Update: Malcolm Turner contacted me to let me know that they did make the minimum of ticket sales and things are looking better at the moment. I’m not sure there is a definitive answer yet about the festival’s future, but I wanted to pass on that for those of you who bought tickets, it did make a difference.

We are all in this together.

best,
-tracy

original post:

I am asking for help for MIAF  (Melbourne International Animation Festival) a festival that makes a tremendous impact in the animation community. Malcolm Turner, the director of the Melbourne International Animation Festival (MIAF), feels strongly about not charging fees to artists. This year, based on a clerical glitch, funding was delayed. The decision was made to cut the marketing, such as posters and the catalog.

Most festivals that do not charge an entry fee, rely on ticket sales. Sadly, if it does not cover the costs to rent the venue, this might be the last MIAF.

If you are not familiar with the festival, it is an 8 day festival that receives around 4,000 submissions a year, which are narrowed down to around 450, and screens a very wide range of approaches. The MIAF Website is here, check out the day by day program to see what an amazing festival it is.

So- if you are in Australia, please attend MIAF.

However, if you are not in the area, you could still purchase even just one ticket (online) to help save this festival. Tickets can be purchased on line here: tickets

best,
tracy

Chinese American Film Festival 7/31/17
CAFF aims to promote dialogues between Chinese and American filmmakers, increase cooperation between China and the US film market, and promote friendship and cultural exchanges between the two countries. CAFF is the only film festival recognized by SARFT and MPA; the only film festival recorded in the annual report of the US Congress; the only film festival listed as part of US-China cultural activities announced by John Kerry, Secretary of State. The event has always had great success in the past 12 years but we are always trying to grow and get new and great people involved with this exceptional festival.  Films must be produced between 1/1/16 and 9/30/17 for consideration.

I have recently added two animation festivals that were sent to me by the festivals. More updates will follow shortly.

I also wanted to share a recent article by Chris Robinson, director the the Ottawa International Animation Festival about entry fees…- click here.

And, lastly, if you do get into a festival, I encourage you to spread the word about the festival, not (only) for your own self promotion, but for the festival, marketing, etc. In that vein, I would like to share the upcoming Melbourne International Animation Festival, June 18th-25th- please check it out and attend if you can! (I have an animation in the installation category..)

best,
{tmr}

Indie-Anifest 6/19/17
Indie-AniFest presents spectacular independent animated films from Korea and Asia. The festival offers a diverse range of works and opportunities for filmmakers as well as a chance to interact with audiences. We strive for the values of independence, experimentation, passion and vision by working together with independent animation directors.

Animac 10/31/17
Animac is the International Film Festival of Animation in Catalonia. Over the years, Animac has consolidated its independent and artistic character. Created in 1996 and throughout his 21 years history has become one of the most popular audiovisual events held in Spain, with an important international presence and prestige. Nowadays Animac is a rigorous, dynamic and welcoming festival continually making efforts to improve, generating new audiences and attracting those who love animation. Animac is a non-competitive film festival aimed at artists who use animation as a tool for personal expression. We go beyond the limits of traditional narrative and we seek visionaries who make independent and daring works full of energy and who take their expressive potential to the limit. Animac is also a meeting place for artists, a laboratory in which ideas are generated and relations between the different artistic disciplines are established. It is a place to dream and screen stories of the future.

Columbus Moving Image Art Review (CMIAR) 6/16/17
Ohio Artists Only. The purpose of the CMIAR is to provide a screening event for Ohio moving image artists. To be accepted for the submission process you must have an Ohio Address. If you have questions about this please feel free to email us.

Fredrikstad Animation Festival (Norway) 09/01/2017
Fredrikstad Animation Festival (FAF) is organized by Norsk Animasjonsforum. The object of the festival is to promote screening of animation and increase the awareness of animated expressions in the Nordic-Baltic countries. Fredrikstad Animation Festival is a Cartoon d´Or partner festival, and is obliged to nominate a film to the Cartoon d´Or Award. Submission opens June 1st.

