The 8th Annual Woodstock Film Festival presents the best in new independent films of the coming year. The event also features seminars, concerts and special events. WFF is also embarking on a year-round series of programming leading up to next year's festival that will include workshops, continued film commission work and special screenings. The event has quickly gained the distinction of being one of the best regional festivals with many critically acclaimed films opening at the event. The early deadline is June 6, 2007, and the final deadline in July 12. For more information contact the festival at (845) 679-4265 or visit www.woodstockfilmfestival.com.

Woodstock Museum 5th Annual Film & Video Festival celebrates work in features, documentaries, shorts and works in progress. The theme this year is "respect." If postmarked by July 3, 2004 the entry fee is $10 - Late Entry Fee is $25. The festival will take place at the Woodstock Town Hall. All genres including animation and digital media will be accepted. Supporting materials could include description of piece, autobiography, reproduction photograph, resume and artists' statement. For more information, contact the Woodstock Museum at P.O. Box 73, Woodstock, New York 12498-0073, tel.: 845-246-0600, fax: 845-246-7763 or Web: http://www.WoodstockMuseum.org.

Soup2Nuts and Scholastic Media invite you and your family to a behind-the-scenes look at the making of the Emmy Award-winning show, WORDGIRL. Audience members will have an opportunity to meet the creator and Executive Producer Dorothea Gillim, watch clips in various stages of production, and see a full episode. After the screening, children of all ages will be invited on stage to dance like Captain Huggy Face. Worrrrrd Up!

Admission is free and the event is located at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre in Hollywood (5919 Franklin Ave.) Tickets, however, will be given first-come, first served to the first 90 people on the day of the show only.

Jeffrey Tambor, Dannah Feinglass and Chris Parnell headline a one-time-only, live onstage reading of the Emmy-winning hit animated series, WORDGIRL. Soup2Nuts animation studio (a division of Scholastic Media) and UCBTLA will spotlight WORDGIRL's cast of top comic actors and stand-up comedians. Series creators, writers and cast members will take audience questions about the show following the reading. WORDGIRL is the popular animated series about mild-mannered Becky Botsford, whose secret identity is the crime-fighting superhero. WordGirl and her monkey sidekick Captain Huggy Face battle wacky villains with their super strength and super vocabulary. The show airs nationally on PBS KIDS GO! Tickets are $5 and the show is at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre in Hollywood (5919 Franklin Ave.) on January 22, 2009 at 8 p.m.

An event for writers and all who care about what writers do and how they do it. Over 175 panelists and speakers, including dozens of Academy and Emmy honored screenwriters and television writers, plus A-list directors, agents, producers and studio executives will gather at the Hilton Los Angeles/Universal City June 7 - 9 for three days of panel discussions, case studies, parties, a major screening, book signings, tips and tactics, networking - and lots of FUN.

Starting at 7:00 pm, Sprocket Ensemble at the Red Vic on Haight Street will present

Prominent industry filmmakers will focus on how the convergence of film origination and digital postproduction affect the workflow during a seminar here on May 21 at Tribeca Cinemas from 8:30 am to 12:30 pm. Producer Brian Bell and cinematographers Nancy Schreiber, ASC and Matthew Libatique, ASC will participate in the discussion moderated by Carolyn Giardina, senior editor of SHOOT Magazine. Kodak is hosting the seminar.

Such new tools include the Kodak Look Manager and Kodak Display Manager systems, which are designed to help filmmakers maintain control and communicate their intentions with editors, digital timers and other collaborators on a project. LaserPacific president Leon Silverman will offer insights into issues related to color management and how the evolution of digital intermediate technology is affecting the workflow.

For registration and additional information, visit www.kodak.com/go/workflow or call 1-800-863-5787. The seminar will be followed by a reception. Tribeca Cinemas is located at 54 Varick Street (at Laight Street).

MoMA is presenting a exhibition of works by New York-based animator Michael Sporn. The exhibition, which is divided into four programs -- "New York Stories," "Fables," "A Peaceable Kingdom," and "An Evening with Michael Sporn" -- includes LYLE, LYLE CROCODILE (1987), GOODNIGHT MOON (1999), and his recent, moving adaptation of the Mordicai Gerstein Caldecott Award-winning book, THE MAN WHO WALKED BETWEEN THE TOWERS (2005). A highlight of the series is "An Evening with Michael Sporn" on Nov. 12, part of the recently launched Modern Mondays initiative. The artist in conversation with animation historian/filmmaker John Canemaker and MoMA assistant curator Joshua Siegel, will illustrate the evening with clips from his award-winning animated films, including a new short, Pab's First Burger, and an excerpt from his feature-length work-in-progress about the life and work of Edgar Allan Poe. For more information, visit www.moma.org.

Kathaa Animations is one of the leading content provider for the animation industry in India. With a shortfall of talent in the animation industry, it is taking the initiative to teach wannabe animators and animation directors, the steps that will take you through the process of animation. From basic conceptualization to converting the concept into an animation film, the animation module will take you through the grass root basics of animation and bring you to a threshold wherein you can develop yourself into a creative professional par excellence in the field of animation.

The talent of an animator is not the software that he learns, but the passion that he possesses.

With a course that takes you into the world of animation and hands on experience as an apprentice in Kathaa Animations for a period of two months after completion of the workshop, it is the fire within you that we seek to explore.

PUPPETMAKING FOR STOP-MOTION-ANIMATION
from Armature to final Character
basic techniques for efficient puppets
Next Date: 20.-22. April 2012 (german spoken)
MORE INFO @ http://www.weirdoughmation.de/eworkshops.htm