Rules & Terms
Festival
Flipbook Film Festival is an event organized by the FlipBook Productions and ASIFA Macedonia, with the support of the Youth Cultural Center (Skopje).
Submissions
- All submissions are free of charge.
- Any European animated film, European Student animated film and European animated documentary film completed after January 01, 2021 can participate. The submission deadline for all the categories is May 01, 2023.
- To be considered for one of the competitions, the duration of the films must be less than 20 minutes (including credits).
- The submission of the films is via FilmFreeway platform.
- Only the selection committee will have access to the film files.
- The films that are not in English must have English subtitles.
Competitions and Awards
- Competition of European Animated Short Films (short animated films from European countries with duration less than 20 minutes)
- Competition of European Student Animated Short Films (short animated films from European countries with duration less than 20 minutes that were completed as graduation films or as part of university studies)
- Competition of European Animated Documentary Film (short animated documentary films in which the animation is integrated in the films in such a way that without it the meaning of the film would become incoherent, with duration less than 30 minutes).
- Competition of European Animated Music Videos (short animated music videos from European countries with duration less than 7 minutes)
- Three juries will decide the above awards and none of the jury members will be involved in the production of any of the films they judge.
Selection
- The selection of the films will be made according to the following criteria: originality, artistic excellence and innovative animation techniques, social and educational impact.
- All applicants who have submitted films for pre-selection will be informed of the results by the Festival organization.
- All the applicants/authors of the accepted and not accepted films will be informed at the latest by June 15th, 2022.
- Once a film has been selected to participate in the Festival cannot be withdrawn from the Festival program.
- Due to the Covid 19 pandemic, all the selected films will be screened at the physical as well as at the online edition of the festival.
- The Festival does not pay screening fees for the films of any of the Festival competitions. By participating in any of the categories the festival is permitted to screen your film a maximum of ten times for promotional purposes and other programs such as educational programs, and additional film screenings as collaborations with other festivals. No screening fees are included in this agreement.
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