Anima Mundi is the International Animation Festival of Brazil, which brings to the Brazilian audience the best selection of films and videos from around the world. It is a variety specially designed for the adults and the children. The event runs in Rio de Janeiro from July 14-23 then moves to S

MITV - International TV Market is the first independent international market for TV productions in Latin America. The event is a place where people who produce, distribute or exhibit series, documentaries, animations or motion pictures can connect. The event comprises two days of meetings where TV stations, cable channels, independent producers, distributors, government and international guests will be able to meet and exchange ideas, watch finished programs and ongoing projects, and discuss the issues that are moving local and global markets.

Production companies with completed or in-progress projects can present them at MITV Screenings, a special show for buyers, and producers. Producers, distributors and broadcasters can attend pitching sessions of an unusual kind, with the participation of producers who do not normally have access to top-tier international markets. The well-known and popular Brazil Programming & Production Forum, to be held this year in parallel with MITV. Attendees will have access to first-class presentations and debates in the company of highly qualified professionals from Brazil, the U.S., Canada, France, Sweden, Spain, Portugal and elsewhere. The program covers topics such as international distribution, co-production rules, regional production, new media, and others of extreme relevance to producers, distributors and exhibitors of TV programming.

Visit www.mitv.com.br for more information.

The MostraMundo is an international audiovisual festival that ranges from competitive and non-competitive exhibitions to courses, workshops, lectures, and debates about the contemporary cinematographic production and market.

Awards will be given to talented video makers in six competitive screenings: Animation, Professional, College, School, Advertising and Web.

If you have any further questions, feel free to mail us at mostramundo@aeso.br or take a look on the website www.mostramundo.com.br, to access the rules of the festival,

Anima Mundi is the International Animation Festival of Brazil, which brings to the Brazilian audience the best selection of films and videos from around the world. It is a variety specially designed for the adults and the children. Categories in competition: Short Films, Feature Films, Shorts for Children, Brazilian Animation, Portfolio, First Work and Animation in Progress. The event runs in Rio de Janeiro from June 29 - July 8, then moves to S?o Paulo from July 11-15. For more information, visit www.animamundi.com.br.

Created in 1998, Forum Brasil is Latin America's leading TV programming trade show. Representatives from more than 20 countries use the forum as a marketplace to find great products, share experiences, get new information, analyze local markets, and engage in profitable business networking. Forum Brazil features: * International seminar with top-tier names in programming and production * 30-minute sessions with channel executives from Brazil and other countries detailing their acquisition policies * Pitching of animation, documentary, series and feature projects * Screenings of programs and pilots via a fully automated system * Great networking, acquisitions, co-production and distribution opportunities Broadcasters, pay-TV channels, distributors and independent producers from Brazil, other Latin American countries, the United States, Canada, Asia and Europe have made Forum Brasil a regular fixture of their business schedule. For additional information, visit www.forumbrasiltv.com.br.

Anima Mundi is the International Animation Festival of Brazil, which brings to the Brazilian audience the best selection of films and videos from around the world. Categories in competition: Short Films, Feature Films, Shorts for Children, Brazilian Animation, Portfolio, First Work and Animation in Progress. The event runs in Rio de Janeiro July 11-20, then moves to Sao Paulo July 23-27. For more information, visit www.animamundi.com.br.

The FIAE 2008 - Third International Festival of Erotic Animation will be held November 6-14, 2008 at the Museum of Modern Art in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

The festival intends to stimulate the public exhibition of animation that are neither distributed nor exhibited within Brazil traditional circuits. The FIAE will be dedicated to the feature and short films of animation. Sex, love and erotica will be the key themes of the streamed international and national videos exhibited at the FIAE 2008.

Before each session, the public will vote for the animation that will be shown. The film receiving the most votes will be announced in the awards party that will happen in the last day of the festival. Some animations will be exhibited online.

For more information, visit www.fiae.com.br.

On October 23 and 30 and again on November 6, 13 and 20, from 6-9:30 p.m., the Nucleo de Animacao Digital da UCS -- NADUCS and Marko Ajdaric, editor of art newsletter NEORAMA DOS QUADRINHOS, will show long and short films, and talk online with film directors. October 23: SIGMUND, a short film by Vanessa Remonti, will be shown for the first time in Caxias do Sul. Remonti lives in Caxias do Sul and her film will first be shown at the third Granimado. Short films by Daniel Messias on his work for Cartoon Network and a trailer of his upcoming film TRES AMIGOS. Screening of DOSSIE RE BORDOSA, a film by Cesar Cabral (2008). Online discussion with Daniel Messias and Cabral. October 30: Wagner Passos, the leader of the Grupo de Estudos em Animacao da FURG, will be present to show the group's awarded works and debate many short selected Brazilian films to be shown this day. November 6: Presentation of short films by Walter Tournier (Uruguay). Online debate with Tournier and an animated film director from Rio Grande do Sul. November 13: Presentation of Patoruzito 1, by Jose Luis Massa (Argentina). Online debate with JL Massa and an animated film director from Rio Grande do Sul. November 20: International selected short films exhibition. Online discussion with an animated film director from Rio Grande do Sul. To contact Marko Ajdaric: neorama@uol.com.br

Anim!Arte is an international film festival of animation movies with focus in the student public. It has as objective to stimulate the culture, as soon as the professional artistic grown, of the Animation Business in Brazil. This has been instrumental in the production of animation movies, mainly among students.

During the event, competitive film festivals of movies made by students assemblage prizes for the winners. Although, there is a parallel film festival with professional moviemakers, Brazilian and international, that complete this group of selected movies.
The best international animation done by a student (outside Brazil) wins the original Animarte´s Tropical Trophy.
Usually, the programmation also has lectures with professionals of the animation and of the audiovisual business, besides expositions and workshops of animation.
Besides the Film Festivals, Anim!Arte also produces animation workshops in different formats, in the institutions which receive the itinerant circuit.

Call for Entries: from August 12 to October 09 (2009)

The Digital Media Innovations Conference has a full program dedicated to animation, 3D visualization and multimedia and telecommunications convergence. In animation, the conference will feature seminars on digital technologies, 3D animation software developments, cutting edge of digital visual effects, CG 4 kids' programming, tools for animating the Web, storytelling for the digital age and future opportunities in new media. In 3D visualization, the event will hold discussion on: applied parallel processing and scientific data visualization; virtual reality in education and training; visualization and simulation in engineering; new media and medicine; interactive data exchange; enabling the architects and designers of the future; and HDTV, interactive TV and digital TV. Finally in multimedia, the conference will feature speakers on: leading edge contact centre management; embedded technologies; the Internet; Web design; collaborative authoring for new media; e-business incubation; and network architecture for e-business.