are back and messier than ever.

Join other animation aficionados every other Wednesday during the winter months for an informal meeting of the minds and mess-making session. Show your works in progress, share animation knowledge and network with other animators all while scratching, painting or inking away on provided film stock. TAIS president Madi Piller will be on hand with all the tools and know how you’ll require to get working on some simple cameraless animation. At the end of the winter season, we’ll splice all the footage together and present it as part of the TAIS SHOWCASE 2009 in the spring.

Wednesday, March 4
60 Atlantic Avenue, Suite 102
7-9 p.m.
$5 for scratchers to cover the cost of materials
All are welcome

The 4th Athens ANIMFEST '09 will take place in Athens, Greece from March 19-22, 2009 at TRIANON Filmcenter (Codringtonos 21 & Patision 101 Streets). Acclaimed European artists and new talents from Greece and all over the World will meet again in Athens to present not only their new works but also some of the older ones from the history of animation. The exploration of the limits between the film genres will continue. For first time, this year the festival will try to demonstrate on stage the relations between animated design, the moving image, music and words, as well as the human body, with the aid of modern audiovisual electronic media. Conferences and workshops will also be repeated with new thematologies and content, offering knowledge and know-how to interested participants. The festival gives out the following awards: --Grand Prix "Athena" --2nd Place Award --3rd Place Award The call for entries is now open. Deadline: February 15, 2009 Terms Of Submission: -- No submission fees. -- All animation productions with duration up to 30', regardless of themes, technics, language, nationality and artist's age, are submissible. -- Every animation production submitted must have been made after January 1, 2007. -- The cost of shipping is always paid by the sender. -- Every animation production must be submitted in dvd pal format. -- The dvd pal format copy is not returned. It remains in the athens.animfest archives. -- In case of selection, the artists will be notified within 30 days after shipping. -- Every submission must be accompanied by a CD which will include the following: a. A digital photo of the animation production, in 300 dpi resolution, for both the athens.animfest website and the catalogue. b. A digital photo of the artist of the animation production, in 300 dpi resolution, for the same purposes as above. c. A synopsis of the film, as above. d. A short cv of the artist, as above. Address: European Animation Center P.O. Box 17113 10024 Athens Greece Download the entry form at www.animationcenter.gr. For further information, email info@animationcenter.gr.

The Waterloo Festival for Animated Cinema is a unique film festival celebrating the artistry of the animated feature film. Founded in 2001, the Waterloo, Canada-based festival routinely presents one of the most comprehensive showcases of feature animation in the world.

The festival presents three main programs: World Cinema, a showcase of the latest in feature animation; Retrospectives, rare screenings of historically and artistically significant feature animation; and Tidbits, a program of discovery of feature animation created by very small teams -- sometimes even teams of one.

Further details at www.wfac.ca.

CSU Animation and Visual Effects present the fifth Australian International Animation Festival 2008. This year they have secured amazing exclusives from more than 2,200 submissions from 30 countries.

The international programs will give audiences a complete, up-to-date snapshot of the international creative animation scene. In addition are programs that focus on digital animating, puppet films and Australian-made films. There will be kids, high school aged-programs, and even a "Late Night Bizarre: program for those whose tastes are on the extreme. There will also be a series of free talks and workshops given by filmmakers from all over Australia to provide a chance to learn more about how and why these films get made. Door-prizes include Adobe, Autodesk, Wacom and HP products.

Venue: Forum 6 Cinema
Cost: $10 Single Session or $30 Full Festival Pass

Friday May 16 schedule: High School/Teen Program, International Program #1, International Puppet Animation Panorama, Launch Party

Saturday May 17 schedule: Kids Program, Seminar: Animation Now! International Animation Overview, Seminar: The State Of Australian Animation, Australian Panorama, International Program #2, Late Night Bizarre

Sunday May 18 schedule: Seminar: "Voice Wrangling," Seminar: D.I.Y. Art + D.I.Y. Funding 2.0, International Program #3, Digital Panorama, After Party.