New York International Children's Film Festival (NYICFF) is issuing a call for entries for the upcoming 2010 festival, to take place from February 26-March 14, for a sold-out-in-advance audience of over 20,000 children, teens, parents, filmmakers and media professionals and a marketing reach of 2 million in the New York area. NYICFF seeks creative, original, non-formulaic works that will help to define a new, more compelling film for kids.

With the first stage of their People Speak Competition ending August 31st, Aniboom and The History Channel are still looking for the five best concepts for turning 30 seconds of special audio content into inspirational animations.

Animafrik 2009 African Animation Festival
Accra, Ghana
October 5-9, 2009
Deadline: August 31, 2009

Animafrik is an animation festival dedicated to African animation and designed to promote African art and animation. Events include film screenings, an art exhibition, animation workshops and panel discussion: "Prospect and Challenges of the Animation Industry in West Africa."

Last Call for HAFF 2009 Student Films
Deadline: August 1, 2009

Get your film screened at the international Holland Animation Film Festival 2009! Submit your film for the competition for Student Films from The Netherlands and Belgium.

This competition is open for students from art academies, film studies and graphic schools in The Netherlands and Belgium.

Entry form is available at www.haff.nl. The winner of this competition receives a scholarship of Euro 13,500, made possible by the Netherlands Film Fund.

Press Release from Playboy Enterprises

CHICAGO (July 21, 2009) -- Playboy announced today that "Basement Gary," an original animation co-created by New York animator Sean Donnelly and actor Alessandro Minoli, was named winner of its 2009 Animation Contest. The honor has earned the creators $10,000 and bragging rights in the animation world. "Basement Gary," as well as other top contest contenders, can be viewed at playboy.com/animation.

Nokia Mobifest Toronto 2009
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
November 2-3, 2009
Deadline: September 28, 2009

Jamaica Digital Arts Festival 2009
Kingston, Jamaica
September 19-20, 2009
Deadline: July 31, 2009

The Jamaica Digital Arts Festival was formed to create a new opportunity to unleash and showcase some of the nation's productive energy and to develop a critical mass across all social divides to push this creativity for societal benefit. This festival is intended to kick-start national interest in a cultural industry based on the creation of digital arts products.

Fantastic Planet Film Festival 2009
Sydney, Australia
Deadline: July 31, 2009
Withoutabox Deadline: August 14, 2009

Fantastic Planet: Sydney's Sci-Fi and Fantasy Film Festival reminds filmmakers and screenwriters to submit their film or script soon.

FIA Animation Festival 2009
Stockholm, Sweden
October 2009
Deadline: August 19, 2009

In October 2009 it's time for the second annual FIA Animation Festival in Stockholm. You can see the splendid program from last year's festival on our site (www.fiastockholm.se). Films from all over the world, exhibitions, workshops, guests, parties and debates about animation! This year's festival will take place at Kulturhuset (the Culture House) and at Cinema Rio in Stockholm.

eDward - The Young Filmmaker's Award 2009
Deadline: August 28, 2009

eDward - The Young Filmmaker's Award is the international Film-Competition for young talents up to 30 and is announced by eDIT 12. Filmmaker's Festival. Prove your talent and creativity with a 30-second-film and win prizes in a total of 4.000 Euro. The Competition is open to young filmmakers up to 30. They must have been born on or after 1.1.1979. Students, agency juniors and free film-creative especially are called worldwide to take part individually or in teams.

Press Release from Cartoon Network

Cartoon Network, the number one kids' channel in Asia Pacific, has partnered with HP to launch the inaugural Toon Creator Awards, an online animation contest for children, in July 2009. Open to kids aged 6-14, the contest provides a regional platform for young talent from Australia, India, Taiwan, Thailand, Malaysia and Singapore to showcase their creativity through technology.

CINANIMA 2009 - Call for Entries
Deadline: July 24, 2009

CINANIMA - The International Animated Film Festival invites you to enter your films in the 33rd edition of this yearly meeting point of animation, directors, friends and the audience.

Animation films may apply to the following categories:

-- Short Films
-- Medium Length Films
-- Feature Films
-- First Film, Graduation Film, School Film
-- Series
-- Commissioned Films

FIAE -- 4th International Festival of Erotic Animation
Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo, Brazil
Deadline: August 31, 2009
November 2009

Our online submission form is now available, so submit your film! The Regulation and the answers to all your questions can be found via our submissions page. The deadline for submitting your online form is August 31st, 2009, and we must receive your DVD by September 15th, 2009.

Halloween Horror Nights-Chiller Scary Good Film Competition
Deadline: August 21, 2009

Chiller and Universal Studios Hollywood(SM) are partnering to recognize the nation's top short-form filmmaking horror genre talent with the "Halloween Horror Nights-Chiller Scary Good Film Competition," offering filmmakers an opportunity to have their scariest short film rewarded with a broadcast on Chiller of their work, a $1,000 cash prize and a trip for two to the October 2 opening night of Halloween Horror Nights at Universal Studios Hollywood.

Press Release from HISTORY and Aniboom

HISTORY and Aniboom, the world's first virtual animation studio, announced today a collaboration that will enable talented animators to create unique interpretations of 10 readings and musical performances by A-list talent and compete for $35,000 in cash prizes and the opportunity to have their animation shown on HISTORY. The audio recordings to be animated are featured in the highly anticipated The People Speak film airing later this year on HISTORY.

Kansas City FilmFest 2010
Kansas City, Kansas, USA
April 14-18, 2010
Deadline: August 15, 2009 (early)

All filmmakers, anywhere, are invited to submit your short or feature film -- drama, comedy, documentary, animation or experimental work. It must have been completed since January 1, 2008.

EARLY DEADLINE DATE: August 15, 2009 (Other deadlines: 10/1/2009, 11/15/2009. and 12/01/2009)

ENTRY FEES: Vary by short or feature and increase with each new deadline date

Press Release from Nickelodeon

Anifest India 2009
Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
August 13-16, 2009
Deadline: July 31, 2009

The largest annual international animation festival held in India. Competitive categories for animation shorts. 1. Student Films 2. Independent professional films 3. Commissioned films 4. Films made by teachers/trainers.

Pre-selection jury of professional animators select films for screening and voting by the audience at a live session during the festival. No entry fee. DVD format only, duration in all categories should be under 10 mins.

Canterbury Anifest 2009
Canterbury, U.K.
November 7-8, 2009
Deadline: September 30, 2009

The Canterbury Anifest is an animation festival that takes place annually. There is no submission fee. The Award Categories are Festival Grand Prize, Festival Runner Up, Audience Selection Award, Creative Design, Creative sound design, Technical Achievement and Smallfilms Award.

Cinema by the Bay Festival 2009
San Francisco, California, USA
October 23-25, 2009
Deadline: July 15, 2009