Stuttgarter Filmwinter Festival for Expanded Media (Germany) 09/01/2017
The Stuttgarter Filmwinter – Festival for Expanded Media seeks for current positions in the fields of short and experimental films, installations, network culture, audiovisual performances and vj-sets. The festival offers a platform for film and media art as well as media discourse. We are looking forward to inspiring meetings, intensive exchange and a decent schnaps at our anniversary. *not yet open…

CINEMAGIC YOUNG FILMMAKER (Belfast) 9/01/17
Cinemagic is looking for imaginative and original films made by young people (age 25 and younger, living in the UK and Ireland). The films can be about anything at all fact or fiction, comedy or drama, news program or documentary. DVD submission or online screener/email application.

International Video Art Festival Transmission 6/15/17
Open Call for 2017 edition of International Video Art Festival Transmission 20 – 23 July 2017. TRANSMISSION ART FESTIVAL 2017 invites everyone to submit videos to the 2nd edition of the Festival, which takes place simultaneously in Karlsruhe (DE), Warsaw (PL) and Kassel (DE) in July 2017. Both established artists and new talents are encouraged to submit works on the theme “We Are All in this Together – A Road Map Through a Post-Truth Art World”. Does art have anything to contribute to the post-truth, post-democracy world? Is it the time for us to start producing noise, politicizing aesthetic practices or just turn full-time towards political activism? In the era of post-truth politics, alternative facts and fake news campaigns undermining our democracies, we would like to invite experimental film makers and video artists to take a stand in the overwhelming ethical ambiguity of our time.

International Shortfilms Contest 9/30/17
Submit all genres. (Love, Horror, Comedy, Drama, Thriller, Crime, Action) short films (maximum 20minutes) for this contest. Submissions: Each participant can submit Only One Shortfilm. 1st 5 Winners will be Featured On SWOT MEDIA and they will be officially announced as PRO FILM MAKER worldwide, and they can participate all our upcoming premium contests without any entry fee and get published on our Youtube Channel. 6th to 15th Winners will receive SWOT MEDIA PRO FILM MAKER CERTIFICATION (online)

GLAS Animation Festival 12/31/17
An international competition animation festival dedicated to animated films and will be held in Berkeley, California, USA March 22 to 25, 2018. GLAS Animation Festival welcomes all animation techniques. Films must be completed after January 1st 2016. Short films submitted must not exceed 40 minutes. Feature length films must be over 40 minutes. Short films that are online are eligible for selection. Each applicant must be the rightful owner of submitted films and own all literary and musical rights. Installation proposals may also be submitted to be on display at the Berkeley Art Center. (See Installation Submission).

North America Teaser Future Film Festival 5/31/17* free deadline
The festival invites Teasers of long feature films in documentary, animation and experimental genres from North America (except Latin America, in that case submit your film to our partnership Film Festival, FICIprox – at FICIprox.weebly.com) . We understand as “teaser” an audiovisual piece of a maximum duration of two minutes, that works as an anticipation of a long feature film that has not yet been completed or is in a “work in progress” stage, which provides only fragmentary information of the plot and aesthetic and technical characteristics of what later will be the film

Cinespace Competition 7/31/17
CineSpace competition is an open call for short films that rework video images provided by our partner, NASA from their archives of footage collected from 50 years of exploring the universe.

Etiuda and Anima 7/31/17
ETIUDA COMPETITION – international film competition for student etudes made at film and fine art schools, ANIMA COMPETITION – international competition for professional, independent and student animation.

Canaltown Short Spooky Movie Festival (aka Spookyfest) 09/24/2017
A diverse selection of short, spooky, moving picture shorts (seven (7) minutes or less) presented live, in downtown Honesdale, Pennsylvania, USA. A popular, audience vote determines which shorts take home the custom crafted Spooky Awards (aka Spookies) at the end of the night. This year marks the fourth year of our festival, which takes place on October 21, 2017. In addition to there being no entry fee for submitting artists, the popcorn is amazing, so you should not only submit but attend. Cheers!

