The fifth annual Anima Mundi festival has had its run July 9-18 in Rio de
Janeiro, Brazil. At this festival the audience is the jury, and they have
chosen:


Best Brazilian Film - DE JANELA PARA O CINEMA (RAINBOW'S END) by Quiá
Rodrigues.


Best Film of the Official Selection - GOGWANA by Deiniol Morris, UK.


Second Best Film of the Official Selection - AU BOUT DU MONDE (AT THE ENDS
OF THE EARTH) by Konstantin Bronzit, France.


Third Best Film of the Official Selection - RECI, RECI, RECI (WORDS, WORDS,

The Academy for Television Arts and Sciences have announced the nominees
for the 1999 Primetime Emmy Awards. The awards ceremony will be telecast on
Fox on September 12 and held in Los Angeles' Shrine Auditorium. The
animated nominees include the following programs:


The category for OUTSTANDING ANIMATED PROGRAM (For programming one hour or
less) includes five nominations:


FUTURAMA - A BIG PIECE OF GARBAGE (FOX/Curiosity Company Productions in
association with Twentieth Century Fox).

CARTOON has announced this year's nominees for the coveted Cartoon d'Or.
Making the list for best European animated short films are: L'ARME DU
CROCODILE by Eric Blesin (Belgium), EL CARMINANTE by Debra Smith (UK),
JOLLY ROGER by Mark Baker (UK), MIGRATION by Constantin Chamski (France),
LE CYCLOPE DE LA MER by Philippe Julien (France), and SALTKVERNEN by Pjotr
Sapegin (Norway). The annual Cartoon Forum, where the Cartoon d'Or is
awarded, is organized by AEFA Cartoon, the European Association for

The winners of the 13th Prix Ars Electronica '99 have been announced. Held
in Linz, Austria, Prix Ars Electronica is a competition for works in the
categories of Computer Animation/Visual Effects; Interactive Art; Internet;
and Digital Music. There were 2119 entries. The Prix Ars Electronica '99
awards presentation will be held in conjunction with the Ars Electronica
Festival on Monday, September 6, 1999 at the ORF Upper Austrian Regional
Studio. The best works from each category will be shown in an exhibition at

The 6th Bradford Animation Festival, which took place June 19-24 in
Bradford, England, has announced the following winners. The Bradford
Animation Festival is a project of the newly-renovated National Museum of
Photography, Film and Television in England.


Non-Professional, Under 16: MILAN by Animation Station and Young Asian
Girls Group


Experimental: HIT PARADE by Animation Films Vienna


Adults, Non-Professional: NIGHT WATCH by James Hall


Digital: BUNNY by Chris Wedge

The 26th annual ASIFA-Hollywood Annie Awards ceremony, which honors the
best in animation, and took place on November 13, 1998, will be broadcast
on TV for the first time ever on KCAL TV 9 in Los Angeles, California on
June 26, 1999 at 9 pm. The awards ceremony, which was hosted by comedian
Jay Thomas, was originally announced to be televised on the Fox Family
Channel sometime last December. For more information visit
www.asifa-hollywood.org.

Two weeks after winning for best short film at the Cannes Film Festival,
Wendy Tilby and Amanda Forbis' short film, WHEN THE DAY BREAKS (The
National Film Board of Canada), has won the Grand Prix for best animated
short film at Annecy '99, which concluded on Saturday, June 5. The film is
about a pig whose world shifts after a car accident kills a stranger (a
chicken) on her block. The complete list of award winners is as follows:
The special Jury Prize went to AU BOUT DU MONDE/AT THE END OF THE EARTH by

Wendy Tilby and Amanda Forbis' short film, WHEN THE DAY BREAKS (The
National Film Board of Canada), won the Palme d'Or at the recently
concluded 52nd Cannes International Film Festival in Cannes, France. It
took four years for Forbis and Tilby to finish the softly colored,
wordless, but musical, story of a pig whose world shifts after a car
accident kills a stranger (a chicken) on her block. Forbis and Tilby began
the production of "When the Day Breaks" by shooting High-8 video of the

Eoin Clarke's DEVIANT! won the Best of Festival award at the first New York
Animation Festival. The first New York Animation Festival presented a
diverse international program of film and video animation from May 13-15 in
New York City. Over 2500 attended the three-day event which was held in
Greenwich Village at The New School for Social Research's Tishman
Auditorium. Here is the complete list of winners: Best of Festival:
DEVIANT! by Eoin Clarke; Honorable Mention: ONE SELF: FISH GIRL by Emily

On May 15, 1999 the 26th Annual Daytime Emmy Awards were presented in 43
categories during ceremonies held at the Marriott Marquis Hotel, New York
City, and the Beverly Hilton Hotel, Beverly Hills. Outstanding Achievement
in Animation Emmy Awards were presented to William Joyce, Production
Designer for Nelvana's ROLIE POLIE OLIE, Dave Wasson, Production Designer
for "Max and His Special Problem," part of Nickelodeon's OH YEAH! CARTOONS
series, and Mark Zoeller, Storyboard Artist for DreamWorks' TOONSYLVANIA.