Past Events :: User Group Meetings

Jordan Short Film Festival

Starts: Aug 28, 2006 - Ends: Sep 02, 2006
Submission Deadline: Aug 15, 2006
Location: Amman, Jordan
Website: http://JordanFilmFestival.com
The Jordan Short Film Festival is an international festival and competition with prizes up to 2000 Euros. The festival welcomes short animations, experimental, fiction, and non-fiction. There are no submission fees. DVD is the preview and projection formats.

IMAGINA 2006

Starts: Feb 01, 2006 - Ends: Feb 03, 2006
Submission Deadline: Feb 01, 2006
Location: Monte-Carlo, Monaco
Website: http://www.imagina.mc
IMAGINA is the foremost digital content creation festival in Europe.

The next edition, to be held in Monaco from Wednesday 1st to Friday 3rd February 2006, will be dynamic, with even greater impact, and will focus on meetings between professionals and on business.
Fully aware of the needs of the industry, the organisers of IMAGINA have decided to develop a new event concept. By selecting and inviting 150 of the most important decision-makers from the top European production and post-production studios, they are making sure of a substantial return on investment for participants.
A number of demo structures and meeting venues will be set up at the Grimaldi Forum, encouraging exchanges of information and fostering concrete and lasting relationships:

IMAGINA 2007

Starts: Jan 31, 2007 - Ends: Feb 02, 2007
Submission Deadline: Jan 31, 2007
Location: Monte-Carlo, Monaco
Website: http://www.imagina.mc
IMAGINA 2007

Klik! Amsterdam Animation Festival 2009

Starts: Sep 17, 2009 - Ends: Sep 20, 2009
Submission Deadline: Sep 17, 2009
Location: Amsterdam, Netherlands
Website: http://www.klikamsterdam.nl
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

Kristiansand Int'l Children's Film Festival 2012

Starts: Apr 24, 2012 - Ends: Apr 28, 2012
Submission Deadline: Feb 01, 2012
Location: Kristiansand, Norway
Website: http://www.kicff.no

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

The Penguin Flash 2006

Posted In | Event Category: Animation, Interactive, Other | Event Type: Competitive Festivals, Discussion, User Group Meetings
Starts: Jul 25, 2006 - Ends: Jul 30, 2006
Submission Deadline: Jun 30, 2006
Location: Sochi, Russian Federation
Website: http://www.magicmir.ru/?lang=en
The festival is review professional and amateur flash animations. At festival it is planned: round tables, an exchange of experience, personal contacts of colleagues on shop. An establishment of business contacts between partners of the project and animators. On preliminary selection for participation in Festival animation products of all studios and amateur authors, in .swf format without restriction in mbytes and minutes are accepted without restriction all. Works more 7Mb to send on CD or DVD by mail. The jury invited for this work by organizing committee of Festival, on the basis of full viewing all cartoon films of the competitive program awards awards on following nominations:
1) the best cheerful film, (kind, ridiculous)
2) the best terrible film, (horror stories, horror films)
3) the best serial.
4) the best conceptual film.
5) the best flash game (without blood and violence)

The Grand-prix receives the most outstanding film.


CG Overdrive 2006

Starts: Nov 30, 1999 - Ends: Nov 30, 1999
Location: Singapore, Singapore, Singapore
Website: http://www.cgoverdrive.com
Asia

International Filmmaker Festival

Starts: Jun 20, 2008 - Ends: Jun 27, 2008
Submission Deadline: Jan 14, 2008
Location: Thanet, United Kingdom, U.K.
Website: http://www.filmmakerfestival.com
The Filmmaker International Film Festival is a global forum to network, discover future trends and achieve commercial success on a worldwide level. Over the 3 day market and 7 day festival of film in the South East of England here in the U.K. from June 20-27, 2008.

Film makers in competition for the prestigious film award, you can do business with filmmakers and their representatives from around the globe.

This one-stop media community is unlike any other Festival and gives you the chance to network with other like-minded creative film makers.
www.filmakerfestival.com
enter your work now through www.withoutabox.com or through the website www.filmakerfestival.com


Shout and Scream, Pout and Preen

Posted In | Event Category: Other | Event Type: Discussion, Non-competitive Festivals, Screenings, User Group Meetings
Starts: Jan 25, 2004 - Ends: Jan 25, 2004
Submission Deadline: Jan 25, 2004
Location: London, UK
Website: http://www.shootandslice.com
SHOUT AND SCREAM, POUT AND PREEN v2
The next music video event - Shout and Scream, Pout and Preen v2 - will be held on Sunday 25th January 2004.
This is the networking event for those involved in the music and filmmaking industries.

Venue :
The Buffalo Bar,
259 Upper Street,
Islington,
London N1

Time :
8.00pm - 12:00pm

Entry :
UKP4

** Now accepting MUSIC VIDEO submissions for this event **

Our last event was described as ... "A packed-out plethora of pulsating performance, positive posing and partial pedantics ... perfect!"


All information online - http://www.shootandslice.com

The Making of The Matrix Reloaded

Posted In | Event Category: Animation, Features, Special Effects, Visual Effects | Event Type: User Group Meetings
Starts: Jul 11, 2003 - Ends: Jul 11, 2003
Submission Deadline: Jul 11, 2003
Location: San Francisco, United States
Website: http://www.sfsig.org
Friday evening, July 11, 2003

SAN FRANCISCO SIGGRAPH SHOWCASE EVENT

ESC Fx and Eon present "THE MAKING OF MATRIX RELOADED."
Hosted by San Francisco SIGGRAPH Professional Chapter and Expression Center for New Media

WHERE:
Expression Center for New Media, located at 6601 Shellmound Street in Emeryville, California. (www.expression.edu for directions)

PROGRAM:
6:00 to 8:00 pm VIP reception/dinner
Meet the speakers and others involved in the production of MATRIX RELOADED.
Includes buffet dinner and wine/beer/soft drinks
8:00 to 10:00 pm "THE MAKING OF MATRIX RELOADED"
Get a behind the scenes look at how they created the amazing visual effects in MATRIX RELOADED. Learn from lead artists and FX supervisors who will share with you the challenges faced by the crews in realizing the vision of directors on this breakthrough effects blockbuster.

ADMISSION:
6:00 pm VIP RECEPTION/DINNER:
SIGGRAPH Members: $20 includes dinner plus two drinks and entry to presentation
Non-SIGGRAPH Members: $30 includes dinner plus two drinks and entry to presentation
8:00 pm MAKING OF MATRIX PROGRAM:
SIGGRAPH members Free
Non-SIGGRAPH members: $10

Beer/Wine/Soft Drinks available for purchase at event with proper ID


SEATS ARE LIMITED
RESERVE YOUR SPACE EARLY VIA ACTEVA: http://www.acteva.com/booking.cfm?bevaid=48531