CVMP, the European Conference on Visual Media Production (www.cvmp-conference.org), is now announcing its call for submissions. The conference takes place on 12th and 13th November 2009 at the BFI Southbank, London. Now in the sixth year of CVMP, a new management team is injecting fresh momentum to this unique event, which brings together practitioners in media production from the film, broadcast and games industries with leading academics and researchers in imaging and graphics. The two-day conference will provide a dynamic forum for the exchange of knowledge between researchers and media industry specialists working at the cutting-edge of visual media production and delivery. CVMP has traditionally been held at the IET (Institution of Engineering and Technology), but has a new, larger venue for 2009, and a dedicated team that will develop and expand the event and associated activities. The conference chairman is Dr Oliver Grau, lead technologist at BBC Research & Development, with Adrian Hilton, from University of Surrey, the programme chair. The CVMP organising committee is comprised of Bill Collis, CEO at The Foundry, Simon Robinson chief scientist at The Foundry, Anil Kokaram of Trinity College, Ireland, Tom Evans of Wavecrest Systems Ltd, and Dr Graham Thomas, principal research engineer at BBC Research & Development. Conference secretary is Abi Bowman, project manager at The Foundry. This year, the latest research developments will be presented together with real-world, industry applications, combining to deliver a unique melting pot of ideas and experience. The event promises to be fascinating and informative, with a lineup that already includes Matt Welford, head of compositing at Weta Digital (THE DAY THE EARTH STOOD STILL, THE CHRONICLES OF NARNIA: PRINCE CASPIAN, KING KONG, THE LORD OF THE RINGS trilogy), Professor Marc Pollefeys from ETHZ and Dr Toni Mateos of Barcelona Media. Special sessions this year are 'Advanced Technology in Post Production', and 'Capturing 3D Worlds'. CVMP will also address the increasing demand for 3D stereoscopic content and delivery for emerging platforms such as e-cinema, high-resolution home displays and interactive media, which are all fuelling the development of new technology and approaches. The 'Call for Papers' is now live at www.cvmp-conference.org for those who would like to submit papers on innovative research and practical applications related to media production, along with a comprehensive list of suggested topics. Registration for CVMP 2009, (Full rate: GBP 300 / Retired/Student rate GBP 150) is also live on the CVMP website. The Best papers from CVMP 2008 will be published in a special issue of JVRB (Journal of Virtual Reality and Broadcasting) and the conference proceedings will be published by the IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers).

The Holland Animation Film Festival is from now on an annual event and the 13th edition of the festival will take place November 4-8, 2009.

Submit your film for this festival edition for the following competitions:

-- Competition for Independent Animated Shorts in the categories narrative and non-narrative
-- Competition for Applied Animation in the categories commercials, educational films, music videos and leaders

The entry forms for these competitions are available at www.haff.nl. Through this entry forms, Dutch productions for both competitions (as well independent and applied) can also apply for the Competition for Best Dutch Animation. A prize will be awarded by the audience.

Deadline for all entries: July 1, 2009.

Holland Animation Film Festival is a unique five-day international meeting place for all professionals, animation lovers, producers, students, upcoming talents and all interested audiences. Featuring retrospectives, thematic programs, master classes, talk shows, exhibitions, installations, SFX/VFX and much more.

The Savannah Film Festival, hosted by the Savannah College of Art and Design, is accepting entries for the 2009 festival, to be held Oct. 31-Nov. 7. Featuring the best in independent, innovative and influential film from around the world, the annual festival presents a full range of cinematic creativity from both award-winning professionals and emerging student filmmakers. Features, documentaries, professional and student shorts, both live action and animated, will be considered. All entries must be postmarked by July 6. The Savannah Film Festival regularly screens award-winning films before their national release dates at the beautifully restored Trustees Theater, a 1946 cinema house, and the Lucas Theatre for the Arts, a former Vaudeville venue. Savannah becomes a film lover's paradise during this weeklong event, which also features workshops, panel discussions and presentations by well-known artists and filmmakers. Films screened at the festival have come from Scotland, the U.K., Vietnam, Australia, Switzerland, Ukraine, Israel, China, Germany, Canada, the United States and Ecuador, and special guests in attendance have included Malcolm McDowell, Michael Douglas, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Peter O'Toole, Kathleen Turner, Danny Glover, Milos Forman and Alec Baldwin. Paperless entries submitted via Withoutabox's International Film Festival Submission System are preferred. Visit www.scad.edu/filmfest for the link. Entries will also be accepted in prepaid and packed containers; contestants should submit work for preview on DVD or NTSC for Region 0 and 1. Entries must either be in the English language or subtitled in English. To be eligible for the festival, feature films must be no less than 40 minutes long, and short films must be 5-25 minutes long. Submitted films and materials will not be returned unless a self-addressed, postage-paid return envelope is included with the submission. Regardless of original format, all competition films screen on DigiBeta, Beta SP format or 35mm for festival presentation. Incomplete submissions or "works in progress" will not be considered. A screening committee will view all entries, and a select panel will choose films for the festival competition. The Savannah Film Festival and the Savannah College of Art and Design do not assume liability for damage to entries due to mishandling or poor packaging during shipping. For more information about the festival and film entries, contact the SCAD box office at 912.525.5050 or visit www.scad.edu/filmfest.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

