Primanima World Festival of First Animations 2024
Festival Description
Primanima is an international festival and competition for first animations. Its co-founders launched the festival in 2012 with the goal of providing a platform for talented young animators to introduce their first films, as well as to add animation and other educational programs to the cultural life of Budaörs.
2024 Call for Entries
The Primanima World Festival of First Animations this year comes with its 12th edition between October 16th and 19th, 2024.
The 12th edition apart from the competition screenings and panorama programmes is showcasing the 2nd edition of the revamped industry platform and international workshop called Contemporary Animation Horizons (C:A:H), which is a joint workshop series of Countryside Animafest Cyprus and Primanima. This year, the programme is going to focus on film scratching and cameraless animation, led by Canadian experimental filmmaker and film conservationist Steven Woloshen. The workshop is held in two parts in Hungary and Cyprus for young and emerging filmmakers.
The call for entries is open for the Primanima’s main competition. The festival team is looking forward to receiving the work of young animation artists in the following categories:
● student film
● graduation film
● first film
● children’s films
● films for teenagers (PrimaTeen category)
Films should be completed after January 1st, 2022 and should be no longer than 30 minutes
As well as providing a platform for young animation artists to showcase their work for the first time, this year the festival will continue the Primanima Masters category to foster dialogue between generations, focusing on creators who have more than one film behind them. For this category there is no age limitation.
● Primanima Masters
- Festival Regulations
- Apply via the festival website (free) or via FilmFreeway
- Deadline: 6 July 2024 (Primanima Masters), 26 July 2024 (all other categories)
2023 Festival Coverage
2022 Festival Coverage
2020 Festival Coverage
The festival was postponed2019 Festival Coverage:
THE AWARD-WINNERS OF THE 8TH PRIMANIMA
AWARDS OF THE JURIES
GRAND PRIX: Barbora HALÍŘOVÁ: Hide N Seek (CZE
GEORGE PAL PRIZE FOR THE MOST PROMISING HUNGARIAN TALENT IN ANIMATION: HORESNYI Máté: Jacques’ Rampage or When Do We Lose Our Self-confidence? (HUN)
BEST FIRST FILM: Ryotaro MIYAJIMA: Castle (JAP)
BEST GRADUATION FILM: Daria KASHCHEEVA: Daughter (CZE)
BEST STUDENT FILM: Georis MATHIEU: Alfred Fauchet (BEL)
SPECIAL MENTIONS OF THE JURY MEMBERS:
Milen ALEMPIJEVIC – Michaela MIHÁLYI, David ŠTUMPF: Sh_t Happens (CZE/SVK/FRA)
Lucija MRZLJAK – Jung Hyun KIM: Sweet Sweat (EST)
Maria STEINMETZ’ – Cécile BRUN: Letting Go (CHE)
THE AWARD OF THE CHILDREN’S FILM JURY: Rémi DURIN: Big Wolf and Little Wolf (FRA)
PRIMASOUND JURY – BEST SOUND DESIGN: Daria KASHCHEEVA: Daughter (CZE) // Sound by: Daria Kashcheeva, Miroslav Chaloupka
PRIMASOUND SPECIAL MENTION: GYULAI Panni: Broken Things (HUN) // Sound by: Kalotás Csaba, Karina SPECHT: Squaring the Circle (POL) // Sound by: Paweł Cieślak
THE AWARD OF THE PRIMALTER JURY: GYULAI Panni: Broken Things (HUN)
THE AWARD OF THE PRIMAPSYCHO JURY FOR THE BEST FILM IN THE PRIMATEEN SECTION: Siqi SONG: Sister (USA)
THE FAVOURITE FILM OF THE STUDENT JURY: Frederic SIEGEL, Benjamin MORARD: The Lonely Orbit (CHE)
THE FAVOURITE FILM OF PRIMAKIDS JURY: Rémi DURIN: Big Wolf and Little Wolf (FRA)
AUDIENCE AWARDS
MOST POPULAR INTERNATIONAL SHORT FILM: Michaela MIHÁLYI, David ŠTUMPF: Sh_t Happens (CZE/SVK/FRA)
GYULA MACSKÁSSY PRIZE FOR THE MOST POPULAR HUNGARIAN ANIMATION: ANDRASEV Nadja: Symbiosis (HUN/FRA)
MOST POPULAR INTERNATIONAL CHILDREN’S FILM: Fokion XENOS: Heat Wave (GBR)
TIBOR CSERMÁK PRIZE FOR THE MOST POPULAR HUNGARIAN ANIMATION: KELEN Bálint: The Thrilling Tales of Dreadful Draco (HUN)
MOST POPULAR FILM FROM THE PRIMATEEN SELECTION: Christoph SAROW: Blieschow (DEU)
- Read our Interview with the Primanima curating team
- 60 Selected Films for Primanima Festival 2019
- Primanima workshop with Tomek Ducki and Gina Thorstensen
2018 Festival Coverage ( 24-27/10/18):
Event Dates
- From 16 October 2024 to 19 October 2024
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