* Friday, June 29 – Wednesday, July 4, 2001. Washington, DC, U.S.A.

* Friday, September 14 – Monday, September 17, 2001, Pasadena, California, U.S.A.

* Friday, October 5 – Sunday, October 7, 2001, Hope, New Jersey, U.S.A.



Entry Deadline: June 30, 2001

* Thursday, August 2 – Monday, August 6, 2001, Hollywood, California, U.S.A.



Extended Entry Deadline: May 30, 2001

* Wednesday, August 1 – Wednesday, August 8, 2001, 2001, Los Angeles, California, U.S.A.



Entry Deadline: June 1, 2001

* Thursday, September 27 – Sunday, September 30, 2001, San Diego, California, U.S.A.



Entry Deadline: July 15, 2001

This week's updates to the Calendar of Events includes:
ASIFA-Hollywood Presents: DePatie-Freleng - The Early Films,
Wednesday, May 23, 2001, Burbank, California, U.S.A.; ASIFA-Hollywood
Presents: Hollywood Cartoons In Technicolor!, Wednesday, May 30,
2001, Burbank, California, U.S.A.; ASIFA-Hollywood Presents: Sex Wars
In Animation, 1926 - 1950, Friday, June 1, 2001, Burbank, California,
U.S.A.; ChildArt And Creativity Festival, Friday, June 29 -
Wednesday, July 4, 2001, Washington, DC, U.S.A.; Sentiero Corto

The first Tough Eye Animated Film Festival, held in Turku, Finland, May 15 - 20, 2001, has announced its winners. The international jury for the Timeless Competition was composed of: Mette Peters, Netherlands; Jayne Pilling, UK; Edwin Carels, Belgium; and Stanislav Ulver, Czech Republic. This year's co-winners for the Grand Prize are: HEN, HIS WIFE, Igor Kovalyov, Russia 1990, and IN ABSENTIA, Quay Brothers, UK, 2000. Both films were awarded a FIM 15.000,00 cash prize.

DreamWorks Pictures' new CG animated feature "Shrek" will be projected digitally in eleven theatres in the U.S. and Canada. This marks the first time a DreamWorks film will be shown in the digital format. In making the announcement, DreamWorks head of distribution Jim Tharp stated, “SHREK represents the state-of-the-art in computer animation, so it is only fitting that it be the first DreamWorks film to be seen in this state-of-the-art format.

* Thursday, July 19, 2001. Denver, Colorado, U.S.A.

* Thursday, August 16, 2001. Denver, Colorado, U.S.A.

* Thursday, November 15, 2001. Denver, Colorado, U.S.A.

* Monday, October 22 – Wednesday, October 24, 2001. Montreal, Canada.


Submission Deadline: August 15, 2001

* Wednesday, May 30, 2001. Burbank, California, U.S.A.

* Friday, June 1, 2001. Burbank, California, U.S.A.

* Thursday, June 21, 2001. Denver, Colorado, U.S.A.

The 2001 Leo Awards, a celebration of excellence in film and television held May 11-12, 2001 in Vancouver, Canada, has announced its winners. AAAGH! IT'S THE MR. HELL SHOW, directed by Christopher Brough and Jay Falconer, took home the Best Animation Series Award. Produced for the BBC by London, U.K.’s Peafur Productions, AAAGH! IT'S THE MR. HELL SHOW recently won the Best Comedy Series Award at the Houston World Fest 2001. GREY AREAS - EPISODE 3 by Steve Sacks won the Leo Award for Best Direction/Storyboarding Of An Animation Program.

Los Angeles’ Click 3X provided design, 3D animation, visual effects and integration services for BRAVE NEW WORLD, a new series of television commercials for EMC networked data storage systems. The campaign was conceived by Boston agency Arnold Worldwide and directed by Morton Jankel Zander's Marcus Nispel. Each of the three 60-second commercials uses a vision of an apocalyptic future world as a metaphor for businesses searching for reinforcement in a world being bombarded by information.

The 13th Society of Animation Studies (SAS) conference will take
place in Montreal, Canada. This year, the theme of the conference is
Animation, Economics and Politics. Abstracts for papers on this or
other subjects may be submitted digitally to sas@niaf.nl by August
15, 2001. Papers should be no longer than 500 words. The paper
selection committee includes: Peter Rist, Concordia University,
Montreal, Canada; Mark Langer, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada;
and Michael Frierson, University of North Carolina, USA. The

LBA, Latin Business Association, the largest Latino entrepreneurs
community, has contracted the services of Colombian animator Edwing
Solórzano and Animateam, his 2D/3D animation company, for a 2 and a
half minute promotional animated presentation for the 5th annual
Business Expo (November 14-15, 2001, Los Angeles, California,
U.S.A.). Discover Edwing Solórzano's work through his new gallery in
the Animation Showcase.