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Minimalen Short Film Festival in Trondheim, Norway, requested Train Ride for the children's programme of their 37th edition from January 21-26, 2025.

Following the festival Åsen Black Box & Kino is brought back the success of MiniMinimalen, a short film festival for children in grades 1–4 in Trøndelag, Norway, tduring the summer 2025. MiniMinimalen will screen films from this year’s children's program at the Minimalen Short Film Festival. Train Ride was also selected for that event.

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Back in Spring we had three graduate animations screen at Brighton International Animation Festival. From the BA course, The Elevator from 2024, The Man Who Loved Flowers from 2023 and from the MA Animation course, Homodeus from 2022.

The Elevator and Homodeus were both screened in the Fantastical Worlds section and The Man Who Loved Flowers was screened in the Colourful Characters section. All films were nominated for Best Student Award.

Brighton International Animation Festival is the first of its kind! Set on the sunny coast of Brighton, England it is a 3-day annual not-for-profit festival every April run by animators for everyone. The vision of the festival is that it embraces international partnerships and encompasses a global perspective, in addition to providing an accessible place for people to learn about the medium.

In addition to film screenings of both specially curated and in competition programmes, the festival offers hands on animation workshops and talks from industry speakers. This allows both animators and non-animators alike to come and learn about the medium in both an artistic and commercial context.

​Brighton International Animation Festival took place from April 4-6, 2025.

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Back in March Le Château des Chats was screened as a finalist at 2D & 3D Animation Film Festival.

2D & 3D Animation Film Festival is an international festival for animated short films founded in 2020 by Italian director and writer Giuseppe Rossi.

Every year the festival has in the official selection short films from the best animation schools in the world. 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, Hotel Transylvania, Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, The Wild Robot) or 2D that looks like 3D (in the style of Klaus).

The festival took place in the Multisala Cinema Nuovo of Lioni, Italy on the 28th of March 2025.

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Last autumn Madeline’s House was selected for the Panorama section of festival Anilogue international animation film festival.

The festival took place for the 22nd time, from November 27th to December 1st, 2024, in Budapest, Hungary. Featuring 13 feature length films, a thrilling short film competition program, a focus on Dutch animation, multiple star guests and masterclasses, an animated pajama party.

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Our 2024 graduate animation The Elevator has been selected for the special screening ANIMATOR UNSCREENED at the 18th International Animated Film Festival Animator 2025. The main purpose of this category is to present the films that were "almost" selected to main competition. One of those films will be granted by the audience the "Wild Card" and will be screened in the main competition.

The Animator International Animated Film Festival in Poznań is the largest animated film festival in Poland. The first edition was held in 2008 and marked the culmination of the celebration of the 60th anniversary of Polish Animation. During each edition of the Festival, some 300 films from around the world are showcased, including retrospectives, reviews, premieres or animation classics. The program also has sections related to games and virtual reality.

The festival will take place in Poznań, Poland from the 5-13 of July 2025.

Congratulations and good luck!

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Jeugd - Youth Film Festival Antwerp 2025

Le chateau des chats

Earlier this year Le Château des Chats was screened at JEUGD - Youth Film Festival Antwerp 2025.

The 37th edition of our youth film festival took place from 16 February to 9 March 2025 in Antwerp, Belgium. The festival has screening for kids of all ages and offer screenings at schools. Besides the many film screenings JEUGD also has a games lab and a variety of industry panels.

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News from September 2024 coming atcha!

Gutterbliss Film Festival aka Gutter Cast, located in North Carolina, USA, selected an entire batch of AUB animations. Eight BA grad animations and one MA grad animation were screened at the independent cinema in the local port city of Wilmington, NC. The entire festival was streamed online live and stored on their website so that people from across the world in different time zones could view together. Gutter Cast loves films that are lo-fi, strange, unconventional, distinct, and ambitious.

Their AUB selections for the 2024 festival were BA animations Train Ride, Nobody to Play With, Le Château Des Chat, Off-track, Morning sun, Madeline’s house, The man who loved flowers, Knife point and MA animation Kaleiphena.

Fabulous!

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Last month International Animation Film Festival Golden Kuker took place in Sofia, Bulgaria. We are delighted to announce that five of our 2024 graduate animations were selected for the Golden Kuker 2025 edition.

Daedopolis, Meet Me in the Woods, Twinkle Twinkle, Bedtime Guardian and Charon were all screened as part of the ‘Student Animated Film’ competition.

The mission of the IAFF Golden Kuker-Sofia is to contribute to the development of Bulgarian art, to help Bulgarian and foreign animators get in touch and to support young professionals and students. The animation festival attracts not only children but large audience from different generations.

Congratulations all round.

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We are delighted to announce that Playing Possum, Meet Me In The Woods and Is Anybody Out There have been selected for Children's Film Festival Seattle 2025. The festival takes place from the 23-27 of July in Seattle, USA.

Since 2005, CFFS has grown to become the largest film festival on the West Coast dedicated to children and their families, with an annual lineup piled high with shorts, features, and hands-on activities for all ages. Each year the festival programmes over 150 films from international artists, seeking out joyful, thoughtful stories that give audiences new ways to understand our world and make the global approachable.

