Bucheon International Animation Festival BIAF 2024

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Category
ANIMATION & FILM FESTIVALS
Deadline | Event Dates (period)
15 July 2018
City
Bucheon, South Korea
Email
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Edition
26
Final submission deadline
2024-07-31
Submission/Registration Fee
No

Festival Description

Bucheon International Animation Festival (BIAF) is an Academy AwardⓇ Qualifying International Animation Festival, which includes general competition section,  feature films, short films, graduation films, Korean short films, TV&Commissioned films and VR works. The festival is to spread the true charm of animation genre and to grow as an expert animation film festival in Asia.

2024 Call for Entries

Animated films must have been completed after January 1, 2023 and must not have previously been submitted to BIAF.

Competition Categories:

1) Feature Film: Works over 40 minutes in length
2) Short Film: Works less than 40 minutes in length
3) Graduation Film: Works less than 40 minutes in length
4) TV&Commissioned Film: Works for TV/OTT series and special, commercials, music video and etc.

※ Priority considered for Premiere Condition.
※ Korean Films submitted in category 2, 3 and 4 may compete in Korean Shorts Competition.

Prizes:

Feature Film Competition
Grand Prize - 15,000,000 KRW
Jury Prize - 4,000,000 KRW
Special Distinction Prize ① - 2,000,000 KRW
Special Distinction Prize ② - 2,000,000 KRW
Audience Prize - 1,500,000 KRW

*Short Film Competition
Grand Prize - 10,000,000 KRW
Jury Prize - 4,000,000 KRW
Special Distinction Prize ① - 2,000,000 KRW
Special Distinction Prize ② - 2,000,000 KRW
Special Distinction Prize ③ - 2,000,000 KRW
Audience Prize - 1,500,000 KRW
AniB's Choice - 1,000,000 KRW

*Korean Short Film Competition
Jury Prize - 5,000,000 KRW
Special Distinction Prize - 3,000,000 KRW

*Graduation Film Competition
Jury Prize - 3,000,000 KRW

*TV&Commissioned Film Competition
Jury Prize - 3,000,000 KRW

*Special Prize / **Special Awards are subject to change
COCOMICS Music Prize - 2,000,000 KRW
Korea Animation Industry Association President’s Prize - 2,000,000 KRW
Korean Society of Cartoon and Animation Studies(KOSCAS) President’s Prize - 3,000,000 KRW

  • Submit via FilmFreeway
  • Deadline: 30 June (Short, Graduation, TV&Commissioned), 31 July  2024 (Features)

2023 Festival Coverage

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2019 Festival Coverage

2019 Festival Trailer:

A Female Warrior and Lion Sculptures Emphasizes Spiritual Relationship in Khmer Style. Created by Denis Do.

I have always admired a female character who practices bokator, a Khmer martial art. Though the stage in film is very limited as it is a teaser, I wanted to show an alternation of double-sided, ambivalent concepts: being active and being powerless; an organic matter and inorganic matter;  and the finiteness and infiniteness of time. These contrasting ideas conflict with each other to form a new harmony - Denis Do

2018 Festival Coverage

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Event Dates

  • From 25 October 2024 to 29 October 2024

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