Sony Wonder Technology Lab, a center for high-tech entertainment and
education, will host ALL EYES ON CGI. The presentation will feature a
representative from Sony Pictures Imageworks, whose talent and technology
contributed to the upcoming feature film STUART LITTLE in which for the
first time ever, audiences are introduced to a three-dimensional,
photo-realistic, performance based, computer generated movie star.
Admission is $10. The events takes place Thursday, September 30, 6:30 pm in

Euro Disney has announced plans to open THE DISNEY STUDIOS, a second theme
park in 2002 near the existing Disneyland Paris theme park in
Marne-La-Vallee, east of Paris. The park will include attractions based on
cinema, animation and television, similar to the Disney-MGM Studios at Walt
Disney World in Orlando, Florida. Visitors to the park will be able to
observe animators working, special effects demonstrations and the filming
of TV programs. "The goal is that visitors pass through the movie screen

The International Museum of Comic Art presents The Art of Charles M.
Schulz, creator of the comic strip, PEANUTS. The exhibit displays
artifacts, photos, magazine covers, Broadway and movie posters, toys,
dolls, blow-ups of historic strips and more tracing the decade-by-decade
evolution of Schulz' creation in the context of American history. The
exhibition takes place Saturday, October 2 - Sunday, January 30, 2000 in
Boca Raton, Florida, USA. IMCA is located at 201 Plaza Real in Boca Raton's

Ray Harryhausen will appear at the REZNHEDZ Model and Toy Show at the
Hillside Holiday Inn just outside Chicago on October 9 and 10. The Chicago
International Film Festival is also sponsoring two events in conjunction
with the REZNHEDZ show. On Thursday, October 7 the festival will show JASON
AND THE ARGONAUTS and GOLDEN VOYAGE OF SINBAD, and on Sunday, October 10
they will have a tribute to Ray Harryhausen. The tribute will include clips
from the movies, and culminate in Ray receiving an Award from the Film

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.

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;

Milia 2000, the World's Interactive Content Marketplace, which takes place
from February 14 - 18, 2000 in Cannes, France, is calling for entries for
the Milia New Talent Competition. Since its creation five years ago, the
New Talent Competition has provided interactive entertainment and new media
professionals with the opportunity of discovering students' fresh creative
ideas, and offered a new forum for recruiting new talent. A jury composed
of international experts will meet in Paris in December in order to select

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.

Every year since 1991, the organization CARTOON, with the support of the
MEDIA program of the European Union, selects one European short animated
film as the "Cartoon d'Or," or "best European animation film." This year's
winner, announced at the Cartoon Forum in Corboda, Spain (September 22-26),
is MIGRATIONS by Constantin Chamski (France). The 4-minute CGI film is
distributed by France-based Heure Exquise! where it was also produced. This
year's other nominees were L'ARME DU CROCODILE by Eric Blesin (Belgium), EL

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

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

Glendale, California-based Galaxy Digimation has created a thirty-minute
animated newscast for Universal Studios' The Amazing Adventures of
Spider-Man ride in Orlando, Florida. The Spider-Man ride integrates
roller-coaster thrills, realistic motion simulation, and stereographic 3D
computer-generated effects while immersing riders in a story that
transforms them into active photojournalists. Galaxy Digimation's newscast
plays on monitors while riders wait in line inside the newsroom of The

The third annual British Animation Awards is calling for entries from UK
animators. The awards will be announced on Thursday, March 9, 2000.
Deadline for entries is December 1, 1999. For more information Tel. 0171
383 4387; or Fax 0171 388 3782.

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.

Antran Manoogian, President of the International Animated
Film Society, ASIFA-Hollywood, has announced the nominees for the 27th Annual Annie Awards, ASIFA-Hollywood’s honoring of the best in animation. THE IRON GIANT leads the list of nominees with fifteen nominations, including best feature. The final winners will be presented with their awards at the Annie Awards Ceremony to be held at the Alex Theatre in Glendale, California on Saturday, November 6, at 7 pm. For more information about the event and tickets call (818) 842-8330.

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/.

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

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.

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.