CONTACT: Chris Wanamaker, (202) 262 2083 president@dcanimeclub.org

Mushishi  The Movie to be screened at the

Japan Information and Culture Center,

Embassy of Japan.

     DC Anime Club in collaboration with Japan Information and Culture

Center, Embassy of Japan Present screen Mushishi

Friday October 30, 2009 6:30 pm as part of inaugural showing for a new

film series based on both Anime (Japanese Animation) and Manga ( Japanese

Comics).Mushi are ethereal organisms comprised of and related to the source of all life.

Their very existence is enough to spur on supernatural phenomena. Ginko is a Mushi-shi,

one who investigates and counteracts the ill-effects of mushi encounters/infestations. As

Ginko wanders from town to town learning more of the Mushi and helping those in his

wake; we learn of the fate that brought him into his present circumstances.

Free candy will be given to kids and adults alike in costume during this event.

This event is free and open to the public. Reservations are required.

RSVP to jiccrsvpfall09@embjapan.org.

Seating is limited and granted on a first come, first served basis.

For more information please visit the Japanese Information and Culture Center website at

http://www.us.emb-japan.go.jp/jicc/index.htm or visit the DC Anime Club website at http://dcanimeclub.org.


About DC Anime Club:
 
DCAC was established in 2003 to introduce and educate people in the
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The Visual Effects Society (VES) will present a Production Summit for the greater entertainment industry on October 24th. The Production Summit 09 will convene a unique consortium of leading creatives, executives and visionaries to offer a rare opportunity to examine innovative approaches to producer challenges, technology developments and the globalization of the production industry. The one-day event will bring together the entertainment community for a day of inspiration, conversation and collaboration. Practitioners from all crafts will join together to look at the present in order to start defining the future. The event will be held at the Ritz Carlton Hotel in Marina del Rey. Eric Roth, VES Executive Director, states, "Because the entertainment industry is changing so rapidly -- on the creative, technological and business fronts -- we're bringing together all industry stakeholders to discuss the challenges we all face in looking at our entertainment future. The Production Summit will be a central meeting place of common concerns and challenges that will create new dialogue and solutions across all guilds and studios." The innovative summit will bring together an international group of directors, producers, cinematographers, editors, technologists and visual effects leaders responsible for moving the industry into the next decade. As leaders in their fields, attendees will be encouraged to not only think outside the box, but also, to reinvent the box in the process of creating an entirely new production paradigm. The Sessions will include: Through the Kaleidoscope: Three interactive one-hour sessions deliver a multifaceted examination of Pre-Production, Production and Post Production. Every component in the production process affects every other, creating an intricate, complex structure. In a vital format designed to stimulate conversation among our speakers, this three-part session brings together creatives to explore every facet of making a feature, from the first idea to the final render. Directors, art directors, producers, cinematographers, editors, visual effects supervisors and other members of the various guilds discuss the overlaps, gaps, cooperation and collaboration essential to the process. XRay: Surviving (and thriving in) the Post Production Pipeline in the 21st Century With the industry becoming an ever more complex soup of multiple file formats, color space issues, unique and incompatible pipelines, content designed for everything from an iPhone to IMAX, adding stereo to the mix, and then trying to archive all your data, post production looks more like wizardry than the last step of an organized process. This session looks at the ways studios, colorists, visual effects supervisors, and post production supervisors can work collaboratively to triumph over the challenges in moving their projects to release. Hot, Flat and (getting) Crowded: The Business of Production and the new Global Economy As our world continues to shrink, businesses must adjust to the challenges of a universal economy. This session brings together business leaders from around the industry and around the world to engage in a discussion of the cultural, technological, ethical and economic issues that both stimulate and impede our progress. VES Board Chair Jeffrey A. Okun adds, "The industry overall is currently being challenged by enormous economic constraints, and has responded by starting fewer projects. They want to do them fast and inexpensively, while at the same time reaching for the highest quality. This mandate is causing tremendous stresses and strains throughout the entire pipeline of projects. This Summit will lead the discussion on how we all will get to the future, and by envisioning the future we can begin to create it. If you want that future to be bright then you need join us at the Summit!"

