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{{Infobox
| name               = Animateka International Animated Film Festival
| local name         = Animateka - mednarodni festival animiranega filma
| logo               = Animateka International Animated Film Festival (logo).jpg
| street             = Tugomerjeva 8 
| town               = SI-1000 Ljubljana 
| website            = http://www.animateka.si/
| email              = 
| telephone          = 386 (0) 5 997 1747 
| fax                = 
| organised by       = 2 Reels - Association for Reanimation of Storytelling
| organised by 2     = Kinodvor Cinema
| frequency          = Annual
| dates and duration = December, 1st week, 7 days
| duration weeks      = 49,50 (2012) 49,50 (2013) 50 (2014)
| festival dates      = 7.12.2015 - 13.12.2015, 5.12.2016 - 11.12.2016,  4.12.2017 - 10.12.2017, 3.12.2018 - 9.12.2018, 2.12.2019 - 8.12.2019
| contacts     = {{Contact
  | name        = Igor Prassel 
  | role        = Programme Director
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  | email       = igor.prassel@animateka.si 
  | telephone   = 386 (0) 31 836 431
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{{Contact
  | name        = Katja Hohler
  | role        = Executive Producer
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  | email       = katja.hohler@animateka.si 
  | telephone   = 386 (0) 41 572 837
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{{Contact
  | name        = Sanja Čakarun
  | role        = Public relations, Promotion
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  | email       = sanja.cakarun@animateka.si
  | telephone   = 386 (0) 51 309 080
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{{Contact
  | name        = Andreja Goetz
  | role        = Slon, Young Audience Programme coordinator
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  | email       = andreja.goetz@animateka.si
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https://www.facebook.com/animateka/
https://www.youtube.com/user/animateka2010/videos
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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]]. It takes place annually at the [[venue::Kinodvor Cinema]] and at the [[venue::Slovenian Cinematheque]] in Ljubljana during the second week of December. Animateka is organised by the [[2 Reels - Association for Reanimation of Storytelling]].

The competitive film festival with several sections includes also a rich programme of retrospectives and additional screenings, workshops, exhibitions and other events. The call for eligible animated films is usually open from May till September. 
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==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. 

==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 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==

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 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.

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==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 (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 Cinema|Kinodvor]] Café.

==Summer programme==
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''. 

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==See also==
* [[Kinodvor Cinema]]
* [[Slovenian Cinematheque]]
* [[Izolanima - Slovene Animation Festival]] (currently defunct)
* [[2 Reels - Association for Reanimation of Storytelling]]

==External links==
* [http://www.animateka.si/ Animateka International Animated Film Festival website]
* [http://www.animateka.si/2019/assets/Animateka_2019_Regulation.pdf Regulations for the 2019 Animateka competition] (PDF)
* [http://animaweb.animateka.si/ AnimaWeb contest website]
* [http://www.animafest.hr/en Animafest Zagreb festival website] 

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