Each year the Sundance Film Festival selects 200 films for exhibition from more than 9,000 submissions. More than 50,000 people attend screenings in Park City, Salt Lake City, Ogden, and Sundance, Utah. In addition to discovering filmmaking's newest talent through the Festival's program of documentary, dramatic, and short films, Festivalgoers experience live music performances, panel discussions with leading filmmakers and industry figures, cutting-edge media installations, parties celebrating the Festival community, and more.

Aboveground Animation @ Show Cave

3501 Eagle Rock Blvd, Los Angeles, CA.

December 30, 2010 9:00 - Midnight

abovegroundanimation.com

Aboveground Animation debuts its manic, haunting and prurient series for 2011 on December 30th at Show Cave followed by a performance by Ashley Huizenga. Glam and hypnotic, she will perform live music and sacrifice. The one-night event will deliver an all new program including the world premiere of Mirror Mirror's music video as well as Kathleen Daniels' unearthly computer generated kaleidoscapes and Czech-born Krystof Pesek's Euclidian existential abstractions. Sixteen more animators contribute stop-motion gore, hand-drawn wackos and ethereal rotoscoping. Enjoy catharsis by Aboveground Animation at Show Cave. Participating Artists: Hugo Arcier, Robert Bittenbender, Cody Critcheloe, Kathleen Daniels, Bruno Dicolla, Ryan Doherty and Chris Letson, Barry Doupe, Erin Dunn, Casey Jane Ellison, Lauren Gregory, Ashley Huizenga, Clara Kim, Amy Lockhart, Rosa Menkman, Matthew Newman-Long, Krystof Pesek Seth Scriver, Lale Westvind With Live Performance by Ashley Huizenga Admission: $5 Drinks Available

5th Animarte – International Animation Festival

Animarte is a showcase that focuses on short animated films. The show tours cities in South America bringing some of the best animated shorts from around the world. The show is offered free of charge and we try reach large audiences. We believe in bringing animation shorts to the largest number of people possible to spark their creativity and open their minds to this innovative form of art.

Animarte’s Artistic Director, Javier Saldeña, was born and raised in Argentina. He studied filmmaking in Buenos Aires and later moved to the United States to further his studies in filmmaking and animation. During regular trips back home he would bring animated shorts with him that he had seen in the United States to share with friends and family. Javier soon discovered how excited people in his home country of Argentina and the surrounding countries were about this unique form of art.

That’s when we decided to partner up with friends, fellow animation lovers and other artists to mount an animation show that would bring the best animated shorts to cities throughout South America!

ANIMARTE showcases the best animation shorts from around the world and brings them to cities throughout South America. Already three major cities have been confirmed for our sixth edition: Buenos Aires, Argentina; Mendoza, Argentina and Viña del Mar, Chile. We continue to work hard to add more cities to our tour!

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS NOW OPEN!

The 5th Animarte – International Animation Festival is receiving submissions until October 31, 2010. Animarte is open to animated and mixed media shorts with a duration of 15 minutes or less. There is no entry or registration fee and all animation techniques are accepted.

5th Animarte – International Animation Festival

Animarte is a showcase that focuses on short animated films. The show tours cities in South America bringing some of the best animated shorts from around the world. The show is offered free of charge and we try reach large audiences. We believe in bringing animation shorts to the largest number of people possible to spark their creativity and open their minds to this innovative form of art.

Animarte’s Artistic Director, Javier Saldeña, was born and raised in Argentina. He studied filmmaking in Buenos Aires and later moved to the United States to further his studies in filmmaking and animation. During regular trips back home he would bring animated shorts with him that he had seen in the United States to share with friends and family. Javier soon discovered how excited people in his home country of Argentina and the surrounding countries were about this unique form of art.

That’s when we decided to partner up with friends, fellow animation lovers and other artists to mount an animation show that would bring the best animated shorts to cities throughout South America!