International Short Film Festival Landau – La.Meko 11/15/17
International Short Film Festival Landau – La.Meko. Since 2001 filmmakers from around the world are invited to send their works to the Short Film Festival La.Meko wich takes place yearly in the beautiful city of Landau in South/West Germany. The La.Meko Festival wants to be a stage for all kinds of short movies and the team takes care that the programme is a delicate mix of entertainment and cultural challenge across all genres. The festival is also known for its enthusiastic audience and its outstanding moderation. There are about six awards (250€-500€). Three of them – including the regional price – are chosen by a jury and the rest by the votes of the audience.

Hi all-
Here are some festival listings- as I am in the process of updating july- one of the festivals from last july now occurs in August. :)

best of luck,
{tmr}

Schlingel International Film Festival for children and young audience 07/1/17
SCHLINGEL is an independent film festival with international competitions and various additional events. It takes place annually. We conceive ourselves as a platform for international children´s and youth films in Germany.

Rabbit Heart Poetry Film Festival 7/1/17
Rabbit Heart Poetry Film Festival  is about bringing together poetry and the visual arts at the intersection of film.** Anyone can make a video of a poet reading a poem, but that’s not what Rabbit Heart is all about. What we’re looking for is what can be done visually with a poem, without showing performance.*** The poem can be the soundtrack, and the springboard for what happens visually – show, don’t tell is the rule.

Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival (France) 7/10/17
Maximum running time: 40 minutes Origin: All countries (except France). Festival screening format: DCP., for films completed in 2016 (after October 1)

Balkans Beyond Borders Short Film Festival 7/10/17
BBB announces the submission period of the 8^th Balkans Beyond Borders Short Film Festival. We invite young artists up to the age of 35 from the Balkan region and beyond. We accept all film genres with duration up to 30 minutes.This year BBB brings Balkans films and the Balkan spirit in the heart of Europe, Brussels! It gives inspiration and challenges motivation through the title: ENTER / EXIT. We enter life with an exit. Either you enter or exit you get a new experience. Committed in its goal, BBB challenges contemporaneity by motivating young people to make use of their creativity in order to reflect on issues of concern in their region. For more information about the topic check here

Giant Incandescent Resonating Animation Festival (CANADA) 07/15/17
If you’ve made a film that you think we’ll love, that pushes the boundaries of animation in unexpected ways, we definitely want to see it.

Hi all, Here is another update. One of the opportunities closes today. It has been listed on the site, but I wanted to give it a shout out.

as always- best of luck, {tmr}

SICAF 5/21/17
SICAF meets the needs of cultural content age in the 21st century. It accommodates not only cartoon and animation content but also the related content such as game, character, theme park, internet new media, interactive art, etc. to broaden its horizon.

Cinema City International Film Festival 5/30/17
Cinema City International Film Festival invites filmmakers from all across the globe to apply for the Up to 10,000 Bucks selection. This selection is one of the most appealing festival programs which presents films made with no budget or with a budget of less than USD 10,000. Thanks to this authentic program, every year festival goers have a beautiful chance to enjoy unique low-budget auteur films from all over the world. For the last eight years, the Up to 10,000 Bucks program has been offering a creative mosaic of diverse ideas, forms and cultures marked by the contemporaneity and its challenges. The program presents feature films, documentaries, animated films, student and experimental films, all bound by the courageous venture of talented artists who are capable of creating a magnificent piece of art in spite of the lack of the financial assets.

Maharastra Nature Film Festival 7/15/17
Any short film related to nature with duration of 15 minutes or less are invited. Ten films selected by our jury will be screened in festival. Email submissions to maharastranature at gmail.com. Send links to youtube, Vimeo, etc with passwords. Or send your film to us (using above email) through Wetransfer.

Cabbagetown Short Film Festival 7/31/17
The Cabbagetown Short Film Festival is a juried showcase for some of the world’s best short films, receiving submissions from across Canada and the United States, as well as the UK, Europe, South America, Australia and Asia.