The San Francisco International Film Festival, committed to celebrating the art of the moving image, has presented the best in world cinema since 1957. Now, the 15-day festival presents 200 films from 50 countries and reaches an engaged audience of nearly 95,000 with screenings in San Francisco, Berkeley and Palo Alto. The festival highlights current trends in international film and video production with an emphasis on work that has not yet secured U.S. distribution. First features by emerging filmmakers are eligible for the SKYY Prize, which includes a $10,000 cash award and was established in 1997 by the Festival and premier sponsor SKYY Vodka to recognize a director whose film exhibits a unique artistic sensibility. The Golden Gate Awards is the competitive section for documentaries, shorts, animation, experimental, youth-produced, and television works. Juries award cash prizes ranging up to $5,000 in 10 of the 14 categories. The winning short film automatically qualifies for an entry into the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Science

The San Francisco International Film Festival, committed to celebrating the art of the moving image, has presented the best in world cinema since 1957. Now, the 15-day festival presents 200 films from 50 countries and reaches an audience of nearly 95,000 with screenings in San Francisco, Berkeley and Palo Alto. The festival highlights current trends in international film and video production with an emphasis on work that has not yet secured U.S. distribution. First features by emerging filmmakers are eligible for the SKYY Prize, which includes a $10,000 cash award and was established in 1997 by the Festival and premier sponsor SKYY Vodka to recognize a director whose film exhibits a unique artistic sensibility. The Golden Gate Awards is the competitive section for documentaries, shorts, animation, experimental, youth-produced, and television works. Juries award cash prizes ranging up to $5,000 in 10 of the 14 categories. The winning short film automatically qualifies for an entry into the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Science

The San Francisco International Film Festival, committed to celebrating the art of the moving image, has presented the best in world cinema since 1957. Now, the 15-day festival presents 200 films from 50 countries and reaches an audience of nearly 95,000 with screenings in San Francisco, Berkeley and Palo Alto. The festival highlights current trends in international film and video production with an emphasis on work that has not yet secured U.S. distribution. First features by emerging filmmakers are eligible for the SKYY Prize, which includes a $10,000 cash award and was established in 1997 by the Festival and premier sponsor SKYY Vodka to recognize a director whose film exhibits a unique artistic sensibility. The Golden Gate Awards is the competitive section for documentaries, shorts, animation, experimental, youth-produced, and television works. Juries award cash prizes ranging up to $5,000 in 10 of the 14 categories. The winning short film automatically qualifies for an entry into the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Science

As part of the 2006 Digital Screening Series, the Entertainment Technology Center at USC is hosting a 4K screening of THE DA VINCI CODE. Mastered at 4K, THE DA VINCI CODE will be the first film to be exhibited at 4K at the Digital Cinema Lab. The religious thriller will be shown with a projector from Sony Electronics. The screening will be following by a panel discussion with Sony Pictures executives about the challenges and lessons learned during the postproduction, mastering and projection process. Armed with the highest quality digital picture and sound capabilities, the DCL theatre enables the entertainment and technology communities to experience digital presentation at its best.

Starting at 7:00 pm, the event will take place at the Cinema Laboratory at the Hollywood Pacific Theatre, 6433 Hollywood Blvd. To RSVP or for more information, visit www.etcenter.org or call Eduardo Keith at (213) 743-1607.

The San Francisco Independent Film Festival hosts its 4th Another Hole in the Head, which is comprised on two weeks of fantasy, sci-fi and horror films. This year's event will also feature SF IndieFest: Gets Animated, a collection of horror and fantasy animated shorts. Films will be shown at San Francisco's Roxie Film Center, 3117 16th St. Tickets are $10 per film. For more information, visit www.sfindie.com.

Digital Video Expo East is a core event for digital video trends or equipment for the audio, broadcasting, digital photography, independent filmmaking, lighting, visual effects, video or high definition industry. This year's conference sessions will cover technical, legal and business challenges driving change in the industry. For more information, visit www.dvexpo.com.

Rachel Belofsky, president and founder of SCREAMFEST Horror Film Festival and partner Stan Winston are hosting the 4th Annual Screamfest Horror Film Festival and Screenplay Competition. The festival and competition are looking for new talent in the world of horror filmmaking as well as celebrating the best the genre has to offer. The winner of the screenplay competition will receive a first look deal. The early deadline for entry is July 15, 2004. For more information, visit http://www.screamfestla.com/index2.html.

The 4th Digital Media Summit will focus on all the new trends and demands of the digital media industry. The event draws hundreds of executives from music, film, electronic gaming, cable, TV, video and technology addressing viable business models and innovative solutions for digital media. It

Cascade ACM SIGGRAPH, Oregon and Southwest Washington's local SIGGRAPH chapter are sponsoring 4th Generation Media presentation lead by Bruce Curling from Anark Corporation. Curling's presentation will cover the key concepts of 4th Generation Media as it impacts hardware penetration in the current high-tech market. The presentation will also provide an overview of potential applications for interactive 3D multimedia technologies and demonstrate how customers such as Microsoft and NVIDIA are using Anark technologies to facilitate product launches, market presentations, screen savers and Web presentations. The event will take place from 6:30 to 8:00 pm. at the Art Institute of Portland, located at 1122 N.W. Davis Street (Near Powell's Books), Portland. Registration and networking will be from 6:30

At first, in 2002, university student founded. And then it has been organized in 2003. In 2004, student organized the festival again. Then IAF and Turkish Cartoon Foundation combined to organize the festival. First two festivals were national with Turk animators. The third one has international films and competitors. And this year we are organizing 4th Istanbul International Animation Festival.

Festival have two section. One of sections is workshops and conferences. Professional animators and special effect artists tell animation industry and some experiences. Second section of festival is a competition. Istanbul Animation and Special Effect Short Film Competition appliance open for everybody. Therefore we can see Turkish animations, and young animators were encouraged.