Deadline: 7-Jul-25
Applicants are now invited to apply for the Stop Motion/Experimental/Stop Motion for Children festival.
They’re looking for stop motion and experimental animated shorts (max. 30 min) which are fresh in style, innovative in storytelling, outstanding in visual form, playful or dramatic, politically engaged, philosophically contemplative, purely abstract, or simply hilarious.
They are eager to consider professional productions, student films, music videos and commissioned films as well as the works of enthusiasts without any prior professional training in animation.
Award Categories
- The list of Festival’s award:
- Maribor Audience Grand Prix
- Maribor Students Award for Best Stop Motion Animation
- The Borderlands Maribor Grand Prix
- Maribor Students Award for Best Film of the Borderlands
- Best Stop Motion Animation for Children (Age 6+)
- Best Stop Motion Animation for Children (Age 8+)
- Best Stop Motion Animation for Children (Age 12+)
Eligibility Criteria
- Films can be submitted by producers, distributors, film institutions, individual artists or other entities legally entitled to do that. By completing submission, the submitters confirm they are legally entitled to conduct festival distribution of the film.
- All standard video files (preferably HD) are accepted for the screenings.
- Screenings of competition and panorama films during the Festival can be held no more than 6 times under the condition the reprise screenings are reasonably explained to the Submitter, organized in the Festival period.
- The Submitter declares not to withdraw the film from the Festival after results of the Festival selection are published.
- The Submitter delegates to the Festival the right to use promotional materials for free for festival publications (print-outs, website of the Festival) and to promote the Festival in the media.
Application Requirements
- After receiving an information about qualification to the competitions or panorama sections, the Submitter is obliged to:
- specify the type/format of screening copy of the film (if different than already submitted)
- send following materials by e-mail: 2 stills (300dpi); head photos and bio of the director (max 600 signs); subtitles in English (preferably srt file); trailer or 2-minute excerpts from the film.
For more information, visit StopTrik.