• Rising of Lusitania – AnimaDoc Film Festival will be held in one of the port cities in POLAND,07-13.09.2023.
• The base of the Rising of Lusitania – AnimaDoc Film Festival is an international competition dedicated entirely to animated documentaries.
• Under the name of “animadoc” / “animated documentaries,” the Organizer understands the movie that combines animation with the documentary context or documentary approach.To the Competition, we
• accept animated documentaries, from all over the world, done in any animation technique, of any duration, where the animation is at least 90% of the full movie length and realized after January 1st, 2021.
• Submission to the competition is free of charge.
• The deadline for submission of films is July 18th, 2023.

To submit your animated documentary film, visit the Rising of Lusitania webpage: www.animadoc.pl

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The BIFA Qualifying short comedy film festival Short Com is open for short film submissions for its 2023 edition to take place in September. With screening dates at the Garden Cinema in Covent Garden in London on the 2nd and 3rd of September. And other screening dates in Edinburgh and Glasgow to be announced.

2022 was a milestone year in the history of Short Com. With it’s largest programme to date selecting 50 short films from around the world between live action and animation with extended awards categories. And screening their first ever programmes dedicated to animation; women filmmakers and LGBTQ+ filmmakers. And for the first time ever; having a film to become a BAFTA and Oscar winner in An Irish Goodbye.

Short Com prides itself in the quality of it’s programming. Selecting films on their capacity to make audiences laugh or smile. Selected filmmakers have the chance to compete in several awards categories from Best Script, Funniest Film, Best Performance, Best Animation, Best British Film and Grand Jury Prize. The stop motion Night Of The Living Dread. With each awards category judged by industry professionals.

Short Com has been screening the funniest short films since 2011. And is recognised for the quality of it’s programming around the world. In 2022, it collaborated with the BBC for their Comedy Festival in Newcastle by co-programming a special shorts programme.

The regular deadline to enter is 30th of April with the final deadline on the 31st of July. For further information and how to submit, visit our submissions page Filmmakers via Filmfreeway at https://filmfreeway.com/ShortCom

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This will be the second edition of the awards, the first was held in 2022 online and saw Mad God director Phil Tippett awarded with Best Feature Film Animation as well as the Harryhausen Hall of Fame Award for his long career in VFX, feature films and animation. Short went to Only a Child by Simone Giampaolo, Commercial went to Save Ralph by Arch Model Studio, Television went to Scream Street by Factory, Student went to Absolution, Parsin by Jack Nop and Children’s Film went to Battle of Gastropoda by Kristian Harding.

This year also sees an incredible new Awards logo by designer Lars Seiffert. The competition is now accepting submissions under the following categories before the deadline of April 30th 2023:

• Best Feature Film Animation
• Best Short Film Animation
• Best Student Film Animation
• Best Children’s Film Animation
• Harryhausen Hall of Fame Award

More information can be found at www.harryhausenawards.com or you can submit your work on Filmfreeway

The awards will be held at the Cameo Cinema, Edinburgh on June 29th, 2023, followed by a 60th anniversary screening of Ray’s classic film Jason and the Argonauts.

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The Animasyros International Animation Festival invites creators from around the world to submit their films by June 30th, 2023. The largest festival of its kind in Greece and one of the largest in Europe will take place from the 26th of September to the 1st of October 2023 in Syros Island. 

(Read our coverage of last year’s edition here.)

The artistic program of ANIMASYROS 2023 includes 7 competition sections, special tributes, training sessions, events, new local and international collaborations as well as the Agora, the industry event which has emerged as a reference point for the industry of the East Mediterranean region. 

Syros Island, home to the festival

The main focus of this year’s festival, entitled Anima Ancients, is dedicated to Animation and Ancient Greece aiming to highlight the different ways in which the contemporary animation scene has reinterpreted, negotiated or been inspired by this long historical period.

Furthermore, ANIMASYROS 2023, recognizing the important position of the animation industry of the Iberian Peninsula and Latin America, presents a tribute to these countries, entitled La Animaciόn Iberoamericana, which includes feature films for children and adults, while also hosting short film programs curated by partner festivals from Spain and Latin America. 

This year’s educational workshops inspired from Ancient Greece are aimed to familiarize children, young professionals, adolescents with disabilities as well as the elderly with the basic animation techniques as well as call them to experience new ones, such as “sand animation”. 

