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Brainwash Movie Festival 2006San Francisco, California, USAJuly 7-8, 2006Deadline: May 10, 2006

MAGIC CELLAR, the first animated series to be based on African culture, has been awarded the Platinum REMI Award at WorldFest. The award to MAGIC CELLAR was presented in Houston, Texas on April 29, 2006. Present to receive the award were Firdaus Kharas, director and executive producer of Ottawa, Canada and Adeelah Carrim, producer, of Johannesburg, South Africa. The show is a joint venture between Canada and South Africa.

Eidos Interactive has announced further details of LARA CROFT TOMB RAIDER: LEGEND on Nintendo GameCube, Nintendo DS and Game Boy Advance. Available this fall, the handheld versions will faithfully capture the detail and breadth of LARA CROFT TOMB RAIDER: LEGEND for the PlayStation 2, Xbox and the soon-to-be-released Nintendo GameCube version.

Continuing our special event specific Flash Newsletters, we will be publishing a special edition Annecy. The festival and market are fast approaching and our editorial and advertising staff are gearing up for the Annecy-specific Flash Newsletter. Here is the date for the publications. Please send your news two weeks prior to the publication date.

Annecy Flash NewslettersMay 30

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This week in AWN's Forums, a senior member needs some help finding ways to see pre-1933 Betty Boop cartoons and Chuck Jones' TOM & JERRY. Theres another thread abuzz about what one can expect if they want to be an animator. Additionally, members are collecting their thoughts on overlooked and undervalued animation. Talking about overlooked things, a senior member wants to bring attention to DRAW! MAGAZINE. Theres a thread talking about the work of John K. and Danny Antonucci.