The Melbourne International Student Animation Festival (MISAF) contains six competitive sessions of the cream of local and international student and first-time films, as well as a special retrospective focus on the incredible work that has come out of the Royal College of Art in the UK over the last 15 years and concludes with a best of session on the Sunday night.

Films will be screened on Betacam tape in the pristine projection facilities of the Treasury Theatre.

The Melbourne International Animation Festival (MIAF) 2002 will screen the best of the worlds most recent short animated films in six competitive sessions, as well as a best of Australian panorama, kids sessions, digital animation, Japanese anime, best of student work, retrospectives and other specialised screenings winding up on the final night with a best of the festival.

Entries are open to all animated films made since 1999. Please refer to the website for downloadable entry forms and regulations.
Entry deadline: April 25th.

AusFest 2002 is the inaugural Australian Digital & Video Film Festival. Films will be selected for screening that successfully tell an entertaining, thought-provoking or moving story, and the audience will be asked to award their favourites.

Categories include:

Features,
Shorts,
Music Videos,
Documentaries,
Extreme Sport,
Animation and
High School.

All submissions are free, and films must have been shot on a digital or video medium.

Aspiring Spielbergs! Here's your chance to show your film in major cinemas around Australia and the UK and at the same time raise money for The Big Issue who help the homeless and unemployed. The Festival is being held in November at Sydney's Valhalla, Melbourne's Cinema Nova, the Judith Wright Centre in Brisbane, Mercury cinema in Adelaide and the North of the UK for the sister festivals. There are 4 categories of entry:- Animation, Documentary, General and Novice.

For Australia the entry deadline is October 11, 2002, so get your crazy, wacky, serious or bizarre ideas onto film or DV!!!! The Festival will also show previously made films that meet the criteria. The Big Issue Film Festival is also a wonderful way to have professionals in the industry see your films. Submissions can be as short as 30 seconds but no longer than 10 minutes and a homeless or unemployed character/person or the words ``what's the big issue?'' must appear somewhere in the film.

For more information email: bigissuefilmfest@hotmail.com Entry forms will soon be posted on www.bigissue.org.au

Once again, it's nearly time for the next instalment of Australia's premiere animation event, the Brisbane International Animation Festival! From traditional cartoons to stop motion, painterly and computer-generated imagery, BIAF showcases the best that contemporary animation has to offer, peppered with gems from animation's rich history. Building on the incredibly successful BIAF 3, the 4th Brisbane International Animation Festival will enjoy a 5-day season at the Brisbane Powerhouse before playing to ravenous audiences all around Australia. The festival will feature animations from all over the world with films ranging from popular, audience favourites to the avant-garde and experimental. Audiences can look forward to a festival that will include kids sessions, retrospectives, anime, and late night cult classics. Animations, parties, guest presentations, and live performance, BIAF 4 promises to be wildly entertaining! For further information and festival updates, go to www.biaf.com.au!

The Brisbane International Animation Festival will once again be offering a variety of traditional cartoons, stop motion, painterly and computer- generated imagery, showcasing the best that contemporary animation has to offer, peppered with gems from animation's rich history.

To enter, please EMAIL an expression of interest (including your name, contact details, info about your film eg synopsis, technique, running time, and if possible, a couple of stills) to info@biaf.com.au, then POST the entry form (download from www.biaf.com.au) and a VHS preview tape to reach us by 16 August 2002. There's NO entry fee!

Australia's leading digital arts forum. Insightful conference sessions on the latest techniques for creating computer-generated visuals for film and television, led by industry experts from major US, European and Australasian post houses. Comprises of conference sessions, masterclasses and technology labs and incorporates the annual AEAF Awards in 12 categories of competition which draw entries from around the globe. Events held in Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane.

CALL FOR ENTRIES

Organisers of the Australian Effects and Animation Festival are now accepting entries into the AEAF Awards to coincide with the December conference in Sydney, Australia.

The AEAF Awards are designed to reward innovation and expertise in digital content creation for film, television, games and the web. You can enter as many individual entries as you wish, as long as they've been completed between July 1, 2001 and October 27, 2002. Entry into the AEAF Awards is free.

There are 12 categories into which you can enter:
_ Commercials: Animation
_ Commercials: VFX
_ Feature Film: Animation
_ Feature Film: VFX
_ Music video
_ Short Film
_ TV Series
_ Titles, Idents & Stings
_ Web Animation
_ Student
_ Games
_ Education & Training

To enter, visit the web site at http://www.dmw.com.au and follow the links to the AEAF and the Awards entry form. Fill it out online or print it, and send entries to AEAF: PO Box 369, Strawberry Hills NSW 2012 no later than 5pm Monday October 28, 2002. Your entry must be PAL formatted and supplied on Beta SP or Digital Beta and be accompanied by a document of no more than 100 words explaining its special features. For further information, contact aeaf@dmw.com.au.

The best and biggest Australian animation festival returns! Over six glorious days and nights MIAF will feature approximately 150 of the most recent and best short animated films from all over the world as well as retrospectives, feature films, computer animation, kids films and other specially themed programs. Entries are open to any animated film produced since January 2000. There are no entry fees.

Following the success of the AEAF Awards in Sydney last December, organizers of the Australian Effects & Animation Festival (AEAF) have introduced a Short Film Festival to the Melbourne event (May 12-13) at the Australian Centre for the Moving Image, Federation Square, Melbourne. The shorts festival will showcase some of the best digital and animated material submitted to the AEAF Awards 2002, as well as some new material that has been submitted solely for the purpose of screening in Melbourne. Two films that have been nominated in the Animated Short Film category at this year's Oscars were finalists in the AEAF Awards 2002, THE CHUBBSCHUBBS (USA) AND THE CATHEDRAL (Poland).

The Australian Effects and Animation Festival Melbourne 2003, will be held on May 12-13 at the Australian Centre for the Moving Image. Leading visual effects specialists from Weta Digital, ILM and The Moving Picture Company will share their secrets behind film and TV