Moreover, the Agora continues its development as one of the most vibrant parts of the Festival by building international collaborations within the framework of the Pitching Forum while presentations, roundtables, panel-discussions, workshops, masterclasses and networking meetings will offer the opportunity to professionals as well as animation lovers from all over the world to promote their work, expand their network, meet with established professionals, get in touch with the international community and discover what’s on in the field. The Agora of ANIMASYROS 2023 will focus, amongst others, on female creativity in animated documentary films while masterclasses and talks by internationally acclaimed Spanish producers will also take place. 

Universities will also be present at this year’s program through strategic collaborations with the University of the Aegean, Technical University of Crete and Cyprus University of Technology while, for the first time, the Agora will host speed dating sessions between creators, internationally acclaimed producers and representatives of institutions of the audiovisual field. These networking activities will enable scriptwriters and directors to collaborate, develop a strong creative universe or pitch their ideas to the biggest producers of the international industry.

Joanna Quinn and Les Mills speaking at AnimaSyros 2022

Greek animation continues to have a leading position throughout the Festival and, in this context, pre-festival activities focused on Greek creators starting from summer and culminating at Syros will take place.

Visual identity

The visual identity of ANIMASYROS 2023 was designed by the award-winning animation and motion design studio Odd Bleat founded in 2015 by Yannis Zoumakis and Manos Gerogiannis. Odd Bleat has undertaken commercial projects for Dior, Ebay, Google, Revolut, Dow Jones as well as many cultural projects through their long-term collaboration with the Stavros Niarchos Foundation and the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center. Focusing mainly on the creation of advertising videos, Odd Bleat has been distinguished in competitions, such as the Greek Visual Communication Design Awards (EBGE), Ermis Awards, Muse Awards and Vega Digital Awards.

Talking about their inspiration, the creators, amongst others, mention: “We aimed to focus on Hellenicity, the summer character and the creativity of ANIMASYROS. Two arches that refer to the typical Cycladic architecture and the two hills of Hermoupolis function as a canvas within other visual elements. We can discern two faces; the first one seems to be holding a camera through which the second one, looking like an ancient Greek goddess bust sculpture, is projected […]. This composition reflects the director’s gaze and film directing in general, as well as the projection, thus paying homage to the protagonists of the festival, the films. Between the faces, we can also see an ancient Greek column, which makes a point on this year’s theme of the festival. There are three arches at the ancient column’s base symbolizing the three arched doors of the Apollon Municipal Theater in Hermoupolis, home and heart of the Festival.”

Call for entries

Entries for all competition sections of ANIMASYROS 2023 are submitted exclusively through the ANIMASYROS page at the FilmFreeway platform: filmfreeway.com/AnimaSyrosInternationalAnimationFestivalAgora-949575

Deadline for submissions is June 30, 2023. 

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In 2023, LINOLEUM Contemporary Animation and Media Art Festival is turning ten years old.

Throughout this time, the festival screened about 2,500 short animation films from over 60 countries and held dozens of master classes and lectures. Every year, LINOLEUM presents the best and most exciting pieces of the contemporary animation industry and promotes Ukrainian animation abroad.

Since the full-scale invasion started, it has been difficult to plan anything. However, the LINOLEUM team will do their best to hold an event in Kyiv from September 6 to 10 and tour Ukrainian cities.

For a very long time, the world had not been noticing us. The “Ukraine” as a geotag was practically invisible on the Europeans’ mental map while remaining unacceptable to the enemy neighbour. Others wrote our history at our place, our memory was erased, and we were told who we were supposed to be. Now, the entire world hears and sees us. While telling the story of our struggle in different languages, we finally returned to ourselves. Who are we? What are our values? What are we capable of?

From now on, we are building our own identity. We are creating the mythology of nowadays, writing the country’s history, passing on stories by word of mouth, sharing memes and talking about everything that is Ukrainian.

ONCE UPON A TIME… is the theme of the jubilee edition of the LINOLEUM 2023.

Authors can submit their works to the International Competition or the Commissioned Films Competition. Films made in any animation technique, including works combining animation with acting and documentaries, are eligible. The animated part should be at least 40% of the film and not exceed the running time of 30 minutes. The films must be created after January 1, 2022. The Ukrainian premiere of the film is not mandatory for the national movies to be watched by as many viewers as possible.

