Pixar Artists Masterclass

Artists from Pixar are coming to Austin, Texas this summer to teach a Masterclass in Animation & Story Development. This is a 2-day class.

Please see details at:
http://www.vanarts.com/events/pixar-artists-masterclass-2011-austin-texas

Thanks,
-- VanArts

 

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This event is part of the 2011 Tour that stops in: New York City, NY | Austin, Texas | Montreal, Quebec
http://www.vanarts.com/events/pixar-artists-masterclass-2011-tour

Pixar Artists Masterclass

Artists from Pixar are coming to New York City this summer to teach a Masterclass in Animation & Story Development. This is a 2-day class.

Please see details here:
http://www.vanarts.com/events/pixar-artists-masterclass-2011-new-york-city

Thank you!
-- VanArts

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This event is part of the 2011 Tour that stops in: New York City, NY | Austin, Texas | Montreal, Quebec
http://www.vanarts.com/events/pixar-artists-masterclass-2011-tour

On this 7th Edition Renderyard celebrates film exchange with other established Film Festivals (RUSHES SOHO SHORTS London, MADRID EN CORTO, Madrid) cooperation within the film industry and the creative use of film technology to inspire filmmakers and to provoke social awareness in the international film community.

Renderyard Short Film Festival is held yearly in Spain in November, and supports the screening of British, UK, Spanish, European and International film content from both professionals and newcomers working with short films, animations, documentaries, music videos and this year feature films.

The Festival also supports film scripts and film scores and each year it attracts over 2000 international film entries from partner countries such as: UK, Spain, USA and Canada, France, Italy, Greece, Germany, Norway, DenmarK, Switzerland, Africa, South Africa, Japan, Russia, India, Australia and Latin America.

This year the 7th Edition of the Festival is held in La Rioja, wine capital of Spain at the THINK TIC, La Rioja’s Technology Centre the 26th and 27th of November, where the international audience can appreciate the 50 best selected films on different categories, screening a total of over 100 films. The films shown have been produced exploring the latest Film, Animation and Digital Technologies, allowing each director to project their own reflections, stories and ideas as new forms of visual self expression.

During the week of the 21st – 27th of November, as part of the Festival screenings, Renderyard will be holding a series of workshops highlighting the latest Film / Animation Software with a panel of international speakers. During the evenings there will be Feature film screenings with Q&A with the directors launching key film projects of GREAT impact within the International Film making Industry.

Renderyard has established digital and distribution film channels with long term media and festival partners to work closely with selected film makers to help them distribute their film content internationally and support them in getting involved in new film projects.

Festival screenings will start on Friday 26th of November at The Think Tic, with speakers introducing the different categories and will conclude on Saturday the 27th with the mentioning of the winning films on each category and The Renderyard Film Awards for 2011.

Further details at www.renderyard.com

Deadline for Film Submisisons 9th September 2011

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Renderyard Festival Awarded Categories 2011:

Short Content
Short Film Award
Fictional films by experienced filmmakers from around the world under 12 min in length
Animation Award
Factual and fictional content by filmmakers from around the world under 12 min in length
Documentary Award
Factual content by filmmakers from around the world under 12 min in length
Music Videos Award
Promotional work for Music / Music groups/ Dance by filmmakers from around the world under 12 minutes
Think Tic Award ‘Micro-Film’
Film / Animation technology software develpment based / film content designed for digital media / Commercial sequences, adverts, title sequences, idents and mobile film content 3 min in length

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Long Content
Feature Film Award
Fictional films by experienced filmmakers from around the world between 30 – 120 min
Feature Animation Award
Factual and fictional work by filmmakers from around the world between 30 – 120 min
Feature Documentary Award
Factual content by filmmakers from around the world between 30 – 120 minutes

Submit your film to Renderyard 2011: https://www.withoutabox.com/login/6880
Deadline for Film Submisisons 9th September 2011

Building on the knowledge and expertise of more than thirty years, the Banff World Media Festival is the world's premier forum for professionals working in content creation, distribution and broadcast in Television and Digital Media.

