This week's updates to the Calendar of Events includes: Convergence
Film/Video/Animation Festival, September 14 - September 20, 2001,
Providence, Rhode Island, U.S.A.; Jan Svankmajer Restrospective, June
15-17, 2001, Los Angeles, California, U.S.A.; Mac 3D NY Seminars, May
2, 2001, New York City, New York, U.S.A.; Matita Animated Film
Festival, September 27 - September 30, 2001, Chieti, Abruzzo, Italy;
Minnesota Fringe Short Film and Video Festival, August 3 - August 12,
2001, Minnesota, U.S.A.; Nick Park Tribute At The Los Angeles Museum

* Thursday, September 27 - Sunday, September 30, 2001. Chieti, Abruzzo, Italy.


Entry Deadline: July 7, 2001.

Lombard, Illinois' Big Idea Productions, a family media company, is
having an OPEN CALL for 3D ANIMATION DIRECTORS, 3D CHARACTER
ANIMATORS, ART DIRECTORS, ANIMATORS, CONCEPT ARTISTS and MODELERS. . .
Halifax, Canada's Collideascope Digital Productions, Inc., a new
media and convergence company, is looking for an ANIMATOR and 2D
ANIMATOR. . . Wiesbaden, Germany's Die Kolonie GbR, a talent and
recruiting agency, is looking for a TV-DESIGNER & ANIMATOR 2D & 3D. . .
Bregenz, Austria's KE Consult is looking for a FLASH SPECIALIST to

Episodes of BOB AND MARGARET and GARY & MIKE have been nominated for the prestigious Rose D’Or, an annual international television festival and competition held in Montreux, Switzerland, open to more than 2000 producers and broadcasters from around the world. This year’s festival will be held April 26 – May 1, 2001.

Venice, California's Digital Domain is looking for a VFX SUPERVISOR
to work in the company's commercial division. . . Winter Park, Florida's
Full Sail Real World Education is looking for an ASSOCIATE COURSE
DIRECTOR OF COMPUTER SPECIAL EFFECTS in the Computer Animation Degree
Program. . . Stony Brook, New York's Inky Dinky Animation Studios is
looking for 2D, 3D and STOP-MOTION ANIMATORS for their new studio. . .
London, UK's ITS is looking for a 3D ANIMATOR to design graphics for

Bill Plympton has updated his appearances page. In the upcoming
months, EAT will be appearing at: Critic's Week at Cannes
International Film Festival, Cannes, France, May 10-19, 2001 and the
Annecy Animation Festival, Annecy, France, June 4-9, 2001. MUTANT
ALIENS will be screening at: Arizona International Film Festival,
Tuscon, Arizona, April 19-29; and Philadelphia Festival of World
Cinema, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, April 26-May 7. Bill will be

TV-Loonland has signed a
seven-year licensing agreement with Russia's Nox Music, providing the
Moscow-based company with video, television and merchandising rights
to 963 half-hour series episodes. The new agreement applies to the
territories of CIS/Russia, the Ukraine and the Baltic States of
Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia, and involved productions from
TV-Loonland's own studios as well as subsidiaries Sunbow
Entertainment and Telemagination. Nox was founded by Iosif

Animation
production house Toon Factory has finalized a deal with Luxembourg's
Neuroplanet and Canada's Vivatoon for co-production of the television
series KID CLONES IN SPACE. The two companies join Toon Factory and
French broadcaster TF1 as full co-production partners. Toon Factory
recently acquired all the rights to the property from the UK's
Cosgrove Hall, which will continue to work on the series' artistic
direction. Currently in development, the series is set to begin

Angus Fletcher has been
promoted to president of the Jim Henson Television Group - Europe,
the company has recently announced. Fletcher, who is based in London,
will oversee all current and future television development,
production and programming, and report to Charlie Rivkin, president
and CEO of the Jim Henson Company. As executive vice president,
Fletcher doubled the company's television program library.
Currently, he is co-creator and executive producer on THE HOOBS, a

In the competition at Cartoons on the Bay, Folimage’s imaginative SPUD AND THE VEGETABLE GARDEN took home three prizes. The 5th Cartoons On The Bay International Festival of Television Animation was held in Positano (Amalfi Coast), Italy from April 5 - 9. Cartoons on the Bay is the only festival in the world dedicated to television animation. The festival is an international event with awards, workshops, lectures and events centering on the ever-changing world of television animation.