SCENE Film & Media is hosting an afterwork networking mixer for New York's media, arts and entertainment world. The event brings together professionals from New York's media, arts and entertainment industries for a night of drinks, hors d'oeuvres, networking and conversation, beginning at 6:30 pm. It will take place at Alibi, 116 Macdougal Street, New York, New York. Complimentary appetizers will also be provided. Registration required. Register at scenemixer.eventbrite.com.

The School of Visual Arts' Animation Class of 2006 has pooled in the tiny increments of it's student budgets to rent out a theater to put on an independent screening of it's thesis films. They have invited every industry professional they could think of, as well as friends and family. Come check out the work of this ambitious group of recent graduates, and take your pick of the litter. Information provided at www.lasgnachildren.com/Fresh/

The Armory Center for the Arts continues the "Get a Life in the Arts" lectures for high school students. This series presents speakers who work in artistic careers. Lorraine Cleary Dale discusses her career as a visual artist and art teacher. She will also provide high school students with an overview of how they can begin to prepare, plan and apply to local art schools. Lorraine creates a wide variety of works, including drawings, paintings, sculptures and installation and has been making and exhibiting her work for the last 15 years. Admission is free. The event takes place at Armory Center for the Arts, 145 N. Raymond Ave., Old Pasadena at 6:30 pm. For more information, call (626) 792.5101 x140 or visit www.armoryarts.org.

Little Airplane Academy will be conducting an intensive, three-day preschool television workshop. Participants will learn the fundamentals of creating a preschool series from pitching through writing, character design, directing and producing both live action and animated shows.

Location: Little Airplane Productions
207 Front Street (between Fulton and Beekman)
South Street Seaport
New York, NY 10038

Dates: The course is comprised of three full days as well as optional evening activities. The course will take place Saturday, February 14 through Monday, February 16.

Fee: $1,500 for the course

Space in the course is limited and a simple application and resume are required. Contact Little Airplane at the number below to receive an application. There is no fee to apply.

For questions, please call 212-965-8999 or e-mail: melinda@littleairplane.com or visit our website at www.littleairplane.com.

Little Airplane Academy will be conducting an intensive, three-day workshop titled "How To Make A Great Preschool Series." Participants will learn the fundamentals of creating a preschool series from pitching through writing, character design, directing and producing both live-action and animated shows.

Little Airplane Prods. is located at 207 Front Street (between Fulton and Beekman), South Street Seaport, New York, NY 10038.

The course is comprised of three full days as well as optional evening activities. The course will cost $1,500.

Space in the course is limited and a simple application and resume are required. Please contact Little Airplane at the number below to receive an application. There is no fee to apply. For questions, call (212) 965-8999 or e-mail: melinda@littleairplane.com.

"Imagination" (2007) is an live action/stop motion experimental narrative feature film about twin girls who overcome their psychical disabilities to learn the secret languages of heaven and nature in order to transcend reality. Directed by Eric leiser /Score by Jeffrey Leiser

Check out www.albinofawn.com for the trailer or www.imdb.com/imagination www.imdb.com/Eric leiser

www.Laemmle.com Screens this july 6th and 7th at midnight! 6 dollars

In celebration of its 10th anniversary, the Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) has put out a call for entries for "Into the Pixel," a juried exhibition of computer and videogame art to premiere at this year's E3. "Into the Pixel" is a celebration of videogame art curated by interactive entertainment industry art veterans and experts from the traditional art field. The exhibit is a joint project of E3Expo, The Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences, and The Graphic Arts Council of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. The show will take place at the LACC and be accessible to the general public as well as to the more than 60,000 interactive entertainment industry executives, designers, developers, animators, journalists and retailers who attend E3Expo. Artists may contact pixelquestions@e3expo.com for more information. The Electronic Entertainment Expo held its inaugural show in 1995 with an impressive array of exhibitors and attendees. That show represented the first opportunity for everyone in the industry to meet in the same place, at the same time, at a show designed specifically to meet their business needs. It was the beginning of a thriving event where industry participants gathered to generate business and gain worldwide exposure. Ten years later, the Electronic Entertainment Expo has become the industry's most important annual gathering place. It's still the premier event for doing business with an ever-growing number of qualified industry players. In fact, because more commerce and promotion takes place here than during the other 51 weeks of the year combined, E3 is far and away the year's most concentrated gathering of qualified industry participants. More than 60,000 of the world's most influential retailers, distributors, developers, investors and media gather here for three days of intensive deal making. There's nothing else like it in the world. For more information, visit www.e3expo.com/.

The 9th edition of International Short Film Festival "Leuven Kort" is a celebration of short cinema. The festival holds an international competition for live-action short films and a non-competitive program for digifilm and music videos. Two prizes will be awarded in the live-action competition: the "Prize of the Audience" and the "Prize of the Jury.

MISSING PERSONS, a new 3D animated feature film by directors Dan & Matt O'Donnell, will premiere on Friday, March 1st at the Cinequest Film Festival in San Jose, CA. The film will be projected digitally from a Panasonic state-of-the-art theatrical digital projector. Screening details and tickets available at http://www.cinequest.org

Screening dates:
Friday, March 1 - Camera 3 Cinema
Saturday, March 2 - San Jose Repertory Theater

Tickets: http://opal.he.net/cgi-bin/suid/~cquest/cq/event.cgi?event=Missing_Persons

Synopsis:
An chronicle of the intersecting lives of four lost souls in the 60th Police Precinct of Coney Island, NY. Lonely Missing Persons detective John Funn hitches his wagon to the rising star of a strange young cop named Snookie. Computo, a World War II Army surplus robot, and Crazy Legs, an horrifically injured streetfighter, eke out a desperate living hawking mislabelled narcotics while patiently awaiting happier times. Woven throughout is the story of a bizarre Missing Persons case involving a mysterious half-drowned man living one foot below the surface of the Atlantic ocean.

MISSING PERSONS is an entirely CGI-generated film, rendered in "toon-style" 3D using custom software. (RT: 86 mins.)

Schools get ready for lift off... Mission to Titan starts in September! You are challenged to dream up and develop a story about your own mission to Titan. You can design your own spacecraft, build characters and crew members, create alien worlds and creatures, and tell the story of your mission in a short animation. The animation you create must not be longer than five minutes, so you have to think about how to tell your story in a comprehensive but concise way. You don't have to cover the whole journey in your animation, and can concentrate on an interesting episode if you prefer. The most important factor is that your story is imaginative and gripping, and that you manage to tell it in moving images which give us a glimpse of what it looked like and what happened to you on Titan. Completely Online: Pupils create artwork, collaborate and animate live in FluxTime Studio, the online animation environment for children from 4 to 14 years. Competition Terms: 1) The competition is for primary and secondary schools only. 2)Participating pupils must be 4 to 14 years old. 3) Schools can send in up to three animation clips per key stage. 4) A jury will select three winning animation clips per key stage. 5) Winners will receive one year free school membership. 6) The best animations will be shown in an online exhibition. For more information visit http://www.fluxtime.com/titan.php