Events: Non-competitive Festivals

Comic-Con International is the largest gathering of comic book, science fiction, film and television fans in the nation. Featuring celebrity guests, seminars on breaking into filmmaking and near 24-hour film retrospectives. Comic-Con is the place for fans of all things pop culture. For more information, visit www.comic-con.org.

The Brainwash Movie Festival is showing short and feature movies for the first time. Brainwash will show a variety of genres. The original Drive-In, Bike-In, Walk-In movie festival, Brainwash will be showing some of the best of more than 500 movies in the Brainwash catalog from shows over the past 12 years. Many of the Brainwash selections chosen for their daring and uncompromising style will never be seen on television or other more restrictive venues. It will take place at the Alliance for West Oakland Development Parking Lot, 1357 5th St. at Mandela Parkway, Oakland, California.

Faced with an unprecedented flood of exhibitor applications for the 160 exhibitor tables filling the three ground floor ballrooms of New York's historic Puck Building (295 Lafayette Street at Houston), MoCCA Art Festival 2007 organizers have decided to add space upstairs for more exhibitors.

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Parsons The New School for Design will join the nonprofit organization Games for Change to present its fourth annual festival. An early Sundance for socially-responsible game designers, the festival will bring together leading non-profit organizations, game scholars and industry experts to explore the expanding role of digital games as agents of social change and showcase some of the hottest new games in development during a special game expo.

REDCAT International Children's Film Festival features more than 45 films from 15 countries. The program includes films for ages 2 and up from all over the world, while still maintaining the daring and expansive aesthetic of REDCAT. This year the event features Pixar Shorts, including some of Pixar's earliest iconic shorts as well as Pixar's Academy Award-winning shorts. There are many animation films throughout most of the series. For more information, visit redcat.org/season/0607/fam/children9.php.

Multyashkino aims at demonstrating the best recent works of Russian animation. More than 50 animated cartoon films are released every year in this country. The open-air event will also feature live performances and games for children. It will take place from 11:00 am to 2:30 pm. For more information, visit www.multyashkino.ru/.

On May 9, 2007, Hollywood's elite movers and shakers will converge at the historic Castro Theatre for the Academy of Art University's 1st Annual Epidemic Film Festival. Featuring infectious work from a new generation of artists on the verge of graduating from the nation's top art and design school, the festival will showcase the best student work from the Academy's School of Motion Pictures & Television and School of Animation and Visual Effects.

Sci-Fi-London is the U.K.'s only dedicated science fiction and fantastic film festival. The even features screenings, panel discussions, special guests and parties, among other events. Animation includes PAPRIKA, FILL METAL ALCHEMIST: CONQUEROR OF SHAMBALLA, GHOST IN THE SHELL: SOLID STATE SOCIETY and an anime all-nighter. For more information, visit, www.sci-fi-london.com.

Northeastern University is hosting the 2007 Visual Music Marathon, to be held as part of the Boston Cyberarts Festival. The marathon will include screenings of new and historic works that reflect the theme of the event and a live video component. Approximately 30 minutes of programming will be selected for national cablecast on the Harmony Channel, available to subscribers of digital cable on the Comcast and Cox networks.

The Art Institute of California - San Francisco is proud to announce the first annual Animation Festival. Hosted by students and faculty of the school's Media Arts & Animation department, the festival will be held from 3:00 - 4:00 pm on Saturday, April 28, 2007 at the Herbst Theater located at 401 Van Ness in San Francisco, California. The festival will feature independent student animated productions in a variety of genres, including 2D animation, 3D animation, motion graphics, stop-motion animation and mixed media.

Description/Content:The 2007 Government Technologies Conference & Expo and 2007 Health Technologies Conference & Expo are the premier annual IT events for IT professionals from all levels of government and health services in Canada. These events will feature cutting-edge applications and solutions on current hot topics such as eGovernment, Business Intelligence, IT Outsourcing, Database Administration, Document & Content Management, Network Management, Biometrics & Identity Management, IT Security, Data Storage, Desktop Management, Wireless Government Solutions, Privacy, Cross Government Solutions, Web Hosting and many others.

Interested in presenting at this event? Please visit http://gov.wowgao.com/call_for_papers to present a proposal, or call 416-292-0038 ext. 835 for more information.