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YTV'S WOW! Cross Country Summer Tour Hits The Road June 4

Posted In | Event Category: Animation, Interactive, Other, Television, Web / Internet | Event Type: Exhibits, Screenings
Starts: Jun 04, 2009 - Ends: Sep 07, 2009
Submission Deadline: Jun 04, 2009
Location: Multiple Cities, Multiple Provinces, Canada
Website: http://www.ytv.com/wow
Corus Entertainment's YTV's interactive, entertainment-filled summer road show WOW! will be heading out for another exciting summer tour. Now in its 11th year, WOW! will be travelling to communities across the country, visiting major festivals and attractions from June 4 until Labour Day. This year the summer tour includes HASBRO's Camp NERF DART TAG Capture the Flag! After months of training to become NERF Operatives at CampNERF.ca, YTV viewers can now put their online skills into real-life action, when they get to test NERF DART TAG products in a live game of Capture the Flag. On site, the WOW! crew will be distributing collectible prizes from NERF to all NERF Operatives-in-Training. WOW! will also gets kids up and moving with action-packed Dunkaroos Slam Dunkers All Stars. This inflatable zone is the ultimate basketball experience as kids can practice dunks, shoot hoops and play three on three with their friends. New to the tour this year, is Dunks Bump, where kids must make their shots to stay in the game -- last one standing wins a Dunkaroos prize. Kids can also check out Dunkaroos Dish, Drive and Dunk at www.ytv.com/wow where kids can battle it out online in their own basketball tournaments. Travelling from coast to coast, the unmistakable WOW! vehicles don't go anywhere without the high energy road crew, who travel from event to event, interacting with Canadian kids along the way. WOW! vehicles feature the latest in multimedia technology including a massive 95" screen, giving kids and their families a sneak peek of upcoming YTV programming. WOW!'s first stop is on June 4 at the Clearmeadow School Fair in Newmarket, Ontario. For further information, including video blogs, tour dates and locations for WOW!, visit www.ytv.com/wow.

Zagreb 2006

Starts: Jun 12, 2006 - Ends: Jun 17, 2006
Submission Deadline: Feb 15, 2006
Location: Zagreb, Croatia
Website: http://www.animafest.hr
Zagreb: 18th World Festival of Animated Films is an ASIFA sanctioned competitive festival. The festival was formed in 1969 to encouraging creativity, which eschews pre-set patterns and ideas/notions/conceptions, and finds new ways of exploring the possibilities of film animation. Awards with cash prizes will be given as follows: grand prize, best first production, best student film, plus five special prizes and three special distinctions.

Deadline for films made in 2004 and 2005 is Dec. 15 2005. Deadline for films finished in January 2006 is Feb. 15, 2006. For more information, visit www.animafest.hr.

Zlin Fest For Children And Youth

Starts: May 29, 2005 - Ends: Jun 04, 2005
Submission Deadline: Mar 15, 2005
Location: Zl, Czech Republic
Website: http://www.zlinfest.cz
Zlin Festival is one of the oldest festivals dedicated to films for children and youth. Films compete in six sections - film for children, for youth, animated film, European debuts, student films and films from Visegrad countries. The project is supported by the Czech Parliament and Ministry of Culture, the EU Media Programme and the International Visegrad Fund. Festival is held under the auspices the Czech UNESCO Commission and the Czech UNICEF Commission. For more information, visit www.zlinfest.cz.

Zoie Films Online Festival

Starts: Feb 15, 2006 - Ends: Feb 15, 2006
Submission Deadline: Feb 15, 2006
Location: World Wide Web
Website: http://www.zoiefilms.com
The Zoie Films Online Festival celebrates 10 years of independent cinema and showcases the best works from around the globe. This unique forum utilizes the best technology for presentation and allows filmmakers to be seen by an international audience. ZoieFest offers viewers a