Cortoons TV: the Portal of short animated movie

(www.cortoons.tv)

 

Inside it, there are five dedicated channels: Cortoons TV, Cortoons Music, Cortoons 2D, Cortoons 3D, Cortoons Kids, already present on the platform Streamit at www.twww.tv

 

Tomorrow, October 28, simultaneously at the start of the International Animation Day, Cortitalia will launch the new entertainment portal: Cortoons TV at www.cortoons.tv . 

Visible for free, in three different languages ​​according to the access point, the portal includes its five dedicated TV channels - TV Cortoons, Cortoons Music Cortoons 2D, 3D Cortoons, Cortoons Kids – with a single portal interface with different instruments for each ones.

 

Each channel has of course its own different and original schedule, but all point to a common element: the vocation to transmit short animation. In this direction Cortoons Tv transmits a selection of the best short films from all around the world; Cortoons 2D give space for international products in 2D and Cortoons 3D does the same but with this different technique. Cortoons Kids, instead, speak to children for an educational and fun vision at the same time. Finally, Cortoons Music that has its focus on videoclips.

 

“Our portal will not be a classic Web Tv - says Alessandro D’Urso, artistic director of Cortitalia - and it won’t even be an exact copy of existing television content. On the contrary, relying on the platform Streamit, we define a real flow television, which offers each day a completely new programming.”

 

For a long time the five channels were present in the new platform Streamit on Twww.Tv, the TV browser founded by Gianni Armetta and Federico Luzi. Specifically, Cortoons Tv, positioned on channel 2 on the remote virtual Streamit, was one of the first to mount the platform established in 2007. The relationship between Cortitalia and Streamit is therefore a strong link that stands out in time, as demonstrated by the fact that the project “Cortoons Tv” was designed by Miller, the communication agency controlled by the two founders of the TV browser.

 

Cortitalia is a cultural association that has a strong activity in the field of short films. For years, it was involved in organizing Cortoons, International Short Film Festival of Animation in Rome, but has also created events like: the Agrigentocortofest, the P.I.A.F.F. and Casertanimata.

Get Animated! serves up some of Canada’s finest (and funniest!) NFB animation. Enjoy screening programs, workshops and Q&As with animation directors. From boldly experimental to flat-out funny, there’s something for everyone!

NFB Mediatheque, 150 John St. (at Richmond St. W) 416-973-3012

8:30 PM                

FREE

An eclectic collection of entertaining new animation films, ranging from the whimsical to the experimental.

FLIP International Animation Festival returns this October with a host ofspecial guests from the exciting world of animation and an eclectic mix of experimental animation for all ages to the West Midlands.

The festival, which takes place at Light House Media Centre in Wolverhampton from Thursday 27 – Saturday 29 October, will include a mix of feature film screenings, retrospectives of short films and international showcases of animation from around the world from as far afield as Brazil, Canada, Norway, Estonia, Russia, Tel Aviv and Beijing. There will be education workshops for young people, masterclasses and industry led panels for students, budding animators and professionals along with unique spotlights on leading animation studios. Tickets and festival passes will be available from www.theticketsellers.co.uk from Monday 26 September. Keep an eye on www.flipfestival.co.uk to view the full programme.

The festival will feature a number of special industry guests including Jim Parkyn, Animator and Modelmaker at Aardman, Barry Purves, Stop Motion Animator for Cosgrove Hall and Warner Bros, and Marc Silk, Voice-over Artist for major film releases including Johnny Bravo, Star Wars and Chicken Run. There will be a special Aardman workshop when participants can make their own Gromit character using traditional animation techniques, along with a chance to ask Jim Parkyn, the Wallace and Gromit model maker, questions about his work.

The festival will this year have a strong Gaming strand with a workshop on how to develop your own games using the X-Box XNA game platform and a session on how to develop games for the iPad run by Gamer Camp.

