A full conference programme and online link for delegate registration for the Animated Realities, a two-day conference and screening event on the subject of animated documentary filmmaking organised by Edinburgh College of Art, the University of Edinburgh and the Edinburgh International Film Festival, is now available @ http://www.animatedrealities.co.uk/

 

We hope to welcome AWN members to Edinburgh in June.

 

Animating Realities: Animation, Documentary and the Moving Image

Thursday June 23rd and Friday June 24th, 2011

University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh College of Art and the Edinburgh International Film Festival

 

Keynote Speakers: Sheila Sofian (University of Southern California) and Paul Ward (Arts University College, Bournemouth)

 

CALL FOR PAPERS

Recent years have witnessed increasing interest in the use of animation aesthetics and production techniques to explore subject matter traditionally deemed to be the preserve of live-action documentary cinema. The developing and changing nature of documentation moves away from established forms of documentary representation and blurs boundaries between fact and fiction, perceived indexical authority and subjective interpretation, the virtual and the physical, childhood and adulthood.

 

Animated Realities aims to bring together practitioners and theoreticians from a diverse range of disciplines in order to discuss and debate this hybrid and rapidly expanding area of contemporary visual culture. The event comprises a two-day conference jointly hosted by the University of Edinburgh and Edinburgh College of Art with a concurrent screening programme of contemporary animated documentary work as part of the 65th Edinburgh International Film Festival.

 

We invite proposals for 20-minute papers (or themed panels of 3 presentations) on all aspects of animated documentary art and filmmaking past and present. Proposals for papers may include (but are not limited to) the following areas:

 

·         Mapping the field: the history of animated documentary filmmaking

NY Mobile Entertainment Summit™

If you're interested in what content is being created for mobile platforms, how the platforms are multiplying, how advertisers and marketers are using mobile for brand campaigns, how mobile content is measured and how people are making money from mobile content, then the NY Mobile Entertainment Summit™ is a must attend event.

Event Date: June 21-22, 2011 at Hilton New York, New York, NY

http://nymobilesummit.com

 

Unlike other entertainment events, the 3D Entertainment Summit™ is focused on how the 3D entertainment transformation is affecting the business of entertainment. At the 3D Entertainment Summit™, you will get a behind the scenes look at where the market is heading; build relationships with industry leaders and potential business partners as business channels for 3D become more defined.

Event Date: June 21-22, 2011 at Hilton New York, New York, NY

For more than 30 years Licensing International Expo has been the meeting place for the biggest names and the hottest properties in the industry. Attendees get a preview of the newest licensing and merchandising programs that will generate excitement and buying behavior among consumers. Licensing International Expo is the only event in the world where attendees gain this competitive advantage.

Building on the knowledge and expertise of more than thirty years, the Banff World Media Festival is the world's premier forum for professionals working in content creation, distribution and broadcast in Television and Digital Media.

Taking place June 12-15, 2011, at the Fairmont Banff Springs Hotel in the Canadian Rockies, BANFF attracts the most prestigious players in the international media marketplace. With its breathtaking, retreat-like setting and A-List attendees, BANFF provides a unique atmosphere combining unparalleled access, fantastic programming, and - to put it simply - an incredibly fun time.

The Festival features a comprehensive agenda, including in-depth programming across four intensive streams, as well as the Banff World Media Awards, a prestigious international awards competition recognizing the most innovative, exciting, and outstanding work in the industry. Conference streams include Non-Fiction, Kids & Animation, BANFF TV, and nextMEDIA, focusing on the latest trends in digital and interactive production. With sessions, panels, keynotes, master classes and interviews exploring the issues most strongly affecting the media industry, BANFF is designed to keep you on the cutting edge of both traditional and cross-platform content creation and programming.

2011 Conference Highlights:

Feature Interviews with the writers, directors, and producers creating the most talked-about programming on TV and the Web.Keynotes from the top executives and thinkers from TV, Digital Media, Advertising, Music, Government and Publishing that bring inspiration and thought leadership to each BANFF stream.In-depth programming addressing the key questions and challenges facing the different facets of the global media industry.The 2011 Banff World Media Awards, one of the world's most prestigious international program competitions. The 2010 competition attracted more than 800 entries from 30 countries around the world.A unique networking experience, combining both strategic facilitated networking opportunities - including pre-booked one-on-one meetings with Program Executives, Media Buyers, and Ad Agencies - with the exceptional open access and relaxed atmosphere created by the Festival's setting and feel.Specialty programs, including the CTV National Fellowship, the Shaw Media Showrunners Training Program, Global Writers Apprentice Program, and the Banff International Pilots Competition and Awards, offer practical, hands-on experience, taking your skill set to the next level, and creating opportunities for the frontrunners in the emerging media ecosystem.

Attendance at the 2011 conference is a sound investment in your company's future, whatever your niche in this dynamic new marketplace. With a special focus on business insight, development and information dissemination, this year's conference will put you at the forefront of your industry and connect you to the people and ideas that will grow your business.

