The China Cartoon Industry Forum focuses on the market, integrating the multi-industry resources and bringing in financial investment to China

Since its inception in 1998, the Savannah Film Festival has focused on enriching and educating an expanding audience, while promoting quality independent films and filmmakers. The festival features more than 50 films selected from more than 600 entries in the categories of feature, short, animation, documentary and student competition. The featured screenings represent a variety of independent filmmakers, while a cross section of workshops, lectures, receptions and special events gives the festival participants an opportunity to meet colleagues active in all areas of film production. For more information visit www.scad.edu/filmfest/intro/intro.htm.

Artists Helping Artists (AHA!) and THE CREATIVE LINE magazine will be holding an AHA! artists gatherings. This AHA gathering is free. The meeting is a safe space where artists, musicians, writers, arts educators and community arts leaders can make new contacts and share and align their creative visions and projects. It

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

Hosted by ADWEEK, BRANDWEEK, MEDIAWEEK, BILLBOARD AND THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER and presented by The WB,

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.

Again this year, MIFF will merge Milanese fashion, the movie business and Italian night-life. Last year the audience increased 100% from MIFF 2001. The 2002 best film prize was given to SHOWBOY, which subsequently was purchased by Regent Entertainment and will be released in North America September 2003. Now in its 4th year, MIFF 2003 is the premier international film festival in Milan, capturing the cultural diversity of the world of filmmaking and provides filmmakers with an avenue of exposure to the film community. Through International Features and Shorts competition and other special screenings, MIFF brings movies to audiences, press, buyers and distribution companies. Award categories include: Feature Competition Jury Award (also know as Leonardo's Horse), Shorts Competition Jury Award, Feature Audience Award and Shorts Audience Award. For more information contact the festival at www.miffmilanofestival.com.

IFP/Chicago will be holding the 12th Annual Independent Filmmakers Conference, a weekend-long event featuring panels and seminars about timely and important independent filmmaking topics presented by renowned filmmakers. A major conference highlight, IFP/Chicago's Production Fund, an in-kind donation of equipment and services valued at $85,000, is considered the biggest grant for independent filmmakers in the Midwest. The 2003 Production Fund recipient, Karen Friedberg, will showcase her completed film, THE KING OF THE TANGO, a coming-of-age tale based on Joe Meno's debut novel, TENDER AS HELLFIRE. The 2004 Production Fund deadline is September 19, 2003. The recipient for the 2004 Fund will be announced on Saturday, November 1, during the Flyover Zone Short Film Festival. For more information visit www.ifp.org.

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