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	<title>Alternative Film Guide &#187; Animation</title>
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		<title>Oscar 2010: Animated Short Film Semi-Finalists</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/oscar-2010-animated-short-films-123/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 23:37:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anna Robinson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has announced  the 10 semi-finalists in the animated short film category of  the  2010 Academy Awards. Thirty-seven entries had originally qualified in  the category. They are: 


The Cat Piano, Eddie White and Ari Gibson, directors (The People’s Republic of Animation)

French Roast, Fabrice O. Joubert, director (Pumpkin Factory/Bibo Films) 

Granny O’Grimm’s Sleeping Beauty, Nicky Phelan, director, and Darragh O’Connell, producer (Brown Bag Films)

The Kinematograph, Tomek Baginski, director-producer (Platige Image)

The Lady and the Reaper (La Dama y la Muerte), Javier Recio Gracia, director (Kandor Graphics and Green Moon)

Logorama, Nicolas Schmerkin, producer (Autour de Minuit) 

A Matter of Loaf and Death, Nick Park, director (Aardman Animations Ltd.) 

Partly Cloudy, Peter [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Golden Globes 2010: Five Best Animated Feature Nominees</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/golden-globes-2010-five-best-animated-feature-nominees-123/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 19:02:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anna Robinson</dc:creator>
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Up by Pete Docter

The 2010  Golden Globes will feature  five Best Animated Feature contenders,  as members of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association voted last week to expand this year&#8217;s number of nominations for that category.
The amended rule for the Best Animated Feature category now reads: &#34;Eligible films must be feature-length (70 minutes or longer) with no more than 25% live action. If less than eight animated films qualify, the award will not be given, in which case the films would be eligible for Best Picture. If less than twelve animated films qualify, the category will be limited to three nominations per year.&#34; 
(The Golden Globes press release doesn&#8217;t indicate the number of animated-feature submissions this year, but [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Oscar 2010: Animated Feature Semi-Finalists</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/animated-feature-semi-finalists-oscar-2010/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 19:41:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anna Robinson</dc:creator>
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Up by Pete Docter (top); A Town Called Panic by Stéphane Aubier and Vincent Patar (middle); Fantastic Mr. Fox by Wes Anderson (bottom)

Twenty features have been submitted for consideration in the Animated Feature Film category for the 2010 Academy Awards. They are:

Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel
    Astro Boy
    Battle for Terra
    Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs
    Coraline
    Disney&#8217;s A Christmas Carol
    The Dolphin – Story of a Dreamer
    Fantastic Mr. Fox
    Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs
    Mary and Max
    The Missing Lynx
    Monsters vs. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>European Film Awards 2009: Best Animated Feature Nominations</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/european-film-awards-2009-best-animated-feature/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2009 21:56:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Kari Juusonen]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mia and the Migoo]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Michael Hegner]]></category>
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Mia and the Migoo (top); Niko &#38; the Way to the Stars (middle); The Secret of Kells (bottom)

The European Film Academy has announced the three nominees for  the new European Film Award category &#34;Best Animated Feature Film.&#34;
They are:

Mia and the Migoo (Mia et le Migou) (France 2008) 
    by Jacques-Rémy Girerd
A  young girl sets out looking for her father, a worker at the building site of a luxury hotel in the middle of a hidden forest. Deep in the woods, she comes face to face with the mysterious creature Migoo.
Niko &#38; the Way to the Stars (Niko – Lentäjän poika) (Finland / Germany / Denmark / Ireland 2008)
    by Kari Juusonen &#38; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Oscar 2010: Early Predictions &#8211; Best Animated Feature</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/oscar-2010-early-predictions-best-animated-feature/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Oct 2009 02:02:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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Best Animated Feature

Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs, Phil Lord and Chris Miller
As a scientist tries to solve world hunger, it starts raining food.

Coraline, Henry Selick
A young girl discovers a new world featuring an idealized version of her dysfunctional family life &#8212; and some spooky little secrets as well.

