Festival Animanie
international competition for filmmakers under 26 years of age
16 - 19 November, 2023 at Moving Station, Pilsen
competition for prizes, cinema, animation workshops, interesting guests, educational programme
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03.04.2024
Call for Entries!
We are opening the submissions for Festival Animánie 2024! You can submit your films via the platform FilmFreeway until August 1, 2024.
Traditionally, the competition is held in the age categories MINI (up to 13 years), MIDI (14-19 years) and MAXI (up to 26 years).
Later, our entry form on our website will be presented for submitting your films if FilmFreeway is not the right thing for you.
We look forward to your contributions!
11.01.2024
Contest
The international Festival Animánie is the largest and oldest competitive showcase of audiovisual works by children and young people up to 26 years of age. The competition traditionally attracts short animated films from all around the world, and the dramaturgical board has selected a total of 155 films from several hundreds of entries.
The selected animated films will compete in three categories according to the age of their creators: the MINI ( under 13 years old), MIDI (14-19 years old) and MAXI (20-26 years old). The winners will be decided by an international jury, which will award the festival's Animánička Award in each category.
Starting this year, we have also decided to award the extraordinary Honza Příhoda Award as a tribute to the former long-time festival director.
Jury
Eva Gubčová
Doc. PhDr. Eva Gubčová, ArtD. - a graduate of the Department of Radio and Television Journalism at the Jan Ámos Comenius University in Bratislava. For many years she worked as an editor at the News and later at the Short Film in Bratislava. She has more than four hundred short films to her credit, about half of which are animated films. Several of them have won awards at domestic and foreign film festivals and shows. Since 1995, she has been a teacher at the Animation Studio of the Film and Television Faculty of the Academy of Performing Arts in Bratislava, and from 2008 to 2022 she was the head of the Studio.
Magdalena Hejzlarová
She studied Film and Television Graphics at UMPRUM and characterizes her films as poetic, visual narratives with documentary elements. She likes to be inspired by old mythological stories and explores how they appear in today's world. She is the author of the short animated film Dominic's Tales and her favourite subject recently has been sleep. She is currently working on Hun Tun, a film about a girl who suffers from insomnia. In addition to animation, she is also an artist in drawing, painting and printmaking.
Martin Vandas
Producer of animated and live-action feature films and documentaries, collector of movie posters, father, book lover and marathon runner. Graduated in Film Production at FAMU and Film Science at the Faculty of Arts, Charles University. He is a member of the European Film Academy, a founding member of the Animated Film Association and an expert of the Czech Cinematography Fund and the Slovak Audiovisual Fund. Among others, he has produced films such as Fritzi: A Revolutionary Tale, The Crossing or One Night in City. He is also behind the award-winning animator Daria Kashcheeva's films Daughter and Electra.