The Digital Media Festival delivers an exhibition with the latest cutting edge tools for Animation, Visual Effect, HD/Digital Video production/Post production and Digital Imaging. Leading digital media technology tools from Apple, Sony, Panasonic, Adobe, Avid, Discreet and Canopus (just to name a few) will be exhibited with industry expert specialists on hand to inform and educate the industry.

Platinum Partner Apple will host the Apple Training Theatre with workshops on Final Cut Pro, DVD Studio Pro, Shake and Motion. The Digital Media Partner Theatre will host a stream of free information sessions from the industry leading product vendors at the show.

There are 3 conferences held along side the exhibiton. These are the Australian Effects and Animation Festival, DVFest & Digital Imaging Festival.

The Melbourne International Animation Festival (MIAF) is an annual festival which screens 200+ films in competitive programs as well as a comprehensive selection of retrospectives and themed programs. MIAF screens at the Australian Centre for the Moving Image - a brand new, state of the art screening facility dedicated to the highest possible screening standards.

A smaller version of MIAF - called the Australian International Animation Festival - tours to 5 other cities around Australia.

The Australian Effects & Animation Festival Melbourne program will feature some of the highest profile cinema releases of this calendar year, complemented by cutting edge Australian case studies and expert sessions in animation and visual effects. Melbourne's Act3Animation goes behind the making of its two latest 3D short films, PINATA and ANAKA, produced for Tantalus Interactive with the assistance of Film Victoria. Additionally, the event will look the new feature film VALIANT fro Vanguard. Plus, the festival will feature the MTV Oz Music Video Awards. For more information, visit www.dmw.com.au/html/aeaf.htm.

The Digital Media Festival hosts Australia

The BSIT 3rd year Exhibition 2005 is a high quality exhibition of work produced by graduating students of the Bachelor of Multimedia Systems. The Exhibition will be open to the Multimedia industry, Secondary school students and the general public.

Location
The BMW Edge at Federation Square, Melbourne.

Date & Time
Tuesday November 15th 2005, 9am-5pm (Industry Night 6.30pm-late).

Details
BSIT 3rd year Exhibition 2005 aims to:

To achieve these aims, the BSIT 3rd year Exhibition 2005 one-day program, boasts:

Approximately 80 exhibitors, displaying a range of products including 3D game engine design, 3D video, games, educational CD ROM, interactive multimedia, dynamic web applications, database programming, Flash animation and more.

The Industry Night is invite only, if you are a member of the Multimedia or Education Industry and wish to attend the night please contact Andrew Owen on 03 9903 1411 or andrew.owen@infotech.monash.edu.au.

Bringing together some of the world

Melbourne Underground Film Festival 2006 (MUFF 7) is an independent and underground filmmakers festival. Festival dates have yet to be announced. For more information, visit www.muff.com.au.

The Sydney Film Festival is one of the leading international film festivals. Premiering the hottest films from Australia and around the globe, the festival presents a sophisticated program of more than 300 films, red carpet events, awards nights and masterclasses in a jam-packed 16-day period enjoyed by more than 133,000 film lovers each year. The program celebrates the best of the world's cinema and includes features, short films, animations, documentaries and retrospectives, as well as a series of forums and lectures by local and international industry professionals, critics and academics. In addition, the festival administers the highly regarded Dendy Awards for Australian Short Films, the Urban Cinefile Audience Awards and the FIPRESCI International Critics (F

Charles Sturt University is proud to announce the Australian International Animation Festival 2006, the largest non-metropolitan screening of animation in Australia. The festival features unprecedented opportunity to view the very best of worldwide animation selected from a record-breaking 1,500 entries, and boasts special programs like Comic Art Meets Animation, Korean Panorama and the Aeon Flux Collection exclusive programmed by creator Peter Chung. Add to that free lectures on 3D and stop-motion animation, invitation for local animators to screen, an exciting network of animation aficionados and a few big surprises and you have a fantastic festival that is truly internationally acclaimed!

Event: Australian International Animation Festival 2006
Dates: Friday 11

Animation and Interactive Media graduate screening 2006 The graduate students of RMIT's AIM course present a night of animated short films, games and interactive spaces produced as major projects for the Grad Dip program. Animation and Interactive Media graduate screening 2006 5th December 2006 Starts at 7pm Storey Hall, RMIT University Swanston St, Melbourne, Australia.