Animatricks International Animation Festival - 23 April 2017
Finland's animation festival, Animatricks Fest, welcomes all artists to submit their animated short film entries before January 31, 2017. This festival focuses exclusively on animation and runs from April 21 to April 23, 2017, in Helsinki, Finland. All animated videos and music videos that do not exceed 30 minutes and were created after January 1, 2016, may be submitted. Previous Animatricks entries will not be considered. At least 70% of each short film must consist of animation. Educational and commercial material is not eligible. The selected films will be screened in the International Shorts Competition and New Finnish Animated Shorts categories. The festival’s prequalification jury will select the films for screening.
RULES OF THE COMPETITION : Animatricks organizes the competition for animated shorts that will be screened in the International Shorts Competition Category and the New Finnish Animated Shorts Category. Animatricks is looking for films with unique storytelling, style and technique.
AWARDS AND CATEGORIES : The Festival Jury will select one film from the International category to be awarded with the prize of 3000 euros(3304.65 $) and one from the Finnish category to be awarded with the prize of 1000 euros(1101.55 $). The award is given to the director of the film.
The entries to the Finnish category will be automatically included in the pre-selection process for the International competition and award.
1. ENTRY REQUIREMENTS
The Competitions are open for short animated films and animated music videos with the following qualifications:
- Films should not exceed length of 30 minutes
- Films must have been completed after 1st of January 2016
- Industrial, educational or commercial films are not accepted. Also animated TV-series and their episodes, that are distributed or in production, are not accepted into the competition. The participation of pilots and such will be evaluated by the jury.
- Minimum 70% of the film duration must be animation
- Films must have English subtitles if they are not in English, Finnish or without dialogue
- Screening copy submitted in a digital format
- The selection will be made on completed productions only
- Films that have already been shown in Animatricks Animation Festival are not admitted but films that have been shown or awarded at other international film festivals are eligible - Submitter of film is responsible of the animation's copyrights
2. HANDLING FEE
For all films submitted, Animatricks requires a handling fee of 10 euros(11$) to be paid. You can pay the fee at https://holvi.com/shop/animatricks/ . Films that don't pay the fee are automatically removed from the competition.
3. SUBMISSION
Fill the online entry form by the 31st of January 2017.
The following material is needed for the submission:
- 1 still photo from the film minimum 300 dpi - online link to a preview-copy of the film
Make sure that the link to your film doesn’t have an expiration date.
4. SELECTION
Animatricks forms a pre-qualification jury that selects films for the competition. Preselection is made during February 2017 and the results will be announced to all participants.
5. PREVIEW COPY
The participant has to deliver a preview copy as an online link in the entry form. No memory sticks, hard drives or DVDs for preview are accepted.
6. SCREENING COPY
The preferred screening copy format is DCP or a digital file. For other formats please contact festival (films@animatricks.net) after pre-selections.
Requirements for the screening copy:
File format: .mov or .mp4
Resolution: min 1280 x 720, max 1920×1080
Aspect ratio: all accepted
Frame rate: 25 fps
Data transfer rate: max 30.000 kbp
Video Codec: H.264
Audio Codec: Linear PCM, or AAC – 48000 Hz, Stereo.
The screening copy must be delivered by 15.3.2017.
7. NON-SPECIFIED CASES
The festival will decide on any cases of doubt, which have not been mentioned in these regulations. Participation in the festival implies recognition without reservation of the entry form and these regulations.
8. ADDITIONAL INFO
If you have any questions please contact films@animatricks.net
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