This year marks the 28th anniversary of ASIFA-South (formerly ASIFA-Atlanta), the Southern chapter of ASIFA International (Association Internationale du Film d’Animation). What has started out as a showcase over the past 16 years has expanded into a two-day long festival and conference.
See our highlights recap here: https://www.asifa-south.com/asifac-festival
Now in its fifth year, ASIFAC Animation Festival has become an annual competitive event open to students, independent animators, and professionals. Selected entries offer diverse perspectives in the form of 2-D, Stop Motion, 3-D and hybrid-mixes to deliver inspiring and thought provoking films.
Juries for our film and panelists includes an array of industry professionals such as producers, directors, head of studio, and artists from DreamWorks, Adult Swim, Floyd County Productions, Third Floor studio, EA and more.
The festival and conference serves to highlight the magic of animation and its power to bring forth humor, imagination and art. Selected entries from the Southern Spotlight block will also be considered for our International Animation Day, which participating partner chapters all over the world will share.
The three program blocks are as follows:
INTERNATIONAL BLOCK
For our animator friends across borders, oceans, continents, USA west coast, enter your shorts for this block.
SOUTHERN SPOTLIGHT SHOWCASE
A showcase filled with animated shorts from students, independent animators and professionals in the south US. Only shorts made in the South US region qualifies for this program. Includes Maryland.
ALL AGES BLOCK
These are entries that can be enjoyed by families and kids of a young age.
This two-day animation festival and conference will also include panels by professional animators in the local industry. There will also be an Awards ceremony at the last day of the conference.
Check out our website www.asifa-south.com for more info.
The ASIFA-SOUTH Animation Conference & Festival has four competitive categories:
All 3 top category winners will receive XP Pen product in addition to their trophy, courtesy of our sponsor XP PEN.
BEST IN SHOW
This award determines the best overall animation in consideration to content, technical skills, and other criteria put forth by the ASIFA-South committee members. The final judging in this category will be selected by professional industry judges in the animation industry. Winner will receive a trophy, complimentary entry submission to our partner The Atlanta Film Festival for its Oscar-eligible animated shorts category along with a 2-hour Film Festival consultation session on tips and tricks for future film submission and other sponsor prizes.
ANIMATION FOR ALL
This category focuses not as much on technical skills as showcasing animation that stands above others in content that in relevant to hi-lighting diversity, humanitarian issues, disabilities and bold content that inspires. The winner for this category will be selected by the ASIFA-South committee. Winner of this category will receive a trophy.
BEST OF SOUTH
This category pulls all our southern affiliated or homemade southern content to find the best of the south category. Winner will receive a one-of-a-kind trophy, complimentary entry submission to our partner The Atlanta Film Festival for its Oscar-eligible animated shorts category along with a 2-hour Film Festival consultation session on tips and tricks for future film submission and other sponsor prizes.
AUDIENCE CHOICE AWARD
This award will be selected by attending audiences with a live poll tallied out at the end of the conference. One for each block with certificates.
