Voting Ends: August 31, 2008

No cinemas, no queues, no tickets, no e-scalpers, no timetables. The third annual Portable Film Festival is an online film festival presenting the very best in international film and video culture.

With former featured shorts going on to be nominated for Oscars in each consecutive year, the Portable Film Festival has become the place to hit the big-time online. Renowned directors will be battling it out against budding bedroom philosophers, across six categories including Short Film, Music Video, Animation, Online Serials, Films Caught on Mobile Devices and this year for the first time ever, Feature Films.

The Portable Film Festival will award prizes in six categories, as voted by the users. The main award -- the Grand Hopper -- will be awarded in the flagship category Short Film.

Visit www.portablefilmfestival.com to vote.

Comic-Con International is the largest gathering of comic book, science fiction, film and television fans in the nation. Featuring celebrity guests, seminars on breaking into filmmaking and near 24-hour film retrospectives. Comic-Con is the place for fans of all things pop culture. For more information, visit www.comic-con.org.

Project Twenty1 is now accepting team signups for its 2008 Filmmaking Competition. Filmmakers eager to take on the challenge are invited to participate and bring a brand-new film from concept to screen in 21 Days this summer. The competition's launch event, where all filmmaking teams will learn the secret "Element" that their film must include, will take place Saturday, July 19 and their films will be due at the drop event on August 9, 21 days later. For those who prefer to submit a short film or feature already completed, Project Twenty1 is accepting entries to the 2008 Philadelphia Film-A-Thon as well, which works "more like a standard film festival," according to founder Matt Conant. The 2008 Project Twenty1 Film Festival will take place at International House, 3701 Chestnut St. in Philadelphia, on the weekend of Oct. 4 and 5, 2008, and will consist of the best entries to the Film-A-Thon as well as the competition films. Project Twenty1 is the brainchild of animator Stephanie Yuhas, composer Quang Ly, and filmmaker Conant. According to Conant, "This is our third year, but it's the first time we've done both the competition and the Film-A-Thon as part of the same festival. We've also added a workshop with casting director Beverly McDermott, who has worked with directors like Ron Howard and Jerry Lewis." Yuhas added, "We started Project Twenty1 when we saw all our friends graduate from college, and stop making films. Life, and the need to earn a living, often gets in the way of doing what you love. We give filmmakers that extra little kick in the pants by providing them with an audience, and by partnering with other festivals. Most filmmakers can't afford 20 different submission fees, so we send the films around the country for them." The "Best Film" in the last Project Twenty1 was from Team 509 out of Turnersville, New Jersey. Their film, IN ZAKK'S CASE, tells the story of a man who has 21 chances to survive a day that is trying to kill him, and went on to screen at the Bucks County Film Festival, as well as on Comcast OnDemand. Others screened at the Big Bang Film Festival in 2007. This year the top films will also receive a commercial DVD release. Early team registration ends April 30, and the late deadline will be June 30. All films that are completed within the guidelines of the competition and submitted by the drop event will be screened at International House, 3701 Chestnut Street in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, as part of the Project Twenty1 Film Festival on October 4 and 5, 2008. These films will compete for the title of "Best Film" -- along with nearly a dozen other categories - as well as a trophy and more than $1,000 in prizes. The deadlines are the same for the Film-A-Thon. E-mail info@projecttwenty1.com, call 215-253-7640, or visit www.ProjectTwenty1.com for details on how to sign up as a competition team, submit a film to the Film-A-Thon, or become a festival sponsor. Project Twenty1's fiscal sponsor is International House Philadelphia, a 501(c)3 organization.

Eastgate Films is looking for a handful of talented screenwriters to write select scenes for a motion picture titled THE SHILOH PROPHECY, open to anyone. Visit www.eastgatefilms.com/contests.htm for more details. Contact: info@eastgatefilms.com.

Deadline: January 15, 2009.

Entry Fee: $25 Dates reflect deadlines for electronic submission or postmark of mailed scripts.

Awards: $1,000 first place. Your written scene (and four other finalists) to be filmed and cut into THE SHILOH PROPHECY. A Copy of Final Draft 7 to all five contestants.

Antipode Entertainment is looking for short animated films for it’s spring line-up of pre-show entertainment. Ideally we are looking animated films that run 30 seconds to one minute long, not including credits. Films should be available in HD. The pre-show entertainment program is designed to show animated films between ads and sponsors in the pre-show videos shown in theaters, film festivals, and other entertainment venues.

To submit you can send web links to info@antipodemedia.com, or mail a DVD to:

Antipode Entertainment Inc.
PO Box 19204
Reno, NV 89511

Sorry, we can not return samples. Please do not send demo reels; we are only interested in completed works.

Located in Los Angeles, California, Anime Expo, the nation's largest anime/manga convention, serves to foster trade, commerce and the interests of the general public and animation/ comics industry. This event serves as a key meeting place for the general public to express their interest and explore various aspects of anime/manga, as well as for members of the industry to conduct business. AX 2008 will be held July 3-6, 2008 at the Los Angeles Convention Center in Southern California. More information can be found at its website (www.anime-expo.org). Japanese pop sensation Mimi scheduled to perform before the West Coast premiere of CATBLUE DYNAMITE (from the director of the highly anticipated APPLESEED GENESIS) on Friday, July 4 at 11 a.m., 1 and 4 p.m. on the second floor of South Hall, room 301 B. The Society for the Promotion of Japanese Animation (SPJA) is a non-profit organization with a mission to popularize and educate the American public about anime and manga, as well as provide a forum to facilitate communication between professionals and fans. This organization is more popularly known by its entertainment property: Anime Expo. More information can be found at its website (www.spja.org).

