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Fantasia Fest Honors ‘King of Pigs,’ New Hertzfeld Short
Korean film The King of Pigs won the top prize for animated features at the Fantasia International Film Festival, while animator Don Hertzfeld’s latest won the best animated short prize. The Montreal-based festival honored The King of Pigs, a drama about two former middle-school classmates reuniting amid difficult circumstances and [...]
Brazil’s Animage Festival Seeks Short-Film Submissions
The 4th edition of the Animage International Animation Festival of Pernambuco — set for Sept. 26-30 in Brazil — is open for registration and seeking submissions of animated films no longer than 30 minutes completed since January 2011. Deadline for submissions is July 31, with entry details and forms available [...]
U.K.’s Encounters Festival Open for Submissions
Encounters Short Film and Animation Festival is now accepting entries for its 18th edition, set for Sept. 18-23 in Bristol, England. Expectations for the new edition are high, following a record number of 1,789 film submissions received and a 37 percent increase in audience figures in 2011. “The festival is [...]
Czech Republic’s Anifest Accepting Entries Through Dec. 20
The 11th edition of Anifest, slated for April 26-May 1 in the Czech Republic, is open for entries through Dec. 20 and is soliciting films produced after Jan. 1, 2010. The festival seeks entries in the following categories: • International Competition of Short Animated Films up to 5 Minutes in [...]
Calls for Entry: TOFUZI in Georgia, ANIMAGE in Brazil
Two festivals on opposite sides of the planet are looking for animated film submissions. Up first is the third edition of the International Festival of Animated Films TOFUZI 2011, which will be held Nov. 2-5 in Batumi, Georgia. The festival this year will offer prizes in the following categories: The Grand [...]
Interest High in Cartoon Forum; Cartoon d’Or Nominees Set
Cartoon Forum isn’t happening until Sept. 13 to 16 in Sopot, Poland, but the event is already generating some heat. So far, more than 600 participants have already registered for the event, including 230 buyers. The show will let European animation professionals preview 66 animated series in progress for TV [...]
Animation Block Party Sets Lineup for July 29-31 Bash
Animation Block Party has announced the lineup for its its eighth annual edition, returning this summer to Brooklyn, N.Y. The largest animation festival on the East Coast, ABP will hold this year’s event from July 29-31. For full information on the festival, visit animationblock.com/summerfest2011. Here’s the festival’s schedule of events: July [...]
‘Eagleman Stag’ Wins Prize at LAFF; ‘Switez’ Wins at Palm Springs
Mike Please’s The Eagleman Stag won the Best Animated Short prize at the 17th Edition of the Los Angeles Film Festival this past weekend. Voiced by British actor David Cann, the monochrome stop-motion short centers on a man’s obsession with his quickening perception of time and the extreme lengths he [...]
‘Rabbi’s Cat,’ ‘Pixels’ Win Top Honors at Annecy
Joann Sfar and Antoine Delevaux’s 2D animated feature The Rabbi’s Cat (Le Chat du Rabbin) won the Cristal Award for Best Feature at the Annecy Festival. Based on the popular graphic novel by Sfar, the movie follows the adventures of a cat in 1930s Algeria who learns to speak after swallowing [...]
First Look at Annecy-Debuting Pixar Short ‘La Luna’
Set to debut this week at Annecy, Pixar has finally released some information and images from its next original animated short, La Luna. Here’s how the studio describes the short: La Luna Directed by Enrico Casarosa Produced by Kevin Reher TRT: 6:53 La Luna is the timeless fable of a [...]
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