Mary Kocol's MY FATHER'S STORY screens with the documentary feature
UNCOMMON FRIENDS. The screenings take place October 1 - 7 in New York at
the Cinema Village Theatre at 22 East 12th Street. Tel. (212) 924-3363. For
more information visit www.KocoMotion.com.

This year's SITGES Festival Internacional de Cinema de Catalunya features
several animation related events including a short film competition, the
presentation of Hayao Miyasaki's PRINCESS MONONOKE, and tributes to Osamu
Tezuka and Will Vinton. The festival takes place Wednesday, October 6 -
Saturday, October 16 in Barcelona, Spain. For more information Tel. 34 93
419 3635, or visit www.sitges.com/cinema.

The Museum of Television and Radio in New York and Los Angeles hosts a
retrospective of Hanna-Barbera's television series with a series of
60-minute screenings. The series includes SCOOBY-DOO, THE FANTASTIC FOUR,
SPACE GHOST, SUPERFRIENDS, JOSIE AND THE PUSSYCATS, MAGILLA GORILLA, TOP
CAT, RICOCHET RABBIT, and YOGI BEAR. The new Spumco/Cartoon Network YOGI
BEAR shorts have sparked a debate among fans regarding the quality of
Hanna-Barbera's YOGI BEAR shorts in particular, and Hanna-Barbera's

MIPCOM: International Film and Programme Market for TV, Video, Cable, and
Satellite. Starting next week, thousands of producers, programmers and
broadcasters will converge on Cannes, France for the MIPCOM and MIP Junior
markets. From Reed-Midem, the organizers of MIP-TV, MIP Asia and MILIA,
MIPCOM is known as the place where international television deals happen.
Among the properties being offered are Sony Wonder's LION OF OZ AND THE
BADGE OF COURAGE, an animated musical prequel to THE WIZARD OF OZ;

Jeffrey Scott will speak at the Women In Animation Writers'
Seminar Series at Saban Entertainment. Jeffrey has written over 450
animation scripts and has won three Emmys and the Humanitas Prize. He
currently works on DRAGON TALES which can be seen on PBS. The event takes
place Thursday, October 14, 7:30 pm in Westwood, California, USA. This is
the last seminar in the series until January. For more information contact
Jean Wright at (818) 360-8321. RSVP required.

From September 22 to 26, the 1999 Cartoon Forum will be welcoming 620
participants, among which will be Animation World Network's own Ron
Diamond, in Cordoba, Spain. This record attendance shows that this event,
organized over the last 10 years with support from the European Union Media
program, has been established as an important industry event. This year
sixty-nine projects seeking partners will be offered to potential investors
and producers. Over 150 projects initiated at the Forum in previous years

Join The Creative Alliance Monthly Salon Series as they present TV and Film Producing for the Young Audience, a look at how decisions are made to produce today's entertainment for the young audience. The panel includes: Allison Abbate, Producer of THE IRON GIANT; Marne Jones, Children's Programming for CBS and others. The panel will be moderated by Stephen Galloway Executive Editor of THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER. The event takes place Tuesday, September 28, 7:30 pm in Los Angeles, California, USA at The Gower Theater, Paramount Studios. There is an admission fee. RSVP at (310) 789-5686.

Alexander Petrov, a Russian master animator whose best known films are THE MERMAID

and THE TRAGEDY OF A RIDICULOUS MAN, has completed a new film, THE OLD MAN

AND THE SEA, based on the novel by Ernest Hemingway about an old man's

struggle to catch a fish. Two years in the making, the film is now playing

at IMAX Theaters throughout the world and features Petrov's renowned

paint-on-glass technique for which he is world famous. For more information

Tom Sito will host THAT '70s - 80s CARTOON SHOW! on Friday, September 17, at 7 pm. Meet Filmation directors Tom Tataranowicz and Ed Friedman; Lou Scheimer, Filmation's founder; Hanna-Barbera’s Jerry Eisenberg, designer of THE BANANA SPLITS and PETER POTAMUS; and Iwao Takamoto, designer of Scooby Doo and Penelope Pittstop. The evening will include screenings, plenty of stories and a chance to ask the creators about your favorite shows and characters. Admission is $5 at the door for ASIFA-Hollywood members and full time students, $8 at the door for all others.

DreamWorks Home Entertainment is hosting a chariot race on Tuesday,
September 14 at 7:50-9 am to celebrate the release of DreamWorks' 1998
animated feature THE PRINCE OF EGYPT on home video and DVD. In the race,
which will be known as the Pharaoh's Cup Championship, Egyptian chariots
will race through two blocks of Hollywood Boulevard, between Cherokee and
McCadden, in Hollywood, California as part of an effort to raise donations
for The Eastside Boys and Girls' Club of America, Children's Action