An international film and video festival in its third year accepts film and video entries in all genres from any part of the world. The event is held from the end of September to the first week of October in the beautiful capital city of Abuja, Nigeria. There are no entry fees as the festival accepts 35MM, Super 16MM, 16MM, DVCAM, HDCAM, etc.

Deadline for entry is 30th June 2OO6.

The 3rd Annual Sci-Fi & Fantasy Classic Film Weekend is a celebration of classic sci-fi and fantasy film that will feature guest speaker Ray Harryhausen. At 7:30 pm on May 14, the event will host a talk with Ray Harryhausen followed by the screening of JASON AND THE ARGONAUTS. At 4:30 on May 5, THIS ISLAND EARTH will screen. Then at 8:00 pm, the event will host the New York area premiere of a new restored print of 20,000 LEAGUES UNDER THE SEA. Admission for each film is $6 for adults, $4 for seniors and children 12 years old and younger. A combo ticket for all three films is $15 for adults, $10 for seniors and children. Half price parking in Square Ramp Garage, behind Theatre. The Landmark Loew's Jersey Theatre presents its classic films on a 50-foot widescreen using carbon arc illumination for the brightest, whitest light. The Loew's Jersey Theatre, located at 54 Journal Square, Jersey City. For additional information, call (201) 798-6055 or visit www.loewsjersey.org.

Beverly Hills Film Festival began in 2001 to showcase and promote the most auspicious non-studio films to the entertainment elite. Beverly Hills Film Festival

The Istanbul Animation and Visual Effects Short Film Competition is first and only animation festival in Turkey.

The 3rd. Visual Effects and Animation Conference is the only event around the animation and
visual effects community in Mexico. Speakers from USA, Spain and Mexico will be presenting the best projects around these areas of creation. FX FESTIVAL 2003: Submission deadline for short animated films will be on October 17th. Check more details on www.congresofx.com.

To celebrate the 40th anniversary of STAR TREK, The Story Makers Studio has put together to talk with a select group from STAR TREK in front of a live audience at Mann's Chinese Theatre (6801 Hollywood Blvd.) on Tuesday, Nov. 14, 2006, at 7:30 pm. Majel Barrett Roddenberry comes to The Story Makers Studio for a rare public appearance to talk about her husband's vision and her own role on STAR TREK. She'll be joined by her son, Rod Roddenberry who will talk about the continuing legacy of STAR TREK. Writer/director Nicholas Meyer will discuss how he revived the Star Trek franchise with STAR TREK II: THE WRATH OF KHAN. In keeping with the spirit of the celebration, many fans will be coming in costume. For more information, click www.stiylagency.com/startrek/info.asp?p=3. Tickets are only $12.50 each (plus a $1.00 per ticket handling charge). The first 100 people to purchase tickets to the live event through this link to attend will receive a special STAR TREK 40th Anniversary pin or patch courtesy of www.Roddenberry.com.

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences will present a 40th anniversary screening of Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY on Friday, April 25, at 7:30 p.m. in the Samuel Goldwyn Theater. Tom Hanks, whose career and interests were markedly influenced by 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY, will host this special screening, presented in 70mm 6-track stereo, as was the original release. Following the screening, Hanks will be joined onstage by actor Keir Dullea, Oscar-nominated visual effects wizard Douglas Trumbull and special effects artist Bruce Logan to discuss their work on the film. In May 1964 director Kubrick and science fiction author Arthur C. Clarke embarked on a creative collaboration: a novel and a screenplay inspired by Clarke's 1950 short story THE SENTINEL. In December 1965, many ideas, drafts and titles later, filming commenced on 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY. The futuristic epic, which premiered in April 1968, would prove to be one of the groundbreaking films of the decade, receiving an Academy Award for Special Visual Effects (Kubrick) as well as Oscar nominations for Art Direction (Tony Masters, Harry Lange, Ernie Archer), Directing (Kubrick) and Writing -- Story and Screenplay written directly for the screen (Kubrick, Clarke). With its epoch-spanning storyline and its nearly dialogue-free script, 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY combined the production values of Hollywood filmmaking with the artistic sensibility of European cinema. Its cerebral approach to the genre helped usher in a new, more literate age of science fiction cinema, and its extraordinary imagery -- the widescreen 70mm cinematography of Geoffrey Unsworth, the visually dazzling and scrupulously researched production design, and especially the Oscar-winning special effects -- instantly became the benchmark by which all space films would be judged. Tickets for the Academy's 40th anniversary presentation of 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY may be purchased online at www.oscars.org, in person at the Academy box office or by mail. Doors open at 6:30 p.m. All seating is unreserved. The Academy is located at 8949 Wilshire Boulevard in Beverly Hills. For more information, call (310) 247-3600.

The Ann Arbor Film Festival is a non-profit arts organization that has along-standing tradition of showcasing all genres of independent experimental film. Its mission is to provide a worldwide public forum for independent and experimental moving image exhibitions, to encourage and showcase artists of the moving image, to promote the moving image as art and to offer educational outreach. The week after the festival the festival will host a traveling tour of colleges, museums and theaters across the U.S. A total of $18,000 in cash prizes will be awarded by jurors in 22 categories. For more information contact the festival at: P.O. Box 8232, Ann Arbor, MI 48107; tel.: (734) 995-5356 and Web: www.aafilmfest.org.

The Thessaloniki International Film Festival, the most important film festival in Greece, focuses on up-and-coming filmmakers and innovative forms of narration. The festival

The San Francisco International Film Festival, committed to celebrating the art of the moving image, has presented the best in world cinema since 1957. Now, the 15-day festival presents 200 films from 50 countries and reaches an audience of nearly 95,000 with screenings in San Francisco, Berkeley and Palo Alto. The festival highlights current trends in international film and video production with an emphasis on work that has not yet secured U.S. distribution. First features by emerging filmmakers are eligible for the SKYY Prize, which includes a $10,000 cash award and was established in 1997 by the Festival and premier sponsor SKYY Vodka to recognize a director whose film exhibits a unique artistic sensibility. The Golden Gate Awards is the competitive section for documentaries, shorts, animation, experimental, youth-produced, and television works. Juries award cash prizes ranging up to $5,000 in 10 of the 14 categories. The winning short film automatically qualifies for an entry into the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Science