The 16th Annual Digital Hollywood Spring is a leading conference for the entertainment, media and technology executives. The event will feature special events, exhibits, sponsorships and speaking engagements. More than 300 industry speakers will be participating in the event. For more information, call (212) 352-9720 or visit www.digitalhollywood.com.

Organized by International Quality & Productivity Center (IQPC), the 16th Annual Kid Power! conference will be held June 8-10, 2009 at the Disney Yacht & Beach Club in Orlando, FL. This industry-leading forum for Marketing and Brand Strategists explores the latest trends, case studies and research in how to reach kids, the whole family and "whole child".

Changing government regulations that dictate the "how" and "what" of marketing to kids, the public backlash against product initiatives and the increasing placement in alternative mediums adds to the complexity that marketers face and has driven more relationship-oriented trends in marketing. The 16th Annual Kid Power! features innovators in the "kid space" including The National Football League, LEGO, Boy Scouts of America, Scholastic, Tween Brands, MyYearbook and more. Participants will stay ahead of these ever-changing trends by:

-- Understanding who their target audience is and how to reach them in an engaging, constructive way
-- Learning new research on connecting with moms, dads, grandparents and other family members
-- Exploring new technologies, like social networking & mobile marketing, and how to use them successfully
-- Using partnerships for targeted marketing to reduce marketing spend in the current economy

The audience for this event includes Kid, Youth and Family Brands and professionals involved in Strategy & Trend Analysis, Branding, Marketing & Advertising, Merchandising, Web & Media, Agencies and Licensors.

For additional information, visit www.kidpowerx.com, follow Kid Power on Twitter at www.twitter.com/KidPowerX, or contact Abby Lombardi at +1 212-885-2660 or abby.lombardi@iqpc.com.

The 16th Clermont-Ferrand Short Film Market allows short filmmakers the opportunity to showcase their work to an international audience of distributors, buyers and producers who are searching for new talent and content. The market offers viewing areas of more than 3,000 new titles and special screenings. The 700-page market catalogue highlights the films presented at the market. The event gives industry professionals a chance to meet and work on setting up future deals. The European Union MEDIA programme is a supporter of the market.

The Independent Arts Festival offers space to exhibit, show and perform any form of creativity especially those in the independent scene. The event is focused to up and coming young artists who have never exhibited their art before. The festival also invites international, independent and professional artists to share their artwork. The motto of the event is: "Art is not boring." The festival also wants to give attention to the comic and zine scene. The event will feature a reading corner where visitors will be able to read comics and zines, and give comic artists and zine publishers the possibility to come and show or sell their products. For more information visit www.sztuka-fabryka.be/festival/.

The 16th Stuttgart International Festival Of Animated Film is open for submissions. The International Competition, Young Animation, Tricks For Kids animated series and AniMovie are due December 1, 2008. Categories for Under Commission films and for the German Animation Acreenplay award are due January 15, 2009. 50,000 viewers, 1,500 professional visitors, 500 films! Together with fmx -- a conference for experts and interested people dealing with animation, visual effects and digital post production -- and its 6,000 accredited guests, the Stuttgart Festival of Animated Film has emerged as one of the most important events and meeting platforms for animated film around the globe. Thus the Stuttgart Festival of Animated Film offers an ideal forum for filmmakers and producers to present their work to a wide audience. The festival awards more than 52,500 Euros in total for cash prizes in the altogether six competition categories, which, in 2009 will again be accompanied by an exciting and comprehensive supporting program. The now-established business platform Animation Production Day (APD) -- held in cooperation with Michael Schmetz Mediaconsult -- will be entering its fourth round. The Animation Coproduction Forum Eastern Europe -- held in cooperation with the Robert Bosch Foundation -- will take place for the second time. You are invited to submit films produced after October 1, 2007, for one of the following competition categories. Make sure to adhere to the above mentioned submission deadlines as well as the rules and regulations for entries. --International Competition --Young Animation (International competition for student films) --Tricks for Kids (International competition for children's films) --AniMovie (International feature film competition) --Animated Series (International competition for TV series) --Under Commission (International competition for commissioned films) You can download all submission forms, rules and regulations as well as the call for entries for the German Animation Screenplay Award at www.itfs.de. For further information contact Andrea Bauer at bauer@festival-gmbh.de. Online submissions can be made at www.reelport.com as of October 1, 2008.

