Since 2007 the Stuttgart Festival of Animated Film has been presenting aw
ards in the field of applied animation and awards prizes for the best advertising, spatial communication and technology. “COM” stands for both the words commercial and communication. You are kindly invited to submit films that fall into the category of applied animation and were produced not earlier than October 1, 2012 to the Animated Com Award. Extended Submission Deadline is February 14, 2014.
Prizes will be awarded for outstanding work in the areas of advertising, spatial communication, and technology and the special award. Thanks to our partners: Daimler AG, Lapp Kabel, ADC Deutschland and Animation Media Cluster Region Stuttgart.
Special Award: “Future needs Derivation – Individual Mobility”. Also the Special Award: “Future needs Derivation – Individual Mobility” is offered by the Daimler AG. Imagination and creativity have no limits. All interested national and international filmmakers – students from film and animation schools as well as young companies – are invited to animate mobility as well as history and stories of the individual mobility in a personal and innovative way. The passion for automobile should be visualized and sustainable solutions for individual needs expressed in a playful manner. All techniques ranging from 3D computer animation to 2D Cel animation and Stop Motion are accepted. The maximum length of the films mustn’t exceed 5 minutes.
The entry form and a copy of your film (DVD) must be submitted together to the Film and Medienfestival gGmbH by the deadline. More information on the entry conditions and prizes can be found in the festival regulations. Please read the regulations carefully before completing the registration form.
The fee for the first film submission to the Festival is EUR 150.00 or US $ 200.00. Any other films can be submitted at a reduced fee of EUR 75.00 or US $ 100.00 each. Registered films cannot be withdrawn. After the submission’s receipt the entry fee will be invoiced. Entry fees cannot be refunded. All decisions are final and not subject to legal appeal. The competition category Special Award by Daimler AG is free of submission fee.
Curator of the Animated Com Award is animation director Kathi Kaeppel. The award ceremony will take place as a gala event with show acts and invited guests from business and politics at the Mercedes-Benz Museum in Stuttgart on April 25, 2014.
Also, the festival is calling in submissions for Animation Production Day (APD), an event hosted by FMX 2014, Conference on Animation, Effects, Games and Transmedia (April 22-25, 2014) and the 21st Stuttgart Festival of Animated Film (April 22-27, 2014) takes place on April 24 and 25, 2014 for the 8th time. It is an event by Filmakademie Baden- Wuerttemberg and Film- & Medienfestival gGmbH. As a business platform for the international animation industry the APD invites production companies worldwide to submit their animation and digital content projects for which they are searching for co-production, financing and distribution partners.
30 projects will be chosen for participating in the APD. In exclusive and effective 30 minutes one-to-one meetings, producers pitch their selected cinema, TV and transmedia projects to broadcasters, global distributors, publishers, funders, banks, equity investors and potential co-production partners, aiming to identify new financing pathways, production strategies and market applications. To be eligible for submission, projects must be either at the development, production or exploitation stage. The projects must have commercial potential and be marketable internationally. They must be suitable, as brand-building products, for exploitation either in formats for feature film, TV, games or mobile applications.
The program is complemented by the APD conference track, where top-level speakers share their strategies and visions for the future of the animation industry. A Full Access Pass gives APD participants access to theStuttgart Festival of Animated Film and to FMX, Conference on Animation, Effects, Games and Transmedia, giving them the opportunity, alongside their intensive one-to-one meetings, to inform themselves about current trends and productions and to make and maintain contacts in an informal atmosphere.
More than 200 representatives from the German and international animation industry attended APD 2013 to discuss current developments and trends in the transmedia sector.
In approximately 380 individual meetings, the 32 projects selected for inclusion were evaluated in terms of brand potential, financing, and production strategy. With 76 companies and institutions from 12 countries in attendance, the APD grew by more than 10% in comparison with the previous year. List of participants 2013 can be viewed here
The deadline for project submissions is February 18, 2014. Submission and application forms for APD 2014 can be found online by Clicking here
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