This week's updates to the Calendar of Events includes: CalArts
Character Animation Student Screenings, Valencia, California USA,
April 27 - May 12, 2001; Cartoon Network A Racket In Mexico, Mexico
City, Mexico, April 28 - May 13, 2001; Direct Animation Workshops And
Screenings, Seattle, Washington USA, May 04 - 12, 2001; American
Cinematheque Presents: 2001 Skyy Vodka Short Film Award Winners &
Finalists Marathon, Los Angeles California USA, May 16, 2001; RMCAD
and ASIFA-Colorado Present Edward Bakst, Denver Colorado, USA, May

FUNimation Productions Ltd. announced its new DRAGON BALL TV series will debut June 25, 2001 on the Cartoon Network, airing Monday through Friday at 5:30 pm ET. DRAGON BALL is the prequel to the DRAGON BALL Z series, #1 on the Cartoon Network's Toonami Block and #1 on the Internet, according to Lycos. Gen Fukunaga, President of FUNimation, also announced that new episodes of DRAGON BALL Z will begin airing on the Cartoon Network beginning September 3, 2001. Like DRAGON BALL Z, the new DRAGON BALL series was a smash hit in Japan before being produced for the U.S. and other countries.

* Wednesday, May 16, 2001, Los Angeles, California, USA

* Tuesday, August 7 – Sunday, August 12, 2001, Los Angeles, California, U.S.A.


Entry Deadline: June 11, 2001

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



The Webisode Academy is presenting a panel on animation production management, featuring a discussion about management training and resources, incorporating Catherine Winder & Zahra Dowlatabadi’s new book, PRODUCING ANIMATION. The event is sponsored by Women in Animation. The director of the Webisode Academy, Kellie-Bea Cooper, will serve as moderator. For more information: Tel.: (818) 508-TOON; E-mail: info@webisode-academy.com.

* Sunday, August 19 – Tuesday, August 21, 2001, Las Vegas, Nevada, U.S.A.

* Sunday, June 10 – Wednesday, June 13, 2001, Santa Monica, California, U.S.A.

* Thursday, May 17, 2001. Denver, Colorado, U.S.A.

* Wednesday, May 23, 2001. Burbank, California, U.S.A.

* Saturday, May 19 - Sunday, May 20, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.

* Saturday, April 28 – Sunday, May 13, 2001. Mexico City, Mexico.

We've started compiling information about new short films for our AWN readers, appropriately titled "Where's My Shorts?" Lest we get too jovial, each week, we'll provide a brief compilation of new short films premiering during that week, either at a festival, exhibition, screening or online. They could be gems, they could be industrial effluent, we hazard no guess. However, we can tell you that the works are supposedly "new," which gives us hope that someone, somewhere is doing something besides lying around their den, eating Cheetos and cleaning their ears with a pencil.

This week's updates to the Calendar of Events include: Outer Limits Film And Video Series, April 11 - May 9, 2001, New York, New York U.S.A.; Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design Graduation Show, May 4 - 10, 2001, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada; Internationales Bochumer Videofestival, May 17 - 19, 2001, Bochum, Germany; HDFEST 2001-L.A.

The 2001 Sprockets Toronto International Film Festival for Children, held April 20-29, 2001 in Toronto, Canada, has announced its winners. Canada’s MAURICE SENDAK’S LITTLE BEAR: THE LITTLE BEAR MOVIE took home the Toronto Sun Animation Award, an audience award given to the favorite animated feature or short film. Directed by Raymond Jafelice, MAURICE SENDAK'S LITTLE BEAR: THE LITTLE BEAR MOVIE follows Little Bear as he meets a new friend named Cub, who has become separated from his parents.

* Thursday, May 10, 2001. Toronto, Canada

* Friday, May 4 – Saturday, May 12, 2001. Seattle, U.S.A.

May 26 - 31, 2001. Boca Raton, Florida, U.S.A.

April 2002. Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Entry Deadline: December 1, 2000

April 11 – May 9, 2001. New York, New York, U.S.A.

May 25 - 26, 2001. North Hollywood, California, U.S.A.