This year we introduce a new shiny prize to our annual slate of awards: The World Domination Award.

The World Domination Award will grace a studio, individual or organisation that helped puting Dutch animation in the international spotlight that particular year. The goal of the World Domination Award is not only an acknowledgement, but also a token of trust that the winner will continue to put Dutch animation on the international agenda!

We're proud to announce the jury of the first ever World Domination Award:

Lisa Linde Nieveld – Project Coordinator at EYE

Peter Lindhout – Film Consultant Animation at NFF

Claire van Daal – Programmer at the Netherlands Film Festival

Patrick Nijman – Association of Dutch Animation Producers

Lesley van der Woude – Managing Director at KLIK!

Candidates for the award can be suggested anonymously by YOU until September 30th via www.klikamsterdam.nl/wda.

If you know an individual/studio/organisation that deserves to be acknowledged for their international achievement in the animation industry, don't be shy and nominate them!

It fills us with joy to read your enthusiastic replies to this year's KLIK! festival! We look forward to welcoming you November 12-17, 2013 in EYE, Amsterdam.

Since we already get questions about when and where to buy tickets and/or your desire to volunteer and/or places to stay, here's some info:

"I want to get tickets for KLIK! awesomeness"

Tickets for individual programs will be €9,50 online / €10 at the door. The KLIK! Unlimited Pass for the full festival experience will be €60 online / €62,50 at the door. Single Day Passes will be €25 online / €27,50 at the door. Tickets and passes will be available from October on. Subscribe to our newsletter to be the first to know when tickets go up for sale.

"I want to become a widely recognised KLIK! volunteer"

You can already e-mail us at [email protected] to let us know you want to volunteer. From October 1st a lovely volunteer coordinator will join our team to reply to your e-mail and inform you about all the possibilities regarding functions and dates.

"I want to grace KLIK! with my presence but don't know where to stay"

For the most pleasant KLIK! experience we recommend the fancy Renaissance Hotel where our jury members and special guests will reside, Other options are the comfortable Ibis Amsterdam Centre and Aitana, the hip hostel The Flying Pig or the designy St Christophers. All of them (except for The Flying Pig's second location Downtown) are within a 5-10 minute walk of KLIK!'s festival location EYE. Check with us via [email protected] for KLIK! discount codes.

"I want to visit KLIK! for several days but want to get an idea of what the festival schedule looks like"

We're still finalizing the festival schedule, but here's an overview:

Tue: No klikkin' during the day, only a Dutch Delights program at night to open the festival.

Wed & Thu: Klikkin' from 2PM to 11PM, with all the competition programs included and of course more awesome programs.

Fri & Sat: Klikkin' from 11PM to midnight, with again all the competition programs included and lots of other programs and stuff. Friday is also Industry day for professionals and Saturday night there's the nerve-wracking award ceremony and the unforgettable party afterwards to blow off steam.

Sun: A relatively calm day of klikkin', from 1PM to 10PM. With Best of KLIK! 2013, children's matinee and programs that cater to your culturally interested minds.

"I am a distributor/ buyer/ film festival programmer and I really love the idea to visit KLIK! this year"

You're welcome! Just send an email to [email protected] and quote in the subject of the email "Industry guest". It will be our pleasure to give you all the informations you need.

November 12-17 the KLIK! Amsterdam Animation Festival will be taking over EYE with its 6th edition!

Be prepared for six days of animation wonderland with shorts and feature length films from all over the world, interesting master classes, wild parties, cotton candy, and this years’ theme: The Fabulous Fifties!

This years' theme:

Every year KLIK! dedicates part of the festival program to an exciting theme. This year we celebrate The Fabulous Fifties! Think: the nuclear family around their brand new tv-set and the birth of our modern consumer culture…

The fifties were a groundbreaking era in animation too. Modern design – with its use of primary colors and graphic forms – influenced animation greatly and coined the term Cartoon Modern. To bring you the best of the best, KLIK! is proud to welcome Amid Amidi, author of the book Cartoon Modern and owner of Cartoon Brew, as the guest curator of the theme program.

Keep a close eye on our website and Facebook page as we release more of our program over the next months.

Stay tuned folks!

To celebrate the Netherlands-Russia-year, KLIK! presents a special celebration of Russian Animation, in collaboration with the Hermitage Amsterdam, The Amsterdamsche Fonds, The NLRF2013 and the International festival of Animation Arts “Multivision”.

On the night of July 19th KLIK! and Multivision will show carefully curated animated shorts simultaneously on the Skinny Bridge (Magere Brug) in Amsterdam and the Trinity Bridge (Troitskiy Most) in St. Petersburg.

Additionally KLIK! are hosting several exciting events about Russian animation at the Hermitage Amsterdam. You can co-create a miniature city of cardboard inspired by Russian architecture, watch a premium selection of Russian animated shorts and learn more about Russian animation during a lecture of animation-expert Timo Linsenmaier and the screening of Magia Russica – a documentary on Russian animation.

See our agenda for more information.

Call for entries Multivision: If you have an animated short about city life and think that it needs to be shown in Amsterdam and St. Petersburg during the Mulit-Bridge Animation Night, you have until July 1st to enter your short. Check the Multivision website for more details.

Last month our German friends at FMX managed to treat their audience to once again an amazing edition. The world renowned conference showed an array of case-studies, workshops and presentations on the latest in animation, VFX and game-development. The coolest gadgets, fastest technologies and free old school ice cream were on offer at the Marketplace, schools presented themselves at the Schoolcampus, and for those looking for a new job there was the Recruiting Hub.

KLIK! had the honor to screen a short program full of animated eye candy at the FMX. Our creative director Yvonne payed a visit and came back to Amsterdam dizzied by the gorgeous films shown (in particular the fantastic KLIK! program of course), the in-depth tech talk and all the nights catching up with animation fellas.

What's that? You missed FMX?! Well, we guess the only thing you can do right now is check out the daily clips and better yet: start looking forward to FMX' 2014 edition, April 22-25 in Stuttgart, Germany!