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Animateka International Animated Film Festival staged a week long animation production workshop for children and young people at Oton Župančič Library, 2009

Animateka International Animated Film Festival is a specialised competitive festival which focuses on Central and East European animated film production, established in 2004. It takes place annually at the Kinodvor Cinema and at the Slovenian Cinematheque in Ljubljana during the second week of December. The applications for eligible animated films are usually open from May till September.

Background

Animateka's roots go back to the 90's 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. Today Animateka is a festival with 11 sections including a rich programme of retrospectives and additional screenings, workshops and events, co-produced by the 2 Reels - Association for Reanimation of Storytelling and Kinodvor Cinema.

Among the sections, 2 are competitive: the Competition Programme and the Elephant in 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 and contests

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 whole festival programme), while the children's jury grants the Elephant Award for the selected work from the Elephant Children's programme. A Special Mention is also given by a student's jury.

Artist-in-residence programme

Animateka 2019 Festival trailer by Animateka on YouTube

The Animateka residency programme hosted and presented as the first guest in 2004 Danijel Žeželj (Croatia/ZDA), and during the years that followed: Lars Fiske (Norway), M. S. Bastian (Switzerland), Koji Yamamura (Japan), Georges Schwizgebel (Switzerland), Matti Hagelberg (Finnland), Priit Pärn (Estonia), Max Andersson (Sweden), a film maker 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 festival also brings an abundant accompanying programme. It includes an AnimatekaPRO conference for professionals from the field, puppet performances, VR animations, concerts, workshops of animation, exhibitions of animation related drawings, 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.

Since 2015 Animateka has run also the so-called Poletna Animateka, a summer programme of animated film screenings at Metelkova museum platform or Gornji trg (Repete Bar), and a series of workshops of flip-book creation and pixelation technique events around the town squares.

International activities

In 2010 the Animateka festival initiated the Cartoon East project that 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.

External links

Gallery

Animateka International Animated Film Festival poster, 2005

Animateka International Animated Film Festival poster, 2008

AnimatekaPRO, Breakfast with authors at Stara Elektrarna - Old Power Station, 2019.

Audience at Kinodvor Cinema, Animateka International Animated Film Festival, 2019.

Elephant programme for children at Kinodvor Cinema, Animateka International Animated Film Festival, 2019.

VR exhibition, Animateka International Animated Film Festival, 2019.

Young Talents at Slovenian Cinematheque, Animateka International Animated Film Festival, 2019.

Audio visual concert Deceiving Light, harpist Eduardo Raon, visuals by Akaša Bojič, Neja Engelsberger and Luka Umek during the closing event of Animateka, 2009

Program of animated shorts for children, Slonov tekmovalni I [The Elephant in competition I], Animateka, 2009

Program of screenings of animated shorts for children - Slon [Elephant], Animateka International Animated Film Festival, 2009

Program for children - Slon [Elephant], Animateka, closing night, 2009

Katja Tukiainen exhibition Good Heavens II (Hyvät Hyssykät II) at KUD Gallery, Animateka, 2009

Audiovisual Concert: Katalena Animated (Avdio-vizualni koncert: Animirana Katalena), Katalena concert at Stara Elektrarna - Old Power Station, Animateka Festival, 2009.

Public talks, working breakfasts or midnight gatherings with the festival guests (around 60 guests in the 2009 edition) are organised at Kinodvor Café. Meet the Filmmakers, Animateka, 2009

Opening of Matti Hagelberg's exhibition, Kaleidoscopic pictures of reality, Animateka Festival, 2009

Opening night of the Animateka International Animated Film Festival, 2009

Špela Čadež's exhibition Mali Svetovi (Small Worlds), a glimpse into the making of animated films, International Centre of Graphic Arts, Ljubljana, Animateka International Animated Film Festival, 2009.

Stop motion retrospective, Animateka International Animated Film Festival, 2009

Sales booth at the annual Animateka International Animated Film Festival, a specialised competitive festival which focuses on Central and East European animated film production. 2009

Animateka International Animated Film Festival has 9 sections, offering a diverse and all-encompassing look at the breadth of contemporary animated films. Sales booth, 2009

Animateka animation workshop, over the period of 20 hours young people created an animated film, 2009

Animateka International Animated Film Festival staged a week long animation production workshop for children and young people at Oton Župančič Library, 2009

Animateka animation workshop for children, under the mentorship of Delphine Hermans and Louise-Marie Colon, 2009

Animateka International Animated Film Festival poster, 2010

Animateka International Animated Film Festival poster by Theodore Ushev, 2013.