Back by popular demand, the ‘How to Create a Great Showreel’ session will attempt to demystify the process of creating that all important showreel to show off work in the best possible light. This example led section will impart wisdom from some of the most hardworking animators, producers and directors involved in the animation and games industry.

There will also be a number of festival premieres throughout the weekend including a screening from the award winning Brothers McLeod of their animated comedy, Isle of Spagg. Greg and Myles McLeod will also be talking about the production process for creating their new film,from concept to screen.

FLIP International Animation Festival takes place from Thursday 27 – Saturday 29 October at Light House Media Centre, Wolverhampton. Flip 2011 is organised by Light House Media Centre and is part funded by Wolverhampton City Council, Screen WM and the BFI Transitional Fund.

Tickets and festival passes will be available from www.theticketsellers.co.uk from Monday 26 September. Keep an eye on www.flipfestival.co.uk to view the full programme and for more information contact Light House Box Office on 01902 716055.

VIEW Conference | A Future in 3D

VIEW Conference is the premiere international event in Italy on Computer Graphics, Interactive Techniques, Digital Cinema, 3D Animation, Gaming and VFX.

VIEW 2010 will continue to focus on exploring the increasingly fluid boundary between real and digital worlds. Through lectures, meetings, tributes, exhibits, screenings and demo presentations VIEW will reveal the new digital frontier sweeping from cinema to architecture, from automotive design to advertisement, from medicine to videogames.

VIEW Conference & Fest – This year’s topics

Videogames, 3D Cinema, Medical Imaging, Automotive Design

Call for entries

Send us your works for the VIEW Award 2011:

World Wide Short Competition Using 3D Animation and VFX - Deadline September 15th.

Papers, Video and Artworks

Deadline August 31st.

Hot on the heels of the hugely successful first edition of the Montreal Stop Motion Film Festival, we are officially opening the Call for Entries for 2011.

www.StopMotionMontreal.com

To enter your film in the festival, download a submission form, fill it out, and send it in, along with your film.

Deadline for film submissions is: September 26, 2011.

Please refer to the entries section on our website for answers to any questions you might have concerning eligibility, dates, accepted formats, and new rules. 

This year, the professional segment has been updated with a new category for films-commercials less than 1 minute in running time and we will have more guest appearance during this week-end long event that promises to be super cool!

The festival will be held in Montreal, from the 21st to the 23rd of October 2011.

VIEWFest – A global network of digital movie festivals.

A selection of the best of every fest is screened, through the net, to all others fests.

This is VIEWFest. Turin is the Italian knot of the net.

VIEWFest, the italian evolution of Resfest, the successful global touring digital film festival, is not a festival like any other. It doesn’t have a mere spatial location, rather, it is a knot in a net.

Imagine a network of festivals everywhere in the world, from São Paulo to Seoul, from Amsterdam to Istanbul. Now, draw some virtual lines, communication channels among all these cities. The result is a worldwide festival, where every knot in the net is connected to the others. For Italy, this knot is Turin.

So… Get ready for the new era of the vanguard of digital filmmaking.

Three days of film, art, video clips, music, workshop, parties, and much more, and more…

The Hollywood Film Festival will run from October 20 to 24 at the state-of-the-art ArcLight Cinemas, in Hollywood.

The Festival will be capped off by the annual prestigious Hollywood Awards Gala ceremony on October 24, which lauds both annual and career achievements of Hollywood's emerging and established talents and launches the awards season.

"We are very excited that we will be celebrating our 15th anniversary and continue our quest to discover embryonic filmmakers from the global creative community," said festival founder Carlos de Abreu. "The Hollywood Film Festival continues to provide a great platform in the world's movie capital for indie filmmakers to show their passion projects before their friends, film lovers, and the industry at large."

The 15th annual Hollywood Film Festival will continue to offer moviegoers a full schedule of tributes, Q&A panels and a diverse schedule of works from around the globe.

