Anifest 2004 is a celebration of animation in all forms. The festival accepts feature-length films, shorts, TV films, TV serials, video clips, advertisements, introductory spots and student films. Festival prizes will be awarded by two international professional juries. For more information, contact the festival at Corona s.r.o. - AniFest 2004, Jindricha Plachty 28, 150 00 Praha 5, Czech Republic; tel: + 420 257 324 507; fax: + 420 257 324 508; e-mail: info@anifest.cz; or Web: www.anifest.cz.

The Oklahoma Electronic Game Expo and Multimedia Conference (OEGE) is a one day conference that seeks to bring together students, educators, professionals and enthusiasts in all areas of Computer-Aided Technology and highlight Oklahoma as a creative outlet for these industries.

Computer-Aided Technology encompasses all creative industries that use computers for the development of their designs, such as video game, multimedia, graphic design, web design, CAD, GIS, video editing, animation, and digital art.

By offering an educated workforce, we strive to make Oklahoma a prime location for game development, multimedia, animation, etc., thus expanding this growing creative industry.

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.

LC3 is a unique event geared towards raising the awareness and sensitivity of the public (especially the youths) towards the vast field of cartoons, comics and animation creation and publishing while adding a boost to the nation's reading and entertainment culture. This year's carnival is designed as a weeklong event to cater for the dual needs of exposition, networking and marketing and entertainment. In this light, the first part of the event will feature an interactive talk shop on industry related matters to be led by key resource persons; coupled with an exhibition of works by major players and emerging talents in the comics and cartoons trade. The key aim for the first part of the carnival is to provide an avenue for prospective investors, facilitators, practitioners, enthusiasts, government officials and the general public to interact in a highly stimulating environment with all the inherent possibilities for business and networking. As a follow-up to that, the second part will combine a comics and cartoon trade fair with an art exhibition featuring front line comics and cartoons artists. For more information, visit stampedecora.blogspot.com/.

The 3rd Orinda Film Festival highlights films from around world that inspire, educate, challenge and provoke audiences to explore other viewpoints and forms of expression. Features, shorts, docs, animation, experimental films and music videos are all accepted. Programs this year include a spotlight program for emerging high school filmmakers. Additionally, the online community triggerstreet.com will present a unique program of short films from around the world. This group of 10 shorts was selected from more than 1,400 entries voted on by a truly international audience of online film enthusiasts. In addition, we also showcase the work of accomplished artists and larger productions featuring celebrity casts and crews. For more information, visit www.orindafilmfestival.org.

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.

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