In addition to the International and Commissioned Films Competitions, the programme of the 10th LINOLEUM Festival will include Ukrainian competition, experimental films and video art, animation for and by kids, thematic blocks, Ukrainian animation retrospective, screenings of selections from international festivals, lectures and master classes.

Films are accepted exclusively through the FilmFreeway festival platform filmfreeway.com/Linole…

The call is open till May 14th.

The festival regulations are available following think link.

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Call for entries opened today (16th January) and will remain open until  30th April 2023.

The submission process is free of charge.

Animist Tallinn is holding a competition in one category: Best Animated Short (The international competition of short animated films), with an award of 3000 euros.

Only animated films completed after January 1, 2021 may be submitted to participate in the Festival competitions.

The regulations are published on Animist Tallinn’s website https://animistfestival.eu/en/test

Submissions can be made through the entry form: https://forms.gle/hK6T1Pw3zMPQ2J6h8

The festival is supported by Estonian Film Institute, Cultural Endowment of Estonia and the Culture & Sports Department of Tallinn.

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The 2023 edition of the ESFF with more short film screenings in Edinburgh, International Film Festival showcases, trophies, awards and industry networking.

They are also programming showcases of our best films for their international film festival partners across Europe.

Max Length 25 minutes, international films welcomed, all genres eligible.

Early Bird Deadline: Friday Feb 24th

ENTER HERE: edinburghshortfilmfestival.com/call-for-entries-filmmakers/

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For the first time ever, filmmakers can now submit their films to Cardiff Animation Nights!

Cardiff Animation Nights (CAN) are free monthly screenings of great animated short films from around the world at The Underdog in the centre of Cardiff and online. 

CAN has been running for eight years, and has screened some of the best animated short films from the global animation festival circuit, including Oscar- and BAFTA-winning shorts. The events give people in Cardiff and beyond a chance to watch independent animation on the big screen or the comfort of their own homes, and meet like-minded people at the bar or in the live chat.

Cardiff Animation Nights Head Programmer Ellys Donovan says:

We love bringing people together at Cardiff Animation Nights to watch great animation. We’re excited to be opening submissions for the first time and can’t wait to see all the amazing work that will be submitted from around the world.

Over its eight year history, Cardiff Animation Nights has grown from reaching an audience of 20 in the back room of a Cardiff pub, to reaching monthly audiences of up to 200 at its current home at The Underdog in Cardiff, as well as reaching international audiences online since 2020. To date CAN has screened over 600 animated films at venues in Cardiff and online. 

For the first time CAN are opening submissions. Filmmakers can submit animated films of any genre and up to 20 minutes in length through FilmFreeway. Each month a programme of short films will be selected to be screened either online or in-person. All films screened in 2023 will be eligible for the Cardiff Animation Nights 2023 awards, with a winning film will be selected by a jury of industry professionals.

Cardiff Animation Nights is run by a team of animators and animation lovers in Cardiff, led by Ellys Donovan and Lauren Orme, with help and support from numerous individuals and organisations from the animation community in Cardiff and further afield.

For more information on Cardiff Animation Nights, submissions and upcoming events, visit cardiffanimation.com

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Focused mainly for a young adult audience. With a clear emphasis on audiovisual education and training, it promotes cinema and its creation as tools for transforming society.

At SMOF you can find short film competitions, laboratories, workshops, exhibitions, clinics, seminars, retrospectives, conferences, courses and talks given by animation leaders from Argentina and from different parts of the world, free of charge, thus trying to facilitate public access to international quality educational and training proposals.

The following animation categories will be awarded:

• Best Latin American stop motion short.
• Best international stop motion short.
• Best documentary animation short (free technique)
• Best video clip in stop motion
• Best Argentinian video minute in stop motion.

Works carried out from 2021 to the present can participate. Shorts with mixed techniques can participate where more than 50% of it is made in stop motion.

Registration is open until February 28, 2023 at https://filmfreeway.com/stopmotionourfest

The 5th SMOF Laboratory promotes the production of Latin American stop motion animation short films.
Strengthens the selected projects in the development stage, providing personalized and group tutorials, totally free for the participants. The selected projects participate in important prizes. Visit https://bit.ly/labsmof

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Fest Anča International Animation Festival has launched a call for entries for its 2023 edition. Animated short films, student films, music videos and films for children are among the competition categories.

Fest Anča will take place in Žilina, Slovakia between June 29 and July 2, 2023. Registration remains open until January 31, 2023. Only short animated films and music videos – completed after January 1, 2021 and submitted with English subtitles – are accepted into the Festival’s competition program.

