Events: Short Films

A four year old festival in Hollywood, WinFemme is an annual and monthly screening and staged reading series for films and scripts that tell women's stories. (Men creatores are WELCOME!). Films and scripts have advanced our artist's careers, have sold and have garnered much press. $50 is the application fee. The deadlines are monthly. All entrants are eligible for the annual WinFemme Film Festival held in September.

America's largest annual convention for fans of science fiction, fantasy

and horror, comics and art, games and computers, animation, science, music, television and films, will be held at the Atlanta Marriott Marquis and Hyatt Regency in downtown Atlanta, Georgia. Tickets start at

$75.

Shanghai Animation and Cartoon Fair 2002 (SACF) is an annaual exhibition in Shanghai, China. The Fair has the most abundant animation and cartoon resources in China. It is important event for the Chinese animation and cartoon industries. Visitors can learn the trends of animation technology, how to deal with copyright transactions and it is also a festival for the fans.This event attracts more than 100,000 visitors every year.

The Academy of Machinima Arts & Sciences (AMAS), an organization that provides advocacy, education and community building awareness for the entertainment medium known as Machinima: the art or technique of filmmaking using real-time 3D virtual environments, has teamed up with NVIDIA

The 5th Annual Crested Butte Reel Fest is a competitive short film festival located in the beautiful mountain resort town of Crested Butte, Colorado. The Reel Fest focuses on films under 40 minutes in the categories of Animation, comedy, drama, experimental and science fiction. Also documentaries under 60 minutes.

Deadlines: Regular entries by March 22, 2002. Student entries by May 10, 2002.

Entry Fees: Regular - $35, Student - $30

Entry Formats: *

An Independent film, video and digital festival, Downstream will screen over one hundred works from many countries and our local area each year. For current program and entry information please visit our website.

Regarding the Competition Film, video and digital works will be judged on an equal footing. This competition is about how well your ideas are communicated on the screen more so than how high the production value. We believe that the grittiest video can be conceptually well crafted and beat out the prettiest 35mm film which is conceptually vapid. The durations are divided at the 45 minute mark for "features" and "shorts." If your film is between 40 and 46 minutes, you decide which competition category is preferable.

The Los Angeles Film Festival kicks off nine days of screenings this Friday, June 21, 2002, including the Los Angeles premiere of MISSING PERSONS, an independent feature length 3D animated film that tells the story of four lost souls in the 60th Precinct of Coney Island. The lives of a burnt-out detective, a rookie sergeant, an emancipated World War II Army surplus robot and a disfigured streetfighter intersect during the investigation of a mysterious man in this debut feature film from directors/animators/twin brothers Dan & Matt O'Donnell.

The "Cegep du Vieux Montreal" is proud to announce that the first finishing students from its three-year classical animation program will hold their very first year-end screening on Thursday June 13th 2002.The event will feature the work of 21 talented young artists, showing their films ranging from 45 seconds to 2 1/2 minutes.The screening will take place at the "Maison Theatre", 245 Ontario Est, Montreal.Guests are expected at 7:30 PM.Please confirm your intention to attend by e-mail.

The Nashville Independent Film Festival proudly announces its 33rd annual competition for independent and student film/video artists. The 2002 Festival, held June 5-9, 2002, will showcase the best in independent features, shorts, documentaries, animation, experimental and works by young filmmakers. Also, NIFF features workshops, panel discussions, vendor and product expo, and guest appearances by nationally recognized film and video artists. First prize in the Short Film and Animation categories qualifies the winning film for Academy Award consideration.

The Academy of Art College presents its Animation Spring Show 2002.Festivities begin on May 23, 2002 with an Awards Presentation, Screening, and Gallery Exhibit. The Pre Show runs from 5:30 pm to 6:30 pm with the Awards Ceremony starting at 6:30 pm. The Show will consist of works completed by Academy of Art College students in the fields of 3D Animation, 2D Animation, and Visual Effects. The Animation Spring Show is open to the public and runs from May 23rd to June 8th.