Events: Non-competitive Festivals

The FAFshow provides a showcase for Animators and Video Makers who wish to entertain and generally prod the audience into some sort reaction (whether it be positive or otherwise). You can check out the FAFsite www.fafcom.com to sample the type of work FAF generates.

The FAFshow screens in a number of major cities, and will have a hefty bit of guerilla marketing in NY and Boston

Accepted Formats: For entry purposes anything on NTSC mini-DV, NTSC DVcam, NTSC VHS, NTSC DVD, CD w/Quicktime compatible format, or CD w/Flash compatible (.swf) file

KABOO! A noncompetitive festival spotlighting local talents in animation is looking for shorts to screen. Submissions must be under 10 minutes in length.VHS tapes are preferred but if your work is currently hosted on the web please email us the web address. The festival will be held at the Eagle Theater in Eagle Rock on Oct. 4th 2002. Please send your submissions to: Brandi Young 15301 Ventura Blvd., Unit E Sherman Oaks, CA. 91403

Email:kabootoonz@yahoo.com

Southeast Michigan Animation and Special Effects Network (SEMAFX) is Hosting our Second Annual Film Festival (S2AFF) on Tuesday, September 17, 2002 at 6:30 pm at Schoolcraft College in Livonia, Michigan.

For more information, visit the SEMAFX website, at www.semafx.com (go to the Meetings or Contests n' Fest pages).

If you are a producer of new media, animation, games or visual FX, the Producers Guild of America's New Media Council would like to invite you to a night of fun and inspiration on September 4, 2002 as we celebrate our Council and present exerpts of noted new media productions. There is no charge for the event.

6:30pm-10:00pm at The Knitting Factory, 7021 Hollywood Blvd. (323) 463-0204.

This event is exclusive to the PGA Members, qualified Producers interested in joining the PGA and their guests. You must RSVP by 8/30 to (310) 358-9020 x2037.

An amazing line-up of demonically possessed cars, man-eating sharks, vengeance-obsessed female assassins and more!! The Festival leads off with a 20th Anniversary screening of STAR TREK II: THE WRATH OF KHAN (which will sell out - tickets are going fast), featuring in-person appearances by director Nicholas Meyer and actors Walter Koenig & George Takei. This year's series includes L.A.

A+A is a forum organised by the Col

A showcase of work by filmmaker Corky Quakenbush (Space Bass Films) will be presented at this year's U.S. Comedy Arts Festival in Aspen Colorado (February 27- March 3, 2002). The program will consist of recently completed short stop-motion parodies such as "Bi-tanic" "Dirty River Dancing", "Castaway: A Woody Allen Film," and "Hannibal, You've Got Meal", as well as more well-known Quakenbush "classics" such as "Clops," "The Reinfather," and "Davey and Son of Goliath". Hailed for his dozens of stop-motion parodies which appeared on Fox's MAD TV,

Animated Exeter is an annual animation festival consisting of a fortnight of animated films, workshops, events and exhibitions every February. Tied to the British Animation Awards Public Choice - the festival hosts events for all ages and levels of professionalism.Screenings have been programmed by Jayne Piling of BAA. Events include careers day for budding animators, 3d, 2d and computer animation workshops, retrospectives, comic-book conventions, and cutting edge digital animations for the music industry.

Animation 2002 will take place at the University of Teesside on January 31 and February 1 2002.

Following on from last years hugely successful events which brought together past-masters such as Ray Harryhausen and future stars like Michael Dudok De Wit, the 2002 event has a hard act to follow. However, it seems that organisers Chris Williams and Siobhan Fenton have managed to achieve the impossible. The line up of speakers and workshops is, to say the very least, impressive.

From The Reg Hartt Animation Archive comes an in-depth look at Animation BM (Beyond Mickey Mouse).

Rare uncut 16mm prints of films by J. Stuart Blackton, Paul Terry, Emil Cohl, Winsor McCay, Max Fleischer, Walt Disney, Otto Mesmer, Ladislaus Starevitch, Raoul Barre, Tex Avery, Friz Freleng, Bob Clampett, Chuck Jones, Shamus Culhane, Walter Lantz and many more.

Screenings are Sundays at 4pm.

Definitely well worth a trip to Toronto!

"Hartt's shows are brilliant!"--London, England SUNDAY TELEGRAPH.

Cartoombria showcases animation from around the world, with a focus on digital and multimedia animation. The festival also holds special events highlighting international schools and training programs on computer animation, new media and Web animation.

"Hartt's shows are brilliant!" raves London, England's SUNDAY TELEGRAPH.

Find out for yourself.

7pm every Saturday night.

Reg Hartt sponsored animation symposia with Bob Clampett, Shamus Culhane, Friz Freleng and Grim Natwick from whom he learned the tricks they used to outwit scissor happy censors.

The great films from Hollywood's Golden Age of Animation were made for big kids (adults). Many are today banned. The rest are bowdlerized. See them as we were meant to.

Different program every week. 12 in each festival.

Well worth a trip to Toronto.