The San Francisco Film Society has announced that the inaugural Cinema by the Bay festival, a celebration of the passion, innovation and diversity of Bay Area filmmaking, the intelligence and probing spirit of local directors and the incredible depth and breadth of America's film and media frontier, will run October 23-25. The three-day festival will feature new work produced in or about the San Francisco Bay Area and provide a compelling window into Bay Area film culture and practice at its best. The call for entries for narrative features, documentary features and short films is open now through July 15. From 1984 to 2005, Film Arts Foundation programmed the Bay Area's most dynamic showcase of local independent filmmaking with its Festival of Independent Cinema. Last August, the Film Society underwent an organizational transformation and through an agreement with Film Arts Foundation became stewards of its programs that serve filmmakers directly. Building on the momentum of its now thriving Filmmaker Services programs, the Film Society continues the tradition of showcasing the entertaining, dramatic and courageous work from one of the most dynamic independent film communities in the country with a dedicated film festival. This is by no means new territory for the San Francisco Film Society, which has long celebrated films produced in the creative heart of the West, given Golden Gate Awards to Bay Area documentaries and shorts and three years ago inaugurated a dedicated Cinema by the Bay section in the San Francisco International Film Festival. The most recent edition of the International featured 22 local narrative and documentary feature and short films, capping a total of 113 local films showcased over the past five years. With the advent of Cinema by the Bay, the Film Society will provide Bay Area audiences the opportunity to focus their attention solely on the engaged and eclectic nature of the region's film cultures. HOW TO ENTER Works in all genres (narrative, documentary, experimental and animation) and lengths will be accepted June 22 - July 15, 2009. CBTB requires a San Francisco Bay Area premiere for feature length films only. There is no entry fee to submit works. Films can be entered online at https://sffs.wufoo.com/forms/cinema-by-the-bay-festival-entry-form. Films submitted to SFIFF52 are already under consideration and need not be resubmitted. However, filmmakers with new cuts of a previously submitted film can send a screening copy on DVD to the San Francisco Film Society, 39 Mesa Street, Suite 110, San Francisco, CA 94129, Attn: Audrey Chang. Note on the DVD that it is a new cut.

Featuring the returning Tiffcom market, the festival will be the last major feature of CoFesta, an umbrella event covering 16 festivals devoted to music, games, comicbooks, TV shows and film that starts with the Tokyo Game Show to start either September 24 or 25. (Per VARIETY).

Attention animators! The 10th Annual San Diego Asian Film Festival 2009 will once again be showcasing animated short films produced by animators of Asian ethnicities in a 90-minute all-animation program. All forms of animation (traditional, claymation, stop-motion, flash, CGI, etc) will be accepted for consideration into this competitive festival. Films by all animators pertaining to Asian issues and themes will also be considered. Only DVD formats are accepted for consideration. A Best Animated Short Film Award will be awarded with prizes to be determined. The year 2009 will be SDAFF's 10th year of celebrating the best in Asian Cinema in sunny San Diego. Last year, SDAFF screened over 130 films in eight days with many industry celebrities in attendance. The all-animation program was a resounding success with 21 animated shorts in the official selection. MEAT DAYS, by Joe Hsieh took the Best Animated Short Award. Help make SDAFF a success again by submitting your animation and spreading the word to your friends and associates who may also be interested.

ANIMA'09 will take place in the city of Cordoba, Argentina, from October 8 through 10, 2009. The festival is organized by the Centro Experimental de Animacion and the Secretaria de Extension Universitaria, National University of Cordoba. This fifth edition of the ANIMA will be dedicated to exploring the concept of Identity Traits. Therefore, we open the following: -- Call for entries, for short and feature animation films of every genre and topic. Special interest is granted to those films where the filmmaker's expressive intention stands out from marketing requirements; and also to school productions. Participation is open for animation movies from all over the world - produced for theatrical screenings, television, video or the Internet - with special interest in those from Latin America. -- Call for papers and multimedia presentations on the concept "Identity Traits" No Entry Fee Call for entries has been extended until July 17, 2009 Deadlines: July 3, 2009 (Film, video and television animation entries) July 3, 2009 (Papers and Multimedia presentation entries) July 17, 2009 (Internet animation entries) Rules and Entry Form are available at the festival's website, http://www.animafestival.com.ar The festival will also hold a series of non-competitive screenings, seminars, workshops, specialized forums, retrospectives, and a meeting point.

eDIT The Filmmaker's Festival is an international platform for filmmakers from all production disciplines to meet and share ideas to make them better filmmakers. The goal is to advance the specific parts of the production process with a common purpose of creating better storytelling through understanding. Extraordinary worldwide filmmakers present their work to educate, entertain and inspire their fellow artists in a warm and personal state of the art environment. Industrial Light & Magic will present the Visual Effects of STAR TREK and TERMINATOR SALVATION at eDIT 12. Filmmaker's Festival at October 4-6, 2009.