There’s a reason to celebrate in 2013: The Festival of Animated Film Stuttgart (ITFS) will take place for the 20th time! And in its anniversary edition, too, the festival will offer a platform to directors and production companies to present their films as well as a chance to fans of animated film to watch animated short and feature films, to meet well-known filmmakers and young talents, and participate in numerous workshops, informational events and presentations for six days. Since its...

Animating a film before an audience? A frightening thought for most animation artists. All the more challenging is the task of creating a short film within 48 hours. International teams compete with each other in the 48h Animation Jam, live at the 19th Stuttgart Festival of Animated Film - ITFS (May 8. - 13. 2012). The competition addresses animation students from international film and art schools as well as independent animators and animation producers aged 30 years or younger. T...

The Stuttgart Festival of Animated Film – ITFS – (May 08 – 13, 2012) was founded in 1982 and is one of the world’s largest and most important festivals for animated film. The Stuttgart Festival of Animated Film presents the Trickstar in seven different competition categories which cover a spectrum from short animated film and animated series to feature-length animated films. Cash prizes worth approximately 68,000 Euros will be awarded in 2012. The submission deadline for the following...

The festival, founded in 1982, has developed into an essential event for animation film in Germany over the past 30 years and is one of the biggest and most important festivals for animated films around the world. Artistic animation films and the support of young talent represent the core of the festival. The various competition programmes are endowed with prize money of more than 60,000 euros in total. You are kindly invited to submit films produced after October 1, 2010 to one of the F...

CLOSING DATE FOR SUBMISSIONS TO THE ANIMOVIE FEATURE LENGTH FILM COMPETITION EXTENDED: JANUARY 28, 2011 We thank all those who have submitted their films for pre-selection during the past weeks and days. We are delighted to announce that the number of entries is already far greater than last year. The call for entries for the short film competition – the International Competition, Young Animation and Tricks for Kids has now closed and the pre-selection committees have begun wit...