FableVision Studios and The Film Studies Program at Boston College are
co-hosting the ASIFA-East Animation Festival for a one-night showing.
FableVision's award-winning animated shorts THE BLUE SHOE and LIVING
FOREVER will be part of a line-up, which also includes the Academy
Award-winner BUNNY and films by Karen Aqua. Admission is free. The event
takes place Wednesday, October 20, at 7:30 pm at Boston College, Devlin
Hall Room 08, 140 Commonwealth Avenue, Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts, USA.
For more information visit www.fablevision.com/asifa.

Russian animators Yuri Norstein and Nina Shorina are visiting the US.
ASIFA-Hollywood will host a reception for Yuri Norstein on Thursday,
October 21, 1999 from 7-9 p.m. at ASIFA-Hollywood's Animation Center,
located at 721 South Victory Blvd., in Burbank.
There is no charge to attend this reception. However due to limited
space, reservations are required. To RSVP, please call the ASIFA-Hollywood
office at (818) 842-8330. Born in Moscow in 1941, Norstein is considered
one of the most remarkable animation directors to emerge from the current

Philip Weiss Auctions, in conjunction with The Big Apple Comic Art
Convention, is overseeing a large animation art auction that will take
place on Friday, November 12, 1999 at 7 pm in New York City at the
Metropolitan Pavilion. Thousands of pieces of animation art are being
auctioned to benefit The American Foundation for the Visual Arts. Previews
of the auction items will begin at 1 pm on November 12. The auction is part
of The National Comic Book, Art, Toy, and Fantasy Convention. For more
information Tel. (516) 594-0731.

John Canemaker, animation historian and author, will lecture on Disney
Studio storyboards and their creators at the Museum of Modern Art in the
Titus II Theatre. The presentation will include slides of storyboard
drawings and clips from famous Disney films, such as SNOW WHITE and 101
DALMATIANS. At 5:30 pm, preceding the lecture, Canemaker will sign copies
of his new book, PAPER DREAMS: THE ART AND ARTISTS OF DISNEY STORYBOARDS,
which will be available for purchase at the theatre and the MOMA bookshop.

Mary Kocol's MY FATHER'S STORY will be shown at several places in
Massachussetts during the next few weeks. October 22, 7 pm: Gallery NAGA at
67 Newbury Street, Boston. For more information Tel. (617) 267-9060.
November 7, 2 pm and November 10, 2 pm: Boston Jewish Film Festival at the
Coolidge Corner Theatre which is located at 90 Harvard Street, Brookline.
For more information Tel. (617) 734-2500. November 6, 5 pm: Northampton
Film Festival at the Academy of Music on Main Street, Northampton. For more

Gil Zimmerman speaks about Digital and Traditional Animation in TARZAN.
Zimmerman, currently Model Development Supervisor on TREASURE PLANET, was
hired by Disney to be the liaison between traditional animators and digital
artists on TARZAN. Cost: $10. To make reservations Tel. (323) 466-6663. The
event takes place at Gnomon School of Visual Effects, 1015 N. Cahuenga Blvd
on Thursday, October 14, 7 pm in Hollywood, California, USA.

TIM BURTON'S NIGHTMARE BEFORE CHRISTMAS (its official title) plays at
Disney's El Capitan theater. El Capitan is located west of Highland on
Hollywood Blvd. The event takes place Friday, October 29 - Sunday, October
31 in Hollywood, California, USA. For more information Tel. (323) 467-7674.

Hayao Miyazaki's PRINCESS MONONOKE's official West Coast premiere takes
place at the El Capitan theater as part of the 13th Annual AFI Los Angeles
International Film Festival. The event takes place Monday, October 25, 7 pm
in Hollywood, California, USA. For advance tickets Tel. (323) 520-2000. For
more information visit www.afionline.org.

The 3rd Annual Digital Video (DV) Conference & Expo will highlight and
showcase the "Indie" film and video industries. The DV Expo merges the
worlds of broadcast video, Web video, 2D and 3D graphics, animation, sound,
and data. The event features a D. FILM DIGITAL FILM FESTIVAL. The event
takes place Monday, October 18 - Friday, October 22 in Long Beach,
California, USA. For more information visit the Miller Freeman and CMP
websites at www.mfi.com and www.cmp.com.

Nickelodeon hosts a screening of new animated student films made at the
University of Southern California. The screening takes place on Wednesday,
October 13, 6:30 pm at the Directors Guild of America at 7920 Sunset Blvd.
in . Los Angeles, California, USA. For more information Tel. (213)
740-2804.