"It has been an honor for Starz to be the major sponsor over the past few years of the Hollywood Film Festival," said Stephan Shelanski, executive vice president, programming for Starz. "The Festival continues to grow each year, and we look forward to seeing the current crop of film entries for 2011."

The Hollywood Awards® Gala ceremony will launch the awards season, honoring talent who are bound to leave a long lasting impression. Last year, the Hollywood Awards recognized such films as "The Social Network," "The King's Speech," and "Toy Story 3," well in advance of their major Oscar wins.

In the last 8 years, a total of 73 Oscar® nominations and 27 Oscars® were given to films showcased and/or to the nominees and honorees of the Hollywood Awards.

The Hollywood Film Festival is proud to continue the Hollywood Comedy Film Festival in its third year.  Last year's line-up was a great success featuring hysterical works by such top-notch comedic artists as Dax Shepard, T.J. Miller, Jonathan Lynn and Kevin Farley.

The festival and awards presenter is Starz Entertainment, LLC, a premium movie and original programming entertainment service provider operating in the United States. The company offers 16 premium channels including the flagship Starz® and Encore® brands with approximately 18.2 million and 32.8 million subscribers respectively. Starz Entertainment airs in total more than 1,000 movies and original series every month across its pay TV channels. Starz Entertainment is recognized as a pay TV leader in providing HD, On Demand, HD On Demand and online advanced services for its Starz, Encore and MoviePlex brands.  Starz Entertainment (www.starz.com) is an operating unit of Starz, LLC, which is a controlled subsidiary of Liberty Media Corporation and is attributed to the Liberty Starz tracking stock group.

J. J. Sedelmaier Productions, Inc Free Outdoor Screening!
Tuesday October 18, 2011 7pm
6th Ave b/w 29th and 30 Street
J.J. Sedelmaier will be in attendance!

J. J. Sedelmaier Productions, Inc. is a design and animation studio started by J. J. Sedelmaier and Patrice Sedelmaier in 1990. It produces both print campaigns and animated films in a variety of styles and techniques.

Although Sedelmaier began his career in animation on cartoons such as Strawberry Shortcake, and The Berenstain Bears, his studio's known for more recent works like animation for Saturday TV Funhouse on Saturday Night Live, the pilot episode of Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law, and the Tek Jansen series for "The Colbert Report".  Sedelmaier collaborated with Robert Smigel on creating The Ambiguously Gay Duo, The X-Presidents, and the Fun With Real Audio cartoons for SNL. Sedelmaier personally designed the AGD characters, Ace & Gary.  JJSP also launched the first season of MTV's acclaimed "Beavis and Butthead" series in 1993.

As the studio's director and creative force, J. J. Sedelmaier oversees everything that is produced by JJSP. He is known in the industry as an all-around expert on the history of film and cartoons, animation, print art and illustration.

The Big Screen Plaza a 30 ft. x 16.5 ft. HD Format LED screen located at the 10,000 sq. ft. public plaza adjacent to a new 54-story multi-use venue on 6th Avenue between 29th and 30th Street, access behind the Eventi Hotel. 

For more information about J. J. Sedelmaier Productions, Inc.: http://www.jjsedelmaier.com/index2.html

For more information about Big Screen Plaza and directions: www.bigscreenplaza.com

Selected work include:

Saturday Night Live’s Conspiracy Theory RockSaturday Night Live’s TityDaily Show RockAmbiguously Gay Duo: Safty TipsAmbiguously Gay Duo: Ace and Gary’s Fan ClubAmbiguously Gay Duo: It takes Two to TangoAmbiguously Gay Duo: Blow Hot, Blow ColdTek Janson: Episode 02Tek Janson: Episode 03Tek Janson: Theme SongHarvey Birdman, Attorney at Law Pilot

Universidad ORT Uruguay, organizer of FIA'11, is pleased to invite animators, producers and specially students and graduates of animation schools to present works to be selected for an exhibition and subsequent awarding between the 17th and the 18th October 2011 in Montevideo, Uruguay.