The 2011 Banff Program Competition call for entries is open! The Banff World Television Awards (The Rockies) will be presented at the Banff World Television Festival, June 12 - 15, 2011. The Banff World Television Awards includes 23 genre-based categories and 6 interactive categories - a total of 29 distinct categories.

The Toronto International Stereoscopic 3D Conference is a one of a kind international gathering of experts in the stereoscopic 3D art and entertainment arena. From June 11 to 14, 2011 major figures from Canada, Germany, Russia, UK and USA will meet to discuss, analyze and contextualize the “new era in 3D cinema.”

Speakers include:
• acclaimed director WIM WENDERS, on his latest masterpiece PINA
• CATHERINE OWENS, co-director of U23D and installation artist
• international film historian THOMAS ELSAESSER
• master cinematographer and stereographer PETER ANDERSON
• veteran filmmaker GRAEME FERGUSON, co-founder of IMAX
• vision scientists, scholars, filmmakers, artists and the major S3D industry players.

Screening:
• Bugs! 
• Resident Evil: Afterlife 
• Hubble 3D 
• and excerpts from speakers’ latest films including Neue Road Film’s PINA (premiered last February at Berlinale) and SK Film’s Flight of the Butterflies (to be premiered)

   

The deadline for ANIMA2011 has been extended until May 27th, 2011!!!

 

ANIMA - Córdoba International Animation Festival is both an academic and cultural event, devoted specifically to animation in its artistic and technological dimensions. ANIMA merges the energy, enthusiasm and joy of an Animation Festival with the scientific aspects of a Conference. Held every odd year since 2001, ANIMA is the main animation event in Argentina and a very influential player in its field in Latin America and the Caribbean.

 

ANIMA is no ordinary event. Its main objective is to gather creative individuals devoted to the art and craft of animation into a meeting point where all discussion and exchange can be directed into the scope of animation, in its many dimensions of analysis: as artistic expression, as cultural industry, as educational resource, as corpus for research, etc… Or just as fun!

 

ANIMA is composed by three superimposed dimensions:

 

It’s an ANIMATION FESTIVAL: ANIMA’s 2009 edition screened 130 films (feature and shorts) selected from a pool of 825 submissions from 53 countries. Guests and Jurors in former editions include prestigious animators from abroad, to name a few: Academy Award nominee Barry Purves (UK), Academy Award nominee Christopher Hinton (Canada), Academy Award nominee Caroline Leaf (USA). Most of the finest Argentinian animators have also been guests and Jurors in the Festival: Juan Pablo Zaramella, Javier Mrad, Pablo Rodríguez Jáuregui, among many others.

It’s an OPPORTUNITY TO LEARN FROM THE BEST: ANIMA aims to bring in depth and high – end educational opportunities to its audience. Seminars, workshops and short courses are organized, centered on a variety of topics dedicated to specific animation aesthetics and technology, and are conducted by prestigious professionals in the area, such as the forementioned guests, Rodolfo Sáenz Valiente (Argentina), Walter Tournier (Uruguay), Giannalberto Bendazzi (Italy) and many more.

It’s a CONFERENCE: ANIMA’s Academic Forum is the only specific Conference on Animation held in Latin America. It holds an open call for papers, video presentations and posters on animation, that undergo double peer – reviewing by an Academic Committee for selection and publication.

ANIMA2011 will be held on October 6th through 8th, 2011. Deadline for submission of film entries is on May 27th, 2011. Deadline for submission of papers, posters and audiovisual presentations is on June 17th, 2011.

Program

FMX 2011 promises to be another exciting conference where industry professionals interested in Global Production, Visual Art and Innovative Technologies descend on Stuttgart for four days of networking, presentations, technical demonstrations, conference papers and recruiting events. We will present exciting trends that are taking place in the industry. Full program information will be available soon!

History

FMX was initiated as an event for students labeled "Film and Media Exchange" (FMX) in 1994 and was supposed to take place every two years. As early as 1996 it became an annual event already . When the first FMX took place in 1994, the industry did not even dare to dream about the creative possibilities within computer animation and digital effects that exist today. Throughout the past fifteen years of its existence, FMX kept up with the developments and trends and has grown to become an important networking platform for those working with digital imagery.

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Film and Game Concept Artists to Share Secrets at Two Day Seminar

Six movie and game concept artists will explain their individual processes in a two days seminar that covers characters, creatures, environments, and vehicles on April 30th and May 1st. Each artists will do live demonstrations of their techniques,along with sharing 10 things that they have learned over their careers to pass on to students who want to become concept artists for film and games.

Anthony Francisco-designed for BubbleBoy, Evolution, Spiderman, AI., MIB2, Chronicles of Riddick, Superman Returns, and Species 3 to name a few. He started his game career on NCSoft on Guild Wars and Tabula Rasa. He continued work on Project Offset and now currently does work as a freelance game concept artist.

Brian Yam- currently a concept artist in the entertainment industry.   He’s develops concepts for games and film studios such as Insomniac Games where he worked on Ratchet, and Clank and Resistance Fall of Men,Imagi Animation Studios working on Gatchaman, Naughty Dog, ImageMovers Digital. And currently Spark Unlimited.