Andreas Wessel-Therborn, animator, will speak on The Animator on Animating as part of The Careers in Animation Third Annual Lecture Series. Mr. Wessel-Therborn has worked on THE THIEF AND THE COBBLER, SPACE JAM, BALTO, TARZAN, and FANTASIA 2000. The event takes place Tuesday, May 4, at 7 pm in the Glendale Community College Auditorium, 1500 North Verdugo Road, Glendale, California, USA. Admission is $5 in advance, or $7 at the door. Tickets are available from GCC Bookstore Business Office (818) 240-1000, ext. 5695; or ASIFA-Hollywood (818) 842-8330.

Spice up your resume with recruiter and career coach Pamela Thompson at
the Women in Animation Dinner Meeting on Tuesday, May 4 at 7 pm. The event
takes place at Acapulco Restaurant, 3113 W. Olive, Burbank, California. $25
member, $35 non-members. RSVP by May 1 at (310) 535-3838. Please bring a
resume and pen.

Michel Ocelot's new feature film, KIRIKOU AND THE SORCERESS, will be
screened as part of the DGA (Directors Guild of America) film festival,
City of Lights: A Week of French Films. The screening will take place
Saturday, May 1 at 1 pm in Los Angeles, California. For ticket information,
call (310) 289 2000. There are currently no plans to release the film in
the USA, so this may be your only chance to see what appears to be, based
on the pressbook images, a very beautiful film. The story is based on

The recently concluded Cartoons on the Bay festival in Poistano, Italy has announced its awards. The Golden Pulcinella for best character went to the Little Entertainment Co.'s BILLY, an animated British TV series for pre-schoolers about an infant daydreamer. The Golden Pulcinella for best program went to Folimage's CHARLIE'S CHRISTMAS, a French TV film about an abandoned child's friendship with a postman.

D.FILM and The New Venue in association with Atom Films and Evan's Star
Wars Cinema present a new online Star Wars-inspired filmmaking contest. To
enter, send in a short script for a Star Wars spoof. Short means very short
- a story that can be told in two minutes or less. A panel of celebrity
judges (headed by a prominent member of the original Trilogy cast) will
review the scripts. At the end of April, the judges will select a script,
and hand it over to a team of innovative digital filmmakers, including

* Through April 24. Los Angeles, California, U.S.A.


A selection of personal paintings and production pieces from the collection of UPA artist and experimental animator Jules Engel will be exhibited at the Tobey Moss Gallery (7321 Beverly Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90036) through April 24. Also included in the exhibit are his sculptures and paintings from Disney's FANTASIA. The gallery is open Tuesday through Saturday from 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. For additional information, call (323) 933-5523.

The California Sun Festival, which took place at California State
University Northridge on April 10 - 11, handed out the following awards:


The Golden Sun (Best of the Festival) went to Hannes Rall, Germany, for
"Der Rabe" (The Raven), an 8-minute film freely adapted from the poem "The
Raven" by Edgar Allen Poe.


The Silver Stars (Best in each Category) went
to:


Traditional Animation: Andrea Guaraldo, Italy, for "Soffioni"


Computer Animation: Heiko Lueg, Germany, for "Sandland"

Tom Sito will host an evening with Phil Mendez on Wednesday, April 28 at
7:30 pm. Phil is one of the pioneering African American artists in American
animation, a designer, author, director and storyteller. He was Marc Davis'
assistant at Disney during the development of some of the his famous
attractions at Disneyland. He has done work for Disney Feature Animation,
Hanna-Barbera, Jack Zander, and Phil Kimmelman, and he was with Ralph
Bakshi at the beginning of FRITZ THE CAT and HEAVY TRAFFIC. Don't miss this

The Cartoons on the Bay International Festival of Television Animation will be held April 20-24, 1999 Positano, Italy.

Action's New Independent Talents Contest is aimed at the independent 3D
artist. Prizes include hardware and software as well as transfers to 35 mm
film so that films may be shown in movie theatres. There is no entry fee.
Deadline for entries is October 10, 1999. For more information visit
www.club-internet.fr/films-action.

* Tuesday, April 27, 7:45 pm. San Francisco, California, USA.


