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Films Submission for the 1st Voronezh International Animation Festival has started

Voronezh International Animation Festival

There is a call for applications for participation in the 1st Voronezh International Animation Festival, which is to take place in Voronezh, on May 19-21, 2023. The festival is held with the support of the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation and the Voronezh area Government.

You can submit your application up to March 31, 2023, inclusive, on the official site of the festival.

Russian and foreign animated films, created no earlier than January 1, 2021, are accepted for participation in the competitive program of the festival.

The competitive program accepts the following types of movies:

animated feature movies of duration from 60 to 160 minutes;

animated short movies of duration from 1 to 30 minutes;

episodes of animated series of duration from 1 to 30 minutes.

The non-competitive program of the festival accepts Russian and foreign feature and short animated movies and series. The jury will include Russian and foreign experts and representatives of the animation industry.

The First Voronezh International Animation Festival is to be held as an exhibition of contemporary professional national and global animated movies for the children’s, teenagers’ and family audience. Movies about friendship, family values, moral guidelines, upbringing, growing up, culture, nature and learning will be selected to be included in the Festival program.

A feature of the Festival will be its format of a workshop festival, which will have not only screenings and discussions of animated movies but also master classes and creative meetings for the wide audience by the leading experts of Voronezh Animation Studio and invited professionals of the international animation industry. The program of the workshop will present animation as one of the most rapidly developing kinds of arts and creative industries.

The Founder of the festival: Voronezh Animation Studio.  The Director of the festival is Vladimir Nikolaev, the General Producer of Voronezh Animation Studio.  The Program Director is Alyona Sycheva, a film expert and a producer of animated movies.

The Festival’s Official Email: info@animfestvrn.ru

Press Service: + 7 (903) 7117518

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