Mar 2014Call for entries opens
Oct 2013Launch of the 2015 IMF
Mar 201322, 23 & 24 March 2013
Festival – 2.5 days; Conference – 2.5 days; Screenings – 3 rooms, 33 hours
Register festival participants – 164; Workshop participants – 40
Talks / presentations – 6: – Key note speaker: Kimon Mataras – UK / Cyprus ; Other speakers / presenters: – Fred Burdy & Sean McGrath – Windmill Lane, Ireland; Bernie Roux – South Africa / Sweden; Anthimos Xenos – Greece; Yianna Americanou – Media Desk, Cyprus; Renos Demetriou – Cyprus Creative Club
Workshops – 6: – Marios Stylianou – MS Viewpoint, Cyprus; Nearchos Konstantinou , Lumiere TV , Cyprus; Tasos Anastasiades & Yianna Christophorou – European University of Cyprus
Festivals within a Festival
shortshort 2012 (Japan)
animate Cologne*OFF 2013 (Germany)
Jan 2013The films selected to comprise the 2nd International Motion Festival are announced
261 films from 41 countries
11 Categories: Go with the flow, Animatropics, Animesh, Far stretched -, carré-carré, The Single-channel show, Take it to the Limit, Documental brisk, Short and sweet, Μap the World, The Late Night category
Dec 2012Call for entries closes
Jul 2012IMF 2013 is announced
Call for entries opens
Mar 201223 and 24 March 2012
Festival – 1.5 days; Conference – 1.5 days; Screenings – 3 rooms, 17.5 hours
Register festival participants – 254; Workshop participants – 40
Talks / presentations – 5: – Key note speakers: Carlos Lascano – Spain; Graham Elliot – USA
Other speakers / presenters : – Roswitha Rodriguez – Austria / USA; Tony Zagoreos – Greece; Zohar Elefant – Israel
Workshops – 2: – Nicos Synnos – University of Cyprus; Nicoletta Avgousti – University of Cyprus
Jan 2012The films selected to comprise the 1st International Motion Festival are announced
146 works from 47 countries out of 353 submissions comprised IMF 2012
4 Categories: Motion Graphics/ Broadcast Design, Experimental, Video Art, 2D / 3D Animation
Sep 2011The call for entries is extended to 30 September as many entries arrive by post.
Jul 2011The idea is discussed with the other members of the Arts Dpt of the European University of Cyprus and is taken up with great enthusiasm
The name – International Motion Festival
The dates – March 2012
are decided
The call for entries opens
Jun 2011 Demie Englezou has the idea of organsing an International Motion Graphics festival, the first of its kind in Cyprus and the greater Middle East area