Strummerville Festival is inviting artists from all backgrounds to join them in an exciting project to create the visuals for some of their headlining acts.

The annual festival is set up by friends of The Clash’s Joe Strummer, to celebrate his contribution to music and is headlined this year by acts including Basement Jaxx, Luca C & Brigante, Guy Williams, Don Letts, Channel One, David Rodigan, Twinkle Brothers and Mr C.

Mexico’s International Animation Festival, CutOut, wants your animations to showcase at its annual event.

This year, the festival celebrates its fourth year and is hoping to include animations from across the world so that ideas, knowledge and artistic proposals can be exchanged.

Held in Queretaro, Mexico, animators are being asked to submit short films of no longer than 30 minutes long, which have been made within the past year and a half.

Our Shorts on Walls screenings will be returning once more to this year's Flatpack Festival (14th-18th March 2012), which naturally means one thing: we need your animated short films sharpish.

Shorts on Walls gives Midlands animators and studios the chance to screen their latest animated works and mingle with fellow animators over a beverage of their choosing.

Stoke Your Fires Festival, newly expanded from animation to also cover digtial media and film, has celebrated the launch of its shiny, new website by extending the deadline for submitting animated or live-action short films. [More]