Saturday July 11th
KLIK! Tweets!
We have finally given in to the Twitter and are now assimilated! Follow the preparations for the festival on twitter:
http://twitter.com/KLIKAmsterdam
Saturday July 11th
KLIK! Newsletter # 10 is out
Saturday July 11th
Dealine for submissions is closed
Period for submissions is over. Deadline is closed. KLIK! has received well over 500 films from all over the world and we are still counting. The selection will be online second half of July.
Tuesday Februari 9th
KLIK! in Russia
Lured by many wonderful Eastern promises, Dario van Vree and Yvonne van Ulden of the KLIK! Amsterdam Animation Film Festival brought a special selection of animation to our new comrades in the Russian Federation! On the 28th of January our two programmers left with a generous helping of animated goodness, invited by the Russian cultural production company Videodom and aided by the Dutch embassy.
MOSCOW 28 januari - 30 januari
The first screening was at the Projekt Fabrika, where over three hundred people thronged the screening room. No less than three camera crews scrambled to interview Yvonne and Dario, including the national cultural channel Kultura TV. The news story focused on the free-spirited, liberal political atmosphere that Amsterdam is famous for.
NIZNY NOVGOROD 30 januari - 31 januari
The next day a five hour train ride took KLIK! to Nizny Novgorod, the third largest city in Russia, where they were rushed to Rekord, the sole cultural centre in a city of 1.2 million inhabitants. There they were just in time to do an introduction to the screening for a sold out screening room that seated over three hundred Russian cinephiles. After the screening, there was a long and in-depth Q&A session that lasted three quarters of an hour, about everything from the selection criteria of KLIK! to the cinematographical worth of our animated films.
The next day, Yvonne held a presentation on the history of Dutch animation and the current developments and Dario regaled the audience with tales of the origins and life story of KLIK! to another packed screening room.
SAINT PETERSBURG 1 februari
After another dash to catch a train and sixteen hours later, they arrived at St. Petersburg and had a bit of time to see the sights before heading to the Priboy for another presentation and screening, which was attended by over 400 animation loving St. Petersburgians.
MOSCOW 2 februari
After another invigorating ten hours in the loving arms of the Russian railway system, our KLIK! delegation was back in Moscow for a hasty breakfast and their flight back to the West.
More than 1300 Russians visitors have caught the KLIK! bug, and we’ve made many a good friend and met a lot of interesting and interested people. With a little luck, this first contact will grow into a animation tour that will give many more of our Russian pals a chance to experience the power of KLIK! We we’re very impressed by the prominent place that animation occupies in the Russian cultural life and the pride the Russians have in their animation and animators, and we hope to export this attitude back to the Netherlands.
Monday januari 12th
KLIK! 2008 openingfilm is in trouble!
Nina Paley can't afford to distribute her wonderful film "Sita Sings the Blues" because of copyright problems...read/watch the interview with Nina
Wednesday November 5th
KLIK! Scream-a-long & Museumn8
It was a very busy weekend for KLIK!, but what a very good time was had at the festivities! Friday the Texas Chainsaw Massacre Scream-a-long, where the participation level was ear-deafening, Saturday KLIK! screened a continuous programme of international animated films in the Brakke Grond for the Museumn8 and the Doe-het-niet-zelf- animatiedagen. Many visitors were freshly introduced to independent animation with a selection of great shortfilms from Belgium, The Netherlands, Italy and Germany.
Wednesday september 17th
KLIK! 2008 - What a party!
In the atmospheric Kriterion Filmtheatre, about 1400 animation lovers, animators and guests gathered for three days to enjoy over 200 animated films from all over the world and lots of other animated fun and ofcourse the neccesary refreshments.
Many beautiful and some strange things happened at the second edition of KLIK! Amsterdam Animation Filmmakers and the unfortunate pigeon who gave his life for the festival.
Wednesday september 17th
The Animation Machine
We were very happy to have the famous Animationmachine at this year's festival. Some flabourgasting works of art were created by our creative audience (and also some by the KLIK!Crew themselves). The results are now online. watch
Wednesday september 17th
This was KLIK! Amsterdam Animation Festival 2008 in a nutshell...
26 countries supplied more than 200 carefully selected films which were shown in 16 programmes to an enthusiastic audience of animation lovers. The 1800 sold tickets constitute a growth of 900 % compared to last year’s edition.
Our festival jury, consisting of Suzie Templeton, Tonio van Vugt and Jeroen “Eboman” Hofs, gave the Open Competition KLIK! Award to the existentialist French animated film Skhizein by Jeremy Clapin.
