*Sunday, November 14, 1999, 5pm. West Los Angeles, California, USA.

* November 8-10, 1999. New York, New York, USA.

* Wednesday, November 24- Saturday, November 27, 1999. Valenciennes, France.


European Gathering of Young Digital Creation highlights the technologies of the future and purposes a realistic look at the jobs of tomorrow. The four day gathering will feature conferences, round table discussions, and screenings of the best digital work and three-dimensional films. The event is sponsored by the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Valenciennes in association with Supinfocom.

The 22nd Cinanima International Animated Film Festival. Since 1977,
Cinanima has been promoting the international art of animation in Espinho,
a city located on the Northern coast of Portugal. The events takes place
Monday, November 8 - Sunday, November 14 in Esphino, Portugal. For more
information contact: Cinanima, Apartado 743, Rua 62-251, 4501 Espinho
Codex, Portugal; Tel. + (351) 2 734-4611, 734-1621; Fax: + (351) 2
734-6015; or E-mail: cinanima@mail.telepac.pt. Also visit
www.awn.com/cinanima.

ASIFA-Hollywood and Glendale Community College present the
Fourth Annual Lecture Series on "Production Management" with guest speaker,
Kellie-Bea Cooper. Cooper, Production Manager at Phil Roman Entertainment,
has produced award winning independent shorts in both traditional animation
and computer animation which have been featured by SIGGRAPH. She has also
worked with several studios including Jim Henson Interactive and Warner
Brothers. Her background includes work in live action, interactive, Web,

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences presents the National Film
Board of Canada's 60th Anniversary Animation Celebration. The Academy is
located at 8949 Wilshire Blvd. The event takes place Thursday, November 18,
8 pm. Beverly Hills, California, USA. For more information Tel. (310)
247-3000.

The 2nd Annual Worldfest-Flagstaff International Film Festival. Worldfest,
which has been held in Houston for 32 years and additionally in Charleston,
South Carolina for five years, takes place in Flagstaff, Arizona, the
festival's second appearance there. The festival's focus is on independent
works that have not yet been picked up for distribution. The wide
competition program features eight animation categories and several others,
which may accept animated works, such as "computer generated/mixed media."

The School of Visual Arts (SVA) presents the seventh annual New York
Digital Salon, an international juried showcase of computer-generated
artwork. Computer animation screenings will be shown at the SVA
Amphitheatre and the exhibit takes place in the School's Visual Arts
Museum, both located at 209 East 23rd Street. The event takes place Monday,
November 8 in New York, New York, USA. For more information and to view
work on-line, visit www.sva.edu/salon.

New York University hosts a symposium on The National Film Board of Canada
in honor of the NFB's 60th anniversary. The event takes place Thursday,
November 11 - Sunday, November 14 in New York, New York, USA. For more
information Tel. (212) 596-1660.

The Women In Animation Shorts Fest 2 is a showcase for short animated
films made by WIA members and other filmmakers from around the world. This
evening's program includes LIFE, the hilarious new animated jam session
from Mo Willems and 32 other animators from New York, including Tissa
David, George Griffin, Yvette Kaplan, Candy Kugel and Bill Plympton.
Admission is FREE and open to the public. The event takes place Friday,
November 12, 1999 at 7:00 pm at Santa Monica College, Academy of

The 1999 ASIFA-East animation art fund raiser auction takes place on
Friday, November 12, 1999. Films will be shown from Cartoon Network, Karen
Aqua, Nickelodeon's BLUE'S CLUES, Bill Plympton, J.J. Sedelmaier
Productions, Academy Award Winning Blue Sky Studios (BUNNY), and many
others. After the films are shown, artwork or items relating to the films
will be auctioned and all the money will go to benefit ASIFA-East, the East
Coast chapter of the international animation society. The auction takes

The annual Best Of Banff Television Festival is a traveling showcase
featuring highlights of the 20th Banff Television Festival, which took
place June 13 - 19 in Banff, Canada. The program will make its Ottawa,
Canada stop at the Canadian Museum of Civilization in Hull on November 17,
1999. S4C/BBC's GOGS: GOGWANA, winner of this year's Banff's Best Animation
Program Award, and NFB of Canada/Channel Four's SNOW CAT, a nominee for
Best Animation Program at Banff, will be the featured animated programs.

