Hong Kong's Underground Animation Festival

Hong Kong's Underground Animation Festival (Cantonese: 香港地下動畫節 Jyutping: hoeng1 gong2 dei6 haa6 dung6 waa6 zit3) is a triannual animation festival hosted in, , ,. Established by on June 9, 1984, the first festival occured on March 8, 1985, and is usually held from March to May.

The festival is a competition between independently-made animated films of various techniques (traditional, cut-outs, claymation, 3DCG, etc.) classified in various categories:


 * Feature films
 * Short films
 * Films produced for television and advertising
 * Student films
 * Films made for the internet (since 1997)
 * Feature films contrechamp in competition (since 2001)