[aniwow!2025]第二十届中国(北京)国际大学生动画节 (20)

Festival start: 22 October 2025      Festival end: 26 October 2025

The "Aniwow" is the core activity of China (Beijing) International Student Animation Festival, which aims to encourage young animators to adhere to their artistic ideals, discover and cultivate new animators, cartoonists and new media artists with creative passion, original spirit and good artistic cultivation. The festival builds a bridge for students from different countries who love animation to exchange ideas, discuss academics and pass on friendship on a larger scale and at a higher level, and creates a new platform for international animation academic exchange with multiple interactions.

Cash Prizes: 2,000€

Awards

A. Animation

1 White Poplar Best Chinese Animated Short Film
1 White Poplar Best International Animated Short Film
1 Best Directing in Animated Short Film
1 Best Story in Animated Short Film
1 Best Visual Design in Animated Short Film
1 Best Character Performance in Animated Short Film
 1 Best Sound and Music in Animated Short Film
1 Golden Petal for Best Animated Short Film Award
1 Golden Petal for Best Image Design Award
1 Golden Petal for Strongest Market Award


B. Comic Art & Illustration Book

1 Best Sequential Comic Art
1 Best Illustrated Book


C．Digital Media Art

1 Best Game Production
1 Best Interactive Work
1 Best AI Technology Practice
1 Best AI Generated Work

Requirements

1.Submitted works must be finished from Jan. 1st 2024 to Jul. 31st 2025, including works made by students at universities and colleges (graduation work applicable), and works made by universities / colleges cooperated with companies (universities / colleges in priority). Unfinished works made by students graduated in 2025 are also allowed to be submitted in the submission stage. If the work is selected, then the finished work must be submitted, otherwise the entry shall be disqualified.

2.Works previously entered for selection at China (Beijing) International Student Animation Festival cannot be taken into consideration.

3.Works can be registered either by individual or by a school’s festival coordinator. There is no limit to the number of entries from collective organisations. Please indicate whether your works have already been screened publicly before.

4.Each work should be finished by the author with full copyright. The author/artist will be responsible for all legal issues. Co-produced works could be submitted with the permission of all the other team members.

5.All works that have used artificial intelligence technology should be submitted to the digital media art category. Please indicate how artificial intelligence technology is used in the submitted materials and be automatically eligible for the 'Best AI Technology Practice' or 'Best AI Generated Work' awards.

6.All contents of the works must not be against the law in China. And it is strongly prohibited that your works copy or imitate others. If you use other people’s work, please indicate the copyright, otherwise the festival has the right to cancel your qualification in the competition. Besides, if there is any negative influence on the competition, the festival will declare the legal responsibility of the related.

7.Whether participating in this festival as an individual, team or collective unit, the participant agrees to license the work to the Organising Committee for 20th China (Beijing) International Student Animation Festival for festival screening and exhibition. The above authorisation period is from Jul. 31st 2025 to Dec. 31st 2025.


Selection

Selection process for [Aniwow!2025] awards is divided into Pre-Selection and Final
Selection. Works will be chosen to be presented in the official selection after Pre-Selection. Award winners and nominees will be decided in the Final Selection. The Jury is made up by renowned animation and digital art professionals, scholars, senior managers in related institutions. During the judging process, we will strictly follow the principle of equity.

Format Requirements

1.Animation works are recommended in formats of MOV or MP4. ProRes 422 or h.264 encoding is required. The video bit rate shall be no less than 6Mbps, the resolution no less than 1920x1080 pixel, and the audio bit rate no less than 128Kbps. High quality compressed or uncompressed works are preferred.

2.Comic works should be compressed in format of TIFF or JPEG only, and also submit a typeset file in PDF format. The size should be no less than A4, and resolution should be no less than 300dpi.

3.Digital Media Art works could be such multimedia files as interactive HTML pages, APK mobile APPs and executable files on Windows or iOS operating system (Simulator installation packages and accessory installation tools should also be submitted). In addition, a 3-minutes video shoot of the work (recommended in formats of MPEG and AVI), a documentation including name and type of the work, 3-5 screenshots, engine, instructions, description of the idea should be included.

All entries must submit one poster of the work and three or more digital files of stills of the work in TIFF or JPEG format. The poster shall not be smaller than 900*1200px.