Fantastic Mr. Fox, Wes Anderson
Farmers band together to get rid of Mr. Fox (voiced by George Clooney) and his family (Meryl Streep is the Missus).

Ponyo,  Hayao Miyazaki
A five-year-old boy and a goldfish princess develop a close bond.

Up,  Pete Docter
A man in his late 70s takes his house and a young stowaway to the South American jungle.


In case there are 16 or more animated features being considered for the 2010 Academy [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Perspectives on Editing&#8221;: Animation</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/film-movies/perspectives-on-editing-animation/</link>
		<comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/film-movies/perspectives-on-editing-animation/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Sep 2009 19:22:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anna Robinson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Film]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Animation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Donn Cambern]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[John Carnochan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kent Beyda]]></category>
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Up by Pete Docter (top); Matt Groening&#8217;s The Simpsons Movie directed by David Silverman (middle); Surf&#8217;s Up by Ash Brannon, Chris Buck (bottom)

The art and craft of editing  animated films will be explored in  the second installment of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ four-part seminar series &#8220;Perspectives on Editing&#8221;  on  Tuesday, September 29, from 7 to 10 p.m. at the Academy’s Linwood Dunn  Theater in Hollywood.
&#8220;Perspectives on Editing: Editing  for Animation&#8221; will be hosted by Academy Film Editors Branch governors  Donn Cambern (The Last Picture Show, The Bodyguard) and Mark  Goldblatt (Terminator 2: Judgment Day, Starship Troopers). 
Special  guests will include Kent Beyda (Alien Nation, Scooby-Doo), John  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sun Xun: The Dark Magician of New Chinese Animation</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/animation/sun-xun-the-dark-magician-of-new-chinese-animation/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Sep 2009 20:05:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anna Robinson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Animation]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Requiem]]></category>
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Requiem  (top); Shock of Time (bottom)

The REDCAT in downtown Los Angeles will give a rare U.S.  presentation of Chinese artist and  filmmaker Sun Xun&#8217;s animation works on Mon., Oct 19, at 8:30 p.m. Sun Xun will be present at the screening.
According to the REDCAT&#8217;s press release, &#34;Sun Xun: The Dark Magician of New Chinese Animation&#34; will feature &#34;a program of shorts ranging from a witty  experiment in body art (Lie of Magician, 2005)  to the creation of an expansive imagistic world that evokes China’s  checkered voyage toward technological and political modernity.&#34;
The text below is from the REDCAT&#8217;s release:
 After  studying printmaking at the Academy of Fine Arts in Hangzhou, Sun  founded the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Adam Beckett Salute</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/animation/adam-beckett-salute/</link>
		<comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/animation/adam-beckett-salute/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2009 19:47:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ 
Animator and visual effects artist Adam Beckett will be  celebrated by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences with the  special program “Infinite Animation: The Work of Adam Beckett” on Monday, August 17, at 8 p.m. at the Linwood Dunn Theater  in Hollywood. The evening will include a screening of Life in the  Atom, a short film that Beckett left unfinished when, at the  age of 29, he died  in a fire in 1979. 
Presented by the Academy’s Science and  Technology Council in conjunction with the iotaCenter, and hosted by visual effects artist Richard Winn  Taylor and Beckett biographer Pamela Turner, “Infinite Animation: The Work of Adam  Beckett” will [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hayao Miyazaki Tribute</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/directors/hayao-miyazaki-tribute/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Jun 2009 23:01:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Directors]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Animation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Anime]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ANIME!  High Art – Pop Culture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fantasy Movies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hayao Miyazaki]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[John Lasseter]]></category>
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As part of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences&#8216;   three-month celebration of anime,   a screening of Hayao Miyazaki&#8217;s 2002  Oscar-winning animated feature Spirited Away will take place on Friday, July 17, at  7:30 p.m., at the  Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills. 
Then, on Tuesday, July 28,  at 7:30 p.m., Oscar-winning animator and Academy governor John Lasseter will host  &#34;A Tribute to Animation Master Hayao Miyazaki&#34; at the Samuel Goldwyn Theater. Both evenings will include extended gallery  hours for the Academy&#8217;s ongoing exhibition &#34;ANIME! High Art – Pop  Culture.&#34;

