ANIMATION DINGLE FESTIVAL 2023

Guests to the festival and presenting at The Animation Dingle Conference have included executives from Disney, Apple, Amazon, Pixar, Dreamworks, Aardman Animations, BBC, RTÉ, and much more.

Every year opportunities abound at Animation Dingle for upcoming student animators to network with these executives. Events actively promoting and supporting this include our Big Pitcher, Pitch & A Pint, and the Animation Fair where companies are actively recruiting. All are built into the vibrant schedule of events - Animation Dingle prides itself on being a melting pot in which students and professionals share ideas and opportunities. This is at the heart of the Festival and something we actively promote and prioritise.

Friday 24th March

Venue: Dingle Skellig Hotel

Events: Day-long Animation Dingle Conference | Pitch and a Pint | the Big Pitcher | Awards | Awards Party

Other venue events: Full Screening Programmes

Saturday 25th March

Venue: Dingle Skellig Hotel

Events: Animation Dingle Studio Fair Day | AD D&D LIVE Finale

Other Venue events: Full Screening Programmes | Sketch Trail | Workshops | Art Auction | Closing Party

Public Sales will begin on November 4th 2022

CONFERENCE

The Animation Dingle Conference is a day-long event where top executives and creatives participate in keynote speeches, panels, presentations and discussions. Full to the brim with students and professionals, this day centres around an open ethos of sharing - those established along their professional journey reach back to show the way to those coming up behind them. Interspersed throughout the day are events, structured opportunities and informal breaks for both to chat and exchange ideas.

This vibrant, energetic conference lies at the heart of the 2-day Festival, ending with events such as the Big Pitcher and Pitch and a Pint and culminating in the Animation Dingle Awards.

AWARDS

Animation Dingle is a Academy AwardsⓇ qualifying Festival.

At the end of the Animation Dingle Conference, the Dingle Skellig Hotel makes way for the Animation Dingle Annual Awards.

All selected work is screened throughout the Festival but here, winners in our varying categories - students and professional - are announced.

Special categories are also present at the Awards, and the Animation Dingle Murakami Award lies firmly here - in memory of the incandescent Jimmy T Murakami, fondly known as the Godfather of Irish Animation.

SCREENINGS

The call for submissions to Animation Dingle goes out the preceding year. From hundreds of submissions from all around the globe, our selectors make their decisions. From the selected works, screening programmes are put together by our highly experienced programmer.

Screenings of these programmes are available over the full 2 days of Animation Dingle.

All work goes into competition and winners are announced at the Animation Dingle Awards on Friday night.

Animation Dingle is a Academy AwardsⓇ qualifying Festival.

WORKSHOPS

Our Workshop Programme is populated and led out by our esteemed guests. The Workshop Programme allows animators to meet these experts in a learning environment, but also a much smaller one than is offered at the main Conference. Here animators can chat and ask questions in a supported way. Our guests are always willing to share their expertise and to chat to those coming up in the industry.

Animation Dingle seeks out experts for our Workshop Programme who are top in their field, but we also seek to offer a Programme that is dynamic and reflective of new and upcoming trends within the sector.