Category: Call for Entries

Emmy award-winning Toon Boom Animation launched the Animation Festival, Caribbean and Latin America Edition, in partnership with the University of Trinidad and Tobago (UTT). Targeting the 2008 Animae Caribe Festival (September 25-27, 2008) as the venue to showcase the top ten finalists and winners, this online animation festival is open to creative minds based in the Caribbean and Latin America. The two-minute animated entries must be developed around the theme: Bridging the Caribbean and Latin America through the Arts and Local Festivals.

Zack Snyder is offering you the opportunity to create "Veidt Enterprises" TV commercials that could end up in the feature film WATCHMEN, scheduled to be released in theaters on March 6, 2009.

To get started, download the standard definition and/or high definition assets from the links below, and then shoot your own original TV commercial that advertises one of the products.

Coney Island Film FestivalConey Island, New York, USASeptember 26-28, 2008Deadline: July 3, 3008

indiefilmpage.com and Coney Island USA present the Eighth Annual Coney Island Film Festival September 26-28, 2008 at Sideshows by the Seashore and The Coney Island Museum in the historic Brooklyn neighborhood Coney Island, New York.

Entry categories: Feature, Short, Documentary Feature, Documentary Short, Experimental, Silent Film, Animation, Music Video.

Regular Deadline April 25, 2008 (postmarked) $25 entry fee

eDward 2008Frankfurt, GermanySeptember 28-30, 2008Deadline: August 22, 2008

eDward -- The Young Filmmaker's Award is the international film competition for young talents up to 30 and decided at the eDIT 11 Filmmaker's Festival. Prove your talent and creativity with a 30-second-film and win prizes up to 2,500 Euros. The competition is open to young filmmakers up to 30 years old born on or after January 1, 1978. Students, agency juniors and free film-creative especially are called upon worldwide to take part individually or in teams.

Stoke Your Fires Festival of Animation is now looking for submissions in the following nine categories:

--Best Animated Short--Best Professional Regional Animation "Made in the Midlands"--Best Animated Commercial--Best CGI Animation--Best Puppet/Stop Motion Animation--Best International Animation--Best Fine Art/Experimental Animation--Best Traditional 2D Animation--Best Student Animation

Judges for the competition are:

Begun on June 18, 2007, "Projections" is a permanent public outdoor projection of artwork which operates year-round from dusk to 11:00 p.m. each evening on a wall at 415 South Lake Ave in Pasadena, California, USA.

21st Biennial of Industrial DesignLjubljana, SloveniaOpens October 2, 2008Deadline: April 18, 2008

Designers, commissioners, producers,tutors and students are welcome to apply their most recent works in the Biennial of Industrial Design (BIO), a comparative international exhibition of industrial design, visual communications and design concepts. On October 2, 2008 the 21st Biennial of Industrial Design will open at the Architecture Museum of Ljubljana, Slovenia. The deadline is April 18, 2008.

The CGSociety has launched the largest CGChallenge ever, with more than $100,000 in prizes.

In this, the 22nd CGChallenge, entrants are challenged to depict the relations between humans and aliens. Teams are invited to enter Videos while individual entrants can enter into either Image or Video categories.

In addition, there are nine special skills awards up for grabs: Modeling, Texturing, Animation, Lighting, Visual Effects, Landscape/Matte Painting, Art Direction, Compositing and Editing, and Best Character.

Aniboom, the premiere independent animation network and TBD Records have launched a contest inviting all creators and Radiohead fans from across the globe to produce an animated music video for any one of the songs from the bands latest album, IN RAINBOWS.

The contest, to be separated into four stages, will culminate with the selection by the members of Radiohead of a winner who will be awarded a $10,000 prize to produce a full-length animated music video.

I'VE SEEN FILMS International Short Film Festival 2008 will feature Ridley Scott (ALIEN, BLADE RUNNER, THELMA & LOUISE, GLADIATOR, AMERICAN GANGSTER), Robert Rodriguez (EL MARIACHI, ONCE UPON A TIME IN MEXICO, SIN CITY, GRINDHOUSE PLANET TERROR) and Maestro Ludovico Einaudi (DIARIO MALI, UNA MATTINA, LE ONDE, LA SCALA CONCERT, EDEN ROC, TIME OUT) as members of its International Jury.

The deadline to submit short films is March 17, 2008.