Fest Anča International Animation Festival has launched a call for entries for its 2018 edition. Animated short films, student films, music videos and films for children are among the competition categories.
Fest Anča will take place in Žilina, Slovakia between June 28 and July 1, 2018. Only digital copies submitted before February 25, 2018 will be considered for the festival.
Submissions are free and winners are awarded cash prizes. Find out more at our website. Submit your film via our online submission system.
Competition awards for Fest Anča 2018 are:
- Anča Award (EUR 800) for the best short animated film
- Anča Student Award (EUR 400) for the best short animated student film
- Anča Music Video Award (EUR 400) for the best animated music video
- Anča Kids’ Award (EUR 400) for the best short animated film for children
- Anča Slovak Award (EUR 700) for the best Slovak short animated film
- D Award - a distribution award for a short animated Slovak film
Fest Anča International Animation Festival - the only Slovak multimedia festival focused on animated film and digital games - is based in a former train station that has been transformed into a vibrant cultural center.
The festival aims to showcase contemporary, progressive animated films, and commemorate the cream of the genre. The long-term vision is to approximate well-known international festivals by uniquely showcasing this art form in Slovakia.
The festival features an international competition of animated short films and music videos, as well as non-competitive screening sections. Attendees can additionally enjoy presentations, exhibitions, workshops, film screenings for children, and numerous accompanying events.
The lively and inspiring summertime festival atmosphere is supported by a camp site, twilight screenings, live music concerts, and a tasty range of refreshments.
SPLIT: CineStar 4DX Mall, opened in Split on 1 December 2017, is Blitz-CineStar's 14th multiplex in Croatia and the largest in the Dalmatia region. Blitz-CineStar is the largest and most successful exhibition company in ex-Yugoslavia.
TBILISI: Approximately 5,000 film boxes have been cleaned, digitalised and catalogued so far in a big-scale project launched in 2016 by the Georgian National Film Center (GNFC) with the support of the Ministry of Culture and Monument Protection of Georgia.
PRAGUE: Submit your rough cut to dok.incubator until 31 January 2018 and you can be selected with your team (director, producer, editor) to the three one-week residential sessions of the workshop.
GRAND OPENING OF THE LARGEST CINEMA IN DALMATIA – CINESTAR 4DXTM MALL OF SPLIT ON DECEMBER 1ST 2017
Press releases 02-12-2017Citizens of Split exhilarated with the new ultra-modern cinema in Dalmatia and unique 4DX™ screen
Only four more days before European filmmakers, EFA Members, guests, nominees and winners will gather to celebrate European cinema at its finest at the 30th European Film Awards in Berlin!
On this special occasion the ceremony will, of course, celebrate this year's films and achievements but it will also shed a special light on some of the films and people that have accompanied the EFAs throughout the past 30 years.
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It’s probably to fill your “think tank” with information and to network.
Stereopsia scouted the Earth to unearth the world’s best “immersion” surprises for you. The program of the Professional Conference (PCON) contains several surprising titles like “The end of storytelling & the future of immersive narrative” & “Follow flirtation: how human intimacy is defining the future of frontier tech”, by Stephanie Riggs & Natacha Merritt, resp., members of Women in VR.
To whet your appetite, Stereopsia asked Natacha Merritt to give a preview of her presentation:
“This talk explores frontier technology as it relates to intimacy. It’s a novel perspective of the current state of VR, social media, big data, and chatbots. Natacha Merritt tells her personal story, from her best seller “Digital Diaries” - the first digital photography book - to VR developer to tech venture capitalist and back. While many are focused on marginalizing erotic content, Natacha takes the opposite approach. From a Darwinian evolutionary perspective, she demonstrates that we should all be asking ourselves “How can I use this new technology for sex or intimacy?” She argues that this has the power to create an ethical checks and balances between humanity and the technology around us. By focusing on the intimate and sexual uses of tech we can find great investments, cure loneliness, and save ourselves from tech dystopia.”
If this abstract surprises you, Stereopsia has already succeeded in one of its missions, and this presentation is for you! Please, dig for it in the PCON program. You’ll also see that N. Merritt is an experienced angel investor & entrepreneur, as she will also talk about “VR AR investing in Silicon Valley: trends from top VCs”. As for the Valley, Baobab Studios will also be present with a surprising-title presentation “Jumping Through the 4th Wall: Baobab’s adventures in VR storytelling”, by Kane Lee.
You are invited to take part in a one-of-a-kind, phenomenal buffet of “immersion” delicacies brought to you by Stereopsia right in the center of Europe, in Brussels, the Capital of both Belgium & the European Union, featuring 3D, VR, AR, XR, lighfield, holoscopy,…
The combined Scientific Conference (IC3D) and Professional Conference (PCON) bring you 81 presentations and 2 panels with 87 speakers from 25 countries and 4 continents.
IC3D - technically co-sponsored by the IEEE Signal Processing Society - features 26 papers with 99 co-authors, and 26 corresponding presentations with 28 speakers, from 17 countries and 4 continents. A total of 38 research papers were submitted, leading to a selective acceptance rate of 68 %. The proceedings of IC3D 2017 will be archived in the IEEE Xplore Digital Library, giving considerable, worldwide visibility to the authors. You’ll find the presenters’ photos & short biographies on the IC3D webpage (scroll down to “Speakers” section).
PCON features 55 presentations and 2 panels involving 59 speakers from 14 countries and 3 continents. You’ll find the presenters’ photos and short biographies on the PCON webpage (“Speakers” section).
IC3D & PCON follow each other, covering the full 3 days of Stereopsia, from 9:00 am on Mon 11 Dec till 5:20 pm on Wed 13 Dec. They overlap for one joint session, where the keynote speech by Frank Rose from Columbia University, New York City, will be given, with title “A new grammar of storytelling for the digital age”. He is the author of the 354-page book “The Art of Immersion”, a title in perfect sync with the phrase “World Immersion Forum”!
The Stereopsia team is looking forward to welcoming many of you next week at the Center for Fine Arts, Brussels, affectionately called “Bozar”.
PRAGUE: Projects from Poland, Czech Republic, Romania and Serbia are among the nine projects selected for MIDPOINT Feature Launch 2018.
