Festival

Festival presentation: 

RabbitFest is an international animation film festival, created in 2010 by the cultural association SKUNK with the aim of fostering an interest in animation in Italy.

The festival has always remained faithful to the philosophy of free entry in order to facilitate the dissemination of its cultural message. It consists of three days of screenings, based on a conception of cinema not just as entertainment, but as a visual and educational experience enabling people to get to know the best international animation.

In fact, the first aim of the association is to promote feature and short films that have not been distributed in Italy and are therefore unknown to the general public.

During the past four years, RabbitFest has screened award-winning international works from all over the world, including of course Italian animation.

One of the characteristics of the previous editions has been the choice of a common theme to all the selected works. Until now, such themes have been: Lost and Found, New Beginnings, Disturbances and Perspectives.

Last year, SKUNK also organized its first international competition for animated shorts, with the participation of more than 300 works from around the world. The artistic direction of RabbitFest selected 25 short films from amongst the entries and awarded a 500 euro prize to the best animated short of 2013, as chosen both by the audience and the association.

Festival Nickname: 

Rabbitfest

Edition: 

5

Festival Logo: 

Theme: 

Animation

International

Category/Format: 

Animated Films

Short films

RabbitFest is an international animation film festival, created in 2010 by the cultural association SKUNK with the aim of fostering an interest in animation in Italy.

The festival has always remained faithful to the philosophy of free entry in order to facilitate the dissemination of its cultural message. It consists of three days of screenings, based on a conception of cinema not just as entertainment, but as a visual and educational experience enabling people to get to know the best international animation.

In fact, the first aim of the association is to promote feature and short films that have not been distributed in Italy and are therefore unknown to the general public.

During the past four years, RabbitFest has screened award-winning international works from all over the world, including of course Italian animation.

One of the characteristics of the previous editions has been the choice of a common theme to all the selected works. Until now, such themes have been: Lost and Found, New Beginnings, Disturbances and Perspectives.

Last year, SKUNK also organized its first international competition for animated shorts, with the participation of more than 300 works from around the world. The artistic direction of RabbitFest selected 25 short films from amongst the entries and awarded a 500 euro prize to the best animated short of 2013, as chosen both by the audience and the association.

After the first edition of 2013, RabbitFest is holding a new, free themed and free entry competition for animated shorts, which this year will offer two prizes.

 

 REGULATIONS
The cultural association SKUNK, announces the 2014 competition for animated shorts, held as part of the 5th edition of RabbitFest.
The competition is free-themed and open to all animation techniques.
The two prizes, both of 500€, will be assigned by the official jury of the festival and by the association organizing the festival.

1. Entry is free.
2. The theme of the works is free.
3. The maximum duration is 20 minutes.
4. Deadline for submission: May 10, 2014.
5. Only works produced after January 1, 2012 are allowed.
6. A maximum of 2 works per author is allowed.
7. The selection of films is made by the Artistic Direction of the Festival.
8. The prize for the best animated short film, selected by the official jury, is 500€.
9. The prize for the short selected by the association is 500€.
10. The selected works will be announced to the participants by the end of May, as well as published on the official website of the festival.
11. The works must be submitted online, via a private link (FTP, Dropbox, Google Drive, YouTube, Vimeo or similar) to be written in the space provided in the form.*
12. Together with the application form, participants must also submit two digitized images (300 dpi) to be attached in the space provided in the form. 
13. I hereby authorize RabbitFest to reproduce extracts from the work (no longer than 30 sec) for promotional purposes, and in particular for the creation of the trailer of the festival.
14. I hereby authorize RabbitFest to screen the work in the event the work is selected. 

In accordance with art. 7 and 11 of Law 675/96 and Legislative Decree 196/2003 (Privacy Consolidation Act), I declare that I am fully aware of the methods by which, and reasons for which, the data I have provided on the application form will be processed. I hereby accept the general rules of the competition as stated in the announcement. In addition, I declare that I am fully aware of and accept the rules of the regulation annexed to the application form.

*If the size of the work exceeds the size limit for online submission, you can send the work 
to: Alessandro Scullari - Corso Garibaldi 7 - 06123 Perugia (Italy).

- Shipping costs are the responsibility of the sender. 
- Works sent from foreign countries must bear the customs declaration
"No commercial value". The festival will not be responsible for any custom charges for the works submitted.
- RabbitFest is not responsible for theft or damage to the works submitted. 
- Works will not be returned and will become part of the archives of the Festival