Events: Non-competitive Festivals

Metreon-A Sony Entertainment Center in downtown San Francisco will host the first annual Metreon Festival of Anime the weekend of October 27-28 inside Metreon's Action Theatre attraction. The Metreon Festival of Anime will take place in conjunction with the Big Apple Anime Fest scheduled for the same weekend in New York City.

Throughout the two-day event, fans will have a chance to watch Sony Pictures' "The Making of Metropolis", Bandai Entertainment's "Love Hina" and the U.S. premiere of "G-Saviour", and ADV Film's "Princess Nine: First Inning" and

Cine-X is the experimental segment of the Olympia Film Festival. The Olympia Film Festival is organized by the Olympia Film Society, a non-profit, independent, community-based organization showcasing screenings of independent, international and classic films year-round. Cine-X is looking for short experimental works. The entry fee is $10.

The Tahoe International Film Festival (TIFF) is a celebration of cinema. Specifically, TIFF seeks to honor filmmakers who demonstrate an understanding of the strength of media to effect beneficial change in the human condition. In addition to screening close to fifty national and international film submissions of all genres and lengths, and hosting several special events, TIFF will host a symposium of filmmaker's forums with the theme "Women of Story, Women in Film."

Shorts in this all-animation program for grown-ups range from director Kathy Smith's "Indefinable Moods," an exploration of symbols and landscapes in nature that link to psychological hopes, fears and desires that exist in every culture to Hilary Wilder's stop-motion Rudolf the-red-nosed-reindeer redux "Everybody's Got Problems." This wildly inventive animated video re-edits the familiar characters from the 1964 special "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer" with overlayed audio from the Billy Wilder/Ray Milland classic "The Lost Weekend," resulting in an unlikely narrative in which the reindeer and

The CoCarAn festival (COmix-CARicature-ANimation) will feature over 180 animated films, including a world premiere of Oz Adi

The 2001 SHORT ATTENTION SPAN Film and Video Festivalwill be a touring event bringing two hours of two minute movies from aroundthe world. It will showcase the best of short animation, comedy, sci-fi,documentary, poetry and more.

Festival locations and dates are:

PACIFIC NORTHWEST:

VANCOUVER B.C.,The Blinding Light Cinema - August 3rd and 4th - 8:30 pm;SEATTLE, WA,911 Media Arts Center - August 9th and 10th - 8:00 pm;PORTLAND OR,

ASIFA-Hollywood is presenting some of the groovy cartoons from the Summer of Love, which reflected the pop-art sights and trippy sounds of the era, with rare prints of cartoons not currently available on tape or TV. Hosted by animation historian Jerry Beck, the event will begin at 7:30 pm. The entry fee will be US$2 for members and $5 for non-members. Seating is limited.

The ASIFA International board of directors is inviting all representatives of ASIFA national groups and individual members to attend an open ASIFA meeting, to be held during the upcoming Annecy festival (June 4-9, 2001). The meeting will happen on June 6, 2001 from 10:00 am to 1:30 pm in the Jumel Room, Quai des Clarisses (near the Pierre Lamy theater). All ASIFA members and prospective members are invited to attend and take an active role in the worldwide animation community. One of ASIFA International

The 16th Clermont-Ferrand Short Film Market allows short filmmakers the opportunity to showcase their work to an international audience of distributors, buyers and producers who are searching for new talent and content. The market offers viewing areas of more than 3,000 new titles and special screenings. The 700-page market catalogue highlights the films presented at the market. The event gives industry professionals a chance to meet and work on setting up future deals. The European Union MEDIA programme is a supporter of the market.

Flickerfest is a short film festival that travels to various cities around Australia. Starting with a 7-day event in Sydney the event will take place in Kempsey, Canberra, Scone, Sawtell, Darwin, Adelaide, Melbourne, Brisbane, Perth, Alice Springs and Byron Bay. The festival, now in its third year, has screened to audiences of over 10,000 people. Every year Flickerfest presents special programs of short films that showcase the work of specific regions.

The Toronto Animated Image Society will be hosting a short attention span festival. TAIS members Mike Constable and Jonathan Amitay have animated pieces in this festival of films that are two minutes or less in length. There will be two shows: one at 7 pm and one at 9 pm.

This year the Holland Animation Film Festival will hold its first international competition for independent animation films. With this competition, the festival sets out to promote the short, artistic animation film, and, as a result, encourage media attention toward independent animation. The competition is divided into two separate categories: one for narrative film and one for non-narrative film. In both categories a Grand Prix will be awarded. The maximum length of films entered for the competition is 35 minutes.