Following up on last year's huge success, CGarchitect.com is hosting the 5th annual Architectural 3D Awards to be awarded at this year's Mundos Digitales Conference in La Coruna, Spain. The Awards Competition is open to everyone in the Architectural Visualization industry to highlight the best imagery and animations done in 2007 and 2008. This year's awards will be divided into two categories: Still Imagery and Animation. From the submitted entries the public will select the top five in each category. The winner of each category will be awarded the exclusive CGarchitect.com 3D Awards trophy during the Mundos Digitales Conference from July 2-5, 2008. Categories: Still Imagery: Awarded to the individual or company for outstanding achievement in an architectual visualization project. Animation: Awarded to the individual or company for outstanding achievement in an architectural visualization animation project. Information: www.cgarchitect.com/3dawards/# or www.mundosdigitales.org/english/.

Vicon, developer of Academy Award-winning motion capture systems and part of the Oxford Metrics Group, is currently accepting submissions for the Vicon Film Festival online at www.vicon.com/filmfestival/.

With a grand prize of $10,000, the international competition aims to find the most creative and entertaining use of a series of motion capture sequences in an animated short. The competition is open to original short films (between two and five minutes long) using motion capture data made available for download from the Vicon Film Festival website.

The contest launched in August 2007, offering participants a variety of different motion capture clips for download, along with NFR licenses of 3D match-moving software boujou SD, to aid in the creation of their short films. Between now and the submission close date (Jan. 31, 2008), one entrant per day will be selected at random to win an iPod Shuffle.

Film entries will be posted on YouTube and the Vicon Film Festival website for public voting. The top 10 entries will be submitted to an independent judging panel comprised of industry experts including Mike Sanders (Industrial Light & Magic), Eric Furie (USC School of Cinematic Arts), Takashi Fukamoto (Links Digiworks), Gary Roberts (Vicon House of Moves), Chris Mais (writer and director of the award-winning SMILE), Mick Morris (Audiomotion) and Darren Waters (BBC Interactive). The winner will be announced in June 2008. Media sponsors for the competition include VFXWorld.com, Computer Graphics World and Digital Arts Magazine (UK).

Launched in 2002, Subway Cinema's New York Asian Film Festival is America's leading and most influential showcase for popular Asian cinema. Each year, the Festival selects more than 30 feature films, considering only the best, the strangest, and the most entertaining of the recent titles. To date, the festival has presented more than 130 films from China, Hong Kong, India, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, Pakistan, Philippines, Taiwan, and Thailand, including the works of Park Chan-wook, Patrick Tam, Takashi Miike, Andrew Lau, Feng Xiaogang, Kim Jee-woon, Lee Myung-se, Suzuki Seijun, Johnnie To, Sion Sono, Shinya Tsukamoto, Kiyoshi Kurosawa, KIM Ki-duk, Ryu Seung-wan, Xiao Jiang, Shunji Iwai, and many others. Each year, one film is crowned with the NYAFF Audience Award, as determined by audience ballot, keeping with the grass-roots democratic spirit of the Festival. Audience Award winners. The festival's intimate atmosphere allows for a personal and relaxed interaction between the audience and the filmmakers, which is all but lost at larger film events. Festival guests do everything from conducting Q&As, to giving away prizes and even putting on puppet shows! Past guests include directors E. J-Yong (DASEPO NAUGHTY GIRLS), Shusuke Kaneko (DEATH NOTE), Sion Sono (EXTE), HAN Jae-rim (THE SHOW MUST GO ON), Omar Khan (HELL'S GROUND), RYU Seung-wan (CRYING FIST), Eiichiro Hasumi (UMIZARU, UMIZARU 2), Takashi Yamazaki (ALWAYS: SUNSET ON THIRD STREET), Hideyuki Kobayashi (MARRONIER), Bade Haji Azmi (GANGSTER), Onir (MY BROTHER NIKHIL); producers Syd Lim (OLD BOY), Eiko Tanaka (MIND GAME), and Hirotsugi Usui (BAYSIDE SHAKEDOWN, UMIZARU). Information: www.subwaycinema.com.

The Los Angeles Film Festival features world premieres, including independent films and major studio releases, tribute screenings, free outdoor movies, celebrity-filled red carpets, VIP parties and more. Drawing a diverse audience of more than 60,000 attendees, the festival offers interactive programming, family-friendly events and more than 75 features and 60 short film screenings from around the world. The early deadline is Nov. 30, 2007. The regular deadline is Jan. 11, 2008. The final deadline for short films and music videos is Feb. 8, 2008, while the final deadline for feature films is March 3, 2008. Film Independent's Los Angeles Film Festival is presented by the LOS ANGELES TIMES. For more information, call 1-866-FilmFest or visit www.lafilmfest.com.