Animation Media Creators Region Stuttgart

📣 Our HEROES at jangled nerves are hiring! They are an agency, specialized in live communication combining the physical and the digital world. The interdisciplinary team unites the expertise and services for strategic consulting, conception, and design with planning for museums and exhibition design and production for films, media, and interaction.

They currently have the following positions open:

🔸 Creative Concept Copy (m/f/x)
🔸 Architect Project Management (m//x) – Spatial Communication
🔸 Mandatory Intern | Graphic and Communication Design (m/f/x)
🔸 Mandatory Intern | Media Design and Media Production (m/f/x)
🔸 Mandatory Intern | Interior Design/Scenography (m/f/x)
🔸 Senior Project Manager, Media and Communications (m/f/x)

👉 You can find all of their current job openings here: https://janglednerves.com/jobs

📣 Our HEROES at RECOM FILM are hiring! With headquarters in Stuttgart, they produce award-winning moving image formats for the entire spectrum of media. As a full-service production company, they take care of both real film and photo productions as well as high-end full CG productions.

They are currently looking for:

🔸 Senior Compositing Artist (m/f/d) – permanent position
🔸 Senior 3D Realtime Artist (Unreal Engine) (m/f/d) – permanent position
🔸 Intern Compositing (m/f/d)
🔸 Intern Postproduction / Editing (m/f/d)

👉 Find all their job openings here: https://www.recom-film.de/career/

📣 Call for Entries Filmschau Baden-Württemberg 2026 ✨

Submit your films in the categories feature film, short film, documentary, animated film, VFX (by students or professional filmmakers), and commercial for the 32. Filmschau BW, taking place in Stuttgart from December 2-6, 2026.

👉 Deadline: August 31, 2026

All submissions must have a connection to the state of Baden-Württemberg, for example, by having been filmed in the region, supported by the MFG Filmförderung Baden-Württemberg, produced by SWR, or created at one of the state’s media universities (such as Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg and its Animationsinstitut, Hochschule der Medien, Merz Akademie, Hochschule Offenburg etc.)

The Filmschau BW is organized by the Filmbüro Baden-Württemberg.

👉 https://amcrs.de/en/call-for-entries-filmschau-bw/
👉 Submit your film here: https://filmschaubw.de/call-for-entries/

Die HdM ist auch in diesem Jahr auf der gamescom in Köln vertreten. Das weltweit größte Event für Computer- und Videospiele findet vom 26. bis 30. August 2026 auf dem Gelände der Koelnmesse statt. Mit zwei von Studierenden entwickelten Spielen gibt die HdM Einblicke in die kreative und technische Arbeit ihrer Nachwuchsentwicklerinnen und -entwickler.

Mehr dazu: https://shorturl.at/ICNkZ

Three animated short films, all produced at Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg’s Animationsinstitut, are in the running for a FIRST STEPS Award in the Short Steps category:

✨ SENSUAL (directed by Tanja Nuijten), SEND NUDES (directed by David Sick), and QAMAJAI (directed by Yerkezhan Sabitbekova) ✨

Congratulations to all the teams, and best of luck at the awards ceremony on October 5, 2026!

Learn more about the nominations here 👉 https://amcrs.de/en/nominations-for-filmakademie-projects-at-the-first-steps-awards/

The Children's Jury at the Countryside Animafest Cyprus has awarded "A Very Special Meal" with the Young Audience Award! 🥔🧡

And that's not all: "Dancing Friend" received a Special Mention from the same jury! 🐛💚 Thank you so much!

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✨ Student Academy Award 2026 in the Animation category for THE PANIC INSIDE, a diploma project from Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg's Animationsinstitut! ✨

Congratulations to Matthias Strasser (director, screenplay, animation) and the team, including Sabina Stöckler (producer), Leon Maximilian Brueckner (film music), Lukas Huber (sound design), Elisabeth Caesar, Melanie Schnaidt (animation lead), and many more!👏

At the awards ceremony on September 14, 2026, at the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF), the team will find out whether they will receive a Gold, Silver or Bronze Student Oscar.

This is FABW’s ninth Student Academy Award overall, making the film school the most successful one outside the USA in this competition.

👉 https://amcrs.de/en/diploma-film-the-panic-inside-wins-student-academy-award-2026/

The Academy

📣 Call for Entries Filmschau Baden-Württemberg

Filmmakers can submit their entries for the 32. Filmschau BW and the 23. Wettbewerb um den Jugendfilmpreis until August 31, 2026.

The festival, taking place in Stuttgart from December 2-6, 2026, is accepting submissions in the categories feature film, short film, documentary, animated film, VFX (by students or professional filmmakers), and commercial.

All submissions must have a connection to the state of Baden-Württemberg, for example, by having been filmed in the region, supported by the MFG Filmförderung Baden-Württemberg, produced by SWR, or created at one of the state’s media universities (such as Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg and its Animationsinstitut, Hochschule der Medien, Merz Akademie, Hochschule Offenburg etc.)

The Filmschau BW is organized by the Filmbüro Baden-Württemberg.

👉 https://amcrs.de/en/call-for-entries-filmschau-bw/

gamescom is back from August 26-30, 2026! 🙌 If you’re there, make sure to stop by and meet our HEROES on site - showcasing indie games, creative projects, and opportunities to get started in the industry.

🎮 Mucks! Games with “Frieda is Changing” at the Indie Arena Booth (THE LÄND Booth, organized by MFG Kreativ), Hall 10.2 | F010 E019
🎮 kaleidoscube with "Recur" at the Indie Arena Booth, Hall 10.2 | F010 E019
🎮 Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg / Animationsinstitut, Hall 10.2 | E042
🎮 Universities from Baden-Württemberg (including Hochschule der Medien Stuttgart and Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen), Hall 10.2 | E042

MFG has also organised the Baden-Württemberg state joint pavilion THE LÄND in the Business Area (Hall 4.1 | C51).

Come by!

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AMCRS HEROES at Gamescom 2026 This year, five indie studios from Baden-Württemberg will showcase their games at the Indie Arena Booth (Hall 10.2) at Gamescom, taking place in Cologne from August 26-30, 2026. Among them is our AMCRS member Mucks! Games, presenting their atmospheric detective point-and-click adventure "Frieda is ...