This week's updates to the Calendar of Events include:

IFP/Chicago Flyover Zone Festival

Chicago, Illinois, USA

Friday, November 08 - Saturday, November 09, 2002

Entry Deadline: Friday, October 11, 2002

Entertainment Rights, the global children’s entertainment group, is expanding its U.S. office with the appointment of Fabiola Flores Cortes as sales manager for Latin America, handling all sales of the ER catalogue in this region. She will join Gillian Kirby, who is responsible for ER’s business in the USA and Canada, in the New York office.

This week's updates to the Calendar of Events include:

Visual effects and design company A52 got a little slimy in their recent work for Gorgeous Enterprises and director Frank Budgen for 180/TBWA's new Adidas spot entitled "Slugs." The spot begins with a busy street scene somewhere in Mexico. To the tune of an upbeat mambo score, a pair of new Adidas a3 cushion running shoes jogs along, seemingly under their own power. The shoes continue their trek along the city streets, until they pass a little too close to a shopkeeper's broom, and one shoe gets swept into the street.

Take-Two Interactive Software is expanding its Rockstar Games label with the formation of Rockstar Vancouver. Take-Two acquired Vancouver-based Barking Dog Studios, Ltd. for $3 million in cash and 242,450 shares of restricted common stock. Barking Dog will be renamed Rockstar Vancouver. Barking Dog Studios currently employs approximately fifty developers, and is working on a yet to be announced military video game to be published under the Rockstar brand, and will soon begin development on a second original video game title for Rockstar.

SIGGRAPH 2003

San Diego, California, USA

Sunday, July 27 - Thursday, July 31, 2003

Anima Mundi has announced the winners for its 2002 festival, which took place from July 12 - 21, 2002 in Rio de Janeiro then moved to São Paulo, Brazil from July 24 - July 28, 2002. The festival is the major animation festival in South America and includes a wide range of open activities, including workshops, lectures and exhibitions. A full list of winners is below.

ANIMA MUNDI 2002

AWARDS BY THE PUBLIC JURY in RIO DE JANEIRO



BEST FILM:


Future Animators Of The Future 3rd Annual Animation And Video Show.

Boston and New York, USA.

Thursday, October 10 - Wednesday, October 30, 2002.

Entry Deadline: Friday, August 30, 2002.

Vancouver, Canada's Pork and Beans Productions recently moved to a brand new 5000 square foot studio in the Yaletown district of Vancouver. The company is expanding to accommodate a growing staff as they prepare to start Flash animation production on the series YAKKITY YAK, in association with Studio B Productions. Distributed by MTV Networks International, YAKKITY YAK was created by Australian company Kapow Pictures and follows the life of a yak that longs for his big break into show business. It is scheduled to broadcast on Teletoon and Nickelodeon Australia in 2003.

Barcelona-based Grupo Neptuno has completed a major deal with Basque television producer Euskal Irrati Telebista (ETB) for the distribution of its catalogue worldwide, excluding Latin America and Spanish-speaking stations in the United States. ETB's complete line up of more than 1,000 hours of documentaries, entertainment, animation, feature films and live-action series will join Grupo Neptuno's existing catalog, which includes the preschool series CONNIE THE COW, distributed by AAC Kids and TV-Loonland, and the Flash animated series 2020, a co-production with Megatrix.

Program distribution and
development company CABLEready has inked a deal with Tokyo's SSA
Productions for key international TV rights to SLAMMIN' SAMMY, an
animated one-hour biography of Sammy Sosa, the Dominican-born Major
League Baseball star. The deal includes all of South and Central
America, the Caribbean (except the Dominican Republic), Asia's
Pacific Rim, Europe, Canada and Africa. SLAMMIN' SAMMY -- THE SAMMY
SOSA STORY traces Sosa's life from the hardships of his youth as a

Torrance, California's Animation Design Center is looking for a 2D TRADITIONAL BACKGROUND DESIGN INSTRUCTOR and a 2D TRADITIONAL PROP DESIGN INSTRUCTOR . . . Los Angeles, California's Bambola Entertainment is looking for an INTERN (TV AND FILM) . . . Bruzz.com is looking for a FLASH SPECIALIST . . . Chennai, India's Chennai Studios Ltd is looking for a TECHNICAL DIRECTOR - CGI ANIMATION . . . Clay Pixel Studios is looking for a SENIOR 3D ANIMATOR . . . London, UK's Datascope Recruitment is looking for a 3D ANIMATOR, an ANIMATOR/ARTIST, an EXPERIENCED 3DSMAX ANIMATOR and a LEAD ARTIST . . .

This week's updates to the Calendar of Events include: 1st Annual Renderosity Conference: Thursday, August 29 - Monday, September 02, 2002, Atlanta, Georgia USA . . . San Juan Animation Festival: Thursday, September 12 - Monday, September 16, 2002, San Juan, Puerto Rico.

LEGO Media International
has tapped Vanessa Chapman to take over as head of its television and
film arm following the promotion of Conny Kalcher to a newly created
senior position within the LEGO Company's core business. Chapman
takes up the role of global controller of programming and strategy in
August 2002, when Kalcher becomes vice president, global brand
marketing for Stories, one of the LEGO Company's new brand portals.
The Stories division encompasses LEGO-themed product lines aimed at

DreamWorks
SKG has thrown its hat into the anime ring with the acquisition of
the worldwide distribution rights for the Japanese animated film
MILLENNIUM ACTRESS. The film rights, licensed from The Klockworx Co.,
Ltd., include all forms of distribution including theatrical, home
video, television and ancillary rights, and covers all markets with
the exception of Asia. Based in Tokyo, The Klockworx Co., Ltd. will
oversee the film's release in Asia. Directed by PERFECT BLUE director

Bill Matthews, Disney Feature Animation's longtime training and recruitment head, has joined Glendale, California-based Cornerstone Animation’s Board of Advisors. In his new role, Matthews will advise Cornerstone executives and creative staff on strategies for recruitment, training, production management and creative direction of the studio. Matthews makes available to Cornerstone his wealth of experience as one of the founding instructors of the Sheridan College Animation Program and as a ten-year manager of artist development for Walt Disney Feature Animation.

Gullane Entertainment’s popular children’s property THOMAS & FRIENDS, has now been translated into Spanish and Portuguese and will be seen in eighteen countries across Central and South America including Argentina, Chile, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Mexico, Peru and Puerto Rico, and throughout The Caribbean. The series launched in early July 2002 on Discovery Kids Latin America’s newly expanded pre-school block.

The Machinima Film Festival 2002.

Mesquite, Texas USA.

Saturday, August 17, 2002.

Entry Deadline: Friday, August 09, 2002.

San Francisco, California's Academy of Art College is looking for an ANIMATION/VFX INSTRUCTOR . . . Angry Chicken Productions is looking for a TRADITIONAL ANIMATOR . . . Artifact Entertainment is looking for a MAYA ANIMATOR . . . Boomba is looking for a STORYBOARD ARTIST . . . Clay Pixel Studios - USA is looking for a DIRECTOR - 3D ANIMATION, a FINANCE CONTROLLER/CFO, a PRODUCER - 3D ANIMATION and a SALESPERSON - 3D SERVICES . . . Glendale, California's DreamWorks Animation is looking for a 3D/2D CHARACTER LIGHTER . . . Mumbai, India's Famous Cine Labs & Studios Ltd.