SF ACM/SIGGRAPH sponsors a presentation on animating paintings in WHAT
DREAMS MAY COME. Scheduled speakers include Nicholas Brooks, Visual Effects
Director; Ed Davis, Lunarfish; Mike Schmitt, Giant Killer Robots; Laura
Kelly, LA-based effects team member; Pierre Jamin and Peter Litwinowicz of
RE:Vision FX. The presentation will be preceded by a social 'hour' from
6:30 pm to 7:45 pm. Where: Fort Mason Center Landmark Bldg. A, Marina Blvd.

* Tuesday, May 18th, 7 pm. Rochester, New York, USA.


The RIT (Rochester Institute of Technology) Computer Animation Spring 99
MFA screenings will take place in the Carlson Auditorium. For more
information contact Marla Schweppe at mkspph@ritvax.isc.rit.edu

* Tuesday, April 27, 7:30 pm. San Francisco, California, USA.


ASIFA-San Franciso presents "Basic Principles of Traditional Character
Animation" with Mark West at the Exploratorium's McBean. Admission is free.
This evening's event is the first in a proposed educational series by
ASIFA-SF, designed for people with a limited knowledge of animation
techniques. Mark West will present an illustrated lecture demonstration,
using film clips to illustrate his points. West has been working as an

* Friday, May 7th, 7:30 pm. Los Angeles, California, USA.


The Film Department of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art will present "A
Taste of Tashlin: Early Hollywood Cartoons," cartoons by Frank Tashlin
which he made before turning to live-action and going on to direct several
of Jerry Lewis' best films. The program includes PORKY'S POULTRY PLANT,
PORKY IN THE NORTH WOODS, PORKY'S ROMANCE, THE MAJOR LIED TIL DAWN, THE FOX
AND THE GRAPES, SCRAP HAPPY DAFFY, PORKY PIG'S FEAT, A CORNY CONCERTO,

* Sunday, May 23rd, 2 pm. Rochester, New York, USA.


The RIT (Rochester Institute of Technology) Film/Video/Animation Honors
Show will take place at the Cinema Theatre. For more information contact
Marla Schweppe at mkspph@ritvax.isc.rit.edu

ASIFA-EAST 1999 Awards ceremony was held Monday, April 12th. The following
awards were handed out:


STUDENT FILMS


Second Honorable Mention

BETWEEN THE LINES by Jamie Maxfield


First Honorable Mention.

HEADQUARTERS by Jason Donati


Third Place

SMILE by Alex Hart


Second Place

A LETTER FROM THE WESTERN FRONT by Daniel Kanemoto


First Place

STRANGE REALITY by Jusuf Santoso


COMMERCIALS AND PROMOTIONAL FILMS


Excellence in Design

The Film Department of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art will present two programs of films by Frank Tashlin and Ub Iwerks. On Friday, May 7, at 7:30 pm A Taste of Tashlin: Early Hollywood Cartoons will present the cartoons Frank Tashlin made before turning to live-action and going on to direct several of Jerry Lewis' best films.

Bill LittleJohn will appear in person at the UCLA James Bridges theater Saturday, May 15, 7:30 p.m as part of a retrospective of his work. Bill Littlejohn is a freelance animator. If you watch animated films, chances are you've seen his work. He's worked on several John and Faith Hubley films, including OF MEN AND DEMONS and THE DOONESBURY SPECIAL; THE 2000 YEAR OLD MAN; several Peanuts TV specials; even GEORGE OF THE JUNGLE. At this time, UCLA is not sure which films will be shown. Call the Archive at (310) 206-8013 for a complete list of the titles to be screened.

The 3rd edition of Switzerland's largest Animation Film Festival
FANTOCHE will be held from August 31 to September 5 1999.
Deadline for the "International Competition" is June 15.


Registration forms will soon be available from the festival
office or directly from the website www.fantoche.ch. For further
information as well as details about the supporting members association and
oportunities for advertising and sponsoring, please contact the festival
office:


FANTOCHE

Ottikerstr. 53

CH - 8006 Zürich

MIP TV, the international television programme market, where sellers and buyers from all over the world exchange product, takes place April 12th to 17th in Cannes, France. This year’s MIP is expected to reflect a rebounding international TV market. More than 100 TV series from around the world we be offered at MIP, such as DARIA, FAMILY GUY, FUTURAMA, and NORMAN NORMAL. The calendar of events include the following animation related programmes:


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