Congratulations all round on your selection!

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We are excited to announce that The Elevator and Meet Me In The Woods were selected for the Zlín Dog International Student Film Competition part of 65th Zlín Film Festival.

The festival took place from May 29th with it’s final day being today, the 4th of June.

International Film Festival for Children and Youth in Zlín belongs among the oldest and largest events of its kind worldwide. Founded in 1961 in the Czechoslovak hotbed of filmmaking for children and youth, the festival gradually acquired international presence and attention. The festival is a non-profitable event with all screenings and supporting events free of charge. The audience consists mainly of children and youth from the Zlín region, but also university students and other visitors.

Congratulations to both teams!

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We are very excited to announce that following the Region South RTS Awards on Friday evening, our Graduate animation Why Won't Anyone Eat Me walked away with the win.

With all three nominations in the student animation category being from our very own crop, we were guaranteed a win, which is always fabulous. But predicting which one of the nominated three it would be, really wasn't easy.

We had representatives from two of the nominated animations and one animation lecturer attending the shenanigans at the Hilton Utilita Bowl in Southampton.

The various student awards were mixed in amongst the professional awards, with all winners coming to the stage to receive their trophies and give a short thank you speech.

Simply being nominated for the awards is a great achievement, so well done to our two other nominated animations - This Is the Life and Is Anybody Out There.

And a huge congratulations to the RTS region South winner of best student animation - Why Won't Anyone Eat Me!

All the regional student winners will go on to a second round. The judges will once again select three nominees for each category, this time from all the 14 regional winners of each category.

The second batch of nominated films will go on to compete in national awards, usually around June in London. We will now have to wait to find out whether Why Won't Anyone Eat Me will be among the national nominees. Fingers crossed.

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Fabulous news.

RTS Southern has just announced their selection for the RTS Southern Centre Student Awards 2025.

BA Animation Production  have received all three nominations in the Animation category.

Our nominated graduate animations are 'Is Anybody Out There', 'This the Life' and 'Why Won't Anyone Eat Me?'.

We also have an AUB nomination in the Entertainment category with 'The Greenhouse Next Door' from BA Film Production.

Huzzah!

The Awards will be held on the 28th March 2025 at 7pm at the Hilton - Utilita Bowl in Southampton.

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We are delighted to announce that Black, white and Invisible Red, The Elevator, This is the Life and Deadopolis have been selected for screening at TAAFI 2025 - Toronto Animation Arts Festival International.

The festival runs from Wednesday, April 9th to Sunday 13th, in Toronto Canada at Hot Docs Theatre.

The Toronto Animation Arts Festival International was founded in 2012 by six animation-loving powerhouses: Barnabas Wornoff, Ben McEvoy, Rich Duhaney, Mike Weiss, JoAnn Purcell and Mark Jones. The festival is a completely volunteer-run not-for-profit organization that is crazily passionate about animation, cartoons, and the people who make them.

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Back in September 2024 Madeline’s House was selected for International Animation Short Film Competition of SCHLiNGEL held from 25th September – 3rd October, 2024. Madeline’s House screened in the programme "The Long Night of Short Films" (for Youth and adults from the age of 16+).  The screening took place on Saturday, September 28th 2024, from 6:30 p.m. in cinema Metropol Chemnitz in Chemnitz, Germany.

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A little flashback to summer 2024 in cold February. The Man Who Loved Flowers was selected into Aesthetica Short Film Festival 2024.  As part of the Official Selection it screened in the Animation category.

Aesthetica is a BAFTA and BIFA Qualifying Festival and is one of the UK’s largest events in the screen industries. They are based in York, a UNESCO City of Media Arts making waves in the booming creative sector. Their programme encompasses film, virtual reality (VR) and games, shining a light on the best in moving image and digital culture.

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Back in November 2024 Le Chateau des Chats, The Man Who Loved Flowers and Madeline’s House were selected for Norwich Film Festival, screening in the student category.

The Norwich Film Festival was founded in 2009 and has become an international film festival which takes place annually in Norwich, UK, during November. It’s a celebration of independent film and actively supports and champions filmmaking.

The festival took place from the 11th-24th November at Cinema City in Norwich.

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LJMU MA Short Film Festival has selected our graduate animations Why Won’t Anyone Eat Me, The Man Who Loved Flowers and Le Château des Chats for their fifth edition taking place from 28th March – 4th April 2025.

The LJMU MA Short Film Festival is unlike any other festival in that it is entirely run by the MA students at Liverpool John Moores University as part of the Exploring Film Festivals, Distribution and Exhibition module on their course. Since its first edition in 2021 LJMU MA Short Film Festival has been dedicated to showcasing the talents of student filmmakers from across the globe. Entries are accepted in the categories of fiction documentary, and animation, with an experimental showcase featuring emergent talent that pushes the boundaries of film.

The Liver Bird is a symbol of Liverpool John Moores University and the City of Liverpool, whilst the material of paper reflects the academic context of the LJMU MA Short Film Festival. Paper bird trophies are given to the festival winners.