* Michael Schmetz: renowned for his participation in founding the European trade fair Cartoon Movie, which takes place annually in Potsdam, Germany. He also consults top feature film and animation companies such as NFP teleart, Egoli Tossell Film AG, Motionworks and Studio SOI and is spokesman for the recently founded German Assoc. for Animation Producers (VdAP).

fmx/07 (www.fmx.de) is organized by the Institute of Animation, Visual Effects and Digital Postproduction, Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg. It is generously supported by the Staatsministerium Baden-Württemberg, the Wirtschaftsministerium Baden-Württemberg, the MFG Medien -- und Filmgesellschaft Baden-Württemberg and the FFA German Federal Film Board.

fmx/07 partners include the 14th Stuttgart International Festival of Animated Film, ACM SIGGRAPH, NXPublishing, the Stuttgart Media University (HdM) and Gobelins, L’école de l’image.

fmx/07 event partners are Eyes & Ears of Europe, sagasnet and flash conference.