San Diego Asian Film Fest Wants Toons
San Diego Asian Film Festival 2007San Diego, California, USAOctober 11-18, 2007Deadline: June 15, 2007
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Nordisk Panorama Brings Regional Films to Finland
Nordisk Panorama - 5 Cities Film Festival 2007Oulu, Finland, Sept. 21-26, 2007Deadline: May15, 2007
Nordisk Panorama Event is the main platform for short films and documentaries in the Nordic region, offering an annual business venue and showcase, spanning all professional focus areas from development and financing to distribution and exhibition.
Slamdance Wants Your Scripts
12th Annual Slamdance Screenplay Competition World Wide WebAug. 20, 2007Deadline: May 18, 2007
The Slamdance Screenplay Competition accept screenplays in every genre, both feature and short length, on any topic from every country around the world. The grand prize is $7,000 and best short prize is $500. The Duke City Shootout Special Prize gives the winner a production package worth $50,000 for a short screenplay under 15 pages.
FREE Animation and Short Film online competition
Begins: May 1, 2007
Two new stages have opened up on FameCast.com for Season 2, Animation and Short Film. $10,000 prize FOR EACH stage. Now Accepting Submissions!
The competition is web based voting and starts with the top 50, to the top 25, top 10 and then top 5. The top 5 will come together for a live screening and event here in Austin, Texas that we will webcast live!
The winner of the animation and short film stage are each automatically entered into the LA Shorts Festival and guaranteed a screening. Even better, is that this festival is a qualifier for the Oscars!
Fresh from the Festivals: April 2007's Reviews
Taylor Jessen reviews five short films - Latent Sorrow by Shon Kim, Infinite Justice by Karl Tebbe, Tyger by Guilherme Marcondes, Eva by Martin Quaden and Golden Age by Aaron Augenblick.
Magma Wants Your Shorts
Magma 2007Catania, Italy September 13-16, 2007Deadline: May 15, 2007
Voice Cast Officially Announced for Shane Acker's 9
An all-star cast headed by Elijah Wood, Jennifer Connelly, Crispin Glover, Martin Landau, Christopher Plummer and John C. Reilly are providing voice work in Shane Acker's animated sci-fi, fairy tale, 9. Adapted from his Academy Award nominated short, the 3D-animated feature is currently in production at Attitude Studio and LuxAnimation in Luxembourg for Focus Features.
Fresh from the Festivals: March 2007’s Reviews
Taylor Jessen reviews five short films -- The Passenger by Chris Jones, Ujbaz Izbeneki Has Lost His Soul by Neil Jack, Cranium Theater by Jason D. Sandri, The Ballad of Mary Slade by Robin Fuller and Pika-Pika (Lightning Doodle Project) by Takeshi Nagata and Kazue Monno. Includes QuickTime movie clips!
HollyShorts Calls for Entries
HollyShorts 2007Hollywood, California, USAAugust 10-12, 2007 Deadline: May 25, 2007
HollyShorts, Short Film Festival is an annual short film festival showcasing the best and brightest short films from around the globe. HollyShorts is devoted to the advancement filmmakers through screenings, Q&A sessions and networking events. The HollyShorts Film festival showcases the top short films produced 30 minutes or less.
Southern Arts Federation Indie/ Shorts Tours
Begins: March 15, 2007
Southern Circuit provides independent filmmakers living in the U.S. with the paid opportunity to tour throughout the Southeastern U.S. screening their work for new audiences and engaging those audiences in discussions about the work and its creation. Filmmakers selected for the 2007-2008 Southern Circuit will receive: a $300 fee for each screening on the tour (total screening fees average between $1,800 and $2,400); paid travel expenses (domestic airfare and car rental) for the tour; per diem for meals and lodging expenses.
interfilm Issues Call for Entries
interfilm 2007 - 23. International Short Film Festival Berlin Berlin, GermanyNov. 6-11, 2007Deadline: July 13, 2007
interfilm 2007 - 23. International Short Film Festival Berlin is one of the premiere short film festivals in the world. An audience of 14,000 saw more than 500 short film productions from 48 countries at last years event. A prominent jury awarded prizes amounting to 40,000 Euro.
Happy Feet & Danish Poet Top Animated Oscar Honors
The Oscar animation winners offered a few surprises as the top animation awards went to HAPPY FEET for Best Animated Feature and the indie 2D short THE DANISH POET (NFB) by Torill Kove won for Best Animated Short tonight (Feb. 25, 2007) during the 79th Annual Academy Awards at the Kodak Theater in Hollywood.
Echoing its earlier awards at the VES Awards, PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN: DEAD MANS CHEST scored the big win for Best Visual Effects. Taking the stage to accept from ILM were John Knoll, Hal Hickel, Charles Gibson and Allen Hall.
2007's Oscar-Nominated Animated Shorts: Three Fords, a Vespa and a Kit Bike
Taylor Jessen profiles the five animated shorts nominees for the 2007 Academy Awards.
Fresh from the Festivals: February 2007’s Reviews
Taylor Jessen reviews five short films -- The Little Matchgirl by Roger Allers, A Gentlemans Duel by Francisco Ruiz and Sean McNally, Maestro by Ga Th, Childs Trip by Kei Takahashi and Tartes Aux Pommes by Isabelle Favez. Includes QuickTime movie clips!
Oscar Nominated Shorts Show Box Office Strength
THE 2006 ACADEMY AWARD NOMINATED SHORT FILMS program, distributed by Magnolia Pictures, opened at #44 on the box office chart, with $128,569 on 38 screens for a per-screen average of $3,383. NOMINATED SHORT FILMS is currently playing at the Nuart in L.A. and opens Friday, Feb. 23, at the Egyptian Theatre in Hollywood.
The program consists of:
Short Film (Animated)* THE DANISH POET (Norway & Canada, National Film Board of Canada) Torill Kove, director* LIFTED (U.S., Buena Vista), Gary Rydstrom, director
Cortinquieti
Begins: February 17, 2007
CORTINQUIETI will be an Exhibition on the best animation shorts about thrill, restless and anguish. Are you an animator? Have you done any animated short which is impressive, frightening, upsetting or shocking? Send it to CORTINQUIETI. Once selected, your short will be shown in the Exhibition with some Master Animation Classics by Svankmajer, Bros. Quay, Tim Burton and many more. From February the 17th to the ending of March, CORTINQUIETI will be a retrospective event about this fascinating theme. The walls of Foscolo's Palace, site of "Alberto Martini's Foundation
Sundance Film Festival: The Future of Animation is Now
Mary Ann Skweres finds creative risktaking, diversity, aesthetic innovation and independent artistic expression at Sundance.
Ismailia Fest Wants Your Shorts
Ismailia International Film Festival 2007Ismailia, EgyptSept. 2007Deadline: June 15, 2007
First Take
Begins: February 5, 2007
Happening every first Monday of the month, First Take is a popular screening of new local short films which is followed by a Q&A session with the filmmakers. It is the ideal platform for new filmmakers and anyone who is interested in filmmaking to meet, exchange ideas and show their work. The short films screened this month include Mat Superhero by Suffian Bin Zainuddin and The Key by Sean Cheong. Admission is free. For more information, please log in to:http://www.substation.org/substation/events
In Event Types: Discussion, Screenings
Oscar Shorts to Screen at Academy
To kick off Oscar Week, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences will present "Shorts!," a program featuring the 10 Academy Award-nominated films in the animated and live-action short film categories, on Tuesday, Feb. 20, 2007, at 7:30 pm at the Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills.
The program, hosted by Academy Award-winning producer-director Taylor Hackford, will feature onstage discussions with the nominated filmmakers (subject to availability).
The 2006 Animated Short Film and Live Action Short Film nominees are:
Fresh from the Festivals: January 2007’s Reviews
Taylor Jessen reviews five short films -- Lifted by Gary Rydstrom, Dreams and Desires -- Family Ties by Joanna Quinn, Guide Dog by Bill Plympton, No Time for Nuts by Chris Renaud and Mike Thurmeier and The Danish Poet by Torill Kove. Includes QuickTime movie clips!
Get Into the Southern Arts Federation Indie/ Shorts Tours
Southern Arts Federation Indie/ Shorts ToursMarch 15, 2007Deadline: March 15, 2007
Fresh from the Festivals: December 2006's Reviews
Taylor Jessen reviews five short films -- Tower Bawher by Theodore Ushev, Beatgirl -- A Piece of Action! by Martin Leeper , Life in Transition by John R. Dilworth, Backyard Shadow by Karl Staven and My Life at 40 by Laurie Hill and. Includes QuickTime movie clips!
New 2D Goofy Short Coming from Disney
A new 2D Goofy short is among a list of four new shorts in development at Disney, it was reported in by THE NEW YORK TIMES.
HOW TO INSTALL YOUR HOME THEATER will return Goofy to the big screen in his popular "How To" shorts, which were popular in the '40s and '50s. The new short is set to start production early next year.
The Renaissance Age of Animated Shorts
Joe Strike looks into the new renaissance in animated shorts to find out the trends and how revenue opportunities are growing.