Taking place June 12-15, 2011, at the Fairmont Banff Springs Hotel in the Canadian Rockies, BANFF attracts the most prestigious players in the international media marketplace. With its breathtaking, retreat-like setting and A-List attendees, BANFF provides a unique atmosphere combining unparalleled access, fantastic programming, and - to put it simply - an incredibly fun time.

The Festival features a comprehensive agenda, including in-depth programming across four intensive streams, as well as the Banff World Media Awards, a prestigious international awards competition recognizing the most innovative, exciting, and outstanding work in the industry. Conference streams include Non-Fiction, Kids & Animation, BANFF TV, and nextMEDIA, focusing on the latest trends in digital and interactive production. With sessions, panels, keynotes, master classes and interviews exploring the issues most strongly affecting the media industry, BANFF is designed to keep you on the cutting edge of both traditional and cross-platform content creation and programming.

2011 Conference Highlights:

Feature Interviews with the writers, directors, and producers creating the most talked-about programming on TV and the Web.Keynotes from the top executives and thinkers from TV, Digital Media, Advertising, Music, Government and Publishing that bring inspiration and thought leadership to each BANFF stream.In-depth programming addressing the key questions and challenges facing the different facets of the global media industry.The 2011 Banff World Media Awards, one of the world's most prestigious international program competitions. The 2010 competition attracted more than 800 entries from 30 countries around the world.A unique networking experience, combining both strategic facilitated networking opportunities - including pre-booked one-on-one meetings with Program Executives, Media Buyers, and Ad Agencies - with the exceptional open access and relaxed atmosphere created by the Festival's setting and feel.Specialty programs, including the CTV National Fellowship, the Shaw Media Showrunners Training Program, Global Writers Apprentice Program, and the Banff International Pilots Competition and Awards, offer practical, hands-on experience, taking your skill set to the next level, and creating opportunities for the frontrunners in the emerging media ecosystem.

Attendance at the 2011 conference is a sound investment in your company's future, whatever your niche in this dynamic new marketplace. With a special focus on business insight, development and information dissemination, this year's conference will put you at the forefront of your industry and connect you to the people and ideas that will grow your business.

The 2011 Banff Program Competition call for entries is open! The Banff World Television Awards (The Rockies) will be presented at the Banff World Television Festival, June 12 - 15, 2011. The Banff World Television Awards includes 23 genre-based categories and 6 interactive categories - a total of 29 distinct categories.

The Toronto International Stereoscopic 3D Conference is a one of a kind international gathering of experts in the stereoscopic 3D art and entertainment arena. From June 11 to 14, 2011 major figures from Canada, Germany, Russia, UK and USA will meet to discuss, analyze and contextualize the “new era in 3D cinema.”

Speakers include:
• acclaimed director WIM WENDERS, on his latest masterpiece PINA
• CATHERINE OWENS, co-director of U23D and installation artist
• international film historian THOMAS ELSAESSER
• master cinematographer and stereographer PETER ANDERSON
• veteran filmmaker GRAEME FERGUSON, co-founder of IMAX
• vision scientists, scholars, filmmakers, artists and the major S3D industry players.

Screening:
• Bugs! 
• Resident Evil: Afterlife 
• Hubble 3D 
• and excerpts from speakers’ latest films including Neue Road Film’s PINA (premiered last February at Berlinale) and SK Film’s Flight of the Butterflies (to be premiered)

   

The world's largest event totally focused on animation, the Festival, that celebrated its 50th anniversary in 2010, is the occasion to discover the latest in animation, meet well-known names and young talents and check out new trends... in one place.

Join us for the next edition from Monday 6th June to Saturday 11th June 2011.

You will be able to begin submitting films for the next edition from mid-November.

ENCOUNTERS BRISTOL INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL (16 – 20 NOVEMBER)4 WEEKS LEFT TO SUBMIT (DEADLINE 30 JUNE)Powered by Vast BlueThere are only 4 weeks left to submit to the 17th Encounters Bristol International Film Festival (16 – 20 November).Encounters is now the leading UK gateway to the world’s most prestigious short film and animation awards, including the BAFTAs, Cartoon D’Or, European Film Awards, and Oscars®. Submit your short film or animation by Thursday 30th June, for an opportunity to showcase your creative talent and a chance to win a major award. This year’s awards and prizes for competition strands Animated Encounters and Brief Encounters include;- 2 Grand prix Awards. Prize: £2,000* (& Academy Award® short-listing)- 2 European New Talent Awards, eligible to European Graduating films or first time European director credits. Prize: €1,000*- 2 Best of British Awards. Prize: £1,000* (all films qualify for BAFTA live action & animation awards)- 2 Best of the South West Awards. Prize: £500*- A Documentary Award. Prize: £1,000*- An Experimental Award. Prize: £1,000*- A Children’s Jury Award. Prize: £500*- DepicT! Awards (details at www.depict.org)Short films and animations are eligible from all over the world, completed from 1 Jan 2010, under 30 minutes in length from every genre (animation, live action drama, documentary, experimental and music video). The festival is offering a £5 discount for digital submissions, and a reduced fee for multiple submissions.Visit encounters-festival.org.uk for submission criteria and to enter your film. Sign up to the festival newsletter for the latest on Encounters events. Join our online community on Facebook and Twitter for the latest news.Depict! – Can you do it in 90 seconds?Free submission, upload at depict.org. (Deadline 5 Sept 2011)A Watershed project www.depict.org*All cash prizes are up to the value of the amounts stated.

INDEPENDENTLY ANIMATED: BILL PLYMPTON

May 27 – 28, 2011

 

Bill Plympton may be the only major animator who still hand-draws every single image of his own films. Though his approach to filmmaking may be old-fashioned, his offbeat and inventive artistic sensibility is unique. This two-day program of screenings and discussions celebrates Plympton’s new book, Independently Animated.

 

All screenings are free with museum admission unless otherwise noted.

 

Independently Animated: An Evening with Bill Plympton

Friday, May 27, 7:00 p.m.

Screening, discussion, and book signing with Bill Plympton and David Levy

The lavishly illustrated new book Independently Animated: The Life and Art of the King of Indie Animation, by Bill Plympton and David Levy, published by Rizzoli, is part biography, part retrospective, and part behind-the-scenes look at Bill Plympton’s life and career. It contains hundreds of pieces of art from his films, as well as never-before-seen doodles, drawings, and production notes. To celebrate the publication, the Museum presents a festive evening with a discussion, short films, and live drawing by Plympton, followed by a book signing. Everyone in attendance will receive their own original drawing from Plympton.
Among the highlights: a work-in-progress screening of an exciting new short film, Plympton’s hand-colored restoration of Winsor McCay’s 1921 film The Flying House, a charming film about a husband who turns his house into a flying machine, which bears remarkable similarities to the Pixar film Up; a screening of the popular short film Guard Dog and Guard Dog Jam, the result of an invitation to animators around the world to remake Plympton’s film by each contributing their own remake of one shot from the film.
Tickets: $10 public / Free for Museum members. Members may reserve tickets in advance by calling 718 777 6800. 

 

Adventures in Plymptoons 

Saturday, May 28, 3:00 p.m.

Preview screening
With Alexia Anastasio in person

Dir. Alexia Anastasio. 2011, 98 mins. Digital projection. This new documentary about animator Bill Plympton follows his path from the many rainy days of a Portland childhood spent indoors drawing to a self-made career as an independent animator. The film includes interviews with family, friends, colleagues, critics, and fans.

Hair High 

Saturday, May 28, 5:30 p.m.

Introduced by Bill Plympton

Dir. Bill Plympton. 2004, 78 mins. Digital projection. An outrageous gothic myth from the 1950s, Hair High is the legend of Cherri and Spud, a teenage couple who are murdered on prom night and left for dead at the bottom of Echo Lake. Exactly one year later, their skeletal remains come back to life and they return to the prom for revenge and their justly deserved crowns.

 

Idiots and Angels

May 28, 7:30 p.m.

