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  • ASIFA Board Meetings at Annecy 2001
      > Festival Information System
      > Open ASIFA Meeting
  • from ASIFA Workshop Group: Annecy Report
  • from ASIFA Finland: Nordic Light postponed to december
  • from ASIFA Italia: Job offer


    • >>> ASIFA Board Meetings in Annecy

    ASIFA / Festival Information System

    At the ASIFA Board Meetings in Annecy, the new ASIFA Board finally decided on a new strategy to organise ASIFA's relation with International Animation Festivals.
    After the former ASIFA Board had given up the out-dated "Patronage System" at the Meetings in Zagreb 1998, several approaches had been made to change ASIFA's strategy fundamentally.
    Now important steps for a concrete new way of cooperation with festivals have been made.

    The most important aspects of the new system are:

     > ASIFA opens up to much more than just the five 'traditional ASIFA festivals', and by this officially acknowledges the quality of several, partly new festivals.

     > In order to protect the interests of both animators and festival organizers, the document "Conditions for International Animation Festivals to be listed in ASIFA's media" was decided. In this document ASIFA defines the quality standards, which should be fulfilled to be officially recognized by ASIFA.

     > In the ASIFA - Festival Information System those festivals having passed the mentioned quality standards will be described according to 19 different aspects. The visitor of ASIFA.NET then may decide on her/his own, which of these events might be the most appropriate for her/him.

    In order to specially highlight those festivals, which by their special support to ASIFA help our organisation to exist and to grow, the installation of the term ASIFA Partner Festival was proposed, details are under discussion and decisions will be made soon.

    All informations about the ASIFA Festival Information System and about ASIFA Partner Festivals will be published in the [FESTIVAL ZONE] on ASIFA.NET.

    ASIFA Open Meeting
    On the 6th June 2001, a great number of international ASIFA Members and representatives of national groups attended the Open Meeting.
    In total, sixteen countries (regions) participated, discussions were centered around improving means of exisiting communication systems between groupings and interesting prospects of international exchanges were brought out.

    Further details about the ASIFA Board Meetings and about decisions being made will be published in the [INFO ZONE].



    >>>>> ASIFA Workshop Group Meeting in Annecy

     > New AWG Executive Board:

    During the AWG meeting in Annecy, the new Executive Board was elected as follows:

    President: Sayoko Kinoshita (Japan)
    Vice-president: John Serpentelli (USA)
    General Secretary: Wendy Jackson Hall (USA)
    Treasurer: Nicole Salomon (France)


     > AWG - ANNECY 2001 Official Programme
    "ASIFA Workshop Group Celebrates 30 Years of A.A.A."

    On June 6th, at 16:00-, the AWG programme celebrating the 30th anniversary of A.A.A. was held at Espace 300, again as one of the official programmes of ANNECY2001.

    With almost full audience at Espace 300, Sayoko Kinoshita, the AWG president, opened the programme with a short speech as follows:
    Welcome to this year's AWG programme in Annecy.
    After enjoying this programme, and when leaving this theatre, I believe that you will feel more and more attracted by animation. The reason why AWG (ASIFA Workshop Group) celebrates the 30th Anniversary of A.A.A. is because A.A.A. is the parent organization of AWG. 30 years ago, A.A.A. was founded under the presidents Claire Parker and Alexandre Alexeieff. And, Raoul Servais who has been the president since 1998 is here with us today.
    With such a long history as 30 years, I am sure that many people here actually participated in the workshops in their childhood, and perhaps many of you are already more than 40 years old!
    It is really great to have a history!
    Following the speech, Sayoko introduced the AWG members attending the programme, and lastly she introduced Nicole Salomon as the most important person who supported and developed A.A.A. for 30 years.

    Then, Nicole introduced the A.A.A. instructors, and also Bob Godfrey in the audience as one of the artists who has been supporting A.A.A.

    The screening started with a documentary of the workshop scenes in the early days of A.A.A. There, many artists who are called "Masters" appear as the instructors working so happily and joyously with children. (Please refer to the artists list attached.)
    Then came many films made by children, so entertaining, so lovely, and full of creativity, which made the audience laugh and smile throughout the programme. (Please refer to the list of the films attached.)

    At the end, several congratulations films made by the children from Norway, Russia, USA and Japan were shown, and the programme closed with the cheer of "Happy Birthday!" and "Congratulations!".

    More new documents from AWG have been added to the AWG pages at [ASIFA ZONE].



    From ASIFA Finland
    >>>>> Nordic Light postponed to December Nordic Light is a traditional very much non-formal gathering of Nordic and Baltic animators, who every summer are spending some days watching new films and discussing on what ever is intresting.
    The event has been going on annually since 1986, usually in summer, touring from one to another of the five Nordic and three Baltic countries. There is no formal organisation behind it, but every time some people are willing to organise it. Number of participants is varying from some tens to one hundred.
    This years Nordic Light festival, 16th in order, planned to take place in Sweden during this summer, has been postponed. The festival will instead be taking place in december in Stockholm, in cooperation with The Swedish Association for Animated Film (FFAF) and The Swedish Filminstitute.
    The event will be taking place at Filmhuset (Filmhouse) in central Stockholm, during the same weekend as FFAF arranges the annual screening of newly produced swedish animation.
    No exact date is set yet, but the event will presumably take place around the 14th-16th of december. More details will be available after the summer, contact ASIFA board member Heikki Jokinen, jokinen@asifa.net



    From ASIFA Italia:
    Job offer to animation professionals
    Lanterna Magica is looking for a production manager

    Lanterna Magica, italian animation company that produced "The Blue Arrow" and had been the executive producer of "Lucky and Zorba" is now owned by Medusa Film and is starting with new animated feature film productions.

    Professional profile:
    Proved experience in traditional 2D and/or 3D animation production
    A portfolio of services companies (from layout to ink and paint and compositing)
    Capability of taking responsibility and in reaching goals and planning deadlines
    Flexible to work in team with young and/or senior line producers
    Available to travel to the foreign studios involved in the production
    Ready to move for the whole production period to Lanterna Magica based in Torino
    French language fluency is also appreciated
    Very interesting pay offer

    Please send your curriculum vitae per e-mail to Consuelo Daneo
    c.daneo@lanternamagica.it or per fax to ++39 -011- 8606104