Russian animated feature, ‘Kikoriki: Legend of the Golden Dragon,’ selected to screen out of competition in the International Panorama category at the 19th Shanghai International Film Festival.
Selections for the Oscar-qualifying festival include outstanding achievements in animated feature and short films, scientific visualization, visual effects, real-time graphics, game excerpts, and many others.
‘The Powerpuff Girls,’ ‘Ben 10’ and brand-new multi-platform series ‘Mighty Magiswords’ to lead the hero-inspired line-up at this year’s festival as the network continues to look for new global talent.
Winners of 26th Animafest Zagreb include ‘Endgame,’ ‘The Magic Mountain,’ ‘Travelling Country,’ ‘What They Believe’ and ‘Welcome to My Life.’
Submissions open for Oscar-qualifying festival; NYC event to take place February 24 through March 19, 2017.
Winning films from inaugural Los Angeles Post Production Group event now featured online
Rooster Teeth Animation Festival at RTX to bring the biggest names in Web-based animation to Austin July 2 & 3.
AEAF Awards 2016 & Speaker Program
CALL FOR ENTRIES
We are now receiving entries for the 2016 AEAF Awards for VISUAL EFFECTS and ANIMATION. The AEAF Awards are in their 19th year, accepting entries from around the world in 14 categories to recognise excellence in VFX and animation created for screened work. The Awards are open to all digital content creators and motion graphics, digital video, animation and effects professionals and students. Entry is FREE of charge.
Croatia’s leading animation festival opens 2016 edition with a Lifetime Achievement Award and retrospective screening for Raoul Servais, one of the chief representatives of existentialist animation.
Abstract: Six-day animation festival running October 25-30, 2016 boasts extensive program of features and animated shorts from around the world; deadline for international competition submissions is June 15.
First feature-length film from the animation studio behind ‘Metalocalypse,’ ‘Moonbeam City’ and ‘Superjail!’ is written by Andrew Kevin Walker and directed by Chris Prynoski with animation by Mike Roush under the production design of art director Antonio Canobbio.
Veteran animator Hubley to be honored with the Crystal Anvil Award during the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television’s 25th annual film festival celebrating the outstanding achievements of UCLA TFT students.
ANNY: Animation Nights New York is a curated monthly screening event held in the
South Street Seaport of NYC.
Landmark 70th edition of the Edinburgh International Film Festival’s Animation in Focus program to be anchored by the first major retrospective of Scottish-based animation duo Will Anderson and Ainslie Henderson.
Independent animation festival’s 13th edition to include a 30th anniversary screening of ‘The Transformers: The Movie’ in 35mm, a New York advertising showcase curated by J.J. Sedelmaier, and a Cartoon Restoration showcase with Jerry Beck and Tommy Stathes.
Studio Ghibli co-production directed by Dutch animator Michaël Dudok de Wit is picked up for distribution in North and Latin America by Sony Pictures Classics.
Deadline for submissions is June 30; eighth edition of the festival to be held September 16-18.
Organizers of Switzerland’s largest animation film festival launch new ‘Humanité Animée’ program; final deadline for entries is May 31.
EFILM provides film scanning, Company 3 completes color grading, and Method delivers VFX and finishing for directorial short film debut premiering at the Cannes Film Festival.
Winners receive trophies, prize money and/or animation software, with the best film of the festival shortlisted for the annual CARTOON Media Cartoon d’Or Award.
Assimilate’s SCRATCH VR end-to-end workflow and tools employed for two Makropol-produced Virtual Reality projects showcased as part of the VR Days program at the 2016 Festival de Cannes.
Twenty-ninth edition of the Tokyo International Film Festival to celebrate ‘Boy and the Beast’ director Mamoru Hosoda and ‘Hana and Alice’ director Shunji Iwai.
Short film written and directed by Thierry Lorenzi features VFX from ‘Deadpool’ and ‘Pacific Rim’ effects house Rodeo FX.
Adult animated feature directed by Sébastien Laudenbach and produced by France’s Les Films Sauvages is set to screen in competition in June at Annecy.
Studio Ghibli’s first co-production directed by Dutch animator Michaël Dudok de Wit premieres this week at the Cannes Film Festival currently underway in France.
