Elephant programme on Animateka festival;5.12. - 11.12. Ljubljana, Kinodvor; 12.12. - 18.12. Maribor, Kino Udarnik

Call to all young authors of animated films

International Children and Youth Animated Film Competition Programme Little Elephant is a competition programme for animated films made by children and will be held at the 8th International Animated Film Festival Animateka in December 2011 in Slovenia.

Little Elephant is calling to all young authors under 18 to submit their animated films for a competition in three categories:
MINI – for children under 10 years
MIDI – for children from 11 to 14 years
MAXI – for youth from 15 to 18 years.

Jury will select and award the best film. Other awards will also be assigned.

We invite you to send your animated films that have been completed after October 1st, 2009, until September 15th, 2011 to the following address: International Animated Film Festival Animateka, Drustvo 2 koluta, Kersnikova 4, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia, EU. On the envelope please also write: for Little Elephant.

Read Competition Regulations for more information. If you have more questions, contact us at slon@animateka.si. For a film to enter a contest, entry form must be filled and signed and sent together with screening copy by snail mail. Filled form with at least two sills from film and dialogue list (if applicable) must also be sent by email, no later than September 15th, 2011.

Little bear Brundo has grown up and became Brundo the Bear. He decided to go on a trip round the world. He already visited 14 animated film festivals all round the world.
Brundo, the Bear is a work of creative children. He came to life at last year’s Production animated film workshop at Animateka Festival. Similar workshop will be held at this year’s Animateka and we are certain to repeat Brundo’s success.

Congratulations to all young authors!

Full list of animated film festivals where Brundo the Bear was screened:

• Plural + 2010 (USA)
• Roshd International Film Festival 2010 (Iran)
• Chicago International Children’s Film Festival 2010 (USA)
• SCHLINGEL 2010 (Germany)
• Plural + 2010 (USA)
• Barcelona International Audiovisual Festival 2010 (Spain)
• Anima Mundi 2010 (Brazil)
• Divercine 2010 (Uruguay)
• Animafest Zagreb 2010 (Croatia)
• Festimaj 2010 (France)
• ZLIN 2010 (Czech Republic)
• Caméras aux Jeunes 2010 (Belgium)
• VAFI – International Children and Youth Animation Film Festival Varzdin 2010 (Croatia) => 2nd Prize
• Animateka 2009 (Slovenia)
• Fest Anča, 3rd international animation festival (Slovakia)

This year in November Elephant 4 DVD brings eight professionally selected animated films with a line for conversation with children. This time again astonishing films:

Swedish puppet animation Spot and Splodge in Snowstorm, Slovenian puppet animation Kiddo: Slingshot, Swedish hand drawn animated film Booo, from Switzerland puppet animation Me and My Monster, Miriam’s Broken Picture is puppet animation from Estonia, I’m Hungry is paper cut-out animation from Belgium, Log Jam: The Snake is hand drawn animated film from Hungary, American object animation Western Spaghetti, and as a special bonus there is also Brundo the Bear, Slovenian children animated film.

Elephant 4 DVD was created in association with children magazines Ciciban and Cicido. All subscribers will receive DVD as a gift. Are you already a subscriber?

Children Art Colony PALETKA 2010 was at Elementary school in Jarenina on October 15th.

Elephant animation workshop was present among other art workshops. With their inspirational work Elephant mentors Tatjana Urbič in Marko Šebrek helped children to transform two creative ideas into animated films.

You can browse through some pictures taken at the workshop in our gallery.