19. Internationales Trickfilm-Festival Stuttgart

CREATIVE ACTION BY BREUNINGER AND THE STUTTGART FESTIVAL OF ANIMATED FILM

DEADLINE: March 16^th, 2012

Animation and fashion – two creative fields one would not associate at first glance. A new form of partnership between the fashion and lifestyle company Breuninger and the Stuttgart Festival of Animated Film is paving new ways for creativity stepping ahead on an exciting course at the interface of design, creation and animation. The newly launched competition "Animated Fashion" links the target groups of both sectors and offers a platform to a young creative fashion and film community. Experience lifestyle, exclusiveness and new trends with one of Europe’s leading companies for luxury goods and one of the most successful festivals for animation film around the world.

Competition
We would like to invite you to submit films on the subject of fashion produced at your school until March 16, 2012. We are happy to assist you with contacting and teaming fashion schools and animation classes to develop new exciting ideas and produce animated films together.

The awards ceremony will take place on May 12, 2012 at Breuninger as part of the 19th Stuttgart Festival of Animated Film (May 8-13, 2012). The Animated Fashion Show – including the "Rainbow Carpet" and presentations of projects, interviews, celebrity & fashion talk, live music and live visuals, DJs and an exclusive fashion show.

The new Award's aim focuses on addressing the community on web 2.0. All of the three nominated films will be presented on the web on all websites and social media platforms of Breuninger and the Stuttgart Festival of Animated Film. Therefore the copyright compensation payments, by which Breuninger is entitled to the non-exclusive rights of use for the nominated films on the web for the duration of one year starting on May 12, 2012, need to be met.

Prizes
A pre-selection committee comprising animation filmmakers and fashion designers will nominate the three best submissions for the "Animated Fashion" Award, which comes with respectively 1,000 euros prize money. The winning film is awarded 2,000 euros prize money and the unique opportunity to produce a commercially used trailer (for web 2.0) for Breuninger.

Please find the regulations and entry form on our homepage.

Thank you for your co-operation, we are looking forward to the contributions!

News from our partners

FMX 2012 - 17th Conference on Animation, Effects, Games and Transmedia
May 8-11, Stuttgart, Haus der Wirtschaft

FMX and ITFS have enjoyed a close partnership for several years, transforming Stuttgart into the "Animated Capital of Europe" each May. FMX offers the perfect complement to the program of the Stuttgart Festival of Animated Film with its networking possibilities, presentations, technical demonstrations, conference papers and recruiting events. In 2012 FMX invites you to be part of an extraordinary experience: Virtual Production, Previs, Digital Worldbuilding, Lighting and Rendering, Cloud Computing, Industrial CG, Scientific Papers and Transmedia are just a few FMX buzzwords this year.

11th AniFest celebrates the magic of film puppet
International Festival of Animated Films AniFest annualy brings the best from Czech as well as world animated production to the beautiful enviroment of Czech spa cities. Northbohemian spa Teplice will host the 11th edition of AniFest from 26 April to 1st of May 2012. Come to celebrate one very important jubilee with us – on 24 February, it will be 100 years since one of the legends of not only Czech animation was born. Jiří Trnka and film puppet – two leitmotives of this year’s festival.

And there are still some deadlines to catch: our category of films made by children is still open to submission and you can also participate in our international flipbook competition!
And not to forget - all animators and producers are invited to sumbitt their projects of animated short films into the pitching forum, which will be held as part of 2nd edition of Visegrad Exchange Forum, an initiative aimed at authors, producers as well as sales agents not only from Visegrad region countries. more

28th Hamburg International Short Film Festival: Call for Entries
Wherever you are in the world, and whether you are reading this at your film academy, in your basement, secret laboratory or elsewhere: We want you to film!
We, the 28th Hamburg International Short Film Festival and our competitions (international, no budget, national)! Only you can make Hamburg watch in awe and rub its eyes in disbelief from 29 May to 4 June 2012. And for the next generation of short film fans: From 28 May to 3 June 2012 the 14th Mo&Friese Children Short Film Festival is presenting a selection of shortfilms for children aged 4 to 14. We are looking forward to your films!
Deadline: 15 Febuary 2012.
You can submit your film online or via Reelport.
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