Festival Data:

• Established: 1984
• Genre: Animation - Games (click to see)
• Attendance: 35000
• Media Attendance: 10
• Accredited Industry Attendance: 30
• Total Number of Films Submitted: 300
• Total Number of Films Screened: 200
• Total Screenings: 14
• Total National and International Premieres: 50
• # of Shorts Screened: 195
• # of Features Screened: 5
• Accreditations: CIJEF, ECFF

• Competitive
• Retrospective
• Students Section
• Has Panels
• Has Seminars

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Festival Description:

Originally created as a showcase of Italian animation, Caartoon Club ha grown over the years to include international work by amateurs and world-renowned professional animators.  In recent years, the public has been able to enjoy screenings of freat animation films and exhibitions that include comic strip partners, Japanese mangas and much more. Debates, meetings, theatre shows and concerts, dedicated to comics and cartoons have animated summer evenings in different parts Rimini and have proved extremely popular.

In 2001 a program of animated films produced by primary and secondary schools was presented before being circulated throughout Europe. In recent years, Cartoon Club has organized theme exhibitions that proved very successful and focused on the relationship between comic art and subjects such as sport, faith, disability and great comic strip partners. And alongside comics are cartoon heroes from over the world. Over the years, Cartoon Club has established a network of contacts with authors and international animation experiences worldwide. Some of the most important Italian artists have come to Rimini: Leo Ortolani (Rat-Man), Matitaccia (illustrator for Autosprint), Silver (Lupo Alberto), Corrado Mastantuono (Disney and Bonelli) and Giancarlo Alessandrini (Martin Mystère), etc.

Since 1997 Cartoon Club has presented two awards; one for animated film school students "Premio Signor Rossi" and one for essays on comics or cartoons "Premio Franco Fossati", in 2001 the award "Otto Tavole per Mondo Naif"in collaboration with Kappa Edizioni, in 2002 two other awards have been added to the Festival: "Premio Fede a Strisce" dedicated to comics written on religious themes and "Flashcartoon" dedicated to works made with the Flash software by Macromedia.

Film Submissions:

• Accepts direct submissions
• Submission formats: VHS, DVD

Curent Film Previews:

• Aquarium