The Savannah College of Art and Design will host animators Bill Plympton
and Larry Lauria during the week of November 8, 1999 at the Savannah Film
Festival in Savannah, Georgia. On Monday, November 8, Bill Plympton will
talk about "Life as an Independent Animator and Filmmaker" at 11:00 am in
the City Lights Theater. Plympton will discuss his work and show footage
from past and recent works. On Friday, November 12, Larry Lauria will give
a "Character Design Workshop" at 9:00 am in SCAD's Trustee Theater. Lauria,

An exhibition of New Animation from Germany consisting of models,
paintings, sketches and production shots from the works of eight young
German animators will be on display at Chapman University. The event takes
place Monday, November 1 - Wednesday, December 15, 1999 in Orange,
California, USA. For more information including a screening schedule call:
(714) 997-6729.

Toonz Animation India, a new animation production studio and full-service
facility, will host "A Week with the Masters," which will bring the top
names in international animation pre-production together to discuss the
importance of story boarding, character design, and story development.
Among the guests will be keynote speaker Rob Coleman, Industrial Light &
Magic's Animation Supervisor on STAR WARS EPISODE I: THE PHANTOM MENACE;
producer-director-writer Derek Lamb; Ian Diamond of Cartoon Network;

Women In Animation sponsors the Third Annual Career Day Event. Panel
discussions include "Animation: The Reality of the Business" and "Your
Marketing Tools: Resumes, Portfolios and Demo Reels." There will also be a
portfolio/demo reel review, and small group workshops for both computer and
traditional animation. The events takes place Saturday, November 6, 9 am -
3 pm in Burbank, California, USA. Space is limited, so RSVP is required.
Fees are $15 for WIA members, and $20 for non-members. Checks must be

The Goethe-Institut is presenting a program featuring nine new animated
short films from Germany. In conjunction with this screening Academy
Award-winning visual effects specialist, Volker Engel, will be speaking.
The German-born animator will comment on the film selections and discuss
animation and special effects in general. Engel's credits include visual
effects work on GODZILLA and INDEPENDENCE DAY, for which he won the Oscar.
Films from Thomas Meyer-Hermann, Heinrich Sabl, Thomas Stellmach, Tyron

MORE, the stop-motion animated short film in IMAX format that is nominated
for an ANNIE, is being shown for free as part of the BIG SHORTS FILM
FESTIVAL Tuesday night, October 26, at 8 pm. The event is presented by The
Splinter Group, and highlights include: MORE (Mark Osborne's Academy
Award-nominated stop-motion short, CASTRATE BOAR PIGS FOR BETTER SALES,
PRIMITI TOO TAA (an animated sound poem), FIRE, and more. Admission is
free, and the program will last about one hour. The event takes place at

Saturday, November 6, 9 am - 3 pm. Burbank, California, USA.


Women In Animation sponsors the Third Annual Career Day Event. Panel
discussions include "Animation: The Reality of the Business" and "Your
Marketing Tools: Resumes, Portfolios and Demo Reels." There will also be a
portfolio/demo reel review, and small group workshops for both computer and
traditional animation. Space is limited, so RSVP is required. Fees are $15
for WIA members, and $20 for non-members. Checks must be received no later

Thursday, October 28 - Sunday, October 31. New York, New York, USA.


The Museum of Modern Art presents The National Film Board of Canada: 60th
Anniversary Program, a Retrospective. The Museum is located at 11 West 53
Street. For further information Tel. (212) 708-9500.