Deadline:1 October 2012
Open to: all over the world
Prize: Jury and Audience Prize (not specified),films presentation
Description
Anima, Brussels Cartoon and Animated Film Festival, seeks to promote cartoons and animated films from all over the world. It also seeks to foster a dialogue between professionals, filmmakers and the public, and to raise awareness of quality animation among film and television distributors. The Festival is organising an international competition as well as a national competition for films produced in Belgium ; both competition are open to all animated films and make no distinction between formats or techniques, regardless of its geographic origin. The festival also nominates its selection of films for the Cartoon d’Or, from the European films that win prizes.
The 32nd Brussels International Animation Film Festival, Anima 2013 is now open for submissions! Animated films in all formats or techniques, from any part of the world, can now be entered in this year’s Festival’s competitive programs. Films are being accepted in 7 official categories and an Information category, reserved for special programs, documentaries, tributes and retrospectives.
Eligibility
Anima 2013, Brussels Cartoon and Animated Film Festival, seeks to promote cartoons from all over the world. It also seeks to foster a dialogue between professionals, filmmakers and the public, and to raise awareness of quality animation among film and television distributors.
The Festival is organizing an international competition as well as a national competition for films produced in Belgium; both competition are open to all animated films and make no distinction between formats or techniques, regardless of its geographic origin.
Films can be submitted in the following official categories:
- Short-film previews: short animated films made after 30 June 2011 regardless of its geographic origin, except of Belgium.
- Student film: short animated films made after 30 June 2011 regardless of its geographic origin, except of Belgium.
- Music videos and Commercials: short animated films made after 30 June 2011 regardless of its geographic origin.
- Feature-film previews: animated feature films made after 30 June 2011, regardless of its geographic origin.
- Feature-film for children previews: animated feature films made after 30 June 2011, regardless of its geographic origin.
- Belgian shorts: Belgian animated films completed after 30 June 2011.
- Short-film previews ‘The Animation Night’: short animated films made after 30 June 2011 regardless of its geographic origin.
Prize
There are two prize categories: Jury and Audience Prize.
The Jury Prize:
The Jury will award:
– the Short Film Prize,
– the Music videos Prize
– the Commercials Prize
– the Student Film Prize, to the makers of the films.
The Audience Prize:
In addition, all films selected for Anima’s international competition for categories 1 and 2 (Short Films previews, Student Films) are also voted on by the audience. All films selected for category 7 ‘The Animation Night’ are also voted on by the audience (The Animation Night Audience Award for Best Short Film). On the basis of the public votes, the festival’s organising committee ranks the films and awards the Audience Prize to the filmmaker(s) of the film which received the highest score in each of the categories.
During the event, the films will be presented.
Application
There is no registration fee for films entered for the Festival. A producer or a director wishing to enter a film(s) for selection must provide the Festival with :
– a pre-selection Video-DVD (No data-DVD)
– the fully completed Anima 2013 Entry Form.
– biography and filmography of the director
– a CD-Rom with some photos of the film, or via email (selection@folioscope.be) photo must be format Jpeg 10×15 cm, Resolution 300 dpi.
– for films that are with dialogues, commentary or subtitled, please send a
list of dialogues in French, English or another language of the European
Community, as well as a list of subtitles if the film print for the Festival is subtitled.Registration of films is considered definite once the correct registration form has been duly completed and received by the Festival organisers along with the appropriate DVD. Each film must be accompanied by a completed entry form; however, a DVD may contain several films (on condition that all titles are legibly written on the DVD). If a producer / scholl wish to enter more than one film, copies can be made with the commun information, only the
parts containing the film information shall be filled. For further information, about the print state and rules, read here.
Format for copies
If you want to apply, fill in the pdf entry form or the online entry form.
The films and all documents should be sent to:
FOLIOSCOPE ASBL
Avenue de Stalingrad 52
1000 Brussels, Belgium
Tel: +32 2 534 41 25
Fax: +32 2 534 22 79
E-mail: selection@folioscope.be
The deadline for receipt of applications and DVDs for selection is October 1st, 2012.
