=Conditions
-- Must be no more than 30 minutes in length?
-- There are no limitations considering the applicant’s age?
-- All genres and languages are accepted?
-- Must have been made after January of 2006?
-- Copyrights and any other rights of the movie to be submitted must be possessed or registered by the actual applicant?
-- Must have never been submitted to a previous CON-CAN Movie Festival?
-- Movies in a language other than English or Japanese must have either English or Japanese subtitles?

Application Fee
Free

Submission Deadline
May 8th (Friday), 2009. All submissions must be postmarked by May 8

CON-CAN Competition

*CON-CAN Grand Prix Award
Prize: US$5,000 & Trophy
Invitation to the Award Ceremony held in Tokyo, Japan
*Round trip airfare to Tokyo and hotel fee for two nights included

*CON-CAN Special Jury Award
Prize: US$2,000 & Trophy
Invitation to the Award Ceremony held in Tokyo, Japan
*Round trip airfare to Tokyo and hotel fee for two nights included

*Best Picture Award (Fiction)
Prize: Trophy
Invitation to the Award Ceremony held in Tokyo, Japan
*Hotel fee for two nights included (airfare NOT included)

*Best Picture Award (Documentary)
Prize: Trophy
Invitation to the Award Ceremony held in Tokyo, Japan
*Hotel fee for two nights included (airfare NOT included)

*Best Picture Award (Animation)
Prize: Trophy
Invitation to the Award Ceremony held in Tokyo, Japan
*Hotel fee for two nights included (airfare NOT included)

*Best Picture Award (Experimental)
Prize: Trophy
Invitation to the Award Ceremony held in Tokyo, Japan
*Hotel fee for two nights included (airfare NOT included)

Further information can be found at http://en.con-can.com/submissions/guidelines.html.

The Los Angeles Film Festival, held annually for ten days in June, showcases the best of American and international cinema. Drawing on an expected attendance of 85,000, the festival provides films with the opportunity to be embraced by the public and discovered by the industry. More than 100 feature films -- narrative and documentary-are featured in the festival, alongside gala premieres, panels and seminars, short film programs, music video showcases, free outdoor screenings, live musical performances, and unique signature events. Now in its fifteenth year, the Festival has grown into a world-class event, uniting new filmmakers with critics, scholars, film masters, and the movie-loving public.

Festival passes for the 2009 Los Angeles Film Festival go on sale Tuesday, May 5. Tickets to individual screenings will be available for purchase beginning on May 29. Passes and tickets can be purchased on this web site or over the phone at 866.FILMFEST (345-6337). Walk up sales of passes and tickets will begin at Festival Ticket Office on Sunday, June 14.

Approximately 110 features, 40 shorts, and 60 music videos make up the main body of the Festival. This year, Festival programmers considered more than 4,500 films.

Place: Cartoon Network in Burbank, CA, Roof Top (Sweaters/jackets are recommended. No high or spiky heels, please.)

Time: 6:30 Check-in and Networking
7:00 WIA Business
7:30 One World Giving

Donation: Student Members $5. Members $10. Guests $15.
All fees are donations to our new One World Giving Fund.

RSVP: No later than Friday, June 12th via wia@womeninanimation.org. Space is limited. RSVP early.

Speakers to be announced.

Annecy has been showcasing the very best in animation for more than 45 years, making it the industry's leading international competitive festival. The competition is open to the following five film categories, each using different animation techniques: -- Feature Films -- Short Films -- Commissioned and TV Films -- Graduation Films -- Official Selection The Festival also includes: film premieres, retrospectives, exhibitions, screenings from 10 a.m. to 11 p.m., in nine theatres around the town and evening screenings by the lake on a giant screen. Mifa will be held June 10-12 with the conference June 9-13. Located close to the International Animation Film Festival, the Mifa is the global animation event for co-producing, buying, selling, financing and distributing animation content across all platforms.

