Early deadline for entries: December 17, 1999.



The Nashville Independent Film Festival (NIFF) will showcase the best in independent film and video featuring premiere screenings of award winning works, seminars, panel discussions and guest appearances by nationally recognized film/video makers. The festival is one of the few Academy Award qualifying festivals for animation. Adding to the Feature, Animation, Documentary, Short Film and Young Filmmaker categories, the festival has opened up some new categories this year: Television Pilot/Episodic Television, and Family and Children Films. Entry fees range from $10 to $50.

A competition for Business, Television, Documentary, Industrial and Informational
productions. Entry fee: $125-150.

The Bradford Animation Festival (BAF!) is a project of the National Museum of
Photography, Film and Television in England. BAF! is looking specifically for new
animation from all over the world in its eight competitive categories. All submitted
films will be considered for screening and for the eight Festival Awards. The
categories are: Non-Professional under 16; Experimental; Promotional/Commercial;
Non-Professional Adult; Professional; Digital; Films for Children; and TV Series for
Children (one episode from the series).

This Festival has six categories: features, shorts, TV fiction, cartoons, shorts and documentaries. One panel of judges will be composed of show business and communications professionals and the other by Internet users. The winning works will be presented on the Website for the rest of the year; the works that are not selected for the festival will be presented on-line for a limited period of time immediately after the event.

The World Education Market will be a first-of-its kind annual event for all key players in education to meet on a world stage, buy and sell products, systems and know-how, share ideas and create dynamic business partnerships and joint ventures. Key decision-makers in colleges, universities, school systems, governments and international agencies, as well as publishers, multimedia developers, and the telecommunications and television industries will all be present.

WAC will showcase more than 800 films, including the best in both classic and contemporary animation. As the main attraction, WAC will present awards to the best new animated works from around the world. The World Animation Celebration will present a trade show, an international business conference, world and American film premieres, seminars, symposiums, tributes, salutes to new European animation, special programs on new computer animation and a survey of the world's best animated commercials. Cash prizes, awards and commissions will be presented to winners in categories that include feature and short films, television series, television specials, commercials, public service announcements, educational films, experimental animation, computer animation, and animation intended for children.

Organized by the International Council of the National Academy of Television Arts
and Sciences, the International Emmy Awards acknowledge the special skills of the
men and women who create and produce television programs outside of the United
States. Awards are presented in seven categories of programming: Drama,
Documentary, Arts Documentary, Performing Arts, Popular Arts, Children and Young
People, and News Coverage.

Cine-Clube de Avanca and the C

The Silicon Pulp Animation Gallery will present Atomic Sushi, a major exhibition of artworks from Japanese animated films and TV series. The exhibition will include pre-production illustrations, storyboards, original hand-painted cels and backgrounds. A comprehensive catalogue covering the history, themes and artists will also be published to coincide with the exhibition. Also, the Dendy Cinemas are holding a "Japanime Festival" from Wednesday, September 6 - Sunday, September 10 as part of the Sydney Olympic Arts Festival. Silicon Pulp will exhibit original artworks from a selection of the films screened at the festival.

The International EMMA Awards recognizes excellence in digital media content creation. Organized by the EMMA Foundation, the awards has the following categories: Business: Advertising and Marketing; Business: Commerce; Business: External Communication; Business: Internal Communication; Business: Training; Digital City; Education: 12-16 Years Old; Education: 16-Adult; Education: 4-11 Years Old; Entertainment: Children's On-line; Entertainment: Family; Entertainment: Family On-line; Games: Action/Simulation; Games: Simulation; Games: Strategy; Arts & Culture; Information & Reference; Interactive Publications; Leisure, Science & Technology; CD/On-line Integration; On-line Education/Home Learning; Gold Award for Excellence; plus new categories for Student Web Sites and Interactive TV. In connection with the awards, the EMMA Foundation offers a Masterclass in New York, San Francisco, Amsterdam, Hamburg and London. EMMA Foundation members receive a profile entry into the on-line directory; opportunity to submit press releases for distribution to the international press; opportunity to submit news items for display on the site News page; discount on entries into the EMMA awards; feedback from the jury on entry submissions; and priority booking for the EMMA Masterclass programme.