Asian Festival of 1st FilmsSingapore, SingaporeNovember 30 December 7, 2006 Deadline: August 31, 2006
Asian Festival of 1st Films is an annual film and documentary festival to celebrate excellence for first-time producers, directors, cinematographers, writers, actors and documentary makers from the Asian Diaspora. For more information, visit asianfirstfilms.com.
The 8th Festival of Visual Effects presented by the Visual Effects Society (VES), to be held July 6-8, 2006, at the Egyptian Theater in Hollywood, will include presentations of SUPERMAN RETURNS, X-MEN: THE LAST STAND, CARS and SMALLVILLE. Workshops and panels dealing with the future dimensions of digital film processing will be lead by eight-times Oscar winner and VFX legend Dennis Muren and other celebrities, such as Robert Skotak, John Myhre and Mark Stetson.
The New York Asian Film Festival focuses on the best contemporary Asian movies. This year's festival will take place at the Anthology Film Archives and the ImaginAsian theater.
Already lined up is CROMARTIE HIGH SCHOOL (Japan, 2005) based on the best-selling manga. This high school movie follows the saga of filthy, lousy Cromartie High, a school so sucky that they even enroll gorillas, robots and Freddie Mercury. Only an invasion of space monkeys can bring this warring student body together.
The full line-up will be announced during the last week of April.
The Future Filmmakers Festival has the goal of allowing industry professionals and fellow peers to identify the best, brightest and innovative in youth filmmaking.
Wednesday, June 14, 2006, marked the close of another exceptional Banff World Television Festival, with more than 1,450 delegates in attendance, and a combined 1,700 delegates taking in both the television festival and its sister-event, nextMEDIAThe Future of Digital Content. With jam-packed panel and session rooms and a whirl of special events, the festival generated the signing and greenlighting of new deals, as well as the opportunity for delegates to turn their project ideas into reality.
Zagreb: 18th World Festival of Animated Films is an ASIFA sanctioned competitive festival. The festival was formed in 1969 to encouraging creativity, which eschews pre-set patterns and ideas/notions/conceptions, and finds new ways of exploring the possibilities of film animation. Awards with cash prizes will be given as follows: grand prize, best first production, best student film, plus five special prizes and three special distinctions.
There were many films submitted to the latest Annecy animation festival, now running June 5-10, 2006, along with the MIFA market (June 7-9), in Annecy, France, and loads of screenings but many festival goers are in search of a film that really wows them. The films have been described as abstract, too long, lacking story with only a few, so far, gaining any note, and even those are not generally agreed upon.
2006 is onedotzero's 10th anniversary, and will be marked with very special events, projects and programming. The 10th annual festival will celebrate and consolidate the achievements of the last decade with a clear focus on the future. onedotzero_10 will explore new ideas and fresh innovation through curated compilation screenings, features, exhibitions, live av performances, club nights, presentations and panel discussions from internationally acclaimed artists and creatives.
The 9th Brooklyn International Film Festival has been titled Enigma-9. While people all over the world are eagerly searching for answers in a world of uncertainties, and the complexity of modern life makes it more difficult to answer moral questions, the festival engages in a rather enigmatic exploration: The quest for the most delicate and difficult questions of our times. BiFF 2006 aims to stimulate the intellect and inspire conversation among people of diverse backgrounds.
The Blue Plum Animation Festival is part of the Blue Plum Arts and Music Festival which is held in the downtown area of Johnson City. Entries are judged by a panel of industry professionals, and cash awards are given for the best animated shorts. This year's second annual Blue Plum Animation Festival will be held on June 2 and 3, 2006.
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FIAERio 2006: International Festival of Erotic AnimationRio de Janeiro, BrazilOctober 6-8, 2006Deadline: July 20, 2006
The FIAERio 2006: International Festival of Erotic Animation will screen old and new films dealing with theme of eroticism. Many of the films will be ones that were not widely distributed in Brazil previously. The event will take place in the historic Movies Iris, established in 1919. For more information, visit br.geocities.com/fiae2006/index.html.