Contemporary German Animated Film Exhibition at Match Gallery, Animateka International Animated Film Festival, 2014.

Ewok concert at Klub Gromka, Animateka International Animated Film Festival, 2014.

Animateka International Animated Film Festival poster by Akinori Oishi, 2014.

Workshop at Tobačna 001 Cultural Centre, Animateka International Animated Film Festival, 2014.

Animateka International Animated Film Festival poster, 2015.

Animateka International Animated Film Festival poster, 2016.

The exhibition by Animateka's artist in residence, comic artist, illustrator, animator and musician Caroline Sury at Kinodvor Cinema, 2017.

Igor Prassel at Animateka International Animated Film Festival, 2017.

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-[[Animateka International Animated Film Festival]] is a specialised competitive festival which focuses on Central and East European animated film production, established in [[Established::2004]]. Today Animateka is a festival with 9 sections including a rich programme of retrospectives and additional screenings, workshops and events, co-produced by the [[2 Reels - Association for Reanimation of Storytelling]] and [[Kinodvor Cinema]]. It takes place annually at the [[venue::Kinodvor Cinema]] and at the [[venue::Slovenian Cinematheque]] in [[venue::SI-1000 Ljubljana| Ljubljana]] during the second week of December.
+[[Animateka International Animated Film Festival]] is a specialised competitive festival which focuses on Central and East European animated film production, established in [[Established::2004]]. It takes place annually at the [[venue::Kinodvor Cinema]] and at the [[venue::Slovenian Cinematheque]] in [[venue::SI-1000 Ljubljana| Ljubljana]] during the second week of December. The applications for eligible animated films are usually open from May till September.
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 ==Background==
-Animateka's roots go back 6 years earlier to when the [[Slovenian Cinematheque]] introduced a special monthly programme (curated by [[Igor Prassel]] who later became the the director and the main selector of the Animateka festival) focusing on animated film.
+Animateka's roots go back to the 90's 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. Today Animateka is a festival with 11 sections including a rich programme of retrospectives and additional screenings, workshops and events, co-produced by the [[2 Reels - Association for Reanimation of Storytelling]] and [[Kinodvor Cinema]].
-==Festival sections==
+Among the sections, 2 are competitive: the ''Competition Programme'' and the ''Elephant in 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.
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-Among Animateka International Animated Film Festival's 9 sections, 2 are competitive: the ''Competition Programme'' and the ''Elephant in Competition''. The remaining sections &ndash; ''Elephant'', ''Eastern and Central European Panorama'', ''European Student Panorama'',  ''Animated Feature Film'', ''Jury Programme'', ''Best of the Rest'', a ''Special Programme'' which usually includes two sub-sections (Regional Focus, Retrospectives, Overviews, etc.) &ndash; offer a diverse and all-encompassing look at the breadth of contemporary animated films.
-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, despite the proximity of the much older and bigger Animafest Zagreb which takes place in neighbouring Croatia.
-In 2009 the festival introduced the second competition section, the ''Elephant in Competition'' which focuses on animated film production meant for young audiences and attracts huge international attention. A non-competition section ''Elephant'' has been the most popular among the Animateka audience &ndash; it brings a carefully selected educational animated film programme meant for schools and families with children.
-The ''Eastern and Central European Panorama'' presents an additional programme of Central and Eastern European animated films, while the ''European Student Panorama'' features films from European film schools and art academies. In 2009 films from Belgium, Croatia, Estonia, France, Germany, Norway, Poland, Slovenia, and Switzerland were screened. In addition the Animateka 2009 presented a programme of the MOME Budapest animation school.
-''Animated Feature Film'' is a special section dedicated to feature length animated films. Some of those are later included in the Slovene [[Art Cinema Network|Art Cinema Network's]] distribution.
-The ''Jury Programme'' section is one of the great peculiarities of the festival: each member of the main international jury is given the possibility to direct the attention of the audience to a certain director or to a certain tendency in the past or to contemporary animated film production. In the past years the Animateka festival screened several amazing personal retrospectives including ones of Koji Yamamura, Georges Schwizgebel, and Osvaldo Cavandoli, respectively.
