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Are you a filmmaker? The 2018 VIEW Conference is now accepting submissions for its 2018 film competitions.

There’s a €2,000 first prize – the VIEW Award – for short animated film, and the ITALIANMIX award for Italian short films.

Here’s some more info on how to enter:

– The VIEW AWARD is open to professionals and students, individuals or groups. Entries must be 2D or 3D animated films of 30 minutes or less created after January 1, 2016. An international jury drawn from the VIEW conference speaker roster will award the prize.

– The ITALIANMIX award is open to Italian artists working individually or with a group. Animated, experimental, or documentary films of 30 minutes or less created after January 1, 2016 are accepted. The winner will receive a Wacom tablet.

– Any dialog in the films must be in English or Italian, or have subtitles in English or Italian. Each submission should come with a press kit, a description of the project, high res still images of the work, and director credits. There is a €10 fee to enter.

– To enter either competition, go to https://festivals.festhome.com/f/776

– The deadline for entries is September 15, 2018.

The VIEW Conference takes place in Turin from October 22 to 26 and vfxblog will be there – you can register at https://www.viewconference.it.

AnimationXpress in association with Adobe, brings to the video editors, an enticing experience with ‘The Video Editors’ Toolbox’. The seminar will help video and film editors to learn, explore and enhance one’s technical finesse. It will have sessions talking about the innovations in the field and would cover the benefits and useful features of the Premiere Pro app. The attendees include video editors, budding artists, film editors, studio owners and students and professors.

Adobe’s Sourabh Chenni mentions, “The Video Editors Toolbox, an event by Animation Express gives a 360 view of Adobe tools in video editing space, where one could understand the benefits of Adobe Creative Cloud and how it helps editors in their workflow. We at Adobe are excited to be a part of this journey and to witness some amazing work done in this industry.”

The event will take place on 11 May 2018 at Hotel Green Park, Chennai. Here is the agenda for the same:

With the speakers and topics to be discussed, the event will sure be exciting. Hope to see you there!

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Global mobile gaming company, Nazara Technologies and Jakarta based mobile game studio, Touchten have come together to launch their first game Dessert Chef  to create a localised cooking game for the Middle East market.

Dessert Chef was launched on Google Play on 20 April 2018 in India, UAE and Saudi Arabia. It will be globally launched along with iOS, this May. It primarily targets women between 20-55 years old who love cooking-related apps. The game is free to download and players can spend to eventually buy upgrades like cooking appliances, restaurant décor, other ingredients and goodies. The game has been localised in Arabic for the local audience.

Nazara has licensed a range of intellectual property for popular children’s brands such as Chhota Bheem, Motu Patlu, Shikari Shambhu, Suppandi and Mighty Raju for developing and publishing freemium mobile games. Some of Nazara’s popular in-house freemium games which have been ranked in the top three on the free top charts by downloads of the Google Play Store and App Store in financial year 2016, 2017 and 2018 include Chhota Bheem Speed Racing, Motu Patlu Run, Chhota Bheem Jungle Run and Chhota Bheem Toy.

Nazara Technologies CEO Middle East and Africa, Savio Saldanha mentioned, “We are excited to announce the launch of Dessert Chef, a mobile social game developed by Nazara in partnership with Touchten that caters to the local audience, offering them a unique gaming experience. With Touchten, we believe that this partnership will bring new, innovative game play and delightful content for cooking fans. Dessert Chef by design has several community and social features to keep players engaged. We believe that regular game updates with seasonal content, introduction of newer cuisines and features will help us build a wider fanbase.”

Touchten is among the few game developers in Indonesia that create deep and engaging cooking games for female audiences. It offers games about restaurant management, casual free kick soccer revenge taking, zombie, fun toilet, jungle, running, and adventurous games. Nazara will exclusively work with Touchten as a part of a multi-year and multi-game partnership to develop unique mobile gaming experiences for cooking fans.

“Emerging markets are not a mere afterthought for us. We are positioned to build a presence in The Middle East, right from the start. This partnership with Nazara enables us to secure distribution for our localized game. With celebrity tie-ups through Nazara, we look forward to bring innovative gaming content to our audiences,” added Touchten founder Rokimas Soeharyo.

Nazara has been actively building mobile games in the sports and crickets platforms. Now with an all new cooking game, it plans to reach out to a wider audience, targeting women who love cooking related apps.

