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Originally published: 2004-03-12

Original publication timestamp: 12 March 2004 at 2:06 pm

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## [Festival lists & information](https://animate.org.uk/editorial/2004/03/animation-and-film-festivals/)

We are often asked to recommend sources of information about international animation and short-film festivals. Below are the websites we like best. Please [send us](https://animate.org.uk/contact/) details of any other sources you find useful and reliable.

- [Animation World Network](https://web.archive.org/web/20041210084335/http://events.awn.com/index.php3?ltype=All&sort=sdate) a large updating database of events around the world ranging from heavy-industry to ‘independent’.

- [Britfilms](http://www.britfilms.com/festivals/) the database run by the British Council covering 600 world-wide film festivals, with useful advanced search including ‘animation’.

- [Withoutabox](http://www.withoutabox.com/) a customisable search of details for 1,300 international festivals. Withoutabox also offer a unique and *free* online festival submission service - fill in their ‘universal’ entry form just once and then you can simply click-submit your film (plus online press pack) to more than 100 ‘partner’ (predominantly North American) festivals.

- [LUX](http://www.lux.org.uk/newswire.html) a monthly online newswire which includes listings of upcoming world-wide events (and much other good stuff) for film video & digital artists. LUX is the UK’s not-for-profit organisation for artists’ film & video - they house the animate! film collection. You can subscribe to their newswire as an e-newsletter.

- [Flicker](http://www.hi-beam.net/links.html#Festivals) includes an excellent list of festivals, both North American and rest-of-world, which celebrate avant garde and ‘alternative’ film & video.

- [Idlevice](http://www.idlevice.com/) Matt Hulse’s website of projects, info and initiatives, which offers a lively list of Eurocentric but vitally personal Film Festival Recommendations. Matt made the animate! film [Hotel Central](http://www221.pair.com/mhulse/lobby.html) - here he takes a discursive scroll through the lobby. His second animate! commission [Half Life](https://animate.org.uk/films/halflife/) is currently in production.

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