Important Festival Dates:
- Present Date to May 8th, 2008 Student Pre-Register through school program for festival to be eligible for a free copy of FlipBook
- Thursday, May 8th, 2008 - Films Due at School Animation Programs for per-judging
- Friday, May 9th, - email listing selected films to represent schools due to ASIFA-Hollywood festival@agni-animation.com by 5 PM PST
- August 29th 2008 - Judging and screening DVDs due from school programs by 5 PM PST: (all films submitted by schools will be screened during the festival.
Larry Loc
C/O Agni-Animation
P.O. Box 701
Silverado, CA 92676
Att’n: ASIFA-Hollywood Student Animation Festival
- TBD: Judging
- October 18th, 2008 Screening, portfolio review and award ceremony (Woodbury University)
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RULES: The Animation Educators` Forum / ASIFA-Hollywood Student Animation Festival - October 18th, 2008 at Woodbury University, Burbank, CA.
ELIGIBILITY REQUIREMENTS: For a film to be eligible for competition, the principal animation in the film must have been completed during the 2007 – 2008
school year. The student filmmaker must have been enrolled in a college or adult level program for at least 6 credit units during the majority of the time
in which the principal animation was created (acceptable programs: College, University, For-Profit School, Adult Education Program, adult students from
Occupational Program, and Online Programs. All students submitting films into the competition need to be members of ASIFA-Hollywood. Student membership
to ASIFA-Hollywood is $30 per year and comes with a large number of other privileges and benefits. Students may join at the time of film submittal.
FEES & ANIMATION PROGRAM ELIGIBILITY REQUIREMENTS: There are no entrance fees for students or schools to submit films to the ASIFA-Hollywood
Student Animation Festival. All students submitting films and at lest one school representative need to be members of ASIFA-Hollywood. All films must be submitted
through the student’s educational program. Each animation program constitutes the first level of evacuation for the festival and must have a designated
festival contact person who is a member of ASIFA-Hollywood. Student Membership in ASIFA-Hollywood is $30 per year and General membership in ASIFA-Hollywood is $75 per year. The Festival Contact Person will need
to join ASIFA-Hollywood by the May 8th, 2008 film in progress deadline date. Students will need to join ASIFA-Hollywood by the August 29th 2008 film entry deadline.
SUBMISSION DEADLINE AND GUIDELINES:
- Thursday, May 8th, 2008 (films in progress submitted to animation program head at animation programs participating in the ASIFA-Hollywood Student
Animation Festival)
- Each animation department will select and submit the best student films to represent the program
- There will be no limit to the number of films that may be submitted from each program for the 2008 festival, but we fully expect that we will have
to ration the number of submissions per program in future (possibly as soon as the 2009 festival).
- Animation program heads will email the list of films to ASIFA-Hollywood along with running times and any other pertinent details by 5 PM PST Friday,
May 9th, 2008. festival@agni-animation.com
ENTRY FILM (DVD) DELIVERY DATE:
- Completed Films (DVD) must be received by 5 PM PST, Friday, August 29th 2008
MECHANICAL REQUIREMENTS OF ENTRY FILMS:
- 10 copies of a Prejudging DVD from each animation program with all of the submitted animation accessible from an opening menu
- 1 editing copy of all of the uncompressed files for all of the animations being submitted from each animation program. (DVDs or portable hard drive - hard drives will be returned to schools after the festival)
- NOTE: It has been decided that there will be no maximum film length for the 2008 competition. We fully expect to institute a maximum film length starting in 2009.
- All submitted Student films must be free of any copyright infringement and each filmmaker must submit copies of release forms for music, voice actors and any other contributor to the film. NOTE: Sample fill-in-the-blank release forms and work-for- hire contracts will be shipped to all animation programs with the call for entire package (Hopefully by the end of February 2008)
| ENTRY FILMS WILL BE MAILED TO: | Larry Loc |
| C/O Agni-Animation |
| P.O. Box 701 |
| Silverado, CA 92676 |
| Att’n: ASIFA-Hollywood Student Animation Festival |
FESTIVAL JUDGING AND AWARD CATEGORIES: All Entry Films will be evaluated using predetermined criteria by select, non-biased industry judges in the following categories:
- Best Visual Storytelling
- Best Character
- Best Technical Achievement
- Judges’ Choice
- The Emile Cohl Award for the Best Animated Short
For information regarding the ASIFA-Hollywood Student Animation Festival judge selection process, please send an email to the address below.
FESTIVAL PROMOTIONAL COPYRIGHT:
Students retain all rights in their films but Festival Winners agree to grant to ASIFA-Hollywood and The ASIFA-Hollywood Student Animation Festival a non-exclusive license to use their film for promotion. This may include the release of a best of the festival DVD.
For further information, please email:
