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

Tia Kratter joined Pixar Animation Studios in 1993 as a digital painter and worked on Pixar's first feature, Toy Story. Since then she has held the Shader Art Director position on four other films including Cars. Tia will be giving a public lecture on Saturday, July 8 from 3pm, at Australia's premier film school at the Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne. It will be held in Federation Hall, Grant Street, Southbank. Entry is free, but seats are limited. This event is being sponsored by Simplot as part of the Simplot Masterclass Series.

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

AFTRS is staging preliminary pitching workshops across Australia. From those selected at these workshops finalist will be chosen to pitch at the featured SPAA Pitching Competition at the annual SPAA Conference (Nov. 14-17, 2006). Participation in these workshops is the only path to this opportunity. The Competition provides an opportunity for a feature film or television program "idea" to be pitched to a captive audience of the industry's top film, television and new media executives. In addition, Getty Images will this year join long time sponsor Holding Redlich by offering images and footage from their library for use in the finalist's reel. The winner of the Competition receives a trip to the Cannes Film Festival or a major television market in the UK or US, $1,000 cash, free registration to next year's SPAA Conference and a write up in ENCORE MAGAZINE. For more information, visit www.aftrs.edu.au.

GRAPHITE 2007
1-4 December 2007
Perth, Western Australia
http://www.anzgraph.org/graphite2007

Sponsored by ACM SIGGRAPH, GRAPHITE 2007 is the 5th International Conference on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques in Australasia and Southeast Asia, an annual event conducted in the Australasia-South East Asia region.

GRAPHITE 2007 will provide a unique atmosphere for researchers, technologists, artists, industry professionals, educators and students to mingle while taking in the latest technical and artistic accomplishments from around the globe.

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Ed Hooks will be hosting his famed acting training masterclasses at Griffith Film School, Queensland College of Art (Sept. 15-16, 2007) and Victorian College of the Arts, Film and Television (Sept. 22-23, 2007). His books, ACTING FOR ANIMATION and ACTING IN ANIMATION: A LOOK AT 12 FILMS are standard texts at animation schools all over the globe. He has taught at Disney Feature Animation, DreamWorks/PDI and Blue Sky. For more information, visit www.bluedahliafilms.com.

Byte Me! is a Digital Content Festival, featuring a program of screenings, Show 'n Tells by international Industry speakers, live audiovisual performances and innovative cross-media events. See http://ByteMe.net.au There will be free interactive community activities, as well as a intensive program of low-cost events such as screenings and guest speakers including Robin Hunicke, lead developer of MySims for wii from EA Games; Paul Van Ommen, head of the Miniatures Unit on King Kong from Weta Workshop; and the Australian Premiere screening of Figwit (Frodo is Great, Who is That?) documentary and Q+A with NZ Film-maker Stan Alley. There is NO Registration fee, and the events will all be reasonably priced. The Festival is unrelated to, but runs concurrently with GRAPHITE 2007 http://www.graphite.siggraph.org/ to make the long trip to Perth doubly worthwhile.

CSU Animation and Visual Effects present the fifth Australian International Animation Festival 2008. This year they have secured amazing exclusives from more than 2,200 submissions from 30 countries.

The international programs will give audiences a complete, up-to-date snapshot of the international creative animation scene. In addition are programs that focus on digital animating, puppet films and Australian-made films. There will be kids, high school aged-programs, and even a "Late Night Bizarre: program for those whose tastes are on the extreme. There will also be a series of free talks and workshops given by filmmakers from all over Australia to provide a chance to learn more about how and why these films get made. Door-prizes include Adobe, Autodesk, Wacom and HP products.

Venue: Forum 6 Cinema
Cost: $10 Single Session or $30 Full Festival Pass

Friday May 16 schedule: High School/Teen Program, International Program #1, International Puppet Animation Panorama, Launch Party

Saturday May 17 schedule: Kids Program, Seminar: Animation Now! International Animation Overview, Seminar: The State Of Australian Animation, Australian Panorama, International Program #2, Late Night Bizarre

Sunday May 18 schedule: Seminar: "Voice Wrangling," Seminar: D.I.Y. Art + D.I.Y. Funding 2.0, International Program #3, Digital Panorama, After Party.