This year’s call for entries is open via Film Freeway. The submission process is free of charge until December 31, 2022. Submissions registered during the period between January 1 and January 31, 2023 (Late Deadline) will be subject to a registration fee of 5 EUR per film.

At Fest Anča 2022 you can compete for Anča Awards in the following categories:

• Best animated short (€1000)
• Best student animated short (€500)
• Best animated music video (€500)
• Best animated short for children (€500)
• Best Slovak animated short (€1000)

Fest Anča International Animation Festival – the only Slovak multimedia festival focused on animated film – is based in the New Synagogue and in the cultural centre Stanica Žilina-Záriečie, both venues being vibrant cultural centers in the city of Žilina.

The festival aims to showcase contemporary, progressive animated films, and commemorate the cream of the genre. The long-term vision is to approximate well-known international festivals by uniquely showcasing this art form in Slovakia.

The festival features an international competition of animated short films and music videos, as well as non-competitive screening sections. Attendees can additionally enjoy presentations, exhibitions, workshops, film screenings for children, and numerous accompanying events.

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Viborg Animation Festival 2023 is open for film submissions! The Danish based animation festival is looking for a broad variety of animation, for all audiences, and from all over the world.

This year there are nine categories – all with prizes awarded – and 2023 sees the launch of a new category “VAF Diversity Film Award” which aims to bring focus to diverse animated stories. Films can be submitted at filmfreeway.com/VAF-1

We’ve opened submissions to the filmprogram of Viborg Animation Festival 2023 November 7^th, 2022. All films can be submitted via Filmfreeway. There are 9 categories all with award prizes. More info at our website or https://filmfreeway.com/VAF-1

This year we are launching a new category “VAF Diversity Film Award” bringing focus to diverse animated stories.

• Earlybird Deadline – January 15, 2023
• Regular Deadline – March 21, 2023
• Late Deadline – April 10, 2023

*NEW* – VAF Diversity Film Award
VAF Diversity Film Award is an international category eligible for any genre of animated short film. The film can be no more than 20 minutes (incl. credits) and has to be fully or partially animated. The category aims to showcase stories from underrepresented groups, focusing on issues in minority groups such as sexual orientation, ethnicity, socioeconomic status, gender, disabilities, or others.

VAF Best Feature
VAF Best Animated feature includes all internationally produced animation films of any genre.
The length of the films is minimum 40 minutes including credits.

VAF Best Short
VAF Best Short Animated Film includes all internationally produced films of any genre or style.
The length of the films must not exceed 20 minutes including credits.

VAF Best Experimental Short Film
VAF Best Experimental film includes all internationally produced animation films which relates experimentally to animation, both in technique and in storytelling.
The length of the films must not exceed 20 minutes including credits.

VAF Best Graduation Film
VAF Best Graduation Film includes all internationally graduation animated films from art and animation schools.
The length of the films must not exceed 20 minutes including credits.

VAF Best Commissioned Work
VAF Best Commissioned work includes all international produced animation short films for educational or industrial use or music videos, tourist film, commercials and campaign and dissemination films.
The length of the films must not exceed 30 minutes including credits.

Open Workshop Danish Talent Award
Open Workshop Danish Talent Award includes all Danish produced animation films of any genre or style.
The length of the films must not exceed 30 minutes including credits

ANIMOK Youth Jury Award
The short films in this competition are aimed at young people aged 12-14.
ANIMOK Youth Jury Award is giving to a short film selected by a group of young kids age 12-13 years old.

ANIDOX:VR Award
ANIDOX:VR is an annual exhibition of non-fiction works in virtual reality and new media platforms.
The ANIDOX:VR Award celebrates the best of factual storytelling and craftsmanship, awarded by the VR Jury. 

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Animated films completed after October 1, 2021 can now be submitted for the festival’s main competitions:

• International Competition – International competition for animated short films
• Young Animation – International student film competition for animated short films
• Tricks for Kids – International competition for animated short films and series for children
• Trickstar Nature Award – Competition for animated short films that deal with the topics of climate protection, biodiversity, the environment and sustainability

The submission deadline is December 1, 2022.

• AniMovie – International competition for animated films of feature length

The submission deadline for AniMovie is January 16, 2023.

The application form and film upload or documentation materials must be received by Film- und Medienfestival gGmbH by the closing date.

