2004 Machinima Film Festival Date: Saturday, November 6th, 2004 Time: Festival- 11am - 6pm, Awards - 8pm-9pm Location: The American Museum of the Moving Image, NY The Academy of Machinima Arts & Sciences (AMAS), an organization that provides advocacy, education and community building awareness for the entertainment medium known as Machinima: animated film making using real-time 3D virtual environments, announced today a call for entries for the 2004 Machinima Film Festival. Sponsored by NVIDIA, the worldwide leader in visual and media processing technologies, the third-annual festival will be held November 6th 2004, at the American Museum of the Moving Image in New York. The one-day event will include screenings of Machinima films, workshops hosted by Machinima filmmakers, special screenings, talks with award-winning independent filmmakers and seminars about Machinima production techniques. The event will culminate in an awards ceremony where some of the best Machinima filmmakers will be recognized for their creative artistry in this new and powerful entertainment medium that's set to revolutionize the world of animation.

The Ottawa International Animation Festival (OIAF 05) is North America's oldest and largest animation festival. The festival is broken up into four umbrella categories. The first is for animated feature films. The New Media Competition covers Animation Short Made for the Internet, Internet series, interactive animation and "Machinima," films made with videogame software. Commissioned Films Competition covers educational, scientific or industrial film, advertising film, station-program identification, music video, television special, television pilot, television series for adults and television series for children. Independent Short Films Competition covers narrative short film under 35 minutes, non-narrative short film under 35 minutes, first film and films made for children. Founded in 1976, and held biennially ever since, the OIAF attracts international animators, producers, broadcasters, and enthusiasts to Ottawa to view films entered in and out of competition, and attend special screenings and workshops that ponder the current state and future of animation. For more information, visit www.animationfestival.ca or www.awn.com/ottawa, e-mail info@animationfestival.ca or call (613) 232-8769.

The Portland Indy Animation Festival 2004 is now accepting competitive and non-competitive entries. The Festival celebrates independent animators around the world, the more independent and original, the better. Submissions can include all aspects of animation including 3D, 2D, machinima, stop motion, filmed puppetry (in all its forms), animated trailers for works in progress and interpretations of the art of animation. Format of submissions (which are final) must be provided on one of the following: DVD, SVCD, VCD, VHS (PAL/SECAM/NTSC), miniDV, SWF (Flash) or mpeg2. Entries need to be received by 23rd July 2004. The Festival will take place at several venues 11th - 14th August 2004 in Portland, Oregon, USA. Entries submitted for the competition will be evaluated by judges and the audience. There will be awards handed out to those present on the last day of the festival. Further details and entry forms for the Portland Indy Animation Festival 2004 are available at http://pdxanimation.com (there is no entry fee).

The Academy of Machinima Arts and Sciences will present the 2005 Machinima Film Festival, a full-day of Machinima (animated filmmaking using 3D videogame technologies), taking place at the Museum of the Moving Image in Astoria, Queens. The one-day event will include screenings of Machinima films, special presentations, talks with award-winning independent filmmakers and seminars about Machinima production techniques. For more information, visit festival.machinima.org.

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