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Future Film Festival is a major Italian event dedicated to animation & special effects. The festival offers extensive retrospectives of international animation, premieres of major animation & special effects films, new television series and experimental shorts.
In 2001, over 22,000 people attended the Future Film Festival, including 300 journalists and 400 accredited professionals and academics.
The festival welcomed international guests from leading effects companies such as PDI, ILM, Pixar, Duboi and Buf Compagnie, animators Osvaldo Cavandoli and Bruno Bozzetto, and more international animation & special effects directors, artistic directors and creative designers.

Year twelve of the UK-based funding scheme is now live.

animate! is commissioning a new slate of risk-taking projects for television, with running times of 3-6 minutes and production budgets from

Cartoombria showcases animation from around the world, with a focus on digital and multimedia animation. The festival also holds special events highlighting international schools and training programs on computer animation, new media and Web animation.

The animation community is invited to Local 839's Open House Holiday Party, Friday, December 7 from 6 pm to midnight. Beverly Garland Holiday Inn Grand Ballroom, 4222 Vineland in North Hollywood (just south of the 101). Free hors d'oeuvres and no-host bar; open to the entire animation community. No RSVP necessary; call Local 839 at (818) 766-7151 for details.

The 3rd European Gathering of Young Digital Creation is focused on digital art from animation to special effects. Some of the themes of this year's event will be animation and special effects in feature films, sound in cinema and multimedia and royalties. The festival includes training symposiums, screenings and discussions. Guest speakers will include Raoul Servais, creator of KIRIKOU Michel Ocelot and co-director of Axis, Chris Delaporte.

Visit Raoul Servais' AWN Showcase.

Read Animation World Magazine's article on KIRIKOU to learn more about the amazing work of Michel Ocelot.

The field of animation is now a vital part of both film and television production. These industries are increasingly utilising 2D and 3D models to enhance animated and virtual images. A variety of new techniques and technologies are constantly emerging in the animation market providing a constant need for evaluating these trends.

Following last year

An Evening of Diversions - Featuring intriguing amusements inspired by the Devices of Wonder exhibition, An Evening of Diversions invites audiences to step back in time 100 years, when the new century offered mind-boggling technological advancements. Produced by Community Arts Resources, the evening features cinema's first frames, a magic lantern show and other acts of wonder that amazed the public in 1901. No reservations required. At the J. Paul Getty Museum on Saturday November 17, 6:00 - 9:00 pm.

Through nearly 400 objects from the 17th century to the present, Devices of Wonder explores our long and playful entanglement with the magical technologies and artful instruments that we have placed between our eyes and the world. Centuries before the advent of cyberspace, humans created a host of gadgets to enhance visual perception. Mirrors, microscopes, magic lanterns, automata, dioramas, panoramas, perspective theaters and metamorphic toys have all expanded human perception at different times, amplifying reality into more vivid virtual events. Devices of Wonder draws from the collections of the Getty Research Institute, the J. Paul Getty Museum, and lenders worldwide to bring together several hundred of these beautiful and bizarre ancestors of our modern museums, cinema, cyborgs, fiber optics and computers. Several works by contemporary artists such as Lucas Samaras, Cindy Sherman, Jeff Wall, Tiffany Holmes and James Turrell resonate with the complex lineage of our seductive new technologies. This exhibition was organized by the Getty Research Institute.

INDAC, the International Nights & Days of Animation - Cologne started seven years ago as a small
animation evening. Since then, it has grown into a festival that welcomed 3500 participants in 2001. This year, INDAC will expand its activities to the cities of D