WALT DISNEY INTERNATIONAL-LATIN AMERICA gets 11 new executives to help
Diego Lerner, president and managing director of Walt Disney
International-Latin America, increase the business opportunities for Disney
in Latin America. The new structure for Disney Latin America will consists
of four territory offices. Walt Disney International-Argentina, based in
Buenos Aires, will handle Argentina, Uruguay and Paraguay and be headed by
Lerner. Walt Disney International-Andean Region, based in Santiago de

The Moondance International Film Festival has selected, the
traditionally-animated BEELINES, by Rachel Bevan Baker, from Edinburgh,
Scotland, as this year's winner in the animation division. Moondance 2000
takes place in Boulder, Colorado, January 14-16, 2000. Entries from female
screenwriters and filmmakers from any country were welcomed to the competition.
For more information e-mail: mermaid7cs@aol.com; or write: Moondance
International Film Festival, 970 Ninth Street, Boulder, CO 80302, USA.

To celebrate the US premiere of Studio Ghibli's PRINCESS MONONOKE, directed
by Hayao Miyazaki, Studio Ghibli retrospectives are being held throughout
the United States. Most of the retrospectives will be showing all of Studio
Ghibli's films: NAUSICAÄ OF THE VALLEY OF THE WIND (1984), LAPUTA, CASTLE
IN THE SKY (1986), GRAVE OF THE FIREFLIES (1988), MY NEIGHBOR TOTORO
(1988), KIKI'S DELIVERY SERVICE (1989), ONLY YESTERDAY (1991), PORCO ROSSO
(1992), POM POKO (1994), WHISPER OF THE HEART (1995), and PRINCESS MONONOKE

*Saturday, December 11, 1999. Tampa, Florida, USA.
The International Academy of Design will host animator/educator Larry
Lauria in an all day animation workshop. The workshops will initiate the
Academy's Animation Institute and are geared toward high school, college
and young professionals. The workshop takes place from 8:30am to 5:30pm at
5225 Memorial Highway, Tampa Florida. This exclusive event has a per person
fee. Reservations are required, limited seating available. R.S.V.P. with
Kristine Fescina at (800) ACADEMY.

*Saturday, December 4, 1999. North Hollywood, California, USA.


Glenn Vilppu will be presenting a free slide show at 4:15pm at the
Animation Union, 4729 Lankershim, North Hollywood. Glenn will be discussing
his sketching tour to Scandinavia in July, 2000. For more information call
(818) 994 2402.

CINAR CORPORATION, creators of two-time Emmy winning ARTHUR and RICHARD
SCARRY, appointed LOUISE SANSREGRET as Vice President of their newly
created position in Investment Relations. Sansregret will focus her talents
on various special corporate and community-based projects, as well as
managing donations and sponsorships. In addition, SUZAN AYSCOUGH has
returned to CINAR to take over as Vice President, Communications. Ayscough
will over see corporate communications and product communications.

* Cartoon Noir Screening. New York, New York, USA. December 3, 1999.


This feature-length compilation of animated short films features works from the American and European artists. Featured in CARTOON
NOIR is: APE, Julie Zammarchi's darkly comic critique of monogamy, meat
eating, and the daily pattern of human brutality; ALTAIR, Lewis Klahr's
collagist elegy on New York nightlife; CLUB OF THE DISCARDED, Jiri Barta's
tale of a family of discarded mannequins who enjoy a quiet life in an

The Moondance International Film Festival has announced the finalists for its first competition, Moondance
2000. The festival takes place in Boulder, Colorado, January 14-16, 2000 as
part of the Sundance Film Festival. Entries from female screenwriters and
film-makers from any country were welcomed to the competition. For more
information e-mail: mermaid7cs@aol.com; or write: Moondance International
Film Festival, 970 Ninth Street, Boulder, CO 80302, USA.


The following films are finalists in the animation film category:

Ontario, Canada-based Sheridan College, one of the leading animation
programs in North America, is expanding its facilities with the latest
animation equipment including new computers, software, cameras and pencil
test systems. For pencil tests, Sheridan has purchased six Video
LunchBoxes. Created two years ago by Oregon-based Animation Toolworks, the
Video LunchBox captures still images from a video camera and plays back
this sequence of images at the same rate as film images or television

This week's update to the Calendar of Events includes a call for entries
for the first International Internet Festival, organized in conjunction
with Imagina (France), and the Santa Clarita Film Festival (California,
USA). The Calendar of Upcoming Events is a constantly changing reference
source for what's happening around the World of Animation. Use it to stay
abreast of animation related activities across the globe. If you know of
animation related events that we don't have listed, send an email with the