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| Extraordinary General Assembly at Annecy 2003 |
now also in Russian and French
Important information for all ASIFA members!
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| ASIFA against WAR - project |
An invitation to participate
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| AWG - ASIFA Animation Workshop Group |
presents the "MOON"-project at Annecy'03
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| Article about Barry Purves |
written by Pierre Azuelos
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| Report about CARTOON MOVIE |
written by Heikki Jokinen
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| Edward Bakst offers jobs... |
... at the CCS / Michigan
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| Festival News | |
| Festival Preview: anima'03 (Cordoba) |
Interview with the festival director
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| More international festival |
Close entry deadlines and upcoming events
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| The idea of ASIFA.NET : Permanent Call for Papers |
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The concept of the ASIFA Website, and particularily of the news-section, is TO SERVE AS AN OPEN PLATFORM, for all ASIFA Groups and Offices, ASIFA members and friends of ASIFA. It means, that all are invited, to send the material, which they want to be published to the editor@asifa.net, and it will appear at the next up-date. The coming dates for 2003:
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| Proposal for a new organisational structure of ASIFA |
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The ASIFA Board has decided hold an Extraordinary General Assembly at the Annecy 2003 Festival: Thursday, 5th June 2003, 10.00-12.00 Friday, 6th June 2003, 10.00-12.00 After announcing the EGA several times (on this homepage, in the ASIFA Magazine and by direct mailing) all ASIFA Members have now received more detailed material about the forseen change. All needed information is also published here, at asifa.net/EGA2003. The preparations in our ASIFA Groups are (or should be) now running. It is very important, that we have enough ASIFA members present or represented at the EGA (33% of our members.) Therefore we remind you once again, that all ASIFA members, who want to take part in this important decision, should fill out the PROXY FORM (also available at asifa.net/EGA2003/proxy.htm), and give it to a person, who will travel to Annecy. We thank you very much for your good cooperation. NOW ALSO IN RUSSIAN AN FRENCH |
| You find more information at http:// asifa.net/EGA2003 or you can CLICK HERE. |
| ASIFA against WAR - project: An invitation to participate |
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ASIFA has always been an organisation working across national, cultural or religious borders. Sayoko Kinoshita reminds us of the pacifist tradition of ASIFA, her "Peace Bird" opens a new project on ASIFA.NET. International artists are invited to send their graphic files, animated gifs or flash animation (maximum 100 KByte) to webmaster@asifa.net. They will be published on ASIFA.NET.
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| AWG - presents the MOON project in Annecy 2003 |
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"IMAGES OF THE MOON" - part 1 & 2 altogether - will be premiered as one of the official programmes of ANNECY2003 at Salle Pierre Lamy, on Wednesday, June 4th at 4:00pm. The ASIFA Workshop Group (AWG) is pleased to present our latest international project "IMAGES OF THE MOON", participated by 21 workshops from 15 countries: Norway, Belgium, France, Ukraine, USA, Greece, UK, Germany, Brazil, India, Portugal, Yugoslavia, Austria, Russia and Japan. All the works were edited into a compilation by Robi Engler, with the assistance of AAA Workshops. More than 400 young people joined in this project, and expressed their unique visions, legends and inspirations on the moon, using large variety of techniques, such as drawings, cut-outs, sand, silhouettes, painting, pixilation, clay, scratching... It is very interesting to find that the children of the world are thinking of so many different ideas by looking at the same moon, and also, that so many different legends came out of the same moon. I am very happy that "Images of the Moon" resulted to be a very interesting international cultural exchange. Join us at Salle Pierre Lamy, on Wednesday, June 4th, at 4:00pm!! Sayoko Kinoshita president, AWG |
| You find more at [ASIFA ZONE] - | Workshop Group | or you can CLICK HERE. |
| Pierre Azuelos wrote an article about Barry Purves |
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 Pierre Azuelos wrote a nice article - in French language - about the great puppet animation filmmaker (and ASIFA member !) Barry Purves. Enjoy. |
| You find the article at [ART ZONE] - | Articles | or you can CLICK HERE. |
| CARTOON MOVIE at Potsdam - written by Heikki Jokinen |
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Cartoon Movie celebrated its fifth anniversary in March on the traditional Babelsberg Film Studios in Potsdam, Germany. The annual Cartoon Movie uses a nice concept of co-producing and co-financing feature animations, created by Cartoon, the body for supporting European animation industry. The event gathered 461 animation professionals from 13 European countries and even some from the USA for three days to hear the presentations of new planned projects, discuss abut business agreements and even to see some of the new feature animations produced in Europe recently. The whole event is for animation business, this is no art festival. All together Cartoon Movie presented this year 18 projects in concept, 11 films in development, ten works in production, three in postproduction and seven completed films. Out of these 49 film and 13 projects, more than one out of four comes from France, which is clearly a leading European country for feature animation production. Spanish companies present nine projects and Danish five, followed by Britain and Germany both with four films. If you want to read the whole article, click on the link below.
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| You find the article at [ART ZONE] - | Articles | or you can CLICK HERE. |
| Edward Bakst - Offering jobs at the CCS / Michigan |
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(Excerpt of his letter) Following are the profiles for the creative, artistic faculty I would love to be joined by in my present venture, either as the permanent, core faculty or as those individuals who would come here as visiting artists joining us for 15 weeks of teaching: We seek an experienced and talented computer animation artist / faculty to give a creative, imaginative and storytelling direction to the program utilizing Maya. (.........) We are starting a brand new "game design" or "intelligent game" program. Therefore, we are searching for an experienced person who would have a vision and concept for a unique game program within an art college and be animated by the challenge of starting such a program from the scratch: (.........) We are searching for a creative traditional animation artist / faculty, experienced and skilled in traditional animation skills but with a European influence, who also has an ability to teach experimental animation as well as stop motion. (.........) Would you be interested in joining? If not, might you suggest a few individuals who would be pixilated by such an opportunity, again, as permanent faculty or as a visiting artist for a term of teaching. To read the whole letter, click on the link below.
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| You find the article at [ART ZONE] - | Articles | or you can CLICK HERE. |
| anima 03 - a new animation festival in Argentina. |
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anima 03 - a new animation festival in Argentina takes place in Cordoba, from 28th - 30th May 2003
ASIFA.NET offers an interview with the festival director Alejandro R. González, who obviously has very ambitious ideas... Read more abou this promising event. |
| You find the article at [FESTIVAL ZONE] - | Previews | or you can CLICK HERE. |
| Int. Animation Festivals - Close Entry Deadlines / Upcoming Events |
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C L O S E E N T R Y D E A D L I N E S SAFO OTTAWA / Canada - www.awn.com/ottawa/safo03 - July 02, 2003 (Festival Date: Oct 16 - 19) U P C O M I N G E V E N T S "Tough Eye" TURKU / Finland - tough-eye.com - May 14 - 18, 2003 "anima'03" CORDOBA / Argentina - animafest.com.ar - May 28 - 30, 2003 ANNECY / France - annecy.org - June 02 - 07, 2003 "Anima Mundi" RIO DE JANEIRO / SAO PAOLO / Brazil - animamundi.com.br - July 11 - 20 / July 23 - 27, 2003 For more festival info bookmark http://asifa.net/festival/calendar |
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