Anima, Brussels Cartoon and Animated Film Festival, is now accepting entries for 2014, seeking to promote cartoons and animated films from all over the world. The Festival also seeks to foster a dialogue between professionals, filmmakers and the public, and to raise awareness of quality animation among film and television distributors. The Anima festival has an international competition as well as a national competition for films produced in Belgium; both competition are open to all animated films made after 30 June 2012 and make no distinction between formats or techniques, regardless of its geographic origin. The festival is considering works that belong to the following categories:

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Entries are now being accepted for the Ilustrarte 2014 competition, part of the 6th Biennial International Exhibition of Children’s Book Illustration of Lisbon. Every two years, Ilustrarte brings together children’s books illustrators, originals, publishers and readers of all ages. EDP Foundation invites children’s books illustrators from all over the world to participate in the 2014 competition by sending 3 original – published or unpublished – illustrations. The size of each illustration must not exceed 40 x 60 cm. The technique and the medium are at the discretion of the artist. The selected entries in 2014, will become part of the biennial exhibition and one will be awarded the Ilustrarte prize 2014 – a 5000 Euro prize, to be awarded on the opening night of the exhibition, in January 2014.

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