The festival public voted to give the Student Competition KLIK! Award to the upbeat My Happy End by the German animation student Milen Vitanov.
In the city of Mopti in Mali, 300 visitors gathered for our satellite edition of KLIK! and awarded the prestigious first KLIK! Mopti Award to the Dutch film Open Surgery by Jean-Paul Tossings and his fellow students from the Utrecht Academy of the Arts.
The second edition of the KLIK! Amsterdam Animation festival also provided visitors, guests, jury members, animators, volunteers and many more with the incredibly atmospheric Kriterion theatre in which many Dj’s and VJ’s, a Bollywood Dance performance, the Animators Cage, Prosecco, a flipbook contest, pimped sneakers, cotton candy, Mortal Kombat, Indian Snacks, animation on the Cutting Table, the animation gallery, Ben & Jerry’s ice cream, the Animation Machine, the cosy Indian corner, trend setting KLIKkers, festivities and pleasant company were enjoyed by all, often well into the night.
KLIK! is set to return to Kriterion soon for more KLIK!-activities and we’ve already begun our preparations for the next edition in September of 2009!
So keep an eye out, sign in to the newsletter and check the agenda if you don't want to miss out on all the KLIK!fun!
Tuesday september 16th
Winners of KLIK! Amsterdam Animation Festival 2008
Open Competition
Judged by Suzie Templeton, Tonio van Vugt & Eboman (aka Jeroen Hofs)
The KLIK! Award 2008 goes to "Skhizein" - Jeremy Clapin - France
Honourable Mention for "De Zwemles" - Danny de Vent - Belgium
Second place goes to "Muto" - Blu - Italy
Third place goes to "Codswallop" - the McLeod Brothers - UK
Student Competition
Judged by the audience of KLIK! Amsterdam
KLIK! Student Award goes to "My Happy End" - Milen Vitanov - Germany (40% of the votes)
Second place goes to "Open Surgery" - Jean-Paul Tossings - the Netherlands &
"Sheep on the Roof" - Remi Schaepman - France (both 20% of the votes)
Mopti Award
Judged by the audience of KLIK! Mopti in Mali
The KLIK! Mopti Award goes to "Open Surgery" - Jean-Paul Tossings - the Netherlands
The organisation of KLIK! Amsterdam thanks and congratulates the winners of our second edition and wishes them all the best on their coming projects.
Tuesday september 8th
KLIK! Tickets available now!
The complete KLIK! experience will commence in just a handful of days, so we'd like to remind you that you can reserve your tickets:
Belbios service (www.belbios.nl or call 0900-9363)
or at the headquarters of our festival, the lovely Kriterion Cinema (020-6231708).
We'll have to pack our audience in very snugly to fit everyone into our festive sneak preview of the award winning feature Sita Sings The Blues which will festively kick off KLIK! on Friday. While we regretfully can't admit more people to our opening film, we urge you to check out the programme and book your tickets as soon as possible!
Although we're happy to see the tickets being sold quicker than hot cakes, we would hate for you to miss out on the screening you were dying to see. So become pro-active and reserve those tickets pronto!
Thursday august 21st
KLIK! Pressconference 29 august
On the 29th of august KLIK! will have a pressconference:
Starts
17.00 at De Nieuwe Anita, Frederik Hendrikstraat 111, Amsterdam
Wednesday august 20th
Updated KLIK!site online
As you probably have noticed, our new site is up and running! If you encounter any problems, bugs or dead ends please contact us through our brand new contact page.
Saturday august 16th
Meet the jury of KLIK! Amsterdam's open competition
Suzie Templeton, Oscar-winning director of "Peter & the Wolf"
Jeroen Hofs (aka Eboman), master sampling artist
Tonio van Vugt, chief editor and founder of comic magazine Zone5300
Tuesday july 29th
The official numbers are in!
KLIK! Amsterdam has received 226 animated films from 26 countries:
Australia, Belgium, Canada, Colombia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, India, Israel, Italy, Northern Ireland, Norway, Portugal, Russia, Singapore, Slovakia, Spain, Turkey, UK, USA and, offcourse, the Netherlands.
To the filmmakers who submitted their work: Thank you all for taking part in KLIK! Amsterdam Animation Festival!
Monday july 21st
2nd of August: Scarface Swear-A-Long in de Nieuwe Anita!
On the 2nd of August we take the formative gangster epic of the Eighties out for a new, interactive spin.
During the Scarface Swear-A-Long you can sip on a Cuba Libre, with a fat cigar in the corner of your mouth and clad in your loudest Hawaii-shirt.
