Events: Short Films

Now in its third year, The Florida Media Market is hosting its annual Global Film & Media Conference in Miami Beach, Florida at the Alexander All-Suite Oceanfront Resort from Thursday, October 23 to Sunday, October 26. This international conference will lend for networking, learning, sharing ideas and building new artistic relationships.

Additional Events Surrounding the Conference:

Opening Night Celebration will be held at the Havana Club on Thursday, Oct 23 and will feature live entertainment and hot hors d'oeuvres.

Now in its 25th year, The Chicago International Children's Film Festival is the largest and longest-running festival of films for children in the U.S. Last year the festival screened 220 films and videos from 40 countries for audiences of 26,000 children and their families. It is the only Academy Award-qualifying children's festival in the world. Each year the festival scours the globe to present an outstanding selection of the best animation, live-action, experimental and kids-produced films for children ages 2-14. The early entry deadline is May 1 and the final deadline is May 31.

October 28 is World Animation Day -- and Canada is getting animated. The National Film Board is celebrating this special day with a 13-city tour of Get Animated!, a series of free public screenings from the NFB's Oscar-winning animation studios.

Get Animated! will showcase new creations from Canada's public producer, for young and old, from October 22 to November 9, 2008. The NFB Web site provides complete details on this event, along with free streaming video of NFB animated shorts, at nfb.ca/getanimated.

ASIFA-Hollywoods' Animator Educator's Forum is hosting its first Student Animation Film Festival at Woodbury University, located on 7500 Glenoaks Blvd. in Burbank, California 91510 on October 18, 2008 from 10 a.m. to 7:30 p.m. Students enrolled in professional academic programs throughout the United States including NYU Tisch School of the Arts; UCLA; USC; Woodbury University; Loyola Marymount University; CSU Fullerton; Bay and The Art Institute of California-Orange County have submitted short animations.

The 15th Annual Austin Film Festival is dedicated to championing the work of aspiring and established filmmakers, defined as screenwriters, directors, editors, producers, actors and all artists who use the language of film to tell a story. The AFF furthers the art, craft and business of filmmaking by providing unique cultural events and services, enhancing public awareness and participation, and encouraging dynamic and long-lasting community partnerships. Short films screened in competition at the Austin Film Festival are eligible to be nominated for an Academy Award.

Animatu is an animation festival dedicated to digital. The festival holds an international shorts competition (with some categories open only to Portuguese schools), workshops and talks, among other activities. The 2008 edition will take place at Pax Julia - Municipal Theatre. For more information, visit www.festivalanimatu.com.

Special guest Brent Spiner (Data from STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION) will perform several songs on his new CD DREAMLAND, while also incorporating a storyline throughout. Also performing songs along with Spiner is Maude Maggart, and Mark Hamill (STAR WARS, BATMAN: THE ANIMATED SERIES) performs several roles in the story. The DREAMLAND CD is $25, including an autograph. Spiner will sign one additional item at his 1-3 p.m. appearance.

The Cartoon Art Museum will host its fifth annual benefit at Pixar Animation Studios on Saturday, October 11, 2008. From Pixar's inception in 1986 with the premiere of its iconic short film, LUXO JR., to the studio's latest full-length feature, Disney-Pixar's WALL-E, attendees will get an insiders' perspective on the mastery behind these computer animated creations.

Categories: short and feature length narrative, animation, documentary, junior filmmakers, original screenplay guest filmmakers, festival presentations and more.

Attention animators! San Diego Asian Film Festival 2008 will once again be showcasing animated short films produced by animators of Asian ethnicities in a 90-minute all-animation program. All forms of animation (traditional, claymation, stop-motion, flash, CGI, etc) will be accepted for consideration into this competitive festival. Films by all animators pertaining to Asian issues and themes will also be considered. Only VHS and DVD (preferred) formats are accepted for consideration. A Best Animated Short Film Award will be awarded with prizes to be determined.

ELEVATE Film Festival, the first filmmaking competition to challenge the international film community to create works of social and global importance, announced the fifth annual ELEVATE event will take place on Sunday, October 5 at the Nokia Theatre L.A. LIVE in Los Angeles. Founded by producer Nadia Salamanca and award winning filmmaker Mikki Willis, ELEVATE 5 will premiere 20 short films by some of the industry's hottest young talents for a night of cutting edge cinema devoted to stimulating positive change.

TrickCon Treat 2008 presents a special screening of Marc Lougee's stop motion adaptation of Edgar Allan Poe's The Pit and the Pendulum!

Executive Produced by Ray Harryhausen, this short stop motion film captures the creepy, dark and foreboding tale of Edgar Allan Po's classic story of a lone prisoner's horrific experience in the grip of The Spanish Inquisition!

Be sure to join us October 3rd-5th at Holiday Inn Hotel & Suites Oklahoma City, 6200 N. Robinson Drive, OKC, OK, for a ghoulishly good time.