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As Student

Exhibition

AS STUDENT / EXHIBITION / UCIFEST

AS STUDENT / EXHIBITION / ALMANAC

Ucifest

Ucifest

UCIFEST, UMN Animation & Film Festival is an annual short film festival organized by the Film Study Program at Universitas Multimedia Nusantara (UMN). Since its establishment in 2010, UCIFEST has grown into a creative platform where young filmmakers can showcase their works, exchange ideas, and celebrate storytelling in its many forms. The festival is organized entirely by UMN students, providing them with both academic and professional experience in the field of film festival management.

In 2016, the Film Festival: Theory & Practice course was introduced to further strengthen this academic foundation. Taught by film festival practitioner Sri Ratna Setiawati S.Sos., M.Sn., the course integrates UCIFEST as part of its practice, enabling students to learn directly through the process of planning and executing a real film festival. From this initiative, a group called Festival Buddies was formed, consisting of Student Assistants who support participants of the course and help ensure the successful running of each edition.

The core programs of UCIFEST include competitions in three main categories: Fiction, Animation, and Documentary for UMN students, along with Fiction and Animation competitions at the national student level. Beyond the competition screenings, the festival also features a variety of additional programs such as non-competitive screenings, discussions, seminars, workshops, and pitching forums that connect young filmmakers with industry professionals. To sustain its activities, UCIFEST also produces and sells official festival merchandise, further cultivating a sense of identity and community among participants and audiences.

Over the years, UCIFEST has adapted to different circumstances while maintaining its mission of supporting young creators. During the COVID-19 pandemic, the festival was held online, transforming its organizational structure and operations to fit digital platforms. Today, UCIFEST is once again held fully offline, bringing back the energy of in-person screenings, discussions, and interactions while continuing to expand its reach to wider audiences.

Through its consistent dedication, UCIFEST continues to serve as both a learning laboratory for students and a meaningful stage for young filmmakers. It not only celebrates creativity and cultural diversity, but also encourages critical dialogue, social awareness, and collaboration across communities through the medium of film.

UCIFEST appreciates the works of short films that are screened as an effort to attract public attention to increasing creativity in making films that can advance the film industry in Indonesia. In addition to carrying out the vision to produce a film award event, UCIFEST also offers viewers a new perspective on social issues by watching films that have inspired young Indonesian filmmakers.

  1. Writing about social issues from a filmmaker’s point of view.
  2. Provide opportunities for young filmmakers to market their films in film festivals at the student/college level.
  3. Hold competitions and awards to appreciate student films.
  4. Improving the quality of films made by young Indonesians by holding discussion programs, workshops, and seminars.

Organizational Structure

Work Program

UCIFEST 13 holds competitive and non-competitive film screenings, panel discussions, talk shows, workshops, international seminars, and screenings of animated feature-length films. This event trains the skills of students and students in Indonesia through participation in the UCIFEST 13 competition session, in addition to increasing public knowledge.

Contact

Instagram: @ucifestumn
Twitter: @ucifestumn
YouTube: UCIFEST 13

Email: [email protected]
Website : https://ucifest13.com/

Almanac

Almanac

ALMANAC is an annual gathering, workshop, and screening of the best animation works of UMN Animation students. It is hoped that by showing the best animation works, animation students are motivated to develop soft and hard skills. The soft skills in question include: developing creativity, critical thinking skills, and the ability to create exciting and original story concepts. Meanwhile, hard skills are being able to know, learn, and apply the techniques and applications used in the animation industry. ALMANAC 3 also provides inter-generational students and animation lecturers opportunities to share experiences and build relationships to help students improve their lectures.

ALMANAC 3 carries the theme “Metaverse & NFT” with the tagline “To Travel, To Explore, To Discover” and takes three main series of events, namely screening and awarding, workshop, and animingle. ALMANAC 3 is run in a hybrid manner, in person or online via Zoom. Seeing and adapting to the unfinished condition of the COVID-19 Pandemic, ALMANAC 3 will be implemented in a hybrid form.

Realizing the SDGs or Sustainable Development Goals in two aspects, namely improving the quality of education (quality education) and helping students interested in animation make connections and collaborate to create a joint work (partnership for the goals).

  1. Carrying out an animation screening of the best works of Multimedia Nusantara University students as a form of appreciation
  2. Running Animingle (gathering) to strengthen the relationship between students and lecturers
  3. Increase students’ knowledge and insight by holding workshops from various animation studios in Indonesia

Organizational Structure

Work Program

Screening & Awarding
Screening & Awarding is the main event in the Almanac which is held internally to show all the works of UMN animation students from various generations.

Workshop
Workshop is an event for sharing knowledge from experts and well-known studios with UMN students. This event also provides opportunities for students to deepen their interests according to their respective fields.

Animigle
Animingle is a bonding event between all UMN students and resource persons, invited guests of the Almanac, and UMN lecturers.