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The [[Animateka International Animated Film Festival]] is a specialised competitive festival which focuses on Central and East European animated film production. It takes place annually since [[Established::2004]] at the [[Kinodvor Cinema]] and at the [[Slovenian Cinematheque]] in Ljubljana during the second week of December. Animateka is organised by the [[2 Reels - Association for Reanimation of Storytelling]]. | The [[Animateka International Animated Film Festival]] is a specialised competitive festival which focuses on Central and East European animated film production. It takes place annually since [[Established::2004]] at the [[Kinodvor Cinema]] and at the [[Slovenian Cinematheque]] in Ljubljana during the second week of December. Animateka is organised by the [[2 Reels - Association for Reanimation of Storytelling]]. |
Revision as of 21:12, 22 March 2021
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14 Jun 2021
19 Jun 2021
Igor Prassel from Animateka International Animated Film Festival participating
at the Annecy International Animation Film Festival
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12 Jun 2021
13 Jun 2021
Slovenian Classics of Puppet Animation, a selection of 35mm films, curated by Animateka International Animated Film Festival
at the Trieste Film Festival
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3 Feb 2017
11 Feb 2017
France Clermont-Ferrand Amphi Agnès Varda,Auditorium Genova,Cinéma Le Capitole,Maison des Congrès et de la Culture,Petit Vélo
Screenings of Nighthawk by Špela Čadež (Finta) in the international competition programme, several short films and presentations of the Animateka International Animated Film Festival and the Kraken Film Society, with producer Viva Videnovič (Strup Productions) and director Olmo Omerzu at Euro Connections
at the Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival
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2 Feb 2015
6 Feb 2015
The Slovenian Film Centre, Animateka, and Kraken at the 30th Short Film Market at the 37th Clermont-Ferrand Short Film Festival
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22 Oct 2013
26 Oct 2013
Contemporary Slovene Animation including the comics exhibition I Feel Great and films Stripburger (Strip Core, Forum Ljubljana) in Motion, Patty, Short Film in Perverses, Work, Wall of Sighs, Chicory ‘n’ Coffee, EX PASSU, Lovesick, Katalena: Ta aldowska, Koyaa – The Extraordinary, and The Last Lunch, with Igor Prasel (Animateka International Animated Film Festival) as curator of the programme
at the PRIMANIMA World Festival of First Animations
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12 Jul 2012
Films by Špela Čadež (Lovesick and Last Minute) (Finta) and selected international authors featured by Animateka at the Espressofilm; a discussion with Animateka programme director Igor Prassel, supported by the Slovenian Culture and Information Centre, Vienna (SKICA), Embassy of the Republic of Slovenia Vienna,
at the espresso film, Open Air Kurzfilmfestival
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2 May 2011
7 May 2011
Selected Slovene and East European animated films from the Animateka International Animated Film Festival
The festival includes several sections, depending on each year's edition, and also a rich programme of retrospectives, additional screenings, conferences, workshops, exhibitions and other events. The call for eligible animated films is usually open from May till September.
Background
Animateka's roots go back to the 1990s when the Slovenian Cinematheque introduced a special monthly programme (curated by Igor Prassel, who later became the director and the main selector of the Animateka festival) focusing on animated film.
VR/360°/GAMES@ANIMATEKA exhibition at Museum of Contemporary Art Metelkova with Igor Prassel, 2018.
Sections
Among the sections, 3 are competitive: the Competition Programme; Elephant in Competition; and European Young Talents Competition. The Competition Programme's focus on contemporary animated film production from Central and Eastern European countries garners Animateka a great deal of attention in the larger international context. The Elephant in Competition programme focuses on animated film production meant for young audiences and attracts huge international attention.
Festival awards
Each year, an international 5-member-jury, composed of artists, festival curators and/or scholars confers the main festival award and five special mentions (one from each member). The main festival award, the Animateka Grand Prix, goes to one or two selected works from the Competition Programme, whilst each member of the jury is able to confer a Special Mention to another film of his or her choice from the Competition Programme.
The jury composed of selected representatives from the audience bestows the Slovenian Animated Film Association Audience Award (to any film from the entire festival programme), while the children's jury grants the Elephant Award for the selected work from the Elephant in Competition Children's programme. A Special Mention is also given by a student jury.
Artist-in-residence programme
As its first guest, the Animateka residency programme hosted and presented Danijel Žeželj (Croatia/USA) in 2004. During the years that followed artists in resident included: Lars Fiske (Norway); M. S. Bastian (Switzerland); Koji Yamamura (Japan); Georges Schwizgebel (Switzerland); Matti Hagelberg (Finland); Priit Pärn (Estonia); Max Andersson (Sweden), a filmmaker and comics author (contributing to Stripburger magazine since 1999); Julie Doucet (Canada); Theodore Ushev (Bulgaria/Canada); Akinori Oishi (Japan); Rosto (The Netherlands); Joni Männistö (Finland); Caroline Sury (France) and Edmunds Jansons (Latvia). The graphic design for festival editions has been usually created by the artists-in-residence.
Accompanying programme
Animateka also brings an abundant accompanying programme. It includes the AnimatekaPRO conference for professionals from the field, puppet performances, VR animations, concerts, workshops of animation, exhibitions of animation related drawings (at the premises of Kinodvor, sometimes also in cooperation and on the premises of the International Centre of Graphic Arts, Ljubljana). As Animateka hosts many authors of the films in competition as well as other guests, public talks, working breakfasts or midnight gatherings are organised mainly at Kinodvor Café.
AnimatekaPRO, Breakfast with authors at Stara Elektrarna - Old Power Station, 2019.
Summer programme
Since 2015, Animateka has run also the so-called Poletna Animateka, a summer programme of animated film screenings at the Metelkova museums platform or on Gornji trg, and a series of workshops of flip-book creation and pixelation technique events around town.
International activities
In 2010, the Animateka festival initiated the Cartoon East project which connects six regional festivals: Animafest Zagreb (Croatia), Animateka Ljubljana (Slovenia), anim'est Bucarest (Romania), Balkanima Belgrade (Serbia), Banja Luka International Animation Film Festival (Bosnia and Herzegovina) and FestAnča Žilina (Slovakia). The East European Animation Award is bestowed to one of the short films, nominated by each participating country. The first award went to Croatian artists Veljko Popović and Svjetlan Junaković for the film My Way.
See also
- 2 Reels - Association for Reanimation of Storytelling
- Kinodvor Cinema
- Slovenian Cinematheque
- Izolanima - Slovene Animation Festival (currently defunct)
External links
- Animateka International Animated Film Festival website
- Regulations for the 2019 Animateka competition (PDF)
- AnimaWeb contest website
- Animafest Zagreb festival website