Introduced by Bill Plympton

Dir. Bill Plympton. 2009, 78 mins. A misanthropic gun dealer who spouts an unwelcome pair of wings is the antihero of Plympton’s noir-flavored feature, which was entirely hand-drawn, mainly in gray pencil. According to the New York Times, the film, which is entirely without dialogue and has music by Tom Waits, Pink Martini, and others, “defies expectations. It is relentless, and brilliant.”

The Producer’s Guild of America New Media (PGA New Media), which is compromised of qualified experts in every aspect of new media production and the International 3D Society, which has been founded to advance the art and technologies of stereoscopic 3D content and its professional innovators, together with producers Charlotte Huggins (Journey To The Center of the Earth), Alison Savitch (Bangkok Dangerous), and Jeanette DePatie are joining founder/director Susan Johnston for 3D Screenings and Q&A’s with the filmmakers for the 2nd Annual New Media Film Festival opening night, to be held May 20, 2011.

Showcasing the best in 3D technology and featuring award nominated and winning filmmakers, the New Media Film Festival is dedicated to the creation, development, and distribution of new media content in all forms and across all platforms. 

 “Sundance for the Facebook Crowd”-Culture Rehab

The 2nd Annual New Media Film Festival, sponsored in part by Final Draft, GoDigital, Blue Angel Vodka & Showbiz Software will be taking place at Los Angeles Film School May 20-21st 2011 (6363 Sunset Boulevard, CA 90028), tickets are on sale now and submissions are being accepted until May 10th. 

 

For Registration information, complete agenda and additional details are available at www.NewMediaFilmFestival.com

 

"The future of new media for storytelling is limitless and we're just barely skimming the surface right now. Any content creator needs to hear what's being said at New MediaFilm Festival. It will open your mind to multiple possibilities." 

- Frank Colin, Script Magazine 

Contact:

Jay Randy Gordon, New Media Film Festival 2011 - Brand Manager

randy@jayrandygordon.com

650-346-8127

The deadline for ANIMA2011 has been extended until May 27th, 2011!!!

 

ANIMA - Córdoba International Animation Festival is both an academic and cultural event, devoted specifically to animation in its artistic and technological dimensions. ANIMA merges the energy, enthusiasm and joy of an Animation Festival with the scientific aspects of a Conference. Held every odd year since 2001, ANIMA is the main animation event in Argentina and a very influential player in its field in Latin America and the Caribbean.

 

ANIMA is no ordinary event. Its main objective is to gather creative individuals devoted to the art and craft of animation into a meeting point where all discussion and exchange can be directed into the scope of animation, in its many dimensions of analysis: as artistic expression, as cultural industry, as educational resource, as corpus for research, etc… Or just as fun!

 

ANIMA is composed by three superimposed dimensions:

 

It’s an ANIMATION FESTIVAL: ANIMA’s 2009 edition screened 130 films (feature and shorts) selected from a pool of 825 submissions from 53 countries. Guests and Jurors in former editions include prestigious animators from abroad, to name a few: Academy Award nominee Barry Purves (UK), Academy Award nominee Christopher Hinton (Canada), Academy Award nominee Caroline Leaf (USA). Most of the finest Argentinian animators have also been guests and Jurors in the Festival: Juan Pablo Zaramella, Javier Mrad, Pablo Rodríguez Jáuregui, among many others.

It’s an OPPORTUNITY TO LEARN FROM THE BEST: ANIMA aims to bring in depth and high – end educational opportunities to its audience. Seminars, workshops and short courses are organized, centered on a variety of topics dedicated to specific animation aesthetics and technology, and are conducted by prestigious professionals in the area, such as the forementioned guests, Rodolfo Sáenz Valiente (Argentina), Walter Tournier (Uruguay), Giannalberto Bendazzi (Italy) and many more.

It’s a CONFERENCE: ANIMA’s Academic Forum is the only specific Conference on Animation held in Latin America. It holds an open call for papers, video presentations and posters on animation, that undergo double peer – reviewing by an Academic Committee for selection and publication.

ANIMA2011 will be held on October 6th through 8th, 2011. Deadline for submission of film entries is on May 27th, 2011. Deadline for submission of papers, posters and audiovisual presentations is on June 17th, 2011.