animate! tv is commissioning another slate of experimental personal projects for television, with running times of up to 6 minutes and production budgets between £5,000 and £20,000. animate! believes that animation is not, and indeed never has been, exclusively driven by frame-by-frame process but by wider notions of synthesis. animate! supports innovative content and 'agenda' as well as new forms and techniques. animate! tv wants proposals to scratch the world with unexpected tools and playful propositions to surprise and stretch an audience. Above all, it is looking for projects fired by an irresistibly original idea that will challenge the boundaries of animation.
The individual works will receive their premieres on Channel 4 in autumn 2006 within two animate! tv compilation programs, and then enjoy a long and highly visible international profile. Contestants do not have to be an animator to submit a proposal to animate! tv 2005 but you must have experience in the experimental practice in film, video and digital media, as well as based in the U.K. Submission deadline is (postmark) April 29, 2005.
Visit www.animateonline.org/funding/ to read more and download a Proposal Pack. Go to www.animateonline.org/films/ to check out all 72 animate! films commissioned to date.
Rick DeMott
Animation World Network
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