Events
Steve Dovas' Call Me Fishmael
'will be screened at the
1998 Slamdance festival. © Steve Dovas.
Slamdance, the
film festival which began in 1995 as a concurrent alternative to the elitism
of the Sundance Film Festival, will take place January 16-23, 1998 in Park
City, Utah. While the festival does not yet include an animation category,
there will be two films screened this year that will be of interest to
animation fans: Call Me Fishmael, a 3 minute animated short by New
Yorker Steven Dovas, about a writer pitching his "big Hollywood script."
Also, while Trey Parker's second film, Orgazmo, is screening across
town at Sundance, the South Park co-creator's first feature Cannibal,
a musical based on a true story, will be screened at Slamdance. For screening
times and festival information, visit http://www.slamdance.com
Games And Animation Interact At MILIA. MILIA, Europe's market for
interactive multimedia, will present a conference called "Towards
the convergence of animation and video games" during the second and
third days of its annual event in Cannes, France, February 7-11, 1998.
Ten animation projects will be presented to interactive publishers at MILIA.
The objective of these networking sessions and forums is to bring together
publishers, producers and developers of interactive products to promote
partnerships. For information about this partnership program, visit Frederique
Doumic's article, "MIPCOM
Meets MILIA" in the December issue of Animation
World Magazine. For MILIA registration information, visit the MILIA
web site, accessible through Animation World Network's Calendar of Events section.
Southampton Conference & Archive. The Southampton Institute
in England is organizing a new academic animation conference (April 6-8,
1998) and opening The Southampton Institute International Animation Research
Archive (SIIARA). An exhibit of production artwork from the Halas and Batchelor
collection, including art from the 1954 animated feature film Animal
Farm has been donated to SIIARA by the family of the late John Halas
and will be showcased to the public at Southampton Institute's Millais
Gallery, March 19-April 17, 1998. The conference in April will include
several screenings and presentations about Halas & Batchelor, by Stan
Hayward, Pat Raine Webb and Vivien Halas. Additional topics will be presented
by Gunnar Strom (early animated commercials), Mike Jones (early computer
animation), Nick Phillips (Bob Godfrey), Ron Geesin (animation and sound)
Robin Allan (19th century illustrators and early Disney) and Jilly Maclaren
(Internet and diagrammatic animation). For more information, contact john.southall@solent.ac.uk
Animated Christmas Screenings. On December 27 and 28, 1997 and on
January 1 and 2, 1998, The American Museum of the Moving Image (MOMI) in
New York presentedWishing You An Animated Christmas, a series of
classic seasonal animated film screenings. Included in the program are
Harman-Ising's 1939 Peace on Earth directed by Hugh Harman; TVC's
1982 special The Snowman directed by John Coates; Soyuzmultfilm's
1957 feature The Snow Queen produced by Lev Atamanov; R.O. Blechman's
1958 Cinemascope short Juggler of Our Lady, based on the recently
re-released 1952 book and produced by CBS/Terrytoons and Simple Gifts,
Blechman's 1977 PBS animated special which launched the director's production
company The Ink Tank.
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