Event Category Animation anniversary
Start Date 23rd April 2013
End Date 28th April 2013
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Contact +49-(0)711-925460
Place Stuttgart
The big animation anniversary in Stuttgart! The Festival of Animated Film will take place for the 20th time at the end of April 2013. The festival offers a platform to directors, production companies and distributors to present their films as well as an opportunity for fans of animated film to watch and experience animated short and feature films over a period of six days. The festival, founded in 1982, has developed into an essential event for animation film in Germany and is regarded as one of the biggest and most important festivals for animated films around the world.
Embedded in the unique setting of the Schlossplatz, Stuttgart’s city centre, the open-air cinema adds a very special touch to the festival’s atmosphere. With the help of a big LED screen, animated short films and popular blockbusters can be screened midday making the Festival of Animated Film a real family event. In 2012, 80,000 visitors came to Stuttgart to watch around 1,000 films at the open-air location and in Stuttgart’s Innenstadtkinos – the centrally located cinemas – as well as in the nearby city of Ludwigsburg. For the first time, the popular children’s festival Tricks for Kids will take place at the spectacular location of the Mercedes-Benz Museum featuring interesting additional offers.
Artistic animation films and the support of young talent represent the core of the festival. The various competition programmes are endowed with prize money of more than 65,000 euro’s in total.
You are kindly invited to submit films produced after October 01, 2011 to one of the Festival’s following competition categories!
- International Competition (Short film competition)
- Young Animation (Student film competition)
- Tricks for Kids - shorts and series (Competition for short films and TV series for children)
- Cartoons for Teens (Competition for animated series, anime series and cut scenes from computer games)
- AniMovie (Feature-length film competition)
DEADLINE: December 01, 2012.
- Animated Com Award (Competition for applied animation in the filed of animated advertising, technology and spatial communication)
- with Special award Mercedes-Benz Classic: Silver Arrows
DEADLINE: February 01, 2013.
The unique combination of the Festival of Animated Film, the Animation Production Day and FMX – Conference on Animation, Effects, Games and Tran media has established the event as one of the most important platforms for financing and developing animation projects. At the Festival, the future of animation film is put to the test and the interfaces between animation, computer games, architecture, contemporary art and real-time media are explored.
