Future TV Show 2006 is a conference where broadcasters and network operators meet the production companies and channels to discuss new opportunities in the world of media convergence. Conference topics include:
* Who is the viewer of the future and on what platforms will they be watching TV?* Securing content for new platforms* VOD & PVR
For the seventh year running the eDIT Filmmakers Festival is holding its international competition for up-and-coming filmmakers under 30. The organizers are looking for films that sum up the subject of time travel in only 30 seconds, the length of a classic advertising spot.
Nobody knows the future, and nobody knows what the past was really like. How would it be if we could travel into the past and intervene in the course of history? Or look into the future and find out if todays decisions were the right ones?
Future Filmmakers Festival 2006Chicago, Illinois, USAJune 16-18, 2006Deadline: February 28, 2006
The Future Filmmakers Festival has the goal of allowing industry professionals and fellow peers to identify the best, brightest and innovative in youth filmmaking.
PGA New Media Council is hosting Animation: Flash to the Future, which will chronicle the evolution of Flash. The event will look at the software as a valuable animation production tool and its economic and artistic impact in current and future cross-platform properties. The panel of producers will be moderated by Evan Spiridellis, producer/ animator/ co-founder of JibJab Media. Panelists will include: Aaron Simpson
Ray Bradbury Future Fest is a celebration organized by California Institute of the Arts (CalArts) School of Film/Video faculty member E. Michael Mitchell, in association with J.R. Smith, alumni and select advanced students from School of Film/Video Program in Character Animation. The event presents artwork and film exploring the writings of sci-fi master Ray Bradbury, who will make several unscheduled appearances at the event.
Nancy Cartwright follows the sage advice of Charles F. Kettering, regarding the future the place where we all will be spending the rest of our lives.
CARTOON presents Cartoon Masters: Cartoon Future. The theme of the event is
The Museum of Science and Industry will hold its newest temporary exhibit, Game On: The History, Culture and Future of Video Games. The exhibit makes its North American debut in Chicago on March 4, 2005. Game On features more than 100 playable games and was organized by the Barbican Art Gallery, London in collaboration with the National Museums of Scotland.
With the Academy Awards just around the corner on Sunday, I had the chance to speak with three of the supervisors vying for the visual effects Oscar: John Dykstra (SPIDER-MAN 2), Andy Jones (I, ROBOT) and Tim Burke (HARRY POTTER AND THE PRISONER OF AZKABAN).
The ITFW is meant as a professional meeting and seminar, which will take place during the 4th edition of the Neuch
CARTOON presents Cartoon Masters: Cartoon Future. The theme of the event is
Rhythm & Hues Studios would like to meet digital artists interested in future employment at our studios. In order to participate you must be a digital artist with 2+ years professional experience. We invite you to attend one of our two lunchtime gatherings:
March 17th - Belmont near Redwood City March 18th - Alameda in the East Bay
Presented by Industrial Development Bureau, Ministry of Economic Affairs, Taiwan R.O.C in the public art festival "Techno Dream Sphere" in Taiwan Nankang Software Park, Future Imprint is an international animation competition for all who are interested in forwarding future to the world of animation. With the ever-updating technological media, our dreams and imagination are easier to visualize with the extension of virtual reality. Our depictions of the future may welcome true possibilities to alter tomorrow's world.
It's official: Pixar has concluded discussions to extend its long-term partnership with The Walt Disney Co., and will go its own way as a potential indie powerhouse with its own strong brand identity. The Emeryville, California-based CG animation studio still has two features to deliver to Disney: THE INCREDIBLES in 2004 and CARS in 2005, but is now free to continue negotiations for a distribution deal with another studio. Last August, Pixar chairman and ceo Steve Jobs initiated talks with Fox and Warner Bros.
In one of its few buys of an American animation series, 4Kids Entertainment's FOX BOX has added BACK TO THE FUTURE from Universal Cartoon Studios to its Saturday morning lineup, starting March 22, 2003 at 8:30 am. Based on the popular feature film trilogy, BACK TO THE FUTURE series debuted on 1991 on CBS, starring Christopher Lloyd in live-action wrap-arounds featuring scientific demonstrations by Bill Nye, the host of BILL NYE THE SCIENCE GUY. In the animated segments, Doc Brown was voiced by Dan Castellaneta, best known as the voice of Homer Simpson.
The Future Film Festival is the first and most important Italian show dedicated to the latest technologies, special effects and 3D animation. The previous edition, held between the 16th and the 20th of January 2002, was widely acclaimed by audiences and critics alike. More than 25,000 people flocked to the five-day show, largely outscoring the previous year
Future Animators Of The Future 3rd Annual Animation And Video Show.
Boston and New York, USA.
Thursday, October 10 - Wednesday, October 30, 2002.
Entry Deadline: Friday, August 30, 2002.
The Future Animators of the Future (www.fafcom.com) is pleased to present the second annual FAF show. The show will run through November 2001, playing in Boston, New York City and San Francisco. It will be a great chance to meet some independent animation and video artists.
The festival is currently accepting submissions for up to ten minute video and animation shorts on digital media.
* Future Animators Of The Future 2nd Annual Animation And Video Festival
Friday, November 2 - Friday, November 16, 2001. Boston, San Francisco and New York, USA.
Entry Deadline: Sunday, September 30, 2001.
* Future Film Festival: Friday, January 18 - Tuesday, January 22, 2002, Bologna, Italy.
* Thursday, August 17 Friday, August 18, 2000. New York, New York, U.S.A.
Buzz Potamkin makes his predictions on the trends that will influence our animation industry and marketplace well into the next 100 years.
Here we go again...
