Call for Entries: Submit Your Work to the Inaugural Celtic Animation Film Festival

Part of the Liverpool Irish Festival, inaugural Celtic Animation Film Festival competition provides a platform for established animators of Celtic heritage and emerging Celtic animators from around the world.

Stop-motion animated ‘Madder Isle’ by Laura Spark.

UPDATE: Tickets for the the inaugural Celtic Animation Film Festival are now available via CAFc Tickets & The Liverpool Irish Festival!

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This is the last week to submit your work to the inaugural Celtic Animation Film Festival, part of the Liverpool Irish Festival showcasing creative ingenuity and stories from and about Celtic life. The main focus of this festival-within-a-festival will take place October 22, 2017 and will involve screenings, talks and awards.

The inaugural Celtic Animation Film Festival competition provides a platform for established animators of Celtic heritage and emerging Celtic animators from around the world.

CAFc celebrates storytelling relating to Celtic identity, myths, cultural history and personal stories from Celtic animators from Ireland, Scotland, Wales, Isle of Man, Brittany and Cornwall and those who have migrated around the world. CAFc also welcomes international animation submissions celebrating cultural diversity and identity from outside the Celtic regions.

Animation film submissions are welcome on the topics:

The contribution to the world of animation by the Celtic and Irish Diaspora
Celtic and Irish influence on animation
Celtic and Irish heritage and traditions in contemporary animation
The universality of Celtic and Irish storytelling
Cultural diversity and identity from an international perspective.

Celtic Animation Film Competition 2017 Call Out:

CAFc is calling for short animated films made in Liverpool, Ireland and/or Celtic regions. Organizers also welcome work by Celtic animators now residing outside of these regions and international submissions, for consideration for the: