Animaze is an international film festival and conference dedicated to exploring the world of animation in all its diversity. Filmmakers from over 65 countries working in a wide range of genres and styles converge on Montreal in the summer. We engage audiences and develop new opportunities in a unique and fast growing art form.

ANIMAZE presents le MIAFF! a Montreal based international animation film festival and industry conference providing a showcase for animators and animation producers to showcase and market their works including technology and anything animated in the digital landscape as a digital art or even for research purposes in the field of science.

ANIMAZE is registered non-profit organization with feature animation film as its prime focus. ANIMAZE is an animation industry conference, workshops for animators, producers network, cocktail networking and ANIMAZE DAZE international co-production incentive. For independent filmmakers festival strategy workshops.

About:
ANIMAZE International Animation Film Festival screens animation features, shorts and experimental film. Industry conferences, panels and international co-productions will be facilitated. Workshops on the state of the art(s). Public film festival screening, panels and educational platform for children. A student film contest challenge from all graduate level animation film schools across the province of Quebec and Canada.

Taking place during The City of Montreal Printemps Numerique (Digital Spring) ANIMAZE will also facilitate and curate works and subjects pertaining to digital arts.

Awards & Prizes

Animation software an award prize. Extensive visibility and promotion in our travelling show in Berlin, Cannes Annecy, Glasgow and more.

The possibility of inclusion in our travelling shows The Best of Animaze, screenings at Annecy OFF film festival, Animation Day in Cannes, Berlin, Glasgow and more cities TBC.
VISIBILITY at one of the top Animation Film Festivals worldwide. Exposure via our official partner filmfestivals.com. No awards or prizes given for Animaze Daze at Cannes or.
Montreal Edition 2018
Award for Best Feature, Best short, Best experimental, Audience Award. Student Film Award from participating schools college and university levels.

Rules & Terms

By entering your film for consideration for the 2018 ANIMAZE Montreal International Animation Film Festival, you authorize that your work is cleared for festival exhibition and accept full legal responsibility for the intellectual property therein.
Entry into the festival constitutes permission to exhibit your work at the 2018 ANIMAZE Montreal International Animation Film Festival or and Animaze Daze on the Road in our Best of Animaze Collection. ANIMAZE is also hereby granted the right to utilize an excerpt from any film submitted and accepted for exhibition at the Festival for promotional purposes.

If your film is accepted, you will receive an invitation letter with further details, technical requirements for downloadable files, and deadlines.

Frequently Asked Questions

Can I submit to ANIMAZE via paper/email/ air mail?

We accept submissions that go through our FilmFreeway.com profile. It is difficult to keep track of films when there’s no electronic record of a submission, it makes addressing potential unforeseen problems. If you would like to send a high-quality version by mail you may do so after submitting to FilmFreeway, but please note that shipping will be at your own expense.

How will we be notified*?
Accepted films will receive an invitation letter by email. Films not accepted will also be notified by email by the notification deadline. Your status of not accepted and accepted will also be reflected in FilmFreeway. If you do not receive an email within 7 days after the notification date, please contact us. Before contacting us, reconfirm who is listed as the primary contact and their email.

Please make sure you submit a wetransfer downloadable version hi res - ( less than 2 GB ) As we have a very short window to take submissions and green it we must receive all submissions via a Vimeo link for review as well and as a wetransfer film file.

We also suggest a permanent contact be used as the primary submitter and that a phone number and email address always associated with the production be used. Note: Email filters have a hard time with addresses that start with info@, mail@, admin@, etc. If you’re using an info@myfilm.com email address it’s more likely your notification email may not arrive. We also suggest using an email address that someone checks at least daily.

*Notification dates are subject to change, please check the festival website every few weeks for updates. We strive to notify all submitters via email when a change will be made.
Please note the festival does not pay screening fees.
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  • Luc Simard

    It was not very well organized, but I really like it! The organizers were very nice, the movies were beautiful, meeting Gerald Potterton was a honour and watching the Yellow submarine were a pure joy! If i can, i'll go to Animaze next year with great pleasure!

    September 2018
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  • Jonathan Nolan

    Seemed a little confusing to be a semi finalist then sort of drop off the face of the earth, would be good to get an email even if it was just to say "you're being shown in block X on day Y" sort of thing. Other than that, very good.

    August 2018
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  • Cheryl Gelover

    So honored to have had our animated music video selected to screen at MIAFF! An attendee told me she had a wonderful experience last year, and we would have loved to have gone, but sadly, we were unable to attend, due to a close deadline on our current project. We hope to be fortunate enough to be selected again so we can experience the festival for ourselves!

    August 2018
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  • Camille Wainer

    So grateful for the opportunity to screen our animation in Montreal. It has been a wonderful experience to participate at ANIMAZE - an exceptional festival committed to promoting environmentally themed shorts.

    September 2017
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  • Guillermo P. Bosch

    A great honor for me to participate in your festival! Great communication! Thanks for all!

    September 2017
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