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“This is America” by Childish Gambino http://smarturl.it/TcIgA
Director: Hiro Murai
Producer: Doomsday with Ibra Ake and Fam Rothstein of Wolf + Rothstein
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Juliette is a shy girl terrified to catch a ride with two horny bitches that arn’t paying any attention to the road… CC – English – Español – Portuguese. * Best Animation * Glasgow Horror Festival, UK 2017. * Best Animation * DarkVeins Horror Fest, Italy 2017. * Best Young Adult * Créajeune, Luxembourg 2018. * Best Animated Short * Hexploitation Film Festival, Canada 2018. * Special mention of the Student Jury * ANIBAR, Kosovo 2017. * Spécial mention * Smallmovie Festival, Italy 2017. FESTIVALS SELECTION – Animaldiçoados – Festival international de animaçao sombria – Brazil – 2016 – POST MORTEM International horror and Bizarre Film Festival- Mexico – 2016 – Dracula – Horror & Fantasy Film Festival – Romania – 2016 – Anim’Est – International Animation Film Festival – Romania – 2016 – San Sebastian Horror and Fantasy Film Festival – Spain – 2016 – TRASH – Mostra Internacional de Cinema Fantástico – Brazil – 2016 – PIFFF -Paris International Fantastique Film Festival – France – 2016 – Court mais TRASH – Belgium – 2017 – ANIMA – Belgium – 2017 – Festimages – Festival du court métrage belge de Charleroi – Belgium – 2017 – LPA film festival international de cinéma de Las Palmas Gran Canaria – Spain – 2017 – Toronto Indie Horror Fest – Canada – 2017 – Obscura – Germany – 2017 – Guanajuato International Horror Film Festival Aurora – Mexico – 2017 – ANIMAC Mostra International de Cinema d’Animacio de Catalunya – Spain – 2017 – Final Girls Belrin Film Festival – Germany – 2017 – MECAL – Festival international de curtmetrages i animacio de Barcelona – Spain – 2017 – BIFFF – Brussels International Fantastic Film Festival – Belgium – 2017 – 2300 Plan 9 : Les Etranges Nuits du Cinéma // Court-mais-Trash – Suisse – 2017 – ANIMAFEST ZAGREB – World Festival of Animated Film – Croatia -2017 – ANNECY – Festival international du film d’animation d’Annecy – France – 2017 – PICTOPLASMA – Germany – 2017 – FANT Bilbao Fantasy Film Festival – Spain – 2017 – Fantaspoa – Brazil – 2017 – TLVFest – The Tel Aviv International LGBT Film Festival – Israel -2017 – Dublin Sci-Fi Film Festival – Ireland – 2017 – Fantosfreak International Short Film Festival – Spain – 2017 – Insomnia International Animation Film Festival – Russia – 2017 – Wiesbaden International Festival of Animation – Germany – 2017 – ANIBAR Animation Festival – Kosovo – 2017 – Grossmann Fantastic Film and Wine Festival – Slovenia – 2017 – Art All Night Trenton – USA – 2017 – Macabro International Horror Film Festival – Mexico – 2017 – Ars Independent Festival – Poland – 2017 – ​​WIHFF Women in Horror ​Film Festival – USA – 2017 – CyBorg Film Festival – Italy – 2017 – L’Etrange Festival – France – 2017 – Bucheon International Animation Festival (BIAF) – Korea – 2017 – Les Nuits Magiques Festival international du film d’animation – France – 2017 – Primanima World Festival of First Animations – Hungary – 2017 – TOHorror Film Fest – Italy – 2017 – ITFF International Tour Film Festival – Italy – 2017 – Anatomy: Crime – Horror International Film Festival – Greece – 2017 – KloosterKino – Netherlands – 2017 – Horrorvision – Spain – 2017 – PÖFF Shorts Erootika – Estonia – 2017 – Festival de Cinema de Terror de Molins de Rei – Spain – 2017 – Muestra de cine de Horror y Fantástico EL VAMPIRASCOPIO – Mexico – 2017 – Weird Wednesday 0711 – Germany – 2017 – XIX Concurs de curts fantàstics i de terror de Sants – Spain – 2017 – Sacalacalaca, Interdimensional Horror & Sci-Fi Festival – Mexico – 2017 – Hrizantema Horror and Fantasy Film Festival – Serbia – 2017 – Fake Flesh Film Fest – Canada – 2017 – La Oscura Ceremonia – Spain – 2017 – DarkVeins Horror Fest – Italy – 2017 – Smallmovie Festival- Italy – 2017 – Interiora Horror Fest in Rome – Italy – 2017 – Glasgow Horror Festival – UK – 2017 – Maniatic International Film Festival – Spain – 2017 – Animateka – Slovenia – 2017 – Morbido Merida – Mexico – 2017 – The Optical Theatre Film Festival – Italy – 2017 – Créajeune – Luxembourg – 2018 – Festival de Cine de Terror Paura – Spain – 2018 – VOID International Animation Film Festival – Danemark – 2018 – Oregon Scream Week – USA – 2018 – Short Waves Festival – Poland – 2018 – Madeira Fantastic FilmFest – portugal – 2018 – Hexploitation Film Fest – Canada – 2018 – The II MORCE-GO Goias Horror Film Festiva – Brazil – 2018 – ANIMAKON – Spain – 2018 – ZLÍN Film Festival – Czech Republic – 2018 – Fest Anca, International animation Festival – Slovakia – 2018