The Australian Cinematheque at the Queensland Art Gallery/Gallery of Modern Art in Brisbane is presenting an extensive screening series of Visual Music. This series (mostly on film) began in late March with Disney's Silly Symphonies programs, and continues through June 1, 2008. Programs include Oskar Fischinger, Jordan Belson, Norman McLaren, Len Lye, Mary Ellen Bute, Baerbel Neubauer, early Visual Music pioneers, Stan Brakhage and more, plus the premiere of a new CVM traveling program, Rare Classics: Essential Visual Music. A program of new visual music work curated by Joost Rekveld - Soundfields from the Netherlands - screens June 1. Center for Visual Music provides a number of programs for this series: May 2 - Mary Ellen Bute (presented in association with Cecile Starr and Women's Independent Film Exchange) May 3 - Jordan Belson: Films Sacred and Profane May 4 - Rare Classics (new program of rare and preserved films from CVM) May 25 - Oskar Fischinger: Optical Poetry May 31 - Time and Tides: Music Paintings by Baerbel Neubauer

SA Short animation awards reward excellence and outstanding achievement in the South Australian digital media community.

Entries open for the SA Short Animation Awards:
Jury Prize $200
Audience Prize $200
SALUD Virtual built Environment Prize $200
MRC Best Emerging Animator Prize $200
IDrawFast Architectural Animation Prize $100

Sponsored by: The University of Adelaide, Autodesk, CGSociety, IDrawfast, DLF, Hamilton Adult Campus and MRC

SUBMISSIONS:
Part 1 -- Construct a 30 sec commercial for your animation movie - due by June 1, 2008.
Part 2 -- Submit your (max length 3.5 min) animation movie by June 10, 2008.
Competition Entry Fee: $10
Deadline for all entries: Monday June 10, 2008.

The judges’ picks will be screened at the "Best-Of the Awards" public screening on Thursday June 19, 2008 at the Flentje Theatre, Architecture building University of Adelaide before the Awards Presentations.

The Flentje Theatre is located in the Architecture Building at North Terrace Campus of the University of Adelaide.
Tickets may be purchased at the Theatre door for the event: $10 and $9 concession. Further information contact: Dean Bruton, School of Architecture, Landscape Architecture and Urban Design +61 (0) 8 83034038 or 0414 88 2074.

RSVP for seat bookings are due by June 18, 2008 to: dean.bruton@adelaide.edu.au

On behalf of the Game Developers' Association of Australia, convenor of the Game Connect: Asia Pacific (GCAP), it is our pleasure to invite you to join us in Brisbane from Wednesday November 19 through Saturday November 22, 2008, to participate in "Game On -- Seriously!" Representatives from the Asia Pacific region's game development industry will converge in Australia once again to focus on industry improvement, investment, advancement and growth. GCAP 08 will deliver a stimulating technical program that features leaders in the field of game development who will present new knowledge and thinking covering a wide range of disciplines and topics. Deadline for submission of abstracts on Tuesday July 8, 2008. Authors will be advised of abstract acceptance on Tuesday August 19, 2008. GCAP 08 is now accepting abstract submissions from leading industry members of the games, IT, interactive entertainment, and film and sound industries. Some of the main topics of GCAP 08 will be online, mobile and casual games, serious games, along with technological developments including latest server technologies. GDAA is also looking for presentations and workshops in the fields of online, mobile and casual games, serious games in defense, education and simulation, technological developments, game development, writing and scripting, project management, business modeling and marketing, finance and investment, and skills and recruitment. If you are interested in presenting at the conference please follow the submission guidelines on the website. Your submission will then be reviewed by the program committee and should you be successful you will be allocated a session according to the content and success of your submission after your official confirmation. For more information on the call for presenters and submission of abstracts go to www.gameconnectap.com.au/speak.html. Game developers, publishers, distributors and investors should attend, along with interactive entertainment industry players and educators. Whether you're a programmer, project director, senior architect or designer, studio staff member, a new recruit or student, GCAP 08 offers tangible benefits. Specialist recruitment agencies and media will be in attendance and are also welcome. The event's primary focus is the improvement and advancement of the region's game developers, including Australia, New Zealand and the Asian territories (primarily Japan, Taiwan, Singapore, Korea, China, Hong Kong Vietnam, Philippines and New Zealand). GCAP 08 offers exclusive sponsorship opportunities which will enable your organization to access key contacts, demonstrate your support for and continued contribution to the games development sector. GCAP 08 provides the best platform for you to showcase, promote and/or launch new products and services. In sponsoring or exhibiting at GCAP 08 your organization is making a difference to the game development industry within Australia and the Asia Pacific, while at the same time it is enhancing its image as a responsible corporate supporter. Sponsoring or exhibiting at this prestigious event brings benefits not just to the attendees but also to your entire business on a local, national and international level. Go to https://www2.iceaustralia.com/ei/getdemo.ei?id=109&s=_30C118ED4 to register your interest in sponsoring and/or exhibiting at GCAP 08 and to receive the sponsorship and exhibition prospectus.