5.All entries shall be submitted with a synopsis of 50-80 words.

6.All entries should have subtitles in english. For comic or illustration book submissions, it is required to submit a dialogue list in english and highly recommended to also have one in Japanese.

Registration and Receipts

In order to guarantee all the works could be safely received, carefully kept, strictly categorised, deliberately judged and accurately awarded, we will watch the whole procedure of the submission. All the entrants should read the instructions carefully, and submit the works correctly to avoid any mistake that would affect the selection.

(1)No registration fee.

(2)To facilitate subsequent review, it is recommended that contestants give priority to using the film festival delivery platform to submit their works.

Festhome:
https://filmmakers.festhome.com/f/7418
Entries can also be submitted via encrypted links on Dropbox, Vimeo, etc. and sent with the application form to e-mail address: aniwowcuc@163.com. Please ensure that the download link to the website is valid before Dec. 31st 2025.

(3)We will appreciate if universities and colleges could collect their students’ works and submit them together. Each work submitted should have a digital application form with detailed contact information.

(4)The deadline for entries is Jul. 31st 2025. All entries shall be submitted by the deadline.

(5)Please make sure that the application information is correct. The organizing committee will send prize-winners the certificate, challenge cup and reward.

(6)See more information about registration and submission on the official website:
http://aniwow.cuc.edu.cn/ .

Copyright Explanation

If not specially pointed out, in this info,
(1) The Organising Committee refers to Organising Committee for 20th China (Beijing) International Student Animation Festival.

Post address: [Aniwow! 2025]
Communication University of China, School of Animation and Digital Arts,
No.1 Dingfuzhuang Dongjie, Chaoyang District, Beijing
People’s Republic of China, 100024
Tel: +86 10 65783476
E-mail: aniwowcuc@163.com

(2)The director refers to entrant who has already fulfilled the entry procedure.

The director should provide the factual information and identification. Although AniwowFest cannot check the information authenticity strictly, AniwowFest will block any entrants with false information during the festival.

(3)The work refers to the Animation or Comic work, academic thesis or the productions based on the selection that is made by the director following the stated way, no matter whether it will get a prize, the director will have the copyright according to the < Copyright Law of the People’s Republic of China>.

(4)Publicity refers to publish the work in public according to the stated range. All the published work cannot be backspaced or deleted unless there is special situation.

(5)ANIWOWFEST will reject the work below:
a.Against the State law.
b.Instigate the ethnic hatred, ethnic discrimination, destroy the ethnic unify.
c.Insult or slander others, trespass others’ legal rights.
d.Other content which the law has banned

(6)For the sake of respecting the copyright, and protect the legal right of the director, all entrants should agree the declaration below:

I declare that I have the copyright of the work. I am responsible for any disputes arising from the copyright of the image, story and music. I consent that ANIWOWFEST may broadcast, screen, exhibit and publish the work in relevant media according to the publicity and promotion needs of the competition, without payment of any remuneration. I have filled in the entry form correctly and I am responsible for the content of the entry.

(7)In principle, all the work would not be sent back, so the entrants should keep the original edition.

(8)About plagiarism:
a.Plagiarism is defined as knowingly presenting the work or property of another person as if it were one’s own.
b.ANIWOWFEST doesn’t have sufficient ability to spy on plagiarism. However, if there is any plagiarised work being founded, ANIWOWFEST has the obligation to cancel the qualification of the entrant. ANIWOWFEST will not undertake any responsibility for plagiarism at other places, and all the legal responsibilities will be undertaken by the plagiarist him/herself.
c.ANIWOWFEST has the obligation to provide the background information of any person who might have committed plagiarism when the judiciary or the copyright owner requires.
d.Entrant who submits the work to ANIWOWFEST will all be regarded as he/she agrees all policies above. ANIWOWFEST will not undertake the responsibility of breaching of faith or other legal responsibilities, including not undertaking the responsibility of compensating to the entrant who has been cancelled the qualification by
ANIWOWFEST due to unacceptance of the charge of infringement.

ANIWOWFEST has the explanation right for all the information above. If there is any conflict with the relevant laws and regulations of the People's Republic of China, the laws and regulations shall prevail.