The 35th Annual WorldFest is one of the oldest film & video festivals in America and the world. WorldFest gave first honors to Spielberg, Lucas, David Lynch, Randall Kleiser, Oliver Stone, Ridley Scott, The Coen Brothers, Ang Lee, Michael Cimino and hundreds of others. WorldFest offers more than $25,000 in cash and equipment awards, including the $2500 Kodak Raw Stock Award. There are 6 production seminars presented by top industry talents, such as cinematographers Vilmos Szigmund and Laszlo Kovacs,special effects director Richard Edlund, and director Robert Wise.

The Phoenix AZ film writer Craig Outhier stated "FORGET SUNDANCE! ... WorldFest is one of the best conceived film festival productions on the planet." We screen in 35mm and digi-beta & Beta-SP only on the Christie 6000 DLP Roadie. We select 60 new features for premiere and we unspool 100 new shorts, docs, student and experimental films. On big screens in new theaters, not hotel rooms! A visit to our web site and a review of the filmmaker "Comments" will say all that needs to be said about WorldFest.

Please consider this your personal invitation to be part of the festival of discovery, WorldFest-Houston!

For over a decade, the Game Developers Conference (GDC) has been the independent and unbiased forum where game development professionals from around the world gather to share ideas and build the skills essential to creating the next generation of interactive entertainment. The most innovative companies in the industry demonstrate the future of hardware, software and services. Industry luminaries lead more than 300 lectures, tutorials, panels and roundtables covering all aspects of game development for all platforms and all genres.

Bra!nCamp is the only high-level, cross-media conference specifically geared to major players in children

The fourth edition of the CARTOON MOVIE will take place in Potsdam/Babelsberg (Germany) from 14 to 16 March 2002. Organised by Cartoon with the support of the European Union's MEDIA Programme and of the FilmBoard Berlin-Brandenburg, this unique event present to investors and distributors (360 participants in 2001), a complete panorama of the European production of animated feature films : new concepts, projects in development, work in progress, finished film as well as a catalogue of recent European movies. Each year, the "Cartoon Movie Tributes" are designed to reward exemplary successes in this field and to encourage other initiatives.

We have organized another great Live Chat at www.CGChat.com.

Our new guest is Victor Navone, popular computer animator and artist. His animation, "Alien Song", got the attention of Pixar Animation Studios, where he is now employed as an animator. His most recent work can be found in "Monsters, Inc.", Pixar's new feature film.

For more information on Victor Navone visit his website at www.navone.org

The chat is held on Tuesday March 19th, 2002 . (Pick your Time Zone)
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The World GMT Time that the chat will be held at will be : http://www.bsdi.com/date?Canada/Eastern World Time GMT : 03:00:00
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If your time zone is not listed, please use the Time Zone Converter at this address: http://www.timezoneconverter.com/cgi-bin/tzc.tzc Prepare your questions and be in the Chat at the times specified above. We hope to see you all there!! More information at:http://www.insidecg.com/feature.php?id=89

The British Animation Awards has 19 categories including two for international entries: International Award for Short Film and Best European Feature. Entry is Free for International Award categories.

UK only categories are: Best Pre-school Series, Best Childrens

Join us at the beautiful campus of DreamWorks Studio and celebrate the women featured in the new book "Great Women Of Film" by Helena Lumme and Mika Manninen with a panel of animation directors:
Brenda Chapman ("The Prince of Egypt")

Vicky Jenson ("Shrek")

Lorna Cook ("Spirit: Stallion of The Cimmaron")



Plus, Helena Lumme and Mika Manninen, the author and photographer of "Great Women Of Film," will be conducting a book signing at the Annual Meeting. This is a rare opportunity to meet the author, photographer and directors featured in the book.



Date: Saturday, March 9, 2002

Time: 2:00 p.m. - Please arrive early - First come, first seated

Place: DreamWorks Campus

1000 Flower Street

Glendale




Space is Limited. You must RSVP! Call 818-759-9596 by March 7, 2002.

This is a Members-Only Event.

For Security reasons, photo ID is required.

Visit our Website at http://www.womeninanimation.org.

Unique in concept, renowned for execution and treasured by participants, SXSW is an essential event for understanding tomorrow's entertainment industry today. SXSW Film Festival and Conference, now nine years old, will present a festival schedule over nine nights largely devoted to independent productions as well as works from established directors who have inspired the latest generation of filmmakers. The conference portion of SXSW Film has been described as a five-day crash course on guerilla filmmaking and marketing. Hosted by indie film professionals, the panel discussions, workshops, and mentor sessions will explore every facet of the do-it-yourself feature from pre-production to marketing.

The SXSW Interactive Festival brings together the most creative minds in the convergent media industry, people who are passionate about the ongoing technological revolution. Be inspired by their vision of the future as you listen to panels, walk the trade show and participate in the many exciting evening activities. If you are looking to uncover the best new ideas from the cutting edge of the web world, SXSW Interactive is the place to be.

A sampling of panelists that are scheduled to participate in the film conference include: Christian Gaines, AFI Film Festival; Gill Holland, cineBLAST!; Mike Jones, indieWire and ifcRANT; Jeremy Paul Kagen, Sundance Institute; Michael Kastenbaum, Visionbox; Amanda Klein, USA Films; Harry Knowles, Aint It Cool News; Tim McCanlies, writer, The Iron Giant; Elvis Mitchell, host of Independent Focus; Mark Moore, ILM; Greg Rhem, programmer, HBO; Bob Sabiston, animator for Waking Life;

Tampere International Short Film Festival offers the best short films from the past two years in International Competition and the best of Finnish short films in Finnish Competition. Fiction, documentary and animation are accepted. Besides the competition screenings and around 70 special screenings Tampere Film Festival organizes film market, seminars, exhibitions and discussions for filmmakers and other professionals at film industry.

VidTranS offers a specific focus on the interaction of new digital video and broadband telecommunications technologies and on how this interaction will affect service providers, equipment manufacturers and end users. Conference programs address changing industry practices, the requirements for new services, and the underlying video and telecommunications technologies, while vendor exhibits enable attendees to get a hands-on glimpse of the latest video transport technologies. VidTranS is critical to anyone wishing to grasp the impact of digital television on the broader telecommunications industry. The conference program and equipment exhibits are oriented towards professionals from all industries involved in video transport.