Animated Castles Festival Calls For Entries
The 5th International Animated Film Festival/I Castelli Animati will
take place in Genzano, Italy, October 4-8, 2000. I Castelli Animati
highlights animation in all its forms from commercials to features
films. The international competition features the following prizes:
grand prize "I Castelli Animati," special jury prize, best debut
short film, best European short film, audience prize, the Fabrizio
Bellocchio prize and best non-narrative short film. The Italian
competition will give a grand prize and special jury prize to the top
Italian productions. New to this year's event is the International
competition for animated Web sites. I Castelli Animati will feature
retrospectives on Wendy Tilby, Paul Driessen, Konstantin Bronzit,
Koji Morimoto and Jan Pinkava. Composer Julian Nott, scorer for the
WALLACE & GROMIT films, will be the guest of honor. The entry
deadline is July 30, 2000 for the international/Italian competition
and August 31, 2000 for the Web animation. For more information, visit
http://www.castellianimati.it.
Read Animation World Magazine's
"A
Report from the I Castelli Animati, the International Festival of Animation"
by Andy Klein to find out more about past I Castelli Animati festivals.