SICAF (Seoul International Cartoon & Animation Festival) sets out with Animated Film Festival, Exhibition-Convention and SPP (SICAF Promotion Plan). SICAF is one of significant cartoon-animation contents market as well as remarkable festivity providing opportunities for tasting new trend of industry, exploiting trade market, finding business partners and competing creative artworks throughout its main programs. The 10th edition SICAF will be held from May 24 to 28, 2006 at SETEC (Seoul Trade Exhibition Center) for Exhibition-Convention and SPP, at COEX Megabox for Animated Film Festival.
10th edition of Barcelona International Television Festival (FITB)Barcelona, SpainNovember 14-16, 2006Deadline: May 31, 2006
Barcelona International Television Festival is a three-day screening for children and young people from around the world divided into documentaries, animation, TV programs and series. For more information, check out www.oeti.org.
The Damah Film Festival is the world's leading spiritual short film festival. The festival accepts short films from any genre, made in any format, in any year. The only requirement is that films must be no longer than 30 minutes and submitted in a DVD format. The Damah Festival is unique in providing community, education and distribution opportunities to emerging filmmakers as well as great parties. Submission deadlines are Dec. 15, 2005, for early submissions, Jan. 1, 2006 for regular submissions and Jan. 15, 2006, for late submissions.
Big Island Film Festival is an independent narrative film festival, taking place on the Gold Coast of the Big Island of Hawaii. The purpose of the Big Island Film Festival is to celebrate the independent narrative film and the independent narrative filmmakers. This celebration will bring together locals, visitors, filmmakers and industry professionals in an entertainment event that will include movies, music, parties, receptions, filmmaker and actor salutes, an awards brunch, Hawaiian culture, filmmaker symposiums and a golf tournament.
Prix Jeunesse International 2006 is one of the world's premier festivals for children and youth television programs. The overall festival theme of Prix Jeunesse International 2006 is "Laugh and the World Laughs With You: Kids, TV and Humour." Information units on the festival theme will be offered during the festival week, and a Prix Jeunesse "2006 Theme Prize" will be awarded to a program with outstanding use of humor. For more information, visit www.prixjeunesse.de/home.html.
The 5th annual International Festival of Animated FilmsAniFest 2006 is a celebration of animation in the Czech Republic. The event screens features, shorts films, television projects, video clips, student films, commercials and films by children. Only films made after Jan. 1, 2004, which have not previously competed in the AniFest festival, will be accepted into the competition. Information about competition categories, conditions of participation and other information are available in the statute of festival in the enclosure and on www.anifest.cz.
Gaelle Denis' British short CITY PARADISE won Best Animation at the 37th Nashville Film Festival. Honorable mention in the toon category went to EMELIA THE FIVE YEAR OLD GOTH GIRL, by Derek Flood.
As for the Best College Student Animation, SHE SHE SHE SHE'S A BOMBSHELL, by Ben Levin took home the prize with Ramon Paris and Maria Castillos EL PAGUEY receiving an honorable mention.
Oxford International Festival Of Films promises white-hot films and stars from around the world. The film festival celebrates cinema from around the world both professional and student. This year
Brainwash Movie Festival 2006San Francisco, California, USAJuly 7-8, 2006Deadline: May 10, 2006
fmx/06, the 11th International Conference on Animation, Effects, Realtime and Content, will take place May 3-6, 2006, in Stuttgart, Germany.
The 9th annual Sprockets Toronto International Film Festival for Children announced its awards at the George Vari Engineering and Computing Centre at Ryerson University. Five awards were decided upon by childrens juries (three designated for feature films, two for shorts), two audience awards were determined by festivalgoers, four awards for Jump Cuts Young Filmmakers Showcase were decided by a jury of film industry professionals and one Students Choice Award was determined by high school students attending the festival.
The 11th annual Los Angeles Times Festival of Books event celebrates and animates the written word through panel discussions, poetry readings, cooking demonstrations, book signings and music. The festival affords book lovers the chance to meet bestselling authors, publishers and other literary figures. The hundreds of exhibitor booths, stage events and popular children's characters keep it entertaining for all ages.