THE MAN BEHIND THE MOUSE: THE UB IWERKS STORY plays for one week at
Disney's El Capitan theater. Directed by Ub's granddaughter, Leslie Iwerks,
this is a documentary about the man who helped Walt Disney create the first
Mickey Mouse films, animating some of them nearly single-handedly, as well
as the Silly Symphony series, and helming his own animation studio. It
features never-before-seen archival footage, photos, previously censored
cartoon clips, and interviews with Roy Disney, Chuck Jones, John Lasseter,

As part of ASIFA-Hollywood and Glendale Community College's Fourth Annual
Lecture Series on Careers in Animation, Sari Gennis will speak about
Special Effects on Tuesday, October 12 at 7 pm. Sari designed and animated
effects for the first STAR TREK movie and went on to form her own company,
ANIMATRIX, where she has produced and directed commercials, television
graphics, and theme park special effects. Since 1987 Sari has specialized
in effects animation for feature films, including ALL DOGS GO TO HEAVEN and

Children's bookstore Storyopolis celebrates the launch of Fox Family
Channel's THE KIDS FROM ROOM 402. Meet Fox Family Channel characters and
creator Michael Paraskevas, and see an episode of the show. An exhibit of
art by Michael Paraskevas begins on October 5. Storyopolis is located at
116 N. Robertson. For more information Tel. (310) 358-2500. The event takes
place Saturday, October 9, 11 am - 2:30 pm in Beverly Hills, California,
USA.

Meet Chuck Jones, guest of honor at the grand re-opening of Animazing
Gallery at the art gallery's new location. The gallery is featuring a
retrospective of Jones' work, THE ART OF CHUCK JONES, which includes
original, vintage animation cels and drawings of the characters he created
or helped define including: Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Marvin the Martian, and
Pepe Le Pew. The gallery is located at 474 Broome Street, between Greene
and Wooster. For more information contact Heidi Leigh at Tel. (212)

The Toronto Animated Image Society presents "Recent Films by Toronto
Animators," including Arnie Lipsey, Eugene Fedorenko, Rose Newlove, Willy
Ashworth, Gerry Lagendyk and Patrick Jenkins. This event will be held at
Cinecycle, 129 (Rear Laneway) Spadina Avenue. Admission is free for TAIS
members, and CN$4 for everyone else. Memberships will be available at the
door. The event takes place Thursday, October 7, 7:30 pm in Toronto, Canada.

Sony Wonder Technology Lab, a center for high-tech entertainment and
education, will host ALL EYES ON CGI. The presentation will feature a
representative from Sony Pictures Imageworks, whose talent and technology
contributed to the upcoming feature film STUART LITTLE in which for the
first time ever, audiences are introduced to a three-dimensional,
photo-realistic, performance based, computer generated movie star.
Admission is $10. The events takes place Thursday, September 30, 6:30 pm in

This year's SITGES Festival Internacional de Cinema de Catalunya features
several animation related events including a short film competition, the
presentation of Hayao Miyasaki's PRINCESS MONONOKE, and tributes to Osamu
Tezuka and Will Vinton. The festival takes place Wednesday, October 6 -
Saturday, October 16 in Barcelona, Spain. For more information Tel. 34 93
419 3635, or visit www.sitges.com/cinema.

The International Museum of Comic Art presents The Art of Charles M.
Schulz, creator of the comic strip, PEANUTS. The exhibit displays
artifacts, photos, magazine covers, Broadway and movie posters, toys,
dolls, blow-ups of historic strips and more tracing the decade-by-decade
evolution of Schulz' creation in the context of American history. The
exhibition takes place Saturday, October 2 - Sunday, January 30, 2000 in
Boca Raton, Florida, USA. IMCA is located at 201 Plaza Real in Boca Raton's

Ray Harryhausen will appear at the REZNHEDZ Model and Toy Show at the
Hillside Holiday Inn just outside Chicago on October 9 and 10. The Chicago
International Film Festival is also sponsoring two events in conjunction
with the REZNHEDZ show. On Thursday, October 7 the festival will show JASON
AND THE ARGONAUTS and GOLDEN VOYAGE OF SINBAD, and on Sunday, October 10
they will have a tribute to Ray Harryhausen. The tribute will include clips
from the movies, and culminate in Ray receiving an Award from the Film

Mary Kocol's MY FATHER'S STORY screens with the documentary feature
UNCOMMON FRIENDS. The screenings take place October 1 - 7 in New York at
the Cinema Village Theatre at 22 East 12th Street. Tel. (212) 924-3363. For
more information visit www.KocoMotion.com.