Entry forms and regulations can be found at www.ITFS.de/en

Please use the online submission platform www.shortfilmdepot.com for film submission.

There, the online registration form is available for the submitters and they can upload their film. An account is required to register. Participation in the ITFS competitions is free of charge, but the submission platform charges a small fee for its service, based on the number of animated films submitted.

All further information and contact details can be found at https://www.itfs.de/en/professionals/call-for-entries/

More information about ITFS 2023 and all competition categories can be found on the website www.ITFS.de/en and will be updated continuously.

Call for entries at a later date:

• German Animation Screenplay Award – Prize for the best German- or English-language screenplay for a German animated feature film production (call for entries November 2022 / deadline February 1, 2023)
• Trickstar Business Award – Prize for the best innovative and forward-looking business model in the animation sector (call for entries December 2022 / deadline March 1, 2023)
• Animated Games Award Germany – Prize for the best and most innovative animation-based computer game from Germany (call for entries December 2022 / deadline February 1, 2023)
• Crazy Horse Session – 48H Animation Jam – Award for the best animated short film created in 48 hours. International teams face up the challenge to create an animated short film around the festival mascot Trixi within 48 hours in a live online animation competition. (Call for entries January 2023 / Deadline March 1, 2023)

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Submission deadline: Sep 2nd, 2022. Participation is free of charge.

All details you can find HERE

Animation can unite us in the face of difficult experiences.

It may combine the multiple styles of the creators into an expressive statement. Let us recall examples of collective projects created in response to the painful events of recent years and months – #sprzeciwpolek // #polish_women_resistance, #AnimatorsForBelarus, Animators Against War series, or Animation for Ukraine. This type of creative engagement, although based on rebellion, builds a community consisting not only of the authors but also of the viewers.

Many stirring animated documentaries are created by merging the confessions of people whose lives were influenced by similar geopolitical and cultural circumstances. In ‘It’s Like That’ (2005) by the Australian collective Southern Ladies Animation Group children with a refugee experience talk about living in confinement. The characters of the embroidered ‘Tanko Bole Chhe’ (dir. Nina Sabnani, 2010) are, among others, artists who are looking for their identity after an involuntary migration. From the shocking ‘$ 75,000’ (dir. Moïse Togo, 2020) we learn the stories of people drastically injured due to the superstition about the supernatural powers of pigment-free skin.

Also the most famous full-length animadocs so far, ‘Waltz with Bashir’ (dir. Ari Folman, 2008) and ‘Flee’ (dir. Jonas Poher Rasmussen, 2021), although they are based on personal confessions, speak out on matters that concern the entire social groups. The self-therapy which can be noticed in the films provokes the audience’s reflections on matters that go far beyond the private experiences of the film’s figure.

We would like to devote our talks that accompany this year’s edition of Rising of Lusitania AnimaDoc Film Festival to animadocs and other animations referring to real and difficult events, social and cultural phenomena. We are aware that we will face different, incomparable stories, and the belief in the unifying potential of animation may turn out to be weak and insufficient to build hope.

We invite all authors and researchers to consider the following and related issues in their 15-minute speeches:

• History and collective memory in animation.
• Animated images of war, pandemics and social crises.
• Animation in the face of trauma: attempts of (auto- / arte-) therapy.
• Engaged animation, propaganda in animation, and animated rebellion.
• Collective animators’ projects, ‘social’ animation.
• Animation as an expression of social mood.
• The material of the animation and its relationship to the place it tells about.
• Animated stories about the identity of the communities.

Please, fill in the form to submit your speech: https://forms.gle/uHkzBrrAz6WmozxA9 (the submission deadline: 2nd of September 2022). Participation is free of charge. In case of any questions, please, contact us: animadoc.conference@gmail.com.

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Festival Stop Motion Montreal is actively preparing its 14th edition which will take place in September 2022. This will mark the end of its digital editions held over the past two years, welcoming back both live screenings and in-person activities! An exciting program is to be expected, including international short film screenings, introductory stop motion activities for all ages, networking opportunities, and more. The first-ever film festival dedicated to stop motion animation invites you to celebrate this unique art in Quebec’s metropolis this fall!

The Festival is still accepting film submissions at the moment for this upcoming edition. Independent filmmakers, as well as professionals and students, are invited to submit their short films.