ANIMARTE showcases the best animation shorts from around the world and brings them to cities throughout South America. Already three major cities have been confirmed for our sixth edition: Buenos Aires, Argentina; Mendoza, Argentina and Viña del Mar, Chile. We continue to work hard to add more cities to our tour!

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS NOW OPEN!

The 5th Animarte – International Animation Festival is receiving submissions until October 31, 2010. Animarte is open to animated and mixed media shorts with a duration of 15 minutes or less. There is no entry or registration fee and all animation techniques are accepted.

SIGGRAPH Asia 2010 will be held from December 15 to 18 at the Coex Convention and Exhibition Center in Seoul Korea.

This is the third edition of SIGGRAPH Asia, following its debut in Singapore in 2008 and a successful show in Japan in 2009. Having staged SIGGRAPH in North America for 37 years, the

Association of Computing Machinery (ACM) presented SIGGRAPH Asia to bring digital innovations from around the globe to the region, while tapping into its vibrant and emerging digital media landscape.

Over four days, the computer graphics and interactive techniques communities in Korea and the world over will be able to discuss and view the best innovation, ideas and inventions. These are brought to audiences through much-anticipated programs such as:

Computer Animation Festival

The Computer Animation Festival, a traditional highlight at SIGGRAPH Asia, will feature exceptional works in visual effects and computer animation from around the world. The Computer Animation Festival is presented through two screenings:

- Electronic Theater presents carefully selected pieces of the latest innovations in digital animation. The pieces presented represent the best that animation and visual effects have to offer, having been selected by an international jury made up of renowned digital animation experts, leading visual effects producers and top professionals in the industry.

- Animation Theater presents viewers with a digital feast of short stories that capture the flavour of the world of animation and visual effects. Works in the animation theatre is also hand-picked by the Computer Animation Festival’s international jury.

A respected benchmark in the industry, the Computer Animation Festival will name the Best of Show and Jury Awards from among the selected pieces. Notable works will also be specially invited to be included in Computer Animation Festival. Panel discussions and talks on selected pieces will also be conducted, to further enhance the insights gained from the screenings.

Courses

Another highly sought-after program at SIGGRAPH Asia, the Courses program aims to support and enhance the development of skills and knowledge among the computer graphics and interactive techniques talent pool.

Through the high quality and carefully selected sessions, participants can keep updated on the latest technology and techniques in animation, computer-human interaction, entertainment, mobile computing, robotics and scientific visualization.

SIGGRAPH Asia 2010 also will also include an enhanced line-up of courses on games and stereoscopic 3D, as well as topics that cater to the digital graphics community in Asia.

Aimed at both young talents and experienced industry professionals, the comprehensive array of topics will be presented by instructors comprising academics and professionals from universities, production houses, research institutes and other notable organisations. Selected sessions will also be presented in Korean, to allow for a more focussed discussion among the local community.

Technical Papers

The Technical Papers program is where cutting-edge, peer reviewed research will be presented and discussed. Carefully selected from hundreds of submissions worldwide, the Technical Papers presented at SIGGRAPH Asia are among the most respected and innovative ideas and breakthrough concepts in the industry.

Topics discussed will span the entire spectrum of computer graphics and interactive techniques from animation, GPU algorithms, imaging, image and video processing, modeling, physical simulation, real-time and photo-realistic rendering, texturing, and more.

Technical Papers presented in SIGGRAPH Asia will be collated in a special issue of Transaction on Graphics, the prestigious, industry-defining publication of the ACM.

Technical Sketches and Posters

The Technical Sketches and Posters program offers a unique interactive platform for presenting thought-provoking and emerging ideas in the industry. In the Sketches program, concepts behind breakthrough techniques in art, cinema, digital design and engineering are presented and discussed. These sessions expand the application of new inventions, and pave the way for enhancing the application of new techniques and technologies in the future.

10:30 AM

$5 per child, FREE for supervising adults

Celebrate the winter wonderland by animating a snowy sport! Choose from tubing, snowboarding, skiing, tobogganing or just plain rolling down the hill!

