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Actual up-date   :   1st October 2002

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News from ASIFA / on ASIFA.NET
Open ASIFA Meeting at OTTAWA'02:	Saturday, 5th oct, 9 a.m.
International Animation Day	ASIFA France - AFCA is very active !
ASIFA PRIZE 2002...	...for David Ehrlich
ASIFA Workshop Group	"Images of the Moon" - project
ASIFA Hollywood	Annie Awards - Call for Entries
Festival Reports
Hiroshima 2002 - Reports by...	...Deanna Morse and Paul Glabicki
New Books on Animation
David Ehrlich - Citizen of the World	by Olivier Cotte
Bibliography: German Animated Film	by Jeanpaul Goergen
Coming Festivals
Holland - Animation Festival	...coming soon
Lleida Animation Festival	Call for Entries
Tehran - Animation Festival	Call for Entries

Open ASIFA Meeting at Ottawa'02

ASIFA organises the "Open ASIFA Meetings" at the most important animation festivals, in order to improve the communication between all ASIFA members and groups, and to hear and discuss critics and proposals for the future. The Ottawa Open ASIFA Meeting will be specially dedicated to the future of ASIFA, and the current proposal of ASIFA President Thomas Renoldner to reorganise ASIFA's organisational structure. You are heartly invited to come to this "breakfast meeting":    "Chez Ani"    Saturday, 5th ocotber 02, 9 a.m.

You will find the proposal / discussion board in the [ COMMUNICATION ZONE ] at | New Structure Proposal | or you can click here.

International Animation Day

ASIFA has proposed an International Animation Day, and the French ASIFA Group (AFCA) has already prepared a full program for several days! More information about this Animation Celebration below - and we hope many other ASIFA Groups will join the project! Animation Celebration in France 25th - 29th of October 2002 (On the occasion of the 1st. International Animation Day, 28th of October) When we heard of ASIFA's initiative last February, we wished to lay an even greater emphasis on this event in France. We thought that one day would be too short... and extended its duration from the 25th to the 29th of October, renaming it "Animation Celebration" (reminding its connection with the 28th of October, the "International Animation Day"). This event has very quickly taken unexpected proportions. It met with great interest and even enthusiasm. In some regions, we witnessed the creation of new showplaces and networks as well as the spontaneous help of new contributors. We do hope that this celebration will actually attract stronger support of animation in France. About 130 showplaces throughout France will participate in this event, with screenings, exhibitions, workshops, demonstrations, meetings or other initiatives, with the support of film archives, cinemas, libraries, associations and festivals (among them Annecy and Clermont-Ferrand), as well as a large number of animation film schools. Two trends appear in the contents of the programmes : Japanese animation (particulary Hayao Miyazaki) and Czech animation benefiting from the Czech cultural season taking place in France this year. We also notice a strong circulation of student films. Among the most honoured French animated filmmakers (exhibitions and screenings) : Emile Reynaud, Emile Cohl, Michel Ocelot and Florence Miailhe. The complete programme will soon be on line on AFCA's web site www.afca.asso.fr

ASIFA PRIZE 2002 - for David Ehrlich

The ASIFA Prize, which is given every year for ourstanding achievements for the art of animation, was given at the ZAGREB 2002 Festival to David Ehrlich. Below you can read the Laudatio, written by Vesna Dovnikovic. (More material will be added later.) ASIFA SPECIAL AWARD Every year the ASIFA Board of Directors gives the Special Award to a person who has made an exceptional contribution to the art of animation. It is with great pleasure we give the special ASIFA Award 2002 to one extraodinary, almost renaissance person from the animation world. Our laureat is animator, film director, sculptor, musician, professor and much more than that. The winner is - DAVID EHRLICH - from the USA. Beside his artistic work, the international animation community is grateful for his longtime unselfish volunteer work on the ASIFA Board of Directors as ASIFA Vice President and for his sucessful activity in the children's animation workshops all over the world. David is emotionally connected with Zagreb and it seemed most proper to award him exactly in Zagreb where he is surrounded with so many friends. The award is created by the famous Estonian animator and painter Priit Pärn.

David Ehrlich in Paris, 2002 Foto by Olivier Cotte

ASIFA Worshop Group - "Images of the Moon"

During the Hiroshima 2002 Festival the ASIFA Workshop Group presented the actual 'work in progress'-project, "Images of the Moon" . Children from 13 countries in 3 continents have participated so far. As more workshops are willing to participate, Images of the Moon project's deadline has been postponed: Deadline for submitting the application form: October 31st, 2002 Deadline for submitting the work: January 31st, 2003.

You can find more information at | Workshop Group | (below) or you can click here.

ASIFA Hollywood - 30th Annie Awards : Call for Entries

Hiroshima 2002 : Festival Reports by Deanna Morse and Paul Glabicki

Deanna Morse, USA: "There was much praise for the 9th International Animation Festival in Hiroshima Japan. This year there were several familiar faces, but many new young filmmakers who had come to this festival for the first time. I talked with filmmakers from Australia, England, Turkey, France, Japan, Spain, Canada, and the USA. All agreed that Hiroshima is a great festival for animators: perfectly organized, with a wide range of interesting and diverse programs, and a rich environment with activities and opportunities to meet and greet other filmmakers in attendance. " Paul Glabicki, USA: " The Hiroshima International Animation is an event that touches the soul, informs the mind, and delights the eye. It is an event like no other. It is something to aspire to as a filmmaker, and to enjoy as a lover of art and culture. Congratulations and bravo to Sayoko Kinoshita, the festival staff and officers, the volunteers, the generous (and very wise) sponsors, Mayor Tadatoshi Akiba, and the city and people of Hiroshima! Hiroshima is a miraculous place that is an inspirational beacon of light and hope to the world. The Hiroshima International Animation Festival is a gift to the art of the animated image, and a prestigious event that creates its own miracles every two years. To those who have never been to Hiroshima or a major animation festival - GO! " If you want to read the full reports about this great animation festival, visit ASIFA.NET - Festival Zone.

