The Future Animators of the Future (www.fafcom.com) is pleased to present the second annual FAF show. The show will run through November 2001, playing in Boston, New York City and San Francisco. It will be a great chance to meet some independent animation and video artists.


The festival is currently accepting submissions for up to ten minute video and animation shorts on digital media.

Cine-X is the experimental segment of the Olympia Film Festival. The Olympia Film Festival is organized by the Olympia Film Society, a non-profit, independent, community-based organization showcasing screenings of independent, international and classic films year-round. Cine-X is looking for short experimental works. The entry fee is $10.

Animatus Studio is proud to be a sponsor of the High Falls Film Festival, running October 17-21, 2001 in Rochester, New York. Focusing on women in film, the festival is honoring animator Faith Hubley this year with a retrospective of her independent work. Highlights of the festival include "Independent Spirits: Faith Hubley/John Hubley," a one-hour documentary about the careers of Academy Award-winning animators John and Faith Hubley directed by Sybil DelGaudio; "Faith Hubley:A Selection of Films." This screening will focus on Faith's solo work from the last twenty-six years. Faith will also be hosting a workshop to highlight her working methods and exhibit storyboards for her next film.

Taking place over Halloween weekend - October 26 to 28, 2001 - at the Directors Guild of America Theater and other venues in mid-town Manhattan, the Big Apple Anime Fest considers itself the "Cannes Film Festival of the Anime Manga Culture," one of the hottest media trends among today's global youth. Enjoy world premieres, historical retrospectives and the latest in anime and manga culture as dozens of stars, hundreds of industry execs, and thousands of fans hit the Big Apple for a riotous weekend of anime immersion and partying! Available programming packages include live event programming as well as anime and manga programming. For more information, please go to www.bigappleanimefest.com

Metreon-A Sony Entertainment Center in downtown San Francisco will host the first annual Metreon Festival of Anime the weekend of October 27-28 inside Metreon's Action Theatre attraction. The Metreon Festival of Anime will take place in conjunction with the Big Apple Anime Fest scheduled for the same weekend in New York City. Throughout the two-day event, fans will have a chance to watch Sony Pictures' "The Making of Metropolis", Bandai Entertainment's "Love Hina" and the U.S. premiere of "G-Saviour", and ADV Film's "Princess Nine: First Inning" and "Robotech: The Masters - A New Threat." The Festival will also feature an Anime Lounge hosted by ADV Films presenting all the latest music from Sony Music Imports and a Festival Party presented by Viz, featuring karaoke, local DJs and a Cosplay costume contest. The Metreon Festival of Anime costs $25 through October 19 and $30 tickets will be available at the door. Price of admission includes 25 hours of anime screenings, the Festival Party presented by Viz, free gaming at Metreon's Airtight Garage (600 points), Cosplay costume contest, and insider panel discussions on timely anime issues with representatives from Bandai Entertainment, Viz, and San Jose-based No Name Anime, the premier anime club in the Bay Area. Also featured are how-to-draw manga workshops by Copic, an Anime Lounge hosted by ADV Films, and special offers and prizes. At the Festival, Sony's entertainment robot AIBO

"Hartt's shows are brilliant!" raves London, England's SUNDAY TELEGRAPH. Find out for yourself. 7pm every Saturday night. Reg Hartt sponsored animation symposia with Bob Clampett, Shamus Culhane, Friz Freleng and Grim Natwick from whom he learned the tricks they used to outwit scissor happy censors. The great films from Hollywood's Golden Age of Animation were made for big kids (adults). Many are today banned. The rest are bowdlerized. See them as we were meant to. Different program every week. 12 in each festival. Well worth a trip to Toronto.

The animation community is invited to Local 839's Open House Holiday Party, Friday, December 7 from 6 pm to midnight. Beverly Garland Holiday Inn Grand Ballroom, 4222 Vineland in North Hollywood (just south of the 101). Free hors d'oeuvres and no-host bar; open to the entire animation community. No RSVP necessary; call Local 839 at (818) 766-7151 for details.

Cartoombria showcases animation from around the world, with a focus on digital and multimedia animation. The festival also holds special events highlighting international schools and training programs on computer animation, new media and Web animation.

The Art Institute of Portland presents our Graduate Portfolio Show. Thursday, December 13, 2001, 4:00-8:00pm. The Portfolio Show will feature work done by our Fall 2001 graduates from Media Arts & Animation, Multimedia & Web Design, Graphic Design and Interior Design. Please come to: Be a mentor to new graduates * Network with other leaders from Portland's top creative businesses * Learn more about The Art Institute of Portland. Refreshments will be provided. This event is brought to you free of charge!!

Future Film Festival is a major Italian event dedicated to animation & special effects. The festival offers extensive retrospectives of international animation, premieres of major animation & special effects films, new television series and experimental shorts.
In 2001, over 22,000 people attended the Future Film Festival, including 300 journalists and 400 accredited professionals and academics.
The festival welcomed international guests from leading effects companies such as PDI, ILM, Pixar, Duboi and Buf Compagnie, animators Osvaldo Cavandoli and Bruno Bozzetto, and more international animation & special effects directors, artistic directors and creative designers.