Creating today's entertainment media demands community, collaboration and teamwork. Community is vital to artists struggling in the current economic landscape. The Industry Giants 2009: Building a Community, Visual Effects, Animation and Game Forum features 2D artist/animator Michel Gagne, veteran of Warner Bros., Disney and Pixar, Jay Hawkins, Epic Games' Senior Concept Artist for Gears of War and many other creative professionals. The eighth annual event takes place Friday, June 5 and Saturday, June 6, 2009 at the Spring Creek Campus (SCC) of Collin County Community College, 2800 Spring Creek Parkway in Plano, Texas. It's open to the public, students and industry professionals. Hosted annually by the filmmaking/visual effects, animation, game development non-profit, A Bunch of Short Guys, and Collin's Applied Graphic Design Technology department, Industry Giants 2009 features Masterclasses and a one-day forum and panel discussion. The event features a distinctive lineup of speakers working in all areas of animation and visual effects for film, television and games. Schedules for the Masterclasses, forum and ticket information are available online at www.industrygiants.org. Tickets can be purchased in advance or at the door. Advance combination tickets for both the June 5 Masterclasses AND the June 6 forum are $40 for students and $80 for the public and professionals. Advance tickets to the June 6 forum-only are $15 for students and $20 for the public and professionals. Combination tickets purchased at the door are $50 for students and $90 for the public and professionals. Forum tickets purchased at the door are $20 for students and $25 for the public and professionals. Questions? Please call 972-516-5089 or by email: AGDT_TA@ccccd.edu. Masterclasses will be held on campus in rooms C-103, C-104 and the SCC Conference Center from 9:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. on Friday, June 5, 2009. With the purchase of a combination ticket, those attending the Masterclasses will be able to choose their own schedule. Masterclasses will be offered throughout the day. Morning sessions will run from 9:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. and include "Creating The IK Walk Cycle" by veteran Pixar, Blue Sky and Henson Studios Animator/Animation Director, David Tart. Id Software Character Artist, Brett Briley, will conduct a session on Zbrush digital sculpting techniques in video games. The afternoon sessions take place from 1:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. and will include a second session on Zbrush by Janimation Senior Creative Director Greg Punchatz featuring real-time creation of a digital character with audience participation. Jeff Alcantara, Reel FX Lighting and Compositing Supervisor, will conduct a session on compositing for OPEN SEASON 2 in NUKE. In addition, "Artists' Alley" will run all day, featuring Michel Gagne, Jay Hawkins, Jason Manley and others. Artist's books and book signing will be available. The Industry Giants Forum takes place in the John Anthony Theatre from 10:00 a.m. until 5:30 p.m. on Saturday, June 6, 2008. The lineup includes presentations by Will Nicholson, CG Supervisor at Cafe FX who will discuss his work on recent films and tips on succeeding in the industry. Artist Michel Gagne, veteran of Warner Bros., Disney, Pixar and other studios will feature his recent game, Insanely Twisted Shadow Planet and other work. Jay Hawkins, Senior Concept Artist with Epic Games, will present on his work for Gears of War. Digital Domain Technical Developer Tadao Mihashi will feature his lighting and rendering work on THE CURIOUS CASE OF BENJAMIN BUTTON. Jason Manley, President of MassiveBlack.com and Founding Director of ConceptArt.org will discuss online communities in the entertainment industry. Winners of the A Bunch of Short Guys 2009 Student Animation Contest will be announced. A full panel discussion will conclude the event. A Bunch of Short Guys (ABOSG) is a non-profit organization that fosters education and career development for students and professionals in the animation, visual effects and game industries. The group hosts free monthly meetings on the third or fourth Saturday of the month. In addition, ABOSG presents Industry Insights, an ongoing series featuring industry artists, as well as various training workshops and the Industry Giants events.

In its grand tradition of showcasing the finest of Israeli films, this year IFF will screen the best films produced within the last year and new, crowd pleasing titles never before shown. Due to popular demand, the Festival is proud to present the award winning Academy Award nominated WALTZ WITH BASHIR as part of its spotlight on the best of Israeli film industry. This screening will allow audiences to experience the film back on the big screen. This special encore showing will only happen once at the Fine Arts Theater ( Beverly Hills) and once at Laemmle's Fallbrook 7 ( San Fernando Valley). Encompassing over 30 movies, including award winning features, documentaries and student films, the Festival runs from June 3-18, 2009 in Los Angeles. The gala Opening Night festivities will include the West Coast premiere of LOST ISLANDS, the highest grossing and most honored film in Israel last year, and the Festival's highly-anticipated awards presentation will take place on Wednesday, June 3rd at the legendary Egyptian Theatre in Hollywood. The 2009 IFF Awards will be bestowed on: John Fishel (President of The Jewish Federation of Greater Los Angeles), Robert Lantos (prolific Hollywood producer), Branko Lustig (two time Academy Award winning producer) and Diane Warren (Grammy Award winning songwriter), it was announced by Meir Fenigstein, the Founder/Executive Director of the Israel Film Festival. All other films in the Festival will screen at two locations: Fine Arts Theatre ( 8556 Wilshire Blvd., Beverly Hills) and Laemmle's Fallbrook 7 ( 5731 Fallbrook Avenue, San Fernando Valley). The films are in Hebrew with English subtitles. A portion of funds raised from the Opening Night and Awards Gala will support scholarships for Israeli students to study cinema in six major film schools in Israel. From the 30 films submitted for consideration for this year's film scholarships, six filmmakers will be selected and each will be awarded cash and prizes valued up to $2,500. The winners will also be flown to Los Angeles for premiere showings of their films at this year's Festival. The student filmmaker awards will be presented at the Opening Night Gala. IFF's goal is to award the cash prize to filmmakers as an incentive to make their next feature film in Israel thus continuing the long heritage and enrichment of Israeli Cinema. This program is also sponsored by the Israel Lottery for the Arts and Cellcom. To purchase tickets for screenings or for further information, please call 1-877-966-5566 or visit www.israelfilmfestival.com. Tickets are available for advance purchase online and at theatre box offices beginning May 18. Ticket prices are: $12 for general admission, $10 for senior citizens (62 and older), children (under 12) and students with proper ID. Weekday matinees (shows before 6:00 p.m.) are $9 for all filmgoers. A Festival Pass (buy five, get one free) is available for $60.00 (restrictions apply -- vouchers must be exchanged at the box office a half-hour prior to show time and are not available for sold-out screenings). Tickets for Opening Night Screening and Awards Presentation are $125. Tickets can also be purchased at the Fine Arts Theatre box office and the Laemmle Fallbrook box office.

