The 22nd Edition of Cartoons on the Bay - International Cross-media Animation and Children’s Television Festival - will be held in Turin at Museo Nazionale del Risorgimento Italiano – Palazzo Carignano - from April 12th to 14th, 2018.
Visit our website www.cartoonsbay.rai.it under the section SUBMISSION and fill-out the online entry form to submit your work to the Festival.
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FMX 2018
Conference on Animation, Effects, Games and Immersive Media
April 24-27, Stuttgart, Germany
Ludwigsburg/Germany, December 14, 2017. Creating Worlds is the theme of FMX 2018 - Conference on Animation, Effects, Games and Immersive Media. Two top-notch speakers already confirmed their participation in FMX 2018 - Phil Tippett (Tippett Studio) and David Sproxton (Aardman Animations). Moreover, FMX releases the first episode of...
A new initiative under the name CEE Animation Workshop brought together twenty-four independent producers of animated films from sixteen Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) countries. They came to Ljubljana to network, consult, learn and share their producing experience. Throughout the workshop, all participants discussed the current situation in animation and identified potential common steps to encourage and support the growth of the animation industry. These steps and strategies have b...
WE WANT YOUR FILM!
Fest Anča International Animation Festival has launched a call for entries for its 2018 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 28 and July 1, 2018. Only digital copies submitted before February 25, 2018 will be considered for the festival.
Submissions are free and winners are awarded cash prizes. Fin...
Screen your animation film at Animation Day in Cannes in 2018! Participate and submit your animated film or script at the must attend animation event where film animation film professionals gather from around the world.
Animaze Daze at Cannes is celebrating its 4th successful year presenting Animation Day in Cannes produced in collaboration with filmfestivals.com and The Montreal International Animation Film Festival
Entries are still open for a happy and creative ani...
We are fresh from the American Film Market in Santa Monica California. We have lots of great news and strategies to
share with you to help give your animation strong visibility in 2018.
Animation Calling has great relationships with festivals who screen animation film.
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Please contact laurie@animazefestival.com and set up a sk...
Scene from Loving Vincent the world's first hand painted Oil Painting
LOVING VINCENT, the world’s first fully oil painted feature film is being embraced by audiences around the globe. First released in the US on September 22nd by Good Deed Entertainment, the film is poised to cross the US$ 1million mark on a roll-out strategy that will see it in over 100 US/Canadian theatres this weekend. In Poland distributor Next Film will cross 150,000 admissions this wee...
Cigare by Canadian animator Tom Tassel premiered at Montreal International Animation Film Festival 2017
We look forward to meeting November 1 - 7 to discuss your animation film or project.
Please email laurie@animazefestival.com for an AFM meeting in sunny Santa Monica.
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Calling all animation projects in need for film festival strategy at AFM 2017.
From Montreal to Moscow to New Delhi to Glasgow we are programming animation for 2018. We can help you get selected at film festivals all over the world.
We can help your program your film and produce your special event.
Please email laurie@animazefestival.com for an appointment in sunny California!
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Nearly a decade after making his first foray into animation with “The Fantastic Mr. Fox,” the writer-director Wes Anderson returns to the stop-motion technique and focuses on another type of animal in “Isle of Dogs.” The trailer, released Thursday, reveals a futuristic Japanese landscape where dogs have been exiled after a flu epidemic. The story follows a boy who hijacks a plane and flies to the trash-heap in search of his missing pooch, Spo...
MIAFF is bursting into its 5th edition and will be a spectacular 5th year birthday party!
Call for entries are now open so take advantage of early bird rates until October 14
For festival strategy and consultation contact Animation Calling today!
With hundreds of submissions from all over the world MIAFF 5 will be screening your film alongside an ANIMAZING party to boot!
Animaze is an international film festival and conference dedicated to exploring the world of animation in all ...
Happening right now is the Ottawa Animation Film Festival happening all weekend long in Canada's capital of Ottawa.
Canadian Animators Shine Again at the OIAF
Ottawa International Animation Festival Competition Selections Announced
The Ottawa International Animation Festival (OIAF), North America’s leading animation film festival, is pleased to announce the Official Competition for 2017.
Several films are standouts with highly creative
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Allison Abbate
Allison Abbate is an executive vice president at Warner Animation Group. Prior to assuming her post at WAG, Abbate was an executive producer on the global blockbuster The LEGO® Movie, and a producer on Tim Burton’s Frankenweenie and Corpse Bride, Wes Anderson’s Fantastic Mr. Fox, and Brad Bird’s Iron Giant.
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After the European Animation Plan's announcement at the Cartoon Forum last week, we would like to give you all the explanations you need.
The success of European animation may prove that the industry's growth lays in pursuing the same path of collaboration, innovation and creativity.
The animation sector has teamed up in a series of workshops organised by the European Commission to reflect how to unleash the potential of European animation. We would like to thank the Co...
On June 16, 2017, during the Annecy Festival, GKIDS, the Annecy International Animation Film Festival and Variety announced the creation of ANIMATION IS FILM, a Los Angeles-Based Animation Film Festival.
This ambitious project around animation now comes into being and takes place October 20-22, 2017 at the TCL Chinese 6 Theater, Hollywood.
Check out the competition line-up and jury.
ANIMATION IS FILM announced the line-up and jury members for its inaugural edition. The Festiv...
Early bird submissions until October 14. now online filmfrreeway.com
Enter your animation or VR script today
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SIMPLE ANIMATION CONTINUES WITH ITS WORLD LAUNCH AFTER THE SUCCESS IN SIGGRAPH 2017
Simple Animation, the first cloud based, virtual, animation studio that includes a free animation pipeline complete and scalable, was unveiled successfully during the Si...
Animation news out of Montreal
Montreal International Animation Film Festival MIAFF 2018 submissions now open.
The Weinstein Company Takes a ‘Leap’ into Animation with New Mizchief Label
First two animated features to be distributed under the new label will be L’Atelier Animation’s ‘Leap!’ and Light Chaser Animation’s ‘The Guardian Brothers.’
B...
Anima is calling for your films!
For its next edition (9-18 Feb. 2018), Anima, the Brussels Animation Film Festival, is looking for stunning and unexpected animated films!
Besides its national and international competitions, the Festival nominates a selection of films from its European prize-winners for the Cartoon d'Or and is also qualified by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for the short animated film category.
The Festival considers all films i...
Animation calling is a festival submission service (we are a for hire service) specifically aimed to animation professionals and related industries for greater success and increased visibility. Navigating festial waters can be wild and difficult to master. I would be very pleased to discuss your animation film project needs and formulate a customized solution stategy. With my years as an animation producer, fstial director and programmer my expertise can shine some light on a sometimes...