Exhibition celebrating ASIFA Japan's 20 Years Anniversary

New book: "David Ehrlich - Citizen of the World"

"Those who visit the world of the frame by frame people can't ignore David Ehrlich. Those who have talked with this man must have been struck by his powerful personality, because David Ehrlich is one of the most complex experimental animation directors we can find. His charisma, his mind half-way between West and East, the inventiveness of his films, and above all, a real humanism that makes him work as much with children as with international directors are part of an unique man who deserves more than a lingering glance. The association of the film analysis and above the enthralling interviews plunge the reader into a colorful,sensual and singularly human world." (From the books' envelope) This new book was written by Olivier Cotte about and - I guess - in close cooperation with David Ehrlich. After a short biography and an "aesthetic study of the films", the book offers a long "dialogue with David Ehrlich" - a conversation between David and Olivier about many aspects of David Ehrlich's art and philosophy; "international contributions" close the book: numerous friends from all over the world give their partly very personal comments about "the Citizen of the World". I also specially like the many nice color plates of film drawings and other artwork, and the many fotos giving insight in David Ehrlich's artistic and private life. A very enjoyable book about a great artist. (Thomas Renoldner) ISBN 2-910027-80-5 ISSN 1264-5680 Published by Dreamland, 60 rue Blanche, 75009 Paris-France www.dreamlandediteur.com Distributed in North America and non-French-speaking territories outside of Europe by University Press Of New England, Hanover; NH 03755. Distribué par Vilo pour l'Europe et les pays francophones.

New Book: Jeanpaul Goergen - Bibliography about German Animated Film

"Bibliografie zum deutschen Animationsfilm" - this is the original title of the book by Jeanpaul Goergen. It collects the titles of writing about animated film in Germany as well as German publications about animated film in general. It lists books, as well as e.g. publications of festivals, and other publications (like e.g. from universities, film schools, etc.). It is also indicated at which German Film Library the publications can be found. In his preface Jeapaul Goergen writes, that he hopes that this bibliography may stimulate "animation studies" in Germany, after this film genre has been long time underestimated - compared to feature or documentary film. This bibliogrpahy about animated film is a precious tool to find relevant publications about animation in German language. ISSN 1610-4048 ISBN 3-936774-00-5 CineGraph Babelsberg Berlin-Brandenburgisches Centrum für Filmforschung e.V. D-10965 Berlin, Großbeerenstraße 56d www.filmblatt.de

Holland Animation Festival : 13- 17 November 2002

Holland Animation Festival is coming soon. ASIFA.NET/RADIO offers a 10 minutes interview with the festival director Gerben Schermer. Click on the "RADIO" button (lower left corner), to enter the zone of audio-files on ASIFA.NET. Or you can click: here for a real-audio file here for a mpeg-file

Animac - Animated Film Festival Lleida (Spain)

MOSTRA INTERNACIONAL DE CINEMA D'ANIMACIÓ ANIMAC LLEIDA (SPAIN) 20-23 FEBRUARY 2003 Lleida's International Animation Film Show ANIMAC opens the period for handing in works in its 7th edition. The festival will take place in Lleida, Spain on February from 20th to 23th , 2003. Deadline for submitting applications ends on October the 31st and submitions can be formalized through the entry form available in the Show's Web Page: www.animac.info ANIMAC's 7th edition goes on with the same spirit as previous editions. Animac is a non-competitive film festival intended to show the best animated cinema productions of all time, highlighting those which have best enriched and promoted animation cinema's expressive skills. Animac seeks to be a tool to promote the most committed and passionate animated film. Animac aims to present a selection that unifies the most innovating and up-to-date proposals with the most famous animators' works in history. Please find all information and entry forms at http://www.animac.info or contact us at animac@animac.info, or phone: +34 (9) 73 700325 Mostra internacional de cinema d'animació ANIMAC C/Major, 31 2500 Lleida, Spain

3rd Int. Animation Festival Teheran - Call for Entries

The 3rd International Animation Festival of Tehran is a competitive festival which is organized by the Institute for the Intellectual Development of Children & Young Adults. It presents a broad program of the Iranian and international animation productions for the exhibition and discussion of the importance of animation industry. The main idea of disposing this festival, is to show to Iranian audience the work of other animators around the world and to promote and develop a greater reflection of animators and also trying to broaden the cultural interchange between domestic and international artists. In our last festival which was held on February 20th to 23rd of 2001, we exhibited about 150 national and 365 international animations from 33 different countries. We are looking forward to have you with animation of your own choice in this year's festival and please also inform all your animator friends and colleagues about our call for entries. www.tehran-anifest.com info@tehran-anifest.com Entry Form (pdf)

U P C O M I N G    F E S T I V A L S OTTAWA / Canada - www.awn.com/ottawa/ottawa02 - October 2 to 6, 2002 BRISBANE / Australia - www.biaf.com.au - October 9 to 13, 2002 LEIPZIG / Germany - www.dokfestival-leipzig.de - October 15 to 20, 2002 GENZANO DI ROMA / Italy - www.castellianimati.it - October 23 to 27, 2002 ESPINHO / Portugal - www.cinanima.pt - November 4 to 10, 2002 UTRECHT / Holland - www.awn.com/haff - November 13 to 17, 2002