Call for Submissions


Participate in the festival’s 5th AniJam collaborative short animation

This year’s theme is ‘Planting Seeds’

Start & end with the shape of a Watermelon Seed / Rain Drop

Animate between 5 - 30 seconds

AniJam submissions are being accepted through to end of day March 1 2026

Submissions and questions contact:

animationhalifax@gmail.com

Thank you !!

Check out this short how-to from 2024’s festival for an example of of a past anijam:

Animation Festival of Halifax #15 • May 7-10 2026

Submissions for short films are CLOSED

Contact animationhalifax@gmail.com if you have a feature film to submit


Submissions to the Animation Festival of Halifax are considered for additional screenings in the Kootenay region of British Columbia’s southern interior !

Salmo, BC Outdoor Screening


The Animation Festival of Halifax (AFX) takes place in Mi’kma’ki, the unceded and ancestral territory of the Mi’kmaq. We are all Treaty People who are responsible for enacting peace and friendship in this magnificent land.