An international competition now in its 12th year, the AEAF Awards attract entries from around the world. The awards give recognition and reward excellence and creativity in 10 categories of competition: Commercials Animation Commercials VFX Titles, Idents & Stings Short Film Student Music Video TV Series Flash Animation Feature Films, Animation Feature Films, VFX Two-time Oscar nominee (Animation Director on STAR WARS: EPISODE II -- ATTACK OF THE CLONES and EPISODE III -- THE PHANTOM MENACE) Rob Coleman will head the international panel of judges. Previous winners of the AEAF Awards are among the world's premier post-production companies, effects houses and film studios. Past winners include: Animal Logic, ILM, Beeps, Complete Post, Digital Pictures, Fuel, Iloura, Rising Sun Pictures, Fin Design & Effects, Sony Pictures Imageworks, Passion Pictures, The Mill, Box Communications, John Rowe Animation, Framestore CFC, Nectarine, Bigfish Design, Pixar Animation Studios, Students from AFTRS, QUT and VCA. If you have created an animated work during 2007-2008 and would like your work viewed by your peers in the vfx community, including many international artists from the world's top studios, enter in the AEAF Awards. Fill out the entry form and send it to with your entry by October 1, 2008. All nominated entries will be screened at the AEAF Awards night on November 12, 2008 Chauvel Cinema Sydney. Winning entries receive the specially commissioned AEAF Award and, most importantly, exposure through a screening of the entries at the AEAF, press coverage including the AEAF Showcase issue of Digital Media World Magazine and the recognition of the VFX community. Go to www.digitalmedia.com.au/node/880 to enter online or download an entry form. The Digital Media Festival including AEAF will take place November 11-13, 2008, Chauvel Cinema Sydney Australia. Program details will be updated regularly at digitalmedia.com.au. The festival invites digital artists from around the world to share their experience and creative processes with an enthusiastic audience during the festival, 11-13 November 2008 in Sydney. If you have work, knowledge and expertise to contribute, contact the festival director at info@digitalmedia.com.au.

The deadline for submissions to MIAF09 is Friday January 16, 2009. To read full festival entry guidelines and to download your entry form, visit: www.miaf.net/2009/entries.html

Entry is free and to be considered eligible, films should have been completed after January 1, 2007.

The Melbourne International Animation Festival (MIAF) is one of the largest animation festivals in the world. It usually screens 350-400 films each year in competitive, student, curated and retrospective programs. MIAF generates a smaller touring festival called the Australian International Animation Festival, is the submissions base for UTS Sydney International Animation Festival, London International Animation Festival and provides specific programming advice to the New Zealand Film Festival. When you submit your film to MIAF, your film is automatically considered for each of these festivals, although these other events will send you separate and specific invitations if they wish to screen your film.

Information: info@miaf.net.

Bigfish FEST is looking for 60 seconds or less short Flash animations that are either unique, different, humorous, disturbed or all of the above. Finalists will be posted on the website for our database to vote on. The winner will receive US$1,000. Go to bigfish.tv/fest to view the type of work we like and to get the competition details. This is a competition for those who wish festivals had a "f&*%$-ing weird" category.

ANIMATION CLUB!!! presents "Secret Handshake," a monthly animation night at Loop Bar in Melbourne. Each month, animators from all around the world create a short animation upon a given topic which is then screened and voted upon by the audience.

After an increasingly popular season in 2008, "Secret Handshake" is back in 2009 with more surprises in store. Now hosted by Melbourne comedian James Hazelden, as well as the monthly competition, ‘Secret Handshake’ also includes rare and vintage animation screenings and the best of upcoming and established animators from around the world.

Get ready, cause "Secret Handshake" starts back April 28.

Secret Handshake
Last Tuesday of every month
Loop Bar, Meyers Pl, Melbourne
Starts at 7:30 p.m. (Submissions due 7:15 p.m. at the very latest)

For more information and submission guidelines, check out our website - http://www.theanimationclub.com.

The first films that will screen in this year's festival have been revealed, presenting a diverse selection of titles that will screen in Australia for the first time. Amongst those in the official competition are animated features CORALINE, BRENDAN AND THE SECRET OF KELLS and SUNSHINE BARRY AND THE DISCO WORMS. Information: www.sydneyfilmfestival.org.

CSU School of Visual and Performing Arts is proud to announce that one of the true legends of the modern creative animation scene, Chris Landreth, is coming to Australia and heading to Wagga Wagga. This exclusive opportunity to meet the Oscar-winning director and see his work firsthand will simply leave anyone with the merest appreciation of the moving image astounded.

An Evening with Chris Landreth
Date: Monday, June 29
Time: 7:00 PM
Location: Forum 6 Cinema
Cost: $10
Oscar-winning director Chris Landreth personally presents his newest film, THE SPINE. Also features special screening of THE END, BINGO and RYAN with introductions and Q&A.

Chris Landreth Lecture: Psychologically-Driven Animation
Date: Tuesday, June 30
Time: 10:00 AM
Location: Charles Sturt University, Building 014, Room 209
(Download the CSU Wagga Campus map here: http://www.csu.edu.au/about/maps/pdfs/csu-wagga.pdf)
Cost: Free

Expanded seminar presentation going beyond the films and providing an invaluable insight to the world of computer graphics. This presentation is a preview of Landreth’s highly anticipated keynote at SIGGRAPH2009: http://www.siggraph.org/s2009/sessions/featured_speakers/

Important: The screening and lecture may contain mature content not suitable for children.

ANIMATION CLUB!!! presents 'Secret Handshake', a monthly animation night at Loop Bar in Melbourne. Each month, animators from all around the world create a short animation upon a given topic which is then screened and voted upon by the audience. The winner receives fame and glory... and gets to choose the next month's topic. All animation styles are welcome - from hand-drawn, flash, claymation, stop motion, pixellation -- or any combination of these. However -- it must be animated! No live action allowed! The topic for June is CUPCAKES and all films submitted will be show on the 30th June. See you there! For more info, check out our website at http://www.theanimationclub.com. Secret Handshake Last Tuesday of every month Starts at 7.30pm & all submissions must be handed in by 7.15pm. Loop - 23 Meyers Place, Melbourne, Vic, 3000