The first films that will screen in this year's festival have been revealed, presenting a diverse selection of titles that will screen in Australia for the first time. Amongst those in the official competition are animated features CORALINE, BRENDAN AND THE SECRET OF KELLS and SUNSHINE BARRY AND THE DISCO WORMS. Information: www.sydneyfilmfestival.org.

The Hamburg International Short Film Festival has its roots in the independent filmmaking scene. The Festival first took place in 1985 under the title NoBudget, a name which clearly defined the Festival’s mission. In 1994 it received its current name. Since it was founded, it has always been the Festival’s aim to rise to the challenge presented by new developments and changing parameters in technology, society, and aesthetics. First of all, multitudinous film productions will be competing for several awards in the International Competition, the NoBudget competition, the German Competition, the Hamburg Competition, the Three-Minute Quickie, Mo&Friese Children's ShortFilmFestival as well as for several cross-competition awards. The winners will be announced on Monday, 8 June 2009 at the Award Ceremony. Furthermore, several special programmes containing hundreds of films will be on the festival menu this year. We are very happy to announce Romania as this year's country focus, which will elaborate the past and presence of the Balcan region cinematically. Another special programme deals with the work of the Group Arnold Hau, an artist collective that stems from the artistic periphery of the German satire magazine TITANIC. The Sound of Cities is a collection of musically underlayed super-8 films portraying the sound of international metropolises in the '70s. Naturally such a considerable anniversary needs to be framed by a jubilee programme. Hence we will be screening the cinematic highlights from the past quarter of a century of Hamburg short film history. Best of 25 years is a programme where the audience selects the films like choosing songs from a jukebox under the condition that no film can run more than once. We also set up a festival museum where one can admire relicts from over a quarter of a century of festival history. The legendary Open Air nocturnal walkabout A Wall is a Screen and other framing events will make time fly all day and all of the night. The 35 ml Club will put you in high spirits before you go on to the screenings at the Zeise Kinos, Metropolis, B-Movie, Lichtmess and 3001. At night finally, the audience, guests and team members can meet at the festival-club for a drink, a chat and a quick boogie on the dance floor. For further details, please visit our website at: www.shortfilm.com/festival.

11th Mo&Friese Children's ShortFilmFestival Hamburg, Germany June 1-7, 2009 The Mo&Friese Children’s ShortFilmFestival is one of the few film festivals for children, that presents exclusively short films. It has developed out of a special programme of the International ShortFilmFestival Hamburg. In 1999 it became an independent festival and has grown ever since. Besides children it attracts also a professional international audience. The festival program addresses kids and teens between 4 and 14 years. Especially pupils and preschool children are invited to movie screenings which take place in the mornings.

Screening and Discussion with Shira Avni Saturday, May 30th, 2009 1:00 p.m.-3:00 p.m. At the NFB Cinema, 150 John Street FREE Admission Animating Under the Camera Workshop with Shira Avni Sunday, May 31st, 2009 10:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m. At the NFB Atelier TAIS Members $35 Non-members $50 Limited spaces! Pre-registration required. Email tais@bellnet.ca to reserve your spot. For more info, visit www.tais.ca Shira Avni is an artist that creates interesting and challenging works that encompass documentary techniques with animation. Using mostly under-the-camera animating practices of painting on glass and plasticine work, Shira creates layered stories that explore issues of immigration, sexuality, friendship, and ableness. Shira has worked as a director and animator at the National Film Board of Canada since 1997. She is currently a part-time faculty member at Concordia University's Cinema program, and has taught numerous animation workshops in Montreal, Chicago, and Seoul. Join us for an exclusive screening and discussion with Shira Avni in person (including a sneak peak at her new NFB film!), and a full day, hands-on workshop with the artist.