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We are super excited to finally announce that we have four of our fabulous graduate productions screening at the annual international film festival Children’s Film Festival Seattle.

Heartwood and The Moonseeker will be screening in the Living Fantasy (8+) short film programme, Static Focus is screening in the Figuring It Out (14+) short film programme and Stir Fry was selected for the ‘Hi I’m Home!’ (10+) short film programme.

This hybrid edition of CFFS will take place in-person at the Northwest Film Forum at 1515 12th Ave in Seattle and online from the 3rd to the 12th of February 2023.

To peruse the festival programme and buy tickets visit the festival website here:

https://nwfilmforum.org/festivals/childrens-film-festival-seattle-2023-hybrid/

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The New York Nil Gallery selected six of our graduate productions – Heartwood, Toil and Trouble, Noise Film, Dreaming, M.A. and Hiding to compete for the ‘Best Student Project Award’.

We are delighted to announce that M.A. is the winner of the New York Nil Gallery ‘Best Student Project Award’.

‘New York Nil Gallery is one of the leading platforms of international photographers, painters & musicians, dedicated to artists who embody diversity, innovation and creativity. NYNG gives artists the original platform to express their vision of World celebrating based on their personal experiences and observations.’

The gallery event was held online from 10 – 13 January 2023.

The list of all the 2023 winners can be found here.

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The International Children’s Media Center has selected our 2020 graduate animation Rhino for screening in ICMC's 2022 ICFilmFestival.

The ICFilmFest, the first touring festival of world-class children’s film programs, brings Imagination Station, a program of twelve films from ten countries for children ages 5-10 to the state-of-the-art Northbrook Library Auditorium on Saturday, November 5th at 2.00 pm.

The ICFF program features three US premieres, five Chicago premieres. The screening will be followed by a hybrid Q&A with film directors appearing live and remotely and Rhino’s director, Bethany Powell, will be taking part.

Congratulations team Rhino!

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We are delighted to announce that Checkpoint has been selected as a Finalist at the annual AsFF (As Film Fest) the first international film festival managed by neurodivergent people and neurotypical people. It was born as a follow-up of a wider program, started up by Not Equal Association in 2008, and based on the idea of using cinema as a tool for social inclusion. AsFF is unique because it is not a festival about autism, but a film festival made by people with autism.

This year will be the festival’s 10th edition - 10 years dedicated to the promotion of neurodivergence through cinematographic and audiovisual culture.

AsFF takes place in the Casa Del Cinema in Rome on the 11th of November 2022.

Checkpoint will be competing in the ‘ANIMATION NOW!’ category.

Congratulations all round!

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Checkpoint was screened at Cuenca International Film Festival this weekend.

The FICC is one of the pioneering festivals in Ecuador, its 17th annual edition having just taken place from October 13 to 18 in the city of Santa Ana de los Cuatro Ríos in Cuenca, Ecuador.

This year’s edition consisted of an International Feature Film Competition (for works of more than 40 minutes of any theme, genre and style) and International Short Film Competition.  Out of competition was a section dedicated to horror films and another focused on human rights cinema (including topics such as ecology and feminism).

Checkpoint was screened in the short film competition.

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News just in. Our 2020 graduation animation Good Gully was chosen as Semi-Finalist for Best Animated Film in the 2022 SENSEI Tokyo FilmFest.

The summer edition of the 2022 SENSEI Tokyo FilmFest has brought together 389 projects, and only 78 (20%) have reached official semi-finals.

You can see the results and the other winners on their website - https://www.senseifilmfest.com/2022-finalists/Congratualtions team Good Gully!

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Our graduation animations Checkpoint, Toil and Trouble and M.A. have been selected for the 2D & 3D Animation Film festival. They will all screen in the 2D animation category.

2D & 3D Animation Film Festival is an international festival for animated short films founded in 2020 by Italian director and writer Giuseppe Rossi. The festival takes place in the Abbey of San Guglielmo al Goleto, Sant'Angelo dei Lombardi, Italy.

The main focus of the festival is on films that combine both 2D and 3D animation. 3D that looks like 2D (in the style of The Peanuts Movie, Madagascar, Soul, Hotel Transylvania, Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse) or 2D that looks like 3D (e.g. the style of Klaus).

This year’s festival will take place on the 9th of August.

Congratulations and good luck!

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Brazil International Film Festival selected M.A., Checkpoint, Dreaming, Noise Film, Toil and Trouble, Heartwood for their 2022 edition.

The online festival took place on the 1st of July, with our films screening in the Student Short Film Section.

Congratulations all round.