Please describe recent outreach training programs with industries inside or outside your country.

Instead of outreach programs, we have an internal policy toward development of previously disadvantaged talent. Due to our past, we are starved of black animators -- new talent that will take the art form in a different direction. This course has therefore a policy to give young talent a chance that might have previously not had this opportunity.
CityVarsity Film & TV and Multimedia School
Cape Town, South Africa

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We have formed a partnership with a school in Korea, which brings their students to ECI in the summer for an intensive in Canadian fine art animation. We are currently developing similar partnerships with industry and educational institutions in India.
Emily Carr Institute of Art + Design
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

The SFSU animation program collaborates with the local chapter of the International Animation Film Assn. (ASIFA-SF) every spring in hosting a careers workshop on campus. We invite representatives from ILM, PDI, Pixar, Tippett Studio, Wild Brain, Mondo Media, game companies and others to talk about their studio's productions, internship possibilities, demo reel requirements and prospective jobs. We continue to seek advice from local studios in the Bay Area and work on an ongoing basis to expand our relationship with each of them.
San Francisco State University
San Francisco, California

We are in touch with Chinese schools and studios to establish a partnership.
Cegep du Vieux Montreal
Quebec, Canada

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