In 2005 Filmfest Dresden enters its 17th year. Focusing on short films, the festival promotes a film category which is mostly disregarded by cinemas and television. Since its beginning in 1989, Filmfest Dresden has developed into one of the major short film festivals in Germany - and with a total amount of

Professionals in ad art, video game design, maquette creation, and comic book creation are needed to teach small seminars for teen-aged foster youth. Held June 14, 2008, on the Fox Studios lot, this event introduces abused and neglected kids to careers in animation and creative design.

The Florida Motion Picture and Television Association (FMPTA) is hosting the Crystal Reel Awards (CRA). The Crystal Reel Awards have been compared to Florida

The 17th annual Dusty Film and Animation Festival and Awards showcases over 100 films by students graduating from the BFA Film, Video and Animation Department at the School of Visual Arts. The program includes three days of screenings of short films, videos and animations; a screenwriters night, where professional actors read excerpts of screenplays by graduating seniors; and an awards ceremony and gala reception with notable presenters from the film industry.

Each year, outstanding achievements awards are presented in the following categories: screenwriting, cinematography, video, editing, directing, film, acting, traditional animation and stop-motion animation. Previous award presenters have included Harvey Keitel, Danny Aiello, Sean Combs, Lee Grant, Bryan Singer, Treat Williams, Richard Price, Wes Craven, Griffin Dunne, Adam Holender, Bill Plympton and Ellen Burstyn.

2006 Festival Schedule
Thursday, April 27: Screenwriters Night
The National Arts Club, 15 Gramercy Park South, 6:30

The Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Rijeka has been organizing the International Exhibition of Drawings since 1968. Forty years after the first exhibition, drawing returns to Rijeka, this year accompanied by animated films. Over time, as the museum kept bringing forth themes that asked questions and gave answers on definitions, nature, borders and techniques of drawing, as a central axis of Rijeka exhibition's reflection, always and again we reached new and unexplored domains of using the process and product of drawing. From one year to another, international exhibition represents drawing under various lights, questioning relation between drawing and other arts, adding and updating the basic definition that "drawing is a graphic depiction of forms, exercised on any surface". Its extensive application is being observed and continuously monitored. Norman McLaren, one of the giants of animated film, defined the latter as invisible space that exists between the drawings. In his own words: "Animation is not art of a drawing that moves but art of movements that are being drawn. That which happens between each photogram is more important than that which is in it. Animation is, therefore, art of manipulating the invisible spaces that lay between photographs." McLaren's definition of animated film is a starting point from which we move into exploring everything that animated film and drawing are. The basic idea of international exhibition is to collect and exhibit original drawings, and present animated films because of which this drawings were created in the first place. We wish to invite some of the authors whose works are going to be exhibited. Exhibition will go on for three months and will be accompanied with film screenings, workshops targeted at various ages and lectures on animated film, all of which will provide us a possibility of insight into actual questions and researches in this field. Herein we primarily refer to the unavoidable question of using the new techniques which, to the great extent, had their hand in animated film's realization. Besides the central show at the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, there will be few smaller exhibitions set in Mali salon gallery, at Rijeka's main street of Korzo. Arist/Works: 1. Atushi Wada -- DAY OF NOSE 2. JJ Villard -- SON OF SATAN 3. Izibene Onederra -- HEZURBELTZAK, A COMMONE GRAVE 4. Michaela Pavlatova -- CARNIVAL OF ANIMALS 5. Simone Massi -- LA MEMORIA DEI CANI 6. Igor Kovalyov -- MILCH 7. Priit Parn -- KARL AND MERILYN 8. Andreas Hykade -- THE RUNT 9. Elizabeth Hobbs -- THE TRUE STORY OF SAWNEY BEANE 10. Igor Coric -- LEFTOVERS 11. Koji Yamamura FRANZ KAFKA'S A COUNTRY DOCTOR 12. Thomas Hicks -- I TURN MY FACE TO THE FOREST FLOOR 13. Daniel Suljic -- FILM S DJEVOJCICOM 14. Paul Driessen -- 3 MISSES