AAA Screenplay Contest gives away over $8,000 in cash and access to more than 350 companies, plus two TV prizes (one for sitcoms, the other for one-hour dramatic) this year, and four CS Genre Fellowships have been created to find promising writers and offer them the guidance of a CREATIVE SCREENWRITING mentor to help them take their work to the next level. These special fellowships will be awarded in the Drama, Sci-Fi/Fantasy, Thriller/Horror and Comedy genres.

Entry fee is $40 for features, $30 for teleplays. Quarterfinalists will be notified and posted on the website by Sept. 15. Semifinalists will be notified and posted on the website by Oct. 1. Finalists will be announced by Oct. 15, and the winner will be chosen no later than Nov. 1.

For complete details, visit www.creativescreenwriting.com/aaa/index.html.

Walt Disney is hosting THE CHRONICLES OF NARNIA: PRINCE CASPIAN Fan Art Contest where one lucky NARNIA fan will be selected to have their fan art for PRINCE CASPIAN distributed as an exclusive, limited edition poster at this year's San Diego Comic-Con. You can enter the contest and upload your submission at disney.go.com/disneypictures/narnia/fanclub/fanart.html. Some of the entries submitted to date can be viewed at disney.go.com/disneypictures/narnia/fanclub/fanart_winners.html.

Joss Whedon (BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER), Dark Horse and eBay have teamed to offer fans a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to sit down to a private dinner with Whedon at this year's San Diego Comic-Con. Beginning on July 2, fans will have the opportunity to bid on seats at his table, all for a worthwhile cause. The charity auction also offers additional rarities, including signed editions of Dark Horse's upcoming SERENITY hardcover. For complete details, visit ebay.com/josswhedon. Funds raised from the charity auction will benefit Equality Now, an organization founded in 1992 to work for the protection and promotion of the human rights of women around the world. Working with national human rights organizations and individual activists, Equality Now documents violence and discrimination against women and mobilizes international action to support their efforts to stop these human rights abuses. For more information, please visit equalitynow.org. The event is being managed on eBay by Auction Cause, a premier online auction management agency specializing in high-profile design, strategy, and cause marketing for corporations and nonprofits worldwide. For more information, please visit www.auctioncause.com.

The Accolade is a nontraditional, virtual venue with seasonal deadlines that allows timely online publicity and distribution opportunities for moviemakers, television producers and videographers. It is a top tier, international awards competition in its fifth year. The Accolade receives entries from all over the world including the U.S., Canada, Mexico, England, Spain, Ireland, India, Czech Republic, Malaysia, Hong Kong, etc. Subtitled, foreign-language films are welcome. The awards go to those moviemakers, television producers and videographers who produce fresh, standout entertainment, animation and compelling documentaries.

Since The Accolade is not a traditional festival, it gains eyeballs for winners online through its website, press releases and blasts to its e-mail database of more than 25,000 producers, distributors and buyers. The Accolade is an award known to buyers and distributors and gives them confidence that winning productions are of high quality.

There are three levels of awards, all based on quality and creativity: Best of Show, Awards of Excellence and Honorable Mention. No more than 15% of entries are granted Awards of Excellence. Best of Show honors are granted only if worthy productions are discovered. Notable artistic and technical productions are recognized at the Honorable Mention award level. Annually, a special award is given to a production that makes a significant contribution to social change or a humanitarian effort.

Winners benefit as The Accolade team works passionately to help worthy productions gain the publicity and distribution they deserve. Clips of the Best of Show productions are streamed on The Accolade Website. All Award of Excellence and Honorable Mention winners have a listing with a link to their Website if requested. Every moviemaker, television producer and videographer wants credibility and buzz, and that is what The Accolade is all about! It is a showcase for cinematic gems and unique voices.

The goal of The Accolade is to help the winners of this coveted award achieve the recognition and distribution they deserve.

Go to www.TheAccolade.net for rules and entry form.

The Writers Place 2008 Screenwriting Contest, which accepts all genres, including short scripts and teleplays, is in full swing. The early entry deadline is Oct. 31, with the final deadline on Nov. 15. Go to www.thewritersplace.org and click on Screenwriting Contest for more information.

BlueCat Screenplay Competition offers entrants written feedback on their scripts. All screenplays entered by Dec. 1 will receive feedback by Jan. 1. Screenplays submitted by Jan. 2 will receive their analysis by Feb. 1. All early-bird submissions will be eligible for resubmission prior to the March 3 deadline for a reduced entry fee of $35. Since 1998, the BlueCat Screenplay Competition's mission of developing the undiscovered screenwriter continues to reach more writers every year, with BlueCat having the largest cash prize for a screenplay contest offering feedback to all writers. The winner will receive $10,000, with the four finalists receiving $1,500. Quarter-finalists will be announced July 1, 2008. Semi-finalists will be announced Aug. 1, and five finalists will be announced Aug. 8. The winner will be announced Aug. 15. For more information, visit www.bluecatscreenplay.com or www.myspace.com/bluecatscreenplay.

Bob Iger, President/CEO, The Walt Disney Co., will participate in a Q&A session at the Sanford C. Bernstein Media Symposium on Thursday, Nov. 29, 2007, at approximately 12:15 pm EST/9:15 am PST. To listen to a live Webcast of the session, go to www.disney.com/investors approximately five minutes prior to the start time. A re-play will be provided through Thursday, Dec. 13 2007, at 4:00 pm PDT.

The Scriptapalooza Screenwriting Competition was founded in 1998, and has generated heat, publicity and a reputation that demands respect. Scriptapalooza, Inc., along with its various divisions, was created to nurture talent and create opportunities. Storytellers come from all over the world and from all walks of life, because of the simple fact that everyone has a story. Scriptapalooza's goal: to seek out that storyteller and honor their script with a grand prize of $10,000. Each year dozens of production companies and literary representatives sign on as participants to read our winners, resulting in many scripts being optioned, sold or bought outright. The early deadline is Jan. 7, 2008, the first deadline is March 5 and the final deadline is April 15. For more information, visit www.scriptapalooza.com.

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.

Save the date and plan to join free webinar on April 18 when eBook contributors and animators Wayne Gilbert and Keith Sintay share their professional knowledge, personal tips and answer questions from the audience. Gilbert, animation director and writer, has animated for films, television, and commercials and is the winner of two Clio Awards. In addition to working as an animator at major studios, he has also designed and taught classes for other animators at Disney, Industrial Light & Magic, and Electronic Arts. Gilbert's book, SIMPLIFIED DRAWING FOR PLANNING ANIMATION, has been a leading resource for animators since 1999. Sintay is a senior animator at Digital Domain and a mentor at Animation Mentor. He has worked on the films POCAHONTAS, THE HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE DAME, MULAN and TARZAN at Disney, and SPIRIT, SINBAD and SHARK TALE at DreamWorks Animation. Most recently, he worked as a senior animator on OPEN SEASON, SURF'S UP, MONSTER HOUSE, BEOWULF and I AM LEGEND at Sony Pictures Imageworks. Having just finished work on G.I. JOE: THE RISE OF THE COBRA, he is currently working on TRANSFORMERS: REVENGE OF THE FALLEN. The webinar is hosted by Microsoft Live Meeting. They support only PCs not Macs, and only the following countries: U.S., Canada, U.K., Finland, Japan, France and India. If you are from an unsupported system or country sign up for the replay, available after April 22.