Swear away all your woes together with Tony Montana, the psychotic bellowing bullfrog from Cuba in a maniacally intense performance by Al Pacino. It's like politically incorrect karaoke.
Afterwards, shake your stuff to the best oldschool eighties records while gamers play Scarface: The World is Yours for visual fun and entertainment.
Come on down and bring along your little friend!
The location: De Nieuwe Anita, Frederik Hendrikstraat 111, starts at 20.00, 5 €.
KLIK! Amsterdam Animatie Festival reageert op ‘Animatie en Documentaire’ brief van Minister Plasterk
Naar aanleiding van de recente ontwikkelingen in animerend Nederland, wordt het hoog tijd dat KLIK! Amsterdam ook een steentje bijdraagt aan het discours.
Voor diegenen die niet gepokt en gemazeld zijn in de Nederlandse animatiekringen,
volgt een korte samenvatting van het voorafgaande:
In februari publiceerde Onderzoeksbureau Berenschot, in opdracht van de Federatie Filmbelangen en het Nederlands Instituut voor Animatiefilm met de steun van het Nederlandse Fonds voor de Film, een rapport naar aanleiding van hun onderzoek naar de staat van de Nederlandse animatiefilm. Hierin werd geconcludeerd dat de Nederlandse animatiesector een kansrijke sector is met internationale potentie, die door het huidige cultuurbeleid niet volledig tot zijn recht komt. In het rapport wordt geadviseerd om met nieuw beleid de Nederlandse animatiesector te stimuleren.
Op 3 juli reageerde minister Plasterk op vragen van de tweede kamer met een beleidsbrief. Hierin prees hij de Nederlandse animatiefilm in al haar facetten, en was hij zeer lovend over de resultaten die de Nederlandse animatiefilm en animatoren hebben bereikt maar onderschreef hij de conclusie van het rapport Berenschot niet. De minister zegt: “Waar ontwikkelingen vanzelf verlopen, spreekt het vanzelf dat de overheid gepaste afstand houdt.” Deze afstand is blijkbaar zo groot dat het de minister ontgaat dat de noodklokken in de sector al enige tijd geluid worden.
De minister stelt dat het bestaande netwerk van instellingen, subsidies en regelingen de documentaire en de animatiefilm voldoende houvast zou bieden om nieuwe kansen te grijpen en bedreigingen te weerstaan. De Raad van Cultuur en de VNAP delen deze mening niet. KLIK! Amsterdam stemt op deze punten in met de reactie van het VNAP op de brief van de minister.
De belangrijkste aanbevelingen van het rapport Berenschot; het bevorderen van verbindingen met de omroepen door het beschikbaar stellen van middelen voor pilots en het in het leven roepen van een stimuleringsprogramma voor lange animatiefilms als ook het stimuleren van internationale co-producties, worden opzij geschoven. De enige concrete maatregel van de minister is het uittrekken van 500.000 € om in de komende drie jaar animatoren aan te sporen om in de, bepaald niet noodlijdende, game-industrie aan het werk te gaan.
Met KLIK! verkennen wij al twee jaar het mysterieuze en nog grotendeels onontgonnen gebied tussen animatie en digitale media. Dat doen we tijdens ons jaarlijkse meerdaagse festival, maar ook het gehele jaar door op diverse locaties met onze KLIK! & Play events en andere interactieviteiten. Dit jaar hebben we dankzij onze satellietprogramma’s niet alleen landelijke, maar zelfs internationale reikwijdte gekregen en hebben we wederom een aantal interessante partners gevonden om nieuwe projecten en evenementen te ontwikkelen, naast de samenwerkingverbanden die we al hebben gesmeed met grote en kleine, prestigieuze en beginnende organisaties, broedplaatsen, instituten en personen.
Als minister Plasterk wil ervaren dat animatie in Nederland een ambitieuze, veelbelovende kunstsector is en tegelijkertijd wil zien hoe de connectie tussen animatie en digitale media op een aangename wijze tot stand kan komen, nodigen we hem van harte uit om een kijkje te komen nemen op de tweede editie van het KLIK! Amsterdam Animatie Festival op 12, 13 en 14 september.
We leggen een passe-partout voor hem klaar.
Saturday july 19th
Become a KLIK!Friend
Now you can become a KLIK!Friend and gather eternal fame amongst the Dutch animation scene, not to mention our sincere gratitude for supporting the KLIK! foundation.
Deadline for submissions has passed
KLIK! Amsterdam has received over 200 films from 21 different countries. The official selection of both the student and open competition will be made public on the 1st of August 2008.