There are no submission fees and all films of 30 minutes or less in length, completed after January 2020,  and using puppet, object, and/or pixilation animation techniques are accepted. All selected films will be competing for the following awards:

• Best Professional Film
• Best Independent Film
• Best Emerging Talent Film
• Best Youth Film
• Public Choice Award
• Special NAD Prize, awarded to a Canadian filmmaker

For the full details regarding the 2022 call for entries and to submit your film, please visit our website: bit.ly/14eentries  | www.stopmotionmontreal.com

Submission deadline: June 20th, 2022 at 11:59pm EST.

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Wouldn’t you just love to see your very own animated film on the big screen? All the waiting and dreaming is over, you can make it happen now! Because the Call For Entries for Kaboom Animazione Festival 2023 is now open. Which means you can now submit your animation film, VR project or game to have a shot at competing in the wildest animation film festival in this quadrant of the galaxy. Don’t you dare  think twice!

The 2023 edition will take place in late March and/or early April 2023. Screenings will take place both physically (in the cinema) and online (on our online platform). All screenings of online content will be geoblocked to the Netherlands only.

After the submission, your film, VR project or game will be taken into careful consideration by our selection committee. We will inform you about selection and programming by December 15th 2022.

In case your entry is selected, you will receive further information about the master copy, festival accreditation and everything else.

The Call is open until October 3rd 2022.

SUBMIT YOUR FILMS HERE

If you have any questions or doubts, don’t hesitate to contact us on submissions@kaboomfestival.nl

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• Rising of Lusitania – AnimaDoc Film Festival will be held again in Łódź/Lodz AKA Boat City (Poland),07-13.09.2022.
• The base of the Rising of Lusitania – AnimaDoc Film Festival is an international competition dedicated entirely to animated documentaries.
• Under the name of “animadoc” / “animated documentaries,” the Organizer understands the movie that combines animation with the documentary context or documentary approach.
• To the Competition, we accept animated documentaries, from all over the world, done in any animation technique, not longer than 90 minutes (with closing credits), where the animation is at least 90% of the full movie length and realized after January 1st, 2020.
• Submission to the competition is free of charge.
• The deadline for submission of films is July 18th, 2022.

Rising of Lusitania webpage: www.animadoc.pl
Rising of Lusitania on FB: @animadoc

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Warsaw Animation Film Festival calls out to filmmakers from around the world to submit their short animations by the early bird deadline of May 31th, 2022. The screenings will take place between the 26th and 31st of October 2022 in the arthouse cinema Amondo, the impressively large cinema Elektronik as well as open air venues around the river.

Although it’s only the 4th time Poland’s capital is hosting the event, it’s already considered one of the most important animation festivals in the country. The festival organizers, Tessa Moult-Milewska and Ewelina Leszczyńska have partnered with Poland’s most successful post-production company Platige Image, a creative animation studio specializing in 3D animation and digital special effects, to bring to life the Ex Anima Foundation and promote animated films through various educational and artistic events, the most important one of them being WAFF.

The festival’s competition program will consist of the latest International shorts and will be accompanied by special events, like animated documentary screenings, music clips, masterclasses and workshops. Previous year’s industry events include „The Cinematic Storytelling of Toy Story 4” conducted by Patrick Lin and Ye Won Cho, „Emotion and Story” with Mike Catchuela, or series of workshops about previs and games with professionals from Platige Image. The goal of the festival is to introduce animation as a mature, highly artistic and socially engaged medium of communication. The Ex Anima Foundation responsible for the festival wants to offer the capital an annual event devoted to celebrating the art of animation and hope that it will become an integral and living part of the city’s culture scene.

A Jury of 3 industry professionals will debate and choose the Best Film of the festival as well as hand out their Special Mentions. An important part of the festival’s ceremony is also the Audience Award.

SUBMIT YOUR FILM: filmfreeway.com/WarsawAnimationFilmFestival

More information about the planned events soon!

We encourage you to follow our home page and fb profile:

• www.warsawanimationfest.com
• www.facebook.com/warsawanimationfest

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Festival Stop Motion Montreal is coming back this fall with live screenings for its 14th edition in September. The world’s first-ever film festival dedicated to frame by frame animation techniques will once again offer international short film screenings, stop motion discovery activities for all ages, networking opportunities, and more. Stay tuned for more details to be released – we are so excited to welcome you back and see you in person!

For all of the details about the short film competition and on how to submit your films visit stopmotionmontreal.com/submissions

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