Stop Motion OUR FEST Festival

Event Description: SMOF in Argentina is the only animation film festival with a focus on stop motion that is currently taking place in South America. An international and competitive festival, with a clear emphasis on audiovisual education and training, it promotes cinema and its creation as transforming tools for society. Every year SMOF offers short film competitions, industry panels, workshops, exhibitions, clinics, seminars, laboratories, meetings, conferences, courses, and talks given by leading figures in animation from Argentina and from different parts of the world, free of charge, to facilitate access to public to educational and training proposals of international quality.

2024 Call for Entries (Archive)

The 7th Stop Motion Our Fest (SMOF) will take place from June 24 to 30, 2024 at several venues within the city of Bs. As, Argentina.

Eligibility criteria and awards:

The contest is open, with no age limit. Individual or collective. The following categories in animation will be awarded:

• Best Latin American stop motion short.
• Best international stop motion short.
• Best documentary animation short (free technique)
• Best music video in stop motion
• Best Argentine "one-minute video" in stop motion

1. Participants can present their work individually or collectively.
2. The works must be original with the free use of music rights.
3. Works made from 2022 to the present can participate.
4. Works with mixed techniques can participate where more than 70% is done in stop motion.

• Submission via FilmFreeway
• Deadline: 15 March 2024 (no entry fee)

2021 Festival Coverage

• Selection Results

ΝΒ: 2024 Festival Dates are tentative