Switzerland’s biggest animation film showcase, to be held September 6-11 in Baden, adds three new awards to Swiss competition.
CalArts’ downtown center for the contemporary arts presents the 11th annual REDCAT International Children’s Film Festival from Saturday, April 23 to Sunday, May 7, 2016.
Longest-running independent film studio’s new animation-only film festival to be held Saturday, April 30th at the Lucky 13 Saloon in Brooklyn, NY.
Putting Nordic/Baltic Animation in the Spotlight - The Frederikstad Animation Festival presents the opportunity to see the best of the Nordic and Baltic animation, much of which is not shown at any other festival.
Animated shorts program curated by Whoopi Goldberg includes ‘The Orchestra,’ directed by Mikey Hill; ‘Lucens,’ directed and written by Marcel Barelli; ‘Fear,’ directed by Dawn Dreyer and Andrea Love; ‘Violet,’ directed by Maurice Joyce; ‘Short Story of a Fox and a Mouse,’ directed and written by Camille Chaix, Hugo Jean, Juliette Jourdan, Marie Pillier and Kevin Roger; ‘I am a Pencil’ (Je suis un Crayon), directed and written by Joe D’Arcy; and the U.S. premiere of Bill Plympton's ‘The Loneliest Stoplight.’
CN’s reboot of ‘The Powerpuff Girls’ to have its world debut at the South by Southwest festival on Monday, March 14; series premieres on Monday, April 4.
French animated short directed by Celine Devaux wins Grand Prix Award at the inaugural edition of the GLAS Animation Festival in Berkeley, CA.
Competition program at the Cardiff Independent Film Festival’s Cardiff Animation Nights to feature 21 animated shorts from 10 different countries, including Rory Waudby-Tolley’s ‘Mr. Madilla,’ Rhiannon Evans’s ‘Fulfilament,’ Claudius Gentinetta’s ‘Islander’s Rest’ and Simon Cartwright’s ‘Manoman.’
OIAF40 runs September 21-25, 2016; deadline for submissions of short films, features, TV series, music videos, PSAs and commercials made after May 29th, 2015 is Friday, May 13.
The Toronto Animation Arts Festival International to open its 2016 edition with the world premiere of Toonbox Entertainment’s CG-animated feature, ‘Spark,’ directed by Aaron Woodley and featuring the voice talents of Jessica Biel and Hilary Swank.
Deadline for submissions to the Shanghai TV Festival is March 10, 2016; animated features can be submitted to the Shanghai International Film Festival through April 15.
Deadline for submissions to the Disney Art Challenge is April 15; public voting for 10 shortlisted entries takes place July 4-23.
Oscar-nominated short film is awarded the Grand Prix at Anima 2016; Special Jury Award given to Japan’s Yoriko Mizushiri for ‘Maku.’
Animation Arts Maarket to welcome more than 1,000 animation arts professionals.
To be held August 18-22, the deadline for submissions to HIROSHIMA 2016 is April 1.
‘Le repas dominical’ by Celine Devaux named best international short; ‘Tarboz’ by Chad VanGaalen wins best Canadian short; Seth Boyden’s ‘An Object at Rest’ wins audience award.
GLAS Animation Festival announces inaugural competition jury members, including Jeremy Clapin, Hisko Hulsing, Kirsten Lepore, Nobuaki Doi, Sara Gunnardottir, Gerben Schermer, Rachel Ho, Brooke Keesling, Linda Simensky, Tom Brown, Tom Fulp and Peter Millard.
Running Feb. 26-March 20, animated feature slate includes special preview screenings of Funimation’s ‘The Boy and The Beast’ and Mark Osborne’s ‘The Little Prince.’
First annual GLAS Animation Festival runs March 36, 2016 in Berkeley, CA.
Selections announced for Narrative, Non-Narrative, Graduate, Student and Commissioned Film competition categories.
2016 speakers are a diverse group of animation leaders that includes Disney’s Eric Goldberg and Hanna-Barbera artists Tony Benedict, Willie Ito and Jerry Eisenberg.
Deadline for Finland’s only short film competition is January 31st.
Call for entries for the 7th International Animation Film Festival - Golden Kuker in Sofia, Bulgaria, held from May 9 - 15 May, 2016.
Deadline for submissions to the ASIFA-East Animated Film Festival is January 31.
Fourteen animated shorts are selected to screen in competition, as well as U.K. filmmaker Ainslie Henderson’s stop-motion animated documentary short, ‘Stems,’ and Australia’s experimental VFX short, ‘Double-Blind No.1.’
