Seoul International Cartoon & Animation Festival - SICAF 2003, the most popular festival in Asia, will run August 12-17, 2003 with new and various programs in the city of Seoul where history and the modern day blend beautifully together.
With special programs and official contests for $50,000 in prize money, SICAF 2003 is waiting for the filmmakers around the world to participate in the festival.

Competition Categories

- Feature Film
(produced for the purpose of the theatrical release)
- Short Film
(within 30 min.)
- TV & Commissioned Films
(TV Series/TV Specials/Advertising or Promotional
Films/Educational or Industrial Films/Video Clips
etc.)
- Internet Animation
(produced for Interent use, ie. Flash etc.)

The North American IPv6 Global Summit, is taking place June 24-27, 2003 in San Diego, at the California State University of San Diego.
The next generation of the Internet (also known as Internet Protocol version 6 - the old Internet is version 4) will profoundly affect companies involved in online gaming, in telecommunications or in other heavy online traffic such as multimedia presentations. The new Internet will spawn a generation of opportunities, including jobs and yet-to-be-invented new classes of products.

The conference should be of interest to IT students and professionals, security specialists, network engineers and producers of hardware/software for servers.

The conference is sponsored by an elite group of technology giants, including Qualcomm, Cisco, HP, Nokia, NEC, Hitachi and Wind River. Keynote speakers include John Osterholz, Director of Architecture and Interoperability for the Department of Defense, Jawad Khaki, Vice President of Windows Networking for Microsoft, Larry Smarr, Director of the California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology, and Alex Lightman, CEO of Charmed Technology and author of Brave New Unwired World.

Switching over to the new technology has already been mandated by companies such as Sony, and by U.S. government agencies such as the Department of Defense. The new Internet has many major benefits, including built-in security, support for mobile platforms (including the ability to "roam" anywhere on the globe), more robust transmission (it transmits much larger chunks of data) and the availability of billions of new Internet addresses.

University support has enabled the conference to be especially affordable, at $279 for industry or $79 for students/government - special discounts are available for anyone reserving space before June 15. Information may be found on the conference website at www.usipv6.com.

Downstream's mission is to present work in film, video and digital formats in a maker-friendly festival in a laid-back setting. Future plans include our beginning a script conference in 2004. In marketing our call for entries, our target is to achieve a 50/50 ratio of female to male directors entering the competitions.

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The 4th Bitfilm Festival for digital film and new media shows films that use digital technology in a creative and innovative way. There are five categories:

Digital Features
Films of min. 90 minutes which use 3D animation and digital effects as an artistic means.

Bit Shorts
Short films, music videos and ads which use 3D animation and digital effects as an artistic means.

Flash
Linear films and interactive works made with Macromedia Flash.

Machinima
Films that are animated in real time using game environments.

Micromovies
Films of max. 60 seconds that are custom-made for mobile devices like cell phones, PDAs etc.

There will be a total of 45,000 Euros in prize money awarded. Entry deadline: July 1, 2003. There is no entry fee.

More information and submissions under http://www.bitfilm-festival.org/index_e.html

AlwaysOn's conference, AO2003: The Innovation Summit, will be held at Stanford Law School on the Stanford University campus. Participants will discuss and debate what it means to be "always on." The event will allow professionals to uncover new opportunities and get some deals flowing. To help facilitate the discussion, there will be 15 sessions to focus on the real market opportunities, some of which include: the wireless boom, the home area network, always on/always vulnerable, next generation networks - the next 3 years and beyond, the realtime network, how far can Linux and the open source movement go?, Hollywood versus Silicon Valley and journalists' outlook. Joining these discussions will be 60 speakers from such companies as 3COM, Palm, Electronic Arts Online Publishing, eBay, QUALCOMM and more. For more information go to www.acteva.com.

G4, the Comcast-owned TV network all about video games and the gamer lifestyle, will hold G-Phoria - the network's location-based and on-air mega-event at the Henry Fonda Theater in Hollywood, California. Some of the industry's most highly anticipated video games are making a special appearance at G-Phoria, including: THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE RETURN OF THE KING (Electronic Arts); MEDAL OF HONOR: RISING SUN (Electronic Arts); MADDEN NFL 2004 (Electronic Arts), FULL SPECTRUM WARRIOR (THQ); FINAL FANTASY X-2 (Square Enix USA); KARAOKE REVOLUTION (Konami); METAL GEAR SOLID: THE TWIN SNAKES (Konami); PRINCE OF PERSIA: THE SANDS OF TIME (Ubi Soft); STAR WARS: ROGUE SQUADRON III: REBEL STRIKE (LucasArts); MARIO KART: DOUBLE DASH!! (Nintendo) and FABLE (Microsoft Game Studios). The event will feature musical performers, famous presenters and a special surprise host. On August 8, 2003, G4 will air a 90-minute special accumulating the event

Wireless Developer 2003 offers speakers, workshops and sponsored programs targeted toward developers of wireless technology. The event is an opportunity for professionals to learn about marketing strategies, product roadmaps, SDKs and technical information to help them better run their businesses. The objective of the event is to

First held in 1996, QuakeCon is the brainchild of id Software game fans that originally wants to get together with online friends and talk about their favorite games. Now the event is the premiere multiplayer gaming conference. More than 3,000 attendees partake in the huge exhibit area featuring E3 quality displays from the likes of Activision, Apple, Sega and many others. The BYOC (Bring Your Own Computer) area, powered by LinkSys, also grew larger to a 1,300 seat LAN party, the largest of its kind in North America. In addition to conferences and seminars, QuakeCon hosts the $50,000 NVIDIA Championship Quake III Arena. For more information visit www.quakecon.org.

On August 15 at 7:00 pm, Flashbang v5 will showcase the best local and international interactive work. This year it is featuring even more visionary work including: interactive applications, digital animation, Websites, installations, games and more. The work this year will be presented on two large screens as well as on various computers at the event itself. All attendees will receive a limited-run event book with images from the submitted work, commentary on the work and articles about digital creativity and communication. In addition to the exhibition of work, entertainment will provided by: Richard Devine, Sunday Munich, in.cept.date, Kids w/ Codenames, DJ Nav, DJ Sharrab and Abstract Foundation with rareFORM. Flashbang is presented by Monumental, ICE Design Group and Creative Know-Who. This year