The Cartoon Art Museum will present original works of art from The Totoro Forest Project Charity Auction, a once-in-a-lifetime exhibition featuring paintings, illustrations and sculptures from nearly 200 critically acclaimed animators, fine artists, cartoonists and illustrators. All of the artwork featured in the exhibition was inspired by Hayao Miyazaki's iconic animated feature film MY NEIGHBOR TORORO.
HDFEST's Los Angeles event will be staged at Dolby Laboratories in Burbank. HDFEST Los Angeles will include screenings of high-definition movies, discussions on HD moviemaking and digital cinema, festival parties and the HDFEST 2008 Deffie Award Ceremony. This year's HDFEST Los Angeles will include presentations of seven revolutionary feature length HD films as well as unique High-Definition showcases including the HDFEST High-Definition Animation Showcase and the HDFEST High-Definition Music Video Showcase.
During its peak period in the 1930s, '40s, '50s, and '60s. Warner Bros. was home to the funniest and most inventive cartoons ever made. Disney had class and family appeal, but Warners had mavericks like Chuck Jones, Tex Avery and Frank Tashlin letting their imaginations run wild. These maestros created Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Elmer Fudd, Porky Pig, Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner, among dozens of other unforgettable characters. This free program stars these and other audience favorites, and includes beloved classics like WHAT'S OPERA DOC? and ONE FROGGY EVENING.
TheBigPix is inviting animators to take part in a creative online project at www.thebigpix.co.uk. Pick your favorite piece of art or architecture and tell them why it means so much. Make a film or animation and load it on www.thebigpix.co.uk. Many, including sculptor Antony Gormley, filmmaker Lord Puttnam, comedian Vic Reeves and indie band Maximo Park have already contributed to this project. Winning works will be shown at BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art in the U.K. starting December 1, as well as online.
This year IAF 5th will be held in the Pera Museum November 24-30, 2008. 5th Istanbul Animation and Visual Effects Short Film Competition applications are available until September 17. Competitors can apply by going to www.iafistanbul.com.
To check news of IAF 5th visit http://www.iafistanbul.com/index_en.php.
Held in Swansea, Wales, SAND is a U.K. conference event for CGI animation, digital content and creation, attracting visitors and speakers from around the world, holding sessions on computer games, procedural animation, films, post production techniques, TV commercials and motion capture. Now in its ninth year, the conference is organized by Swansea Metropolitan University in partnership with the Welsh Assembly Government.
SAND Business and SAND Papers: Monday, November 24 SAND Interactive (Games): Tuesday, November 25 SAND Games: Wednesday, November 26
The weekend of November 21- 23, 2008 will mark the debut of the first annual Atlanta Supercon, a festival for fans of comic books, anime, animation, cosplay, video games and more in downtown Atlanta, GA. The show will include celebrity guests, artists, writers, vendors, industry guests, Q&As, parties, costume contests, anime programming, manga, cosplay, workshops, panels, cosplay photo shoots, raves and more.
Atlanta Supercon will take place at the Renaissance Atlanta Downtown Hotel, located at 590 West Peachtree Street NW, Atlanta Georgia, 30308, USA.
Hollywood's El Capitan Theatre will host the special engagement of Walt Disney Pictures' latest animated comedy-adventure BOLT, presented in Disney Digital 3-D, from November 21, 2008-January 4, 2009. Accompanying the film at all showings will be Disney's Holiday Spectacular -- An All New Live Stage Show, which will transform the theater into a winter wonderland and feature an ensemble of Disney's top animated stars celebrating the season.
Held beneath the red rocks of Zion National Park, the Red Rock Film Festival presents a program that will both challenge and educate the mind. The Xtreme sports shorts and off-the-charts dramatic features are just the accessories to the festival's staple of political documentaries and foreign film. The festival is just a two-hour drive from Las Vegas, and offers a breathtaking location to see film in the warm part of the state of Utah. For more information visit www.redrockfilmfestival.com.
The San Francisco International Animation Festival's opening night features Nina Paley's SITA SINGS THE BLUES. Cannes highlight WALTZ WITH BASHIR, Bill Plympton's IDIOTS AND ANGELS, Retrospective of Gene Deitch's films for children and award-winning shorts from around the world will also play.
There are three competitions in the Bolanzo ShortFilmFestival.
--Fifth Annual No Words -- International no-dialogue short film competition.In this competition, the film/video must be understood through the strength of the images only. Music, sounds, environment background noises, etc. are accepted. Films/videos without dialogues, about any topics, produced 2006, 2007 or 2008 can be submitted.
--Fourth Annual Short Film Experiment -- Short film competition for experimental films.
Cascade ACM SIGGRAPH, Oregon and Southwest Washington's local SIGGRAPH chapter, will host a special two-night screening of the 2008 | Computer Animation Festival (CAF), a highly regarded computer graphics extravaganza.
