13th ANIMATOR Film Festival: Call for Submissions
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The International Competition of the 13th ANIMATOR Film Festival is now open for submissions! This year’s Grand Prix, the Golden Pegasus, has the truly tempting amount of PLN 45,000 (approx. £8,800) to award.
The jury will award the following prizes:
- GRAND PRIX – GOLDEN PEGASUS / 45 000 PLN
- SILVER PEGASUS / 20 000 PLN
- BRONZE PEGASUS / 10 000 PLN
- BEST MUSICAL FILM AWARD / 7 000 PLN
- BEST FEATURE FILM AWARD / 35 000 PLN
ANIMATOR 2020: THE MAIN COMPETITION
In the previous edition of the Festival we received over a thousand submissions from 64 countries, including Costa Rica, Cuba, Kuwait, Macau or Martinique. What parts of the world will the competitors represent this time?
Competition movies may be submitted by artistic schools, film schools, film producers, film institutions and other authorized entities, as well as individual artists.
Films eligible for submission to the Best Short Competition are animated films made after 31st December 2017 in any animation technique, not longer than 30 minutes. Candidates for the Beast Feature Competition are animated films made after 31st December 2017 in any animation technique longer than 40 minutes.
The full Rules and the Application Form can be found here.
ANIMATOR Festival are waiting for your submissions until 9 March 2020.
ANIMATOR 2020: THE FESTIVAL
The Oscar-qualifying® International Animated Film Festival ANIMATOR is Poland’s biggest cultural event devoted to animated films. ANIMATOR has been granted the Jubilee Award of the Polish Film Institute [PISF] in the National Film Event category.
Over three hundred productions from all over the world are screened during each edition, divided into such categories as Competition, Retrospectives, Thematic Reviews and Premieres. Besides, ANIMATOR also offers concerts, workshops and a very wide range of activities for the youngest filmgoers. What makes this Poznań-based festival truly special is the omnipresent fusion of animation and music.
The 13th ANIMATOR Festival will be held in Poznań between 10 and 16 July 2020.