The 16th EuropaCinema & TV Film Festival takes place November 27-December 3, 1999 in
Rome, Italy. The deadline for entries for the animated shorts competition
is October 10, 1999. For more information contact EuropaCinema & TV, Via XX
Settembre, 3 - 00187 Roma, Italy; or Tel. +39 06 42011184 or +39 06
42000211; Fax +39 06 42010599; or E-mail: europa.cinema@agora.stm.it. Also
visit //rg.unicri.it/europacinema/.

Animation Magazine and Brilliant Digital Entertainment, Inc., a producer of
3-D animated content on the Internet and a developer of animation tools and
technology, have announced that they will co-host the Dancing Pixel
Festival. Dancing Pixel will be the first all 3-D real-time animation
festival on the Internet. Animators, both professionals and aspirants, are
invited to submit their work for public viewing and judging on the festival
site. Submissions will be taken from October 1, 1999 to December 31, 1999.

MILIA 2000, the World's Interactive Content Marketplace, will take place
February 14-18, 2000 in Cannes, France. The sixth edition of the MILIA d'Or
Awards - The World's Interactive Content Awards will be sponsored for the
second consecutive year by DVD FORUM, an international association
dedicated to developing DVD formats and promoting its broad acceptance.
Awards categories include interactive (games, family entertainment and
learning), as well as Interactive TV, e-commerce and online entertainment.

The 19th Brussels Cartoon and Animated Film Festival takes place February
28-March, 11 2000. The deadlines for entries is November 1, 1999. Each year
the Brussels Cartoon and Animated Film Festival programs the crème de la
crème in international animation, and chooses its candidate for the Cartoon
d'Or. For more information contact The Brussels Cartoon and Animated Film
Festival, Rue de la Rhétorique 19, 1060 Brussels, Belgium. Tel: 32 2 534 41

The Fifth Annual Toronto Digital Image Festival (TDIF) is accepting
computer animation and special effects entries until September 24, 1999.
Narrative and experimental CGI entries are strongly encouraged. The
festival takes place October 28, 1999 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. For more
information visit www.interlog.com/~dolish/tdif; or Tel. (905) 438-1659.

Art In Motion focuses on innovative content and diversity. The criteria for
entry is time rather than medium based, and therefore video, film and
digital projects, animations, Websites, CD-Roms etc. are all eligible.
Hybrids are particularly welcome. The festival will take place on January
28, 2000 at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles. The
deadline for entries is November 1, 1999. There will be a $1000 "Best of
Show" award and "first place" allocations in each exhibition category. For
more information visit www.usc.edu/go/aim.

NPAR 2000 is the first international
symposium dedicated to non-photorealistic animation and rendering,
including cartoon animation systems and techniques. It takes place at the
International Animated Film Festival of Annecy, France, July 5-9, 2000 in
conjunction with ACM/SIGGRAPH and Eurographics. The symposium will bring
together researchers and practitioners from academia and industry, showcase
cutting-edge research in non-photorealistic animation and rendering systems
and techniques, and present examples of these techniques in original

The East Coast's largest film festival for young people seeks works for
ages 3-16. The festival takes place February 4-13, 2000 in New York City.
It accepts shorts, features, animation, documentary, narrative and
experimental film and video. To qualify, works must be completed no earlier
than July 1, 1997. Foreign language films must be dubbed or subtitled in
English. The festival is looking for passionate, creative, intelligent,
entertaining film and video for ages 3-16. The entry deadline is October 1,

The 31st Annual Nashville Independent Film Festival 2000 takes place in
Nashville, Tennessee from June 7-11, 2000. The competition will include new
two categories, Television Pilot/Episodic Television and Family and
Children's Films, in addition to the already existing features, animation,
documentary, short films, and young filmmakers categories. The early
deadline is December 17, 1999, and the final deadline is February 1, 2000.
For more information call (615) 742-2500; or visit
www.nashvillefilmfestival.org.

Cinequest San Jose Film Festival is accepting submissions of features and
short films (16mm & 35mm all genres) of artistic, social, or stylistic
merit. The festival is celebrating Maverick Films, Filmmakers and
Technologies. The festival takes place in San Jose, California from
February 24 to March 5, 2000. The entry deadline is October 29, 1999. For
more information contact Cinequest 2000, P.O Box 720040, San Jose, CA
95172-0040, USA; Tel: (408) 995-5033; Fax: (408) 995-5713; E-mail:
cineqst@wenet.net; or visit www.cinequest.org.