An international competition now in its 12th year, the AEAF Awards attract entries from around the world. The awards give recognition and reward excellence and creativity in 10 categories of competition:
Commercials Animation Commercials VFX Titles, Idents & Stings Short Film Student Music Video TV Series Flash Animation Feature Films, Animation Feature Films, VFX
Two-time Oscar nominee (Animation Director on STAR WARS: EPISODE II -- ATTACK OF THE CLONES and EPISODE III -- THE PHANTOM MENACE) Rob Coleman will head the international panel of judges.
This gathering of VIEW Conference will take place November 11-14, with the theme of "Digital Transformations." Will Wright, the universally acclaimed creator of SIMCITY, THE SIMS, and SPORE, and Brad Lewis, producer of the Academy Award winning film RATATOUILLE and director of the upcoming Pixar film CARS 2, will both be speaking at VIEW Conference.
CINANIMA - The International Animated Film Festival of Espinho, Portugal is in its 31st edition this year. The event's purpose is to promote animation art worldwide. Every year CINANIMA holds an international competitive program, panorama screenings, retrospectives, special programs, exhibits, seminars and workshops, besides promoting the gathering of directors, animators, producers and the audience in general in a friendly atmosphere. For more information, visit www.cinanima.pt.
PISAF(Puchon International Student Animation Festival) celebrates its 10th edition, from November 7-11, 2008 in the city of Bucheon, South Korea.
Students from all over the world can show their work at PISAF.
CATEGORIES1) Short Animated Films (Less than 30 minutes)2) New Media Contents: Internet, Spot, Mobile, Motion graphics, Interactive animations, etc. (Approximately 2 minutes)
The American Film Market has announced the schedule for its seminars and conferences to be held at Le Merigot Hotel and the Fairmont Miramar Hotel in Santa Monica from November 7 to 11. Film and new media executives, distributors, producers, writers, directors, financiers, attorneys, sales agents and film commissioners will address topics affecting the independent sector, including film financing, online and self distribution, production incentives, the future of 3-D, the monetization of film projects and new technologies.
The FIAE 2008 - Third International Festival of Erotic Animation will be held November 6-14, 2008 at the Museum of Modern Art in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
The festival intends to stimulate the public exhibition of animation that are neither distributed nor exhibited within Brazil traditional circuits. The FIAE will be dedicated to the feature and short films of animation. Sex, love and erotica will be the key themes of the streamed international and national videos exhibited at the FIAE 2008.
This year the Holland Animation Film Festival(HAFF) takes place November 5-9. During these five days, the festival will show international competitions and a range of programs to show the variety of animation. In addition to the regular competitions (applied, independent and student work -- call for entries closed on all three), this year the festival will introduce a new online competition: The Holland Animation Web Competition.
Send in your animated film to the Brazilian Student Animation Festival; the best animation done by a student outside Brazil will win the original Animarte's Tropical Trophy. For more information, go to www.vouanimarte.com.br. Send submissions via mail to ELS2 Comunicacao, Rua Eurico Cruz, 15 Jardim Botanico, Rio de Janeiro, RJ 22461 200 Brazil.
Information: email animarte@vouanimarte.com.br.
Anime Supercon is back and better than ever. South Florida's anime, animation, manga, comic book and cosplay convention is set for the weekend of October 31, November 1 and November 2. Get ready for the biggest Halloween party in the southeast in a new location: the Downtown Miami Hilton. The show will include celebrity guests, artists, writers, vendors, industry guests, Q&A's, parties, costume contests, anime programming, manga, cosplay, workshops, panels, cosplay photo shoots and raves.
AFI FEST, the longest running film festival in Los Angeles, features international films from emerging filmmakers, global showcases of the latest work from great film masters, nightly special screenings and red-carpet gala premieres. Each year, AFI FEST presents international competitions of features, documentaries and shorts, as well as regional showcases as part of its broader world cinema section.
Animated features WALTZ WITH BASHIR and IDIOTS & ANGELS are amongst the films being screened. Ten animated shorts are in competition for the Adults Only Cartoon Show.
The International Leipzig Festival for Documentary and Animated Film -- DOK Leipzig -- is the largest German and one of the leading international festivals for artistic documentary and animated films.
The International Leipzig Festival for Documentary and Animated Film - DOK Leipzig – is the largest German and one of the leading international festivals for artistic documentary and animated films.
It was founded in 1955. Since the fall of the Berlin Wall, the Leipzig Festival has developed into one of the most dynamic festivals for documentary and animated film, providing a high-quality programme and – since 2004 – additional industry offers.
The Savannah Film Festival is hosted by the Savannah College of Art and Design and accepts professional and student films. Competition categories include animation, documentary feature, documentary short, narrative feature, narrative short and student. To be eligible for the student competition, entrants must be enrolled in an academic institution or have completed their film while enrolled.
