TORONTO AFTER DARK FILM FESTIVAL is Canada?s critically acclaimed showcase of thrilling cinema and specializes in short and feature films in the genres of Horror, Sci-Fi, Fantasy, Animation, Crime, Action, Documentary and Experimental. The Festival is attended annually by over 4,000 enthusiastic film fans, in the week before Halloween, and has received widespread positive feedback from filmmakers, press and industry.

KEY 2007 DATES: For Filmmakers: MAY 24 (Entry Deadline), JUN 22 (Late Deadline). For Film Fans: SEP 26 (schedule and advance tickets available), OCT 19-25 (Festival).

COMPLETE FESTIVAL DETAILS, INCLUDING ENTRY FORM FOR FILMMAKERS AVAILABLE AT:
http://www.torontoafterdark.com/

Reg Hartt will be returning to Victoria BC June 10 11 and 12 with spoken word and notoriously classic films. Sunday June 10 3 pm The night they raided Rochdale- spoken word (Toronto's world famous school of 'higher' education) 7 pm Salvador Dali Film Festival (Films so good they were banned for causing riots) Monday June 11 6 30 pm Sex and Violence Cartoon Festival (Cartoon classics with thier naughty parts showing) 9 30 pm Metropolis with musical score by Reg Hartt (The only original score that captures sex and robots) Tuesday June 12 6 30 pm Radiohead Kid Dracula (1922 Nosferatu- the best Dracula film with Radiohead) 9 30 pm Triumph of the Will (Hitler's propaganda lessons as fodder for mass media) Introductions by Reg Hartt Vctoria Events Center 1415 Broad St 250 516 6756 $TBA

Vancouver ACM SIGGRAPH and the Vancouver International Film Centre present: SPARK VFX '08 Celebrating Innovation and Inspiration in Visual Effects January 30 - February 4, 2008 Vancity Theatre - 1181 Seymour Street Vancouver, BC www.spark.siggraph.ca Featuring a selection of 9 of the most influential visual effects (VFX) films in the history of cinema, and a series of speaker events given by film industry veterans, SPARK celebrates the history of innovation in VFX, and the films which have inspired the work of the next generation of effects artists. The films have been chosen from the "VES 50", a list of the 50 most influential and inspiring VFX films as selected by the members of the Visual Effects Society. Check out www.spark.siggraph.ca for more details on panel sessions and film times.

This year's program includes internationally recognized Governor General's Award winner Bruce Elder, and other internationally acclaimed filmmakers, through to black and white films of first-time filmmakers, to local and Canadian experimental films, to the best in dance films. Special screenings and presentations by filmmakers include films and videos of Ottawa media artist Penny McCann, Governor-General Award winner R. Bruce Elder, and Vancouver's Alex MacKenzie (whose films are presented through a homebuilt, hand-cranked projector). Events will take place at the CBC Radio Room, Empire 8 Park Lane Cinemas, the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia Windsor Theatre and Ondaatje Hall, Marion McCain Building, Dalhousie University. Tickets are available at AFCOOP, 5600 Sackville St., and at the door. For more information, contact AFCOOP at (902) 420-4572 or membership@afcoop.ca.

Giggleshorts is the largest comedy short film festival in the world. For more information, visit www.giggleshorts.com.

Screening more than 100 animated short films in two days in six separate shows. Tickets are $10 per show at the Giggleshorts Theatre in Toronto. Submit animated shorts (less than 15 minutes long) at www.giggleshorts.com.

The Waterloo Festival for Animated Cinema is a unique film festival celebrating the artistry of the animated feature film. Founded in 2001, the Waterloo, Canada-based festival routinely presents one of the most comprehensive showcases of feature animation in the world.

The festival presents three main programs: World Cinema, a showcase of the latest in feature animation; Retrospectives, rare screenings of historically and artistically significant feature animation; and Tidbits, a program of discovery of feature animation created by very small teams -- sometimes even teams of one.

Further details at www.wfac.ca.

With a mission to ignite creative and collaborative fire, Vancouver ACM SIGGRAPH presents SPARK Animation '09. In its second year, this prestigious week-long speaker series, educational forum and film festival informs and inspires professionals, pioneers and enthusiasts in the world of animation. The event has attracted a coveted speaker line-up of some of the most talented animators and innovators from both close to home and far afield: Jimmy Hayward & Steve Martino (Blue Sky), Mark Osborne & John Stevenson (DreamWorks), Paul Topolos (Pixar) and Paul Harrod (Bent Image Lab). Through panels and presentations, attendees will gain insight into the evolution and latest techniques of the industry, as well as exposure to recent and leading artistic and technological advancements.

Saturday, June 13, noon to 10 pm Sunday, June 14, noon to 5 pm Saturday at 1 pm & 3 pm - Luminato Reel Grab a seat in our cinema and enjoy a 48-minute selection of award-winning animated short films celebrating literacy (all films are based on stories) - THE GIRL WHO HATED BOOKS, TZARITZA, I WANT A DOG, BLACKBERRY SUBWAY JAM, THE FRIENDS OF KWAN MING and OMA'S QUILT. FREE VIEWING on our digital viewing stations -- Try out our digital viewing stations to explore titles from the NFB collection. Animation Stations - Try your hand at various animation techniques including thaumatropes, painting on glass, paper cut out and 3D stop motion animation. The stations will be located in the Mediatheque among the DVDs. Scavenger Hunts - Discover important films from the NFB's 70 years of groundbreaking animation and socially relevant documentary through fun and challenging scavenger hunts. Create your own playlist - Watch films on our digital viewing stations and create your own playlist for others to see! Playlists will be on display in the NFB Mediatheque all weekend long. Discounts on DVDs from the NFB Collection. Cake and balloons all weekend long!

OPEN CALL for videos: DÉRAPAGE 11 

DÉRAPAGE is a unique event of audiovisual exploration that annually invites people from all disciplines to create a non-narrative sonorized audiovisual short piece of less than three minutes.

Your videos can be in realtime, in animation, working with textures; shot in red, blue or green; in black and white or in color; hysterical or contemplative; name it! they'll find their place in Dérapage. So, now is time to submit your non narrative artworks for the grand screening evening of Dérapage 11.

Dérapage 11; a new category in collaboration with Cirque du soleil

Le «Moment d'apesanteur»   (moment of weightlessness)

To its usual categories − best editing, best sound, best animation, best first video and Grand Prize − Dérapage adds, in collaboration with Centre de recherche et d'innovation en performance (CRIP) of Cirque du soleil, the new category « Moment d'apesanteur » (moment of weightlessness) in acrobatic performance. From trampoline to aerial frame, from hand to hand to teeterboard and russian bars, acrobatic artists' numbers ''highlight human physical performance in all its splendor and fragility'' (taken from Cirque du Soleil website).

Dérapage initiates a dialogue between these two practices and asks artists to explore this weightlessness moment, this instant when the acrobat in suspended in the air, between elevation and fall, fixed in time and space, in an acrobatical slow-motion, and to bring to the viewers the dreamscape, the interior environment of the performer in that specific position.

This challenge asks the videoartists to elongate this weightlessness moment in order to produce a piece, using original images, archives sequences and/or footage from rehearsals and shows, playing with time and space, that satisfies intelligence and sensitivity to provoque either artistic, dramatic or oniric emotions.

·       To be eligible, you have to accept that, when submitting your video, you're also adding it to a bank of ideas that is used to inspire Cirque du soleil creators.