ANIMAINE - Maine's Animation Festival

ANIMAINE - Maine's Animation Festival

Also known as: ANIMAINE, ANIMAINE The Maine Animation Festival
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ANIMAINE, the Maine Animation Festival, is an anime and animation convention in South Portland, Maine, founded in 2011 and run by an independent non-profit with a volunteer board of directors. Its programming spans anime, video games, international animation and graphic novels, and it takes place in November at the Best Western Merry Manor Inn.

The film side of ANIMAINE dates back to 2019, when the convention introduced a Shorts Competition open to student films, commissioned animation and other animated shorts. The dates for the 2019 edition are 8-10 November 2019; the festival picks 66 shorts out of more than 1,900 submissions. The convention itself continues, and its 2026 edition runs 6-8 November 2026.

Country

United States (USA)

Categories

Animation, Short, Student

Awards and prizes

Jury prizes: Best Animated Short, Best Commissioned Animation, Best Animated Feature (if applicable), Outstanding Script, Outstanding Technical Accomplishment, Outstanding Sound Design and Outstanding Production Design. Public vote prizes: Public Selection for Best Animated Feature (if applicable) and Public Selection for Best Animated Short or Commissioned Animation.

Festival rules

For the 2019 edition, a short film is an animated work under 45 minutes and commissioned animation (a commercial, episode or sequence made for a third party) runs up to 25 minutes. Animated features over 45 minutes are considered case by case. Works are completed after 1 November 2018 and before 1 October 2019. They have English audio or English subtitles; a foreign-language film may use its original title or an English title. Works are first submitted as a streaming link and, if selected, resubmitted as a downloadable video file.

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