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.

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 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,

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.

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.

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

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.

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

The Museum of Television and Radio in New York and Los Angeles hosts a
retrospective of Hanna-Barbera's television series with a series of
60-minute screenings. The series includes SCOOBY-DOO, THE FANTASTIC FOUR,
SPACE GHOST, SUPERFRIENDS, JOSIE AND THE PUSSYCATS, MAGILLA GORILLA, TOP
CAT, RICOCHET RABBIT, and YOGI BEAR. The new Spumco/Cartoon Network YOGI
BEAR shorts have sparked a debate among fans regarding the quality of
Hanna-Barbera's YOGI BEAR shorts in particular, and Hanna-Barbera's

MIPCOM: International Film and Programme Market for TV, Video, Cable, and
Satellite. Starting next week, thousands of producers, programmers and
broadcasters will converge on Cannes, France for the MIPCOM and MIP Junior
markets. From Reed-Midem, the organizers of MIP-TV, MIP Asia and MILIA,
MIPCOM is known as the place where international television deals happen.
Among the properties being offered are Sony Wonder's LION OF OZ AND THE
BADGE OF COURAGE, an animated musical prequel to THE WIZARD OF OZ;