DEADLINE FOR
MIAF 20-26 JUNE 2011
ENTRIES HAVE NOW CLOSED :-(
We'll keep this info up in the meantime so you
know what to expect for 2012. New entry forms will be available
in July.
Please note... If you are going
to enter the
London
International Animation Festival, you do not need to submit
your film(s) to both festivals. When you enter MIAF, you will
automatically be considered for LIAF.
The Melbourne International
Animation Festival (MIAF) is one of the largest animation festivals
in the world. It usually screens around 350-400 films each year
in competitive, student, curated & retrospective programs.
MIAF generates a smaller touring festival called the Australian
International Animation Festival, is the submissions base for
the UTS Sydney International Animation Festival and the London
International Animation Festival, and also provides specific programming
advice to the New Zealand Film Festival and the Brisbane International
Film Festival. When you submit your film to MIAF, your film is
automatically considered for each of these other festivals although
these other events will send you separate and specific invitations
if they wish to screen your film.
There is no fee to
enter MIAF.
To be considered eligible for selection in MIAF11,
your film should have been completed AFTER 1 January
2009.
The Festival Director reserves the right to grant
exceptions to this criteria in exceptional circumstances.
Your film must arrive in a format that
can be viewed by pre-selectors and the jury members.
Please supply a DVD
(we prefer PAL / all regions) that can be played in a dvd player
and viewed on a tv screen.
We cannot accept the following
for pre-selection:
- internet downloads or files
- utube/website links
- computer files
- Quicktime files
- Flash files
- betacams
- digibetas
- miniDV
- film prints
DVDs are unreliable devices, so please test your
copy thoroughly before submitting it. We will generally NOT
contact entrants who provide an unplayable DVD, and the submission
will be rejected. We suggest you provide two copies of your
film, burnt from different computers in case one copy fails.
An Entry Form must accompany each entry and all
required information supplied. We request
at least two digital stills for every film that screens in the
festival, and ask entrants to please provide these stills at
the time of entry.
FOR FULL GUIDELINES, PLEASE DOWNLOAD THE APPROPRIATE
ENTRY FORM.
MIAF
Screening Material
> digital media and video technical specifications
(important info - please read folks)
If you are selected to participate in MIAF
and cannot supply a 35mm print, you will be required to provide
a screening copy meeting the specifications outlined below.
Video Specifications
The following are preferred digital video specifications
for the delivery of content to be compiled for screening at the
Australian Centre for the Moving Image. MIAF cinema tapes will
be compiled to the Standard Definition DV-PAL format.
SD-PAL Frame Sizes and Pixel Aspect Ratios
· SD-PAL video frame size is 720x576
· 4:3 SD-PAL Pixel Aspect Ratio is 1.0940
· 16:9 SD-PAL Pixel Aspect Ratio is 1.4587
SD-NTSC Frame Sizes and Pixel Aspect Ratios
· SD-NTSC video frame size is 720x480.
· 4:3 SD-NTSC Pixel Aspect Ratio is 0.9091.
· 16:9 SD-NTSC Pixel Aspect Ratio is 1.2121.
· NTSC videos will be converted to PAL.
· NTSC videos will not be resized when converted to PAL
to avoid degradation.
Content delivery Notes
· 16:9 videos are preferred in the Full Height Anamorphic
(FHA) format.
· The “16:9 Anamorphic” format (also known
as 4:3 Letterboxed) should be avoided if possible.
· Videos with Square Pixels will be converted to PAL pixel
aspect ratios.
· Content whose sub-titles that are outside of titles-safe
margins will be resized.
Frame Rates
· The PAL video frame rate is 25fps.
· The NTSC frame rate of 29.97fps will be converted to
PAL’s 25fps.
· Do NOT deliver 24fps videos - they may fail to play smoothly
from a 25fps timeline.
Bit Rates
· Higher bit-rates means less video compression and better
image quality.
· Avoid bit-rates below 6 Mbps for Standard Definition
videos.
Audio Specifications
· 48 kHz Sampling Rate.
· Stereo.
· 128 kbps or above.
· Surround audio is not supported.
Preferred Video CODEC’s
· DV PAL/NTSC (4x3)
· DV PAL/NTSC Anamorphic (16x9)
· Uncompressed 8-bit 4:2:2
· Uncompressed 10-bit 4:2:2
· MPEG 2
· Apple ProRes 4:2:2
· HDV 1080i25 (50i)
· HDV 1080p25
· H.264
· Use high bit-rates for H.264 videos - especially with
High Definition videos.
· The H.264 codec allows for low bit-rate & highly
compressed videos which can be problematic in a compilation timeline.
Digital Tapes
· BETACAM
· DVCAM
· HDV (NOT the same as HD-CAM)
DVD’s
· Standard PAL/NTSC video DVD’s.
· Use the PAL DVD format if possible to minimise a lost
in image quality arising from NTSC to PAL conversions.
· BluRay Discs are not supported.
· DV files, in the formats listed above, can be submitted
on data-DVD’s.
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