CARTOONS UNDERGROUND 2024
Get Ready for Southeast Asia’s Biggest Animation Night!
Southeast Asia's largest independent animation festival is back for one electrifying night!
Join us for the Golden Durian Awards, where you’ll meet brilliant directors and vote for your favorite films! With 1,500 submissions from over 90 countries, we’ve curated an exciting lineup of 14 stunning animated shorts from Italy, the US, China, Singapore, and more!
This year, we’re thrilled to highlight the incredible work of Singaporean student filmmakers and artists of Asian heritage with 2 International Programmes and 1 Singapore Student Programme.
Expect bold themes—sex positivity, mental health, comedy, horror, and more—explored through dynamic 2D, 3D, stop-motion animation and the latest animation technology.
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INTERNATIONAL PROGRAMME
SINGAPORE STUDENT FILMS
A total of 15 films were selected from an incredible 1,582 entries across 103 different countries. Hailing from all over the world, the submissions showcased a unique variety of voices, themes and stories. The selection in 2023 continued Cartoons Underground's (CU) mission of championing independent animated short films that challenge the medium's boundaries.
Out of this world
Wild Times
In 2022, a total of 16 works were selected from an incredible 1,681 entries submitted from 96 different countries - the highest number of submissions received in the history of the festival. The final selection of films is made of of many high quality films telling unique stories, evoking powerful emotions, tackling mature themes and challenging the animation medium.
Super Humans
Impossible Dreams
Young Ones
Retrospective
Celebrating a decade of animation at Cartoons Underground, we had an exciting line up of 13 carefully chosen films from over 1,000 submissions from 83 countries, and 5 student films from Singapore. Exclusively for our 10th year, we looked back with five films that our audience loved from past editions
2021
OUR BLOG
The Little Prince by Mark Osborne Review
Shannon Sawyer, Cartoons Underground’s guest author, reviews The Little Prince, an animated movie based on the book of the same name by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry. The year of 2015 already feels like a long time ago as January comes to a close, but it’s also a chance to look back on events, but for the sake of time…
Epic Sketchbook: Tommy Kane
Patrick Smith, co-founder and advisor of Cartoons Underground, and co-writer at ScribbleJunkies Blog, started exploring different types of sketchbooks from artists from all around the world. Looking into these Epic Sketchbooks we see more personal work from these artists and get to know their thought process and them as people in a more intimate way. Thanks…
Happy New Year
We hope your celebration, hopes and dreams of 2015 came true, if not, then let’s welcome in 2016 with open arms and a refreshing change. 2016 is an exciting time for Animation with a list of must watch movies which CartoonBrew insiders, Scott Thill and Amid Amidi has so graciously curated. You may find the original article…
Industry Professionals – Dori Hillestad Butler
This month, we caught up with Dori Hillestad Butler, the Edgar-Award winning author of “The Buddy Files”. Dori’s impressive resume is bolstered by her vivid imagination, as well as her charming personality. Cartoons Underground speaks to her about her experiences, her career, and about her newest series, “The Haunted Library”. About The Author How…
Young Talent – Neil Fernando
Cartoons Underground spoke with Neil Fernando, an upcoming Art Director and Freelance Artist. He speaks about his inspirations, his experiences, and provides advice for aspiring artists. In 50 words or less, please tell us about yourself. I’m a spaceman. I love to explore beyond boundaries and limitless possibilities. I’m exploring advertising as an Art Director,…
Review – Home Sweet Home
Shannon Sawyer, Cartoons Underground’s guest author, reviews Home Sweet Home, an animated short by Pierre Clenet, Alejandro Diaz, Romain Mazevet and Stéphane Paccola. Home Sweet Home is a CGI animated short film created in 2013 by Pierre Clenet, Alejandro Diaz, Romain Mazevet and Stéphane Paccola. The film follows the adventures of a sentient house as…