MadCat showcases avant-garde experimental and independent films and videos directed by women of all lengths and genres. MadCat is seeking films and videos that challenge the use of sound and image and explore notions of visual storytelling. They accept work of all genres and lengths directed by women. Films can be produced any year and be about any topic. MadCat is currently touring across the country with a portion of last year's festival. The fifth annual festival will take place in September in the Bay Area of Northern California. Exhibition Formats: 35mm, 16mm, Super 8, Beta SP, 3/4", SVHS, VHS. Entry Fee: $10 - $30 sliding scale. Pay what you can afford. International entrants disregard the entry fee.

The San Diego Asian Film Festival

The Los Angeles Guild of Puppetry is holding its first Puppet Short Film and Video Festival. See some of your favorites, some oldies, some you've never heard of and have some lovely Japanese food too! Admission is free. The event will run from 7:00 pm to approximately 9:30 pm. Material is not suitable for children. If you are interested in submitting a short for next year, please contact the organizers.

ASIFA-Hollywood is presenting some of the groovy cartoons from the Summer of Love, which reflected the pop-art sights and trippy sounds of the era, with rare prints of cartoons not currently available on tape or TV. Hosted by animation historian Jerry Beck, the event will begin at 7:30 pm. The entry fee will be US$2 for members and $5 for non-members. Seating is limited.

The 2001 SHORT ATTENTION SPAN Film and Video Festival
will be a touring event bringing two hours of two minute movies from around
the world. It will showcase the best of short animation, comedy, sci-fi,
documentary, poetry and more.

Festival locations and dates are:

PACIFIC NORTHWEST:

VANCOUVER B.C.,
The Blinding Light Cinema - August 3rd and 4th - 8:30 pm;
SEATTLE, WA,
911 Media Arts Center - August 9th and 10th - 8:00 pm;
PORTLAND OR,
Northwest Film Center - August 12th and 13th - 7:30 pm;
SAN FRANCISCO CA,
The Castro Theatre - August 17th -8:00 pm & 10:00 pm;
SAN RAFAEL CA,
The Rafael Film Center -August 18th - 7:00 and 9:15 pm;
OAKLAND CA,
The Parkway Theatre - August 19th - 9:00 pm;
BERKELEY CA,
The Jupiter Outdoor Cinema - August 20th - 9:00 pm
BERKELEY CA,
Fine Arts Cinema - October 26th and 27th - TBA.



SOUTHEAST:

ATLANTA GA,
The Atlanta Contemporary Art Center - August 24th - 8:00 pm;
ATHENS GA,
The Georgia Museum of Art - September 5th - 7:30 pm;
ATLANTA GA,
Cinefest Theatre- September 14th and 15th - 9:00 pm and Midnight;
ATHENS GA,
The Georgia Theater - September 18th - 10P:00 pm;
SAVANNAH GA,
Trustee

The American Cinematheque presents The 2nd Annual Festival of Fantasy, Horror, and Science Fiction. This 13 day festival includes 28 features, 9 shorts and many rare trailers from thirteen different countries including: Australia, Brazil, Czechoslovakia, France, Hong Kong, Italy, Japan, Korea, Mexico, New Zealand, Poland, the United Kingdom and the United States. Highlights include: new work from Italian horror maestro Dario Argento (SLEEPLESS); a pair of stunning new Japanese anime films (METROPOLIS and VAMPIRE HUNTER D - BLOODLUST); two startling revisionist horror films from England (BLOOD and DEAD CREATURES); a cross-genre international shorts program; STARWOIDS, a new documentary about the STAR WARS fans who waited 42 days in line to be the first to see EPISODE 1; a sci-fi, fantasy and horror trailer show; a tribute to British sci-fi and horror legend Val Guest (THE CREEPING UNKNOWN); an ultra rare Mexican horror double-feature; plus hidden treasures from Czechoslovakia, Poland, Australia and Hong Kong. In-person guests include: actor Steve Railsback, Patrick Macnee, directors Joe Dante and Val Guest and Tope Hooper, plus Dennis Przywara (STARWOIDS) and short filmmakers Eric Anderson, Tanya Reihill, and Suk Yee Cheung. Additional guests announced as they are confirmed. All guests are subject to their availability. All screenings are at the newly renovated Lloyd E. Rigler Theatre at the historic Egyptian, 6712 Hollywood Blvd, Hollywood.

The CoCarAn festival (COmix-CARicature-ANimation) will feature over 180 animated films, including a world premiere of Oz Adi

The Festival du cin

Cinemakids is a non-competition program of short films, videos and computer animations created by kids 18 and younger. Bringing together younger and older filmmakers from different walks of life for mutual inspiration and education, Cinematexas and Cinemakids are devoted to inspiring young media producers and honoring their unique perspective.

Shorts in this all-animation program for grown-ups range from director Kathy Smith's "Indefinable Moods," an exploration of symbols and landscapes in nature that link to psychological hopes, fears and desires that exist in every culture to Hilary Wilder's stop-motion Rudolf the-red-nosed-reindeer redux "Everybody's Got Problems." This wildly inventive animated video re-edits the familiar characters from the 1964 special "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer" with overlayed audio from the Billy Wilder/Ray Milland classic "The Lost Weekend," resulting in an unlikely narrative in which the reindeer and elves at the North Pole grapple with the specter of alcoholism. The Saturday Morning Cartoons program screens one time only on Saturday, September 22 at 11AM at the Los Feliz Cinema.