Casbaa Convention is dedicated to the growth of the television industry in Asia. Day One will address Satellite: Limitless Benefits for Television, Satellite: The Life Line for Telecoms, Satellite: Something You May Not Have Thought About, Finance: How Do We Get the Money?, and Satellite Operators CEO Forum: Keeping the Customer Satisfied: Reliability, Flexibility & Imagination. Topics addressed on Day Two will include: Making It: New Products, New Markets, New Ideas, Selling It: Turning-on & Tuning-in Asian Pay-TV Advertisers, Stealing It: Chasing the Dragons of Asian Piracy, and Growing It: Lifting the Lid on the Successful Players in our Region. Day Three will look at the following: Legally Binding: The Do

Artist, curator, nonprofit veteran, and CalArts faculty member Karen Atkinson will once again teach her famed survival workshop series for emerging and mid-career artists working in the Greater L.A. area. For years, Get Your Sh*T Together was only available to students at CalArts. Thanks to continued support from LA Cultural Affairs, Side Street Projects is proud to offer this vital workshop once again to artists from all disciplines that need to get their sh*t together. The event will provide attendees with information and resources to make things happen for themself. Learn how to tap-into systems of support designed to help you practice your craft without selling your soul. Explore theoretical and practical issues, questions of professionalism, ethics, funding, project management, and the nuts & bolts survival strategies every working artist needs to know. The workshop is open to artists from all disciplines: visual arts, film & video, theatre, dance, writing, music, performance, etc. All participants receive a mammoth 400-page class reader chock-full of information, forms and resources, grant info, templates, etc. Space is extremely limited. First come, first serve. The event takes place at the Los Angeles Farmers Market over six Wednesdays from 7:00

ETA-Entertainment Technology Alliance is dedicated to brining the entertainment industry and technologists together. The event will take place at the Hudson Hotel. Speakers will include people from such companies as AT&T, E! Online Entertainment, Microsoft Windows Digital Media, Screen Digest and Time Magazine. ETA Expo hopes to create a better understanding in the field of media technology and entertainment business. For more information, contact tel.: (310) 229-8915, e-mail: info@etaexpo.com or Web: http://www.etaexpo.com.

The World of Comedy International Film Festival premiered to great success in 2003. The WCIFF is dedicated to presenting a feast of quality comedy features and shorts from around the world. The festival is a showcase for the best emerging filmmakers working in the comedy genre today as well as comedy classics. Submissions are now being accepted for both features and shorts in the following categories: narrative, animation, mockumentary, experimental and documentaries about comedy and/or personalities involved in comedic filmmaking. Submissions accepted only on VHS (NTSC) but may be exhibited on various film and tape and digital formats.
Early Deadline: September 30, 2003
Extended Deadline: October 31, 2003.
International Early Entry fees: $10 US/shorts,
$20 US/features.
Canadian Early Entry fees: $10 Cdn/shorts, $20 Cdn/features.

One of the most respected regional film events in the nation, the Florida Film Festival was named one of the top 10 festivals in the world by festival guru Chris Gore in his 2001 edition of The Ultimate Film Festival Survival Guide. The Festival features an American Independent Competition with Grand Jury Awards for Narrative Feature, Narrative Short, Animated Short, Documentary Feature, Documentary Short, as well as Special Jury Awards, and Audience Awards for best Narrative Feature, Documentary Feature, Short Film, International Feature and International Short.

Cartoombria 2003 is a non-competitive festival without entry fees. It has become a point of reference in Italy for what concerns the contemporary trends in animation by achieving its yearly presentation as regards the study in depth of the relationship between animated images, new media, music and visual arts. Cartoombria 2003 will in fact include multimedia and audiovisual experimental performances in realtime (acted by musicians and computer artists), environments and installations exhibition, screenings, seminars, meetings conducted by special guests. The screenings program will also showcase 3D CG, Flash and mixmedia short films, visual effects, previews and schools works, music videos, ads, promos, trailers, games movies, motion graphics, Web and computer animated cutting-edge productions. Cartoombria.com portal will also include the annual Web animation online guide, extended to Web design and Web art, that's called Animutations (its sections are: Web cartoons, Web comics, Web games, Web reviews, Web experiments). The festival

The Nashville Film Festival (NFF) will showcase the best in independently produced features, documentaries, shorts, animation, experimental works and videos by young filmmakers (age 18 and under) from around the world as well as independent classics from the past. As part of the festival agenda, NFF will also feature workshops, panel discussions, vendor and product expos and guest appearances by nationally recognized figures in the film and video arts. For more information contact tel: (615) 742-2500; e-mail: info@nashvillefilmfestival.org; or Web: www.nashvillefilmfestival.org.

The International Film Festival Rotterdam, one of Europe

UPDATE!

The City of Santa Clarita and the CalArts Alumni Association will be hosting