Animur 2024 announces the open call for submissions
2024-06-01 15:22
About
The only international animation film contest of independent and for-profit animation will be held in Khabarovsk for the third time from November 1 to 4, 2024.
Film screenings, workshops, creative meetings, and lectures will once again bring together animation industry professionals and audience from around the world on the bank of the Amur River.
The festival program includes the best examples of foreign animation from the Asia-Pacific countries, South-East Asia and Russian animation. The goal of Animur is to present animation as one of the most modern and dynamically developing art forms and to bring together industry professionals and government officials to discuss the prospects for the development of the animation creative industry in the region. The festival also wishes to support a new generation of animators.
Applications for the festival will be accepted until August 01, 2024. The competition programs welcome short animated films and episodes of animated series created in 2022 and the following years after. The out-of-competition program will include screenings of full-length cartoons, animation works by festival guests, retrospectives, collections of films from different countries of the Asia-Pacific region and South-East Asia, master classes, creative meetings, and more.
The main event of the business program will be the round table “Current Strategies for Promoting Russian Content Abroad in the Context of Sanctions”. The topic of the discussion will also touch upon the creation of a film market within the framework of the Animur festival, in which representatives of regional and federal departments take part.
Awards
Based on the results of their work, the jury awards the following prizes:
Grand Prix
Special Jury Prize
Prize for best directing
Prize for the best artistic solution
Prize for best animation
Prize for the best sound solution
Prize for the best student film
Prize for the best series
Prize of the Festival’s Management Committee
Rules
There is no fee for submitting a film to the festival competition.
Films selected for the competition will be screened free of screening fees.
Films selected for the competition can be shown within the competition programs no more than 5 times on the territory of the Khabarovsk Territory within 3 days during the days of the festival.
The festival does not impose any restrictions on the film in terms of premiere status or its availability on the Internet.
Foreign (mainly from the countries of the Asia-Pacific region) and Russian animation films with a duration up to 30 minutes created no earlier than January 1, 2022 are accepted for the competition.
Premiere Requirements
No premiere requirement
Jury and Organizers
The international jury of the festival will include professionals in animation art, representatives of the international animation community, professionals in the field - artists, directors, producers. The awards cover all age categories: cartoons for children, schoolchildren, teenagers and adults.
The director of the Animur festival is represented by Alexandra Dubovskaya, the chairman of the board of the Khabarovsk regional non-government organization for development of animation. Sergey Merinov, Russian cartoonist, director-animator, executive of the author's animation school, is the festival’s president. Alena Sycheva, film critic, is the festival’s program director.