-The ''Best of the Rest'' section presents a carefully selected programme from other parts of the world, bringing the attention to well-known directors and awarded films.
-''Special Programmes'' is the most extensive festival section with several subsections: retrospectives, overviews of certain national animated film productions, or festival programmes, regional focuses, etc. In the past years there were some excellent programmes such as a ''Stop-Motion Retrospective'' in 2009, or focuses on Polish, Basque, Norwegian, Canadian, Yugoslav, and Finnish animated film production, and a special programme on animated films linked to the topic of human rights. The ''Best of Stuttgart International Festival of Animated Film 2009'' were presented, too.
 ==Festival awards and contests==
-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 films ''Four'' [Štyri] by Ivana Šebestova, ''NightStill'' by Elke Groen, ''Homeland'' by Juan de Dios Marfil Atienze, ''Crocodile'' by Kaspar Jancis have been among the winners of the Animateka Grand Prix.
+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 Maestro Audience Award (to any film from the whole festival programme), while the children's jury grants the NLB Vita Award for the selected work from the Elephant Children's programme. Recent winners of these two awards include the films ''Log Jam: The Snake'' by Alexei Alexev, ''Vasilisa'' by Darina Shmidt, ''Tôt ou tard'' by Jadwiga Kowalska, ''Land of the Heads'' by Céderic Louis and Claude Barras.
-In 2009, for the second year, the Animateka festival programme also included a special contest for web and mobile device based animations called AnimaWeb.
+The jury composed of selected representatives from the audience bestows the [[Slovenian Animated Film Association]] Audience Award (to any film from the whole festival programme), while the children's jury grants the Elephant Award for the selected work from the Elephant Children's programme. A Special Mention is also given by a student's jury.
 ==Artist-in-residence programme==
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+{{YouTube|xi_w7iQzfWE}}
-The Animateka residency programme hosted and presented as the first guest in 2004 Danijel Žeželj (Croatia/ZDA), and during the years that followed: Lars Fiske (Norway), M. S. Bastian (Switzerland), Koji Yamamura (Japan), Georges Schwizgebel (Switzerland), Matti Hagelberg (Finnland), Priit Pärn (Estonia), Max Andersson (Sweden), a film maker 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), and Caroline Sury (France). The graphic design for festival editions has been usually created by the artists-in-residence.
+The Animateka residency programme hosted and presented as the first guest in 2004 Danijel Žeželj (Croatia/ZDA), and during the years that followed: Lars Fiske (Norway), M. S. Bastian (Switzerland), Koji Yamamura (Japan), Georges Schwizgebel (Switzerland), Matti Hagelberg (Finnland), Priit Pärn (Estonia), Max Andersson (Sweden), a film maker 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 festival also brings an abundant accompanying programme. It includes an AnimatekaPRO conference for professionals from the field, puppet performances, VR animations, concerts, workshops of animation, exhibitions of animation related drawings, 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 Cinema|Kinodvor]] Café.
-Animateka festival also brings an abundant accompanying programme. It includes puppet performances, concerts (such as the ''[[Katalena]] Animated'' audio-visual concert), workshops of animation, exhibitions of animation related drawings (in 2009 by Katja Tukiainen, [[Špela Čadež]], sometimes also in cooperation and on the premises of the [[International Centre of Graphic Arts, Ljubljana]]).
-For a few years the [[Famul Stuart School of Applied Arts]] and [[2 Reels - Association for Reanimation of Storytelling]] had co-organised [[Animation film course|production courses in classical and stop-motion animation]] within the festival programme. Today the main educational programme is prepared by [[Kinodvor Cinema#Youth_programme|Slon  - Educational Animated Film Programme]] which organises workshops for schools and youth throughout the year in collaboration with the [[2 Reels - Association for Reanimation of Storytelling]].
-As Animateka hosts many authors of the films in competition as well as other guests (around 60 guests in the 2009 edition), public talks, working breakfasts or midnight gatherings are organised at [[Kinodvor Cinema|Kinodvor]] Café.
 Since 2015 Animateka has run also the so-called Poletna Animateka, a summer programme of animated film screenings at Metelkova museum platform or Gornji trg (Repete Bar), and a series of workshops of flip-book creation and pixelation technique events around the town squares.

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