The 20th International Animated Film Festival « Les Nuits Magiques » will takes place in Bègles (France) from 2010, December 3th to 12th. It presents an international animated short and feature film competitions with prizes decerned by audience, a carte blanche to Michel Ocelot (director of "Kirikou", "Azur and Asmar"...) and Serges Ellisaldes (director of "U" and others short films), a concert and cinema seance, a profesionnal day about the futur of animation in view of 3d cinema development...

All animated short and feature film are eligible if they are directed after 2007 December the 31th. We only can accept 35mm (optical sound) or DVD film.

We only can accept 35mm film if the print is already in France or in Europe during the festival period. Otherwise, the film will be screened on DVD.

Foreign films are eligible only if they are subtitled in French, with French dialogues or without dialogues.
No registration fee is required.

You can enter your short or feature animated film using the entry form enclosed or using the entry form online available on our website www.lesnuitsmagiques.fr.

Animarte is a showcase that focuses on short animated films. The show tours cities in South America bringing some of the best animated shorts from around the world. The show is offered free of charge and we try reach large audiences. We believe in bringing animation shorts to the largest number of people possible to spark their creativity and open their minds to this innovative form of art.

Animarte’s Artistic Director, Javier Saldeña, was born and raised in Argentina. He studied filmmaking in Buenos Aires and later moved to the United States to further his studies in filmmaking and animation. During regular trips back home he would bring animated shorts with him that he had seen in the United States to share with friends and family. Javier soon discovered how excited people in his home country of Argentina and the surrounding countries were about this unique form of art.

That’s when we decided to partner up with friends, fellow animation lovers and other artists to mount an animation show that would bring the best animated shorts to cities throughout South America!

ANIMARTE showcases the best animation shorts from around the world and brings them to cities throughout South America. Already three major cities have been confirmed for our sixth edition: Buenos Aires, Argentina; Mendoza, Argentina and Viña del Mar, Chile. We continue to work hard to add more cities to our tour!

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS NOW OPEN!

The 5th Animarte – International Animation Festival is receiving submissions until October 31, 2010. Animarte is open to animated and mixed media shorts with a duration of 15 minutes or less. There is no entry or registration fee and all animation techniques are accepted.

The one and only international animation film festival in Estonia, "Animated Dreams", is a small, but a strongly viable part of the Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival. The core of "Animated Dreams" is the international competition programme which is judged by an international jury. Since 2001, the Grand Prix award for the winning animation film is "Wooden Wolf", a statue made by Estonian puppeteers. To add variety to competition entries, numerous special programmes of "Animated Dreams" include retrospectives of a filmmaker, genre or studio, focus on a country, and an overview of the latest Estonian animations. Around 150 animated films from 30 countries are shown at "Animated Dreams" annually. In recent years, "Animated Dreams" has been fortunate to welcome internationally acclaimed animation filmmakers, critics and historians to sit on the jury.

Saturday, November 13 - Masterclass at 10 AM, screening at 12 PM

Oscar®-nominated Koji Yamamura is the most successful auteur animation filmmaker in Japan today, and his international renown is almost beyond measure. Without a doubt, his oeuvre has set benchmarks for the limitless possibilities in short films – for art, for poetry, for transformation.

This special programme, co-curated by Michael Fukushima and Marco de Blois and presented with Montreal’s Cinémathèque québécoise, the Japan Foundation, and the National Film Board of Canada, represents but a small slice of Yamamura’s prodigious output but displays the eclectic and artful range of his creative palette. From his first commissioned works in the early 90s, to his breakout success Atamayama/Mt. Head, through his experimentation and explorations with The Old Crocodile and Franz Kafka’s A Country Doctor, this is a must-see programme for anyone craving another look at their Yamamura favourites, and new audiences interested in one of the most influential auteur animators of his generation.

Masterclass: FREE if registered in advance, or $5 at the door. To register, email industry@reelasian.com. 

Screening: $12, $10 for students, seniors, Front Row passholders.