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.

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

The Festival du cin

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

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.

The San Diego Asian Film Festival

The Tahoe International Film Festival (TIFF) is a celebration of cinema. Specifically, TIFF seeks to honor filmmakers who demonstrate an understanding of the strength of media to effect beneficial change in the human condition. In addition to screening close to fifty national and international film submissions of all genres and lengths, and hosting several special events, TIFF will host a symposium of filmmaker's forums with the theme "Women of Story, Women in Film."

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.

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.