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Animateka International Animated Film Festival is a specialised competitive festival which focuses on Central and East European animated film production. It was established in 2004 but it's root extends 6 years further in the past when the Slovenian Cinematheque introduced a special monthly programme focusing on animated film. Today Animateka is produced by the 2 Reels - Association for Reanimation of Storytelling and Kinodvor Cinema. The festival programme is taking place at the Kinodvor Cinema and at the Slovenian Cinematheque in Ljubljana each year in the second week of December.

Festival sections

The Animateka International Animated Film Festival has 9 sections and two of them are competitive. The main festival section, the Competition Programme, is focusing on contemporary animated film production in Central and Eastern European countries. Because of that the Animateka festival is receiving a great attention also in the larger international context although the much older and bigger Animafest Zagreb is taking place near. Even a greater international attention is attracting the second competitive section, The Elephant in Competition, introduced with the last edition of the festival in 2009. Namely, The Elephant in competition is focusing on animated film production meant for the young audience. The section existed already before but as before said just last year became competitive.

The Eastern and Central European Panorama section is a kind of an extension of the main competitive section as it broadens it's overview on Central and Eastern European animated film production. With it's European Student Panorama section Animateka festival is giving a special focus also on the animated film production by European film schools and art academies. As it's name already explains the Best of the Rest section is presenting a carefully selected programme from other parts of the world, bringing the attention to well known directors and awarded films. The Jury Programme section is one of the great peculiarities of the Animateka festival. It gives to each member of the main international jury a possibility to direct the attention of the audience to a certain director or to a certain tendency in the past or contemporary animated film production. In the past years the Animateka festival screened several amazing personal retrospectives in that section, like Koji Yamamura retrospective, Georges Schwizgebel retrospective and Osvaldo Cavandoli retrospective.

The most extensive festival section is the Special Programme section as it incorporates several under-sections. Those undersections are usually retrospectives, overviews of certain national animated film productions or festival programmes, regional focuses, etc. In the past years there were some excellent programmes like the Stop Motion retrospective, focuses on Polish, Basque, Norwegian, Canadian, Yugoslav and Finnish animated film production, a special program on animated films linked to the human rights subject, etc.

A special section is dedicated also to feature length animated films. Some of those films are later included in the Slovene Art Cinema Network's distribution. Last of the Animateka festival's sections is also one of the most popular among the audience - this is the The Elephant section that brings a carefully selected educational animated film programme meant for schools and families with children.

Each years the Animateka festival brings also a rich and diverse Accompanying Programme. In includes puppet shows, exhibitions, concerts, workshops and meetings between artists, scholars, curators and the audience.

Festival awards and contests

Each year the international five members jury, composed by artists, curators and/or scholars is conferring the main festival award and five special mentions (one by each member). The main festival award, the Animateka Grand Prix, goes to one or two selected works from the Competition programme, while each member of the jury has also the right to confer the Special mention to another film of his choice from the Competition programme. In the past years the award went to films like Four (Š tyri) by Ivana Šebestova, NightStill by Elke Groen, Homeland by Juan de Dios Marfil Atienze, Crocodile by Kaspar Jancis and many others.

The jury composed by the selected representatives from audience is giving away the Maestro Audience Award (to any film from the whole festival programme), while the children’s jury is granting the NLB Vita Award for the selected work from the Elephant children's programme. Among the receivers of the two above mentioned awards are films Log Jam: The Snake by Alexei Alexev, Vasilisa by Darina Shmidt, Tôt ou tard by Jadwiga Kowalska, Land of the Heads by Céderic Louis and Claude Barras, and others.

For the second year the Animateka festival programme is including also a special contest web and mobile device based animations called AnimaWeb.

External links

Animateka International Animated Film Festival website

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 A special section is dedicated also to feature length animated films. Some of those films are later included in the Slovene [[Art Cinema Network| Art Cinema Network's]] distribution. Last of the Animateka festival's sections is also one of the most popular among the audience - this is the The Elephant section that brings a carefully selected educational animated film programme meant for schools and families with children.
+Each years the Animateka festival brings also a rich and diverse Accompanying Programme. In includes puppet shows, exhibitions, concerts, workshops and meetings between artists, scholars, curators and the audience.
-Animateka's awards are: Grand Prix, Maestro® Audience Award, NLB Vita Award for the Elephant Children's Programme, special mentions (3, delivered by jury members), the award for the winner of the AnimaWeb Contest and the award for the winner of the Contest Živel strip / Viva I Fumetti (in collaboration with the Italian partner Vivacomix)
+===Festival awards and contests===
+Each year the international five members jury, composed by artists, curators and/or scholars is conferring the main festival award and five special mentions (one by each member). The main festival award, the Animateka Grand Prix, goes to one or two selected works from the Competition programme, while each member of the jury has also the right to confer the Special mention to another film of his choice from the Competition programme. In the past years the award went to films like ''Four'' (Š tyri) by Ivana Šebestova, ''NightStill'' by Elke Groen, ''Homeland'' by Juan de Dios Marfil Atienze, ''Crocodile'' by Kaspar Jancis and many others.
-In addition to the competition, the ''Animateka Festival'' includes special animated film screenings. The 3rd Festival of 2006 screened the animated film Raining Cats and Frogs and several special programmes: ''Best of the Rest'', showing the best West European animated films of 2005 and 2006, an overview of the contemporary Nordic animation film, a retrospective of Norwegian animation film and contemporary Norwegian short documentary, experimental and fiction film (in co-operation with the Norwegian Film Institute), ''Avoid Eye Contact'' - a programme of animation films from independent New York authors, From Clermont-Ferrand - French animation film, and ''Animation films on Human Rights''. ''Slon'' (in English: ''The Elephant''), a programme of carefully-selected children's animation films which promoted ethical and ecological values, non-violence, peace, harmonious interpersonal relationships and tolerance.
+The jury composed by the selected representatives from audience is giving away the Maestro Audience Award (to any film from the whole festival programme), while the children’s jury is granting the NLB Vita Award for the selected work from the Elephant children's programme. Among the receivers of the two above mentioned awards are films ''Log Jam: The Snake'' by Alexei Alexev, ''Vasilisa'' by Darina Shmidt, ''Tôt ou tard'' by Jadwiga  Kowalska, ''Land of the Heads'' by Céderic Louis and Claude Barras, and others.
-Each year the ''Animateka Festival'' also features an exhibition by an artist in residence (Daniel Žeželj in 2004, M. S. Bastian in 2005 and Lars Fiske in 2006) and a performance by a music group (''Srečna mladina'' from Ljubljana in 2006). Slovene artists are invited to create animated visual backgrounds for the chosen band's concert.
+For the second year the Animateka festival programme is including also a special contest web and mobile device based animations called AnimaWeb.
-The Festival also aims to establish a space where authors, producers, journalists, students and other interested parties can meet and exchange their ideas and experiences. And since in Slovenia there is no proper animation film school, ''Animateka'' also aims to improve education in animation: Workshops and a yearlong [[Animation film course]] are organised.
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