ANIMAGE - Pernambuco International Animation Festival has been held in Recife since 2008 and is among the most important film festivals in the country. With a broad and inclusive program, which occupies various locations in the city - from traditional rooms to public parks - ANIMAGE offers the best of contemporary world animation for an audience of all ages. The festival's content includes competitive screenings of shorts, feature films and special screenings, which total more than two hundred films from dozens of countries, as well as training actions through workshops, masterclasses, lectures and debates with national and international guests.
All ANIMAGE content is defined by rigorous and attentive curation, with an emphasis on experimental, bold, expressive, engaged, innovative and original films. The guiding principle of ANIMAGE is the Competitive Exhibition that reaches adults and children and contributes to expanding and strengthening the authorial animation market.
The ANIMAGE – 14th International Animation Festival of Pernambuco will take place in Recife - Brazil, in October, 2024 (dates under definition). It will include competitive screenings of national and international animation short films, in addition to special screenings, feature films, masterclasses, talks, and workshops.
Only short films produced from 2023 are selectable.
Categories include:
The jury will avouch for the picking of the ANIMAGE TROPHY and PRIZE MONEY winner, according to the
category and value defined below.
BEST SHORT FILM – GREAT ANIMAGE AWARD – Prize: ANIMAGE TROPHY and R$ 4.000,00 (Four Thousand Reais – Brazilian Currency)
BEST CHILDREN'S SHORT FILM – Prize: ANIMAGE Trophy
BEST BRAZILIAN SHORT FILM – Prize: ANIMAGE Trophy
BEST SHORT FILM - AUDIENCE AWARD – Prize: ANIMAGE Trophy
BEST DIRECTION – Prize: ANIMAGE Trophy
BEST SCREENPLAY – Prize: ANIMAGE Trophy
BEST ART DIRECTION – Prize: ANIMAGE Trophy
BEST ANIMATION TECHNIQUE – Prize: ANIMAGE Trophy
BEST SOUND MIXING – Prize: ANIMAGE Trophy
The enrollment is free of charge and must be done online, using the submission form on FilmFreeway.