The quirky Spirited Away is my favorite among the Miyazaki features I&#8217;ve seen. The tale of a young girl [...]]]></description>
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		<title>2009 Student Academy Award Winners</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/2009-student-academy-award-winners/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Jun 2009 22:40:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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Alice&#8217;s Attic (top); Pajama Gladiator (2nd from top); Bohemibot (2nd from bottom); Elkland (bottom)

The 2009 Student Academy Awards ceremony, presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, will be held on Saturday, June 13, at the Academy’s Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills. 
Twelve students from eight U.S. colleges and universities have been named winners in the competition. One film student from Sweden has been voted the Honorary Foreign Film Award.
The U.S. winners know they will each receive an award, but their placement – Gold, Silver or Bronze – will be revealed only at the June 13 ceremony. Gold Medal winners receive cash grants of $5,000, Silver Medal winners receive $3,000, and Bronze Medal winners receive $2,000. The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Student Academy Awards 2009 Finalists</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/2009-student-academy-awards-finalists/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 May 2009 17:45:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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Sebastian&#8217;s Voodoo (top), The Last Mermaids (middle), Bohemibot (bottom)

Thirty-six students from 20 US colleges and universities have been  selected as finalists in the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ 2009 Student Academy Awards competition. Academy  members will pick the winners after watching the competing films at special screenings. 
Gold, Silver and Bronze Medal awards, along with  accompanying cash prizes of $5,000, $3,000 and $2,000, respectively,  may be presented in each of the four categories below. The winners will later take part  in a week of industry-related and social activities,  including the awards ceremony on Saturday, June 13, at the Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills.
The finalists are (listed alphabetically by film title):


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		<title>2009 Honorary Foreign Film Award Finalists</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 May 2009 17:07:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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Five finalists will be vying for the Academy of Motion Picture Arts  and Sciences&#8216; 2009 Honorary Foreign Film award in the 36th Annual    Student Academy Awards competition. The five finalists were selected from a record 57 entries representing 39  countries.  The winning student filmmaker will  be brought to Los Angeles to join U.S.-based Student Academy Award  winners &#34;for a week of industry-related activities and social events,&#34;  including the awards ceremony on Saturday, June 13, in  Beverly Hills.
The finalists are (listed alphabetically by film title):

Elkland (above, center photo), Per Hanefjord, Dramatiska Institutet, Sweden
    Face-to-Face Confrontation, Igor Khomsky, Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography, Russia
    The Incredible Story [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Babelgum Online Film Festival Awards 2009</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/babelgum-online-film-festival-awards-2009/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Apr 2009 00:10:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anna Robinson</dc:creator>
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2009 Babelgum Online Film Festival Awards
2009 Babelgum Online Film Festival Award winners: April 27, 2009 at the Tribeca Film Festival in New York City
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In Francesco Sperandeo&#8217;s Bab Al Samah / The Door of Forgiveness, a man&#8217;s desire to get over past humiliations, symbolized by a  heavy, old door, leads him on a life-changing journey.
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Looking for Genius Award:  BAB AL SAMAH / THE DOOR OF FORGIVENESS by Francesco Sperandeo (Italy)
Spike Lee Award / Short Film:  MARADONA BABY by Nino Sabella (Italy)
Spike Lee Award / Animation:  HEY ANIMATION MUSIC VIDEO by Guy Ben Shetrit (Israel)
Spike Lee Award / Documentary:  THE LADIES by Christina Voros (United States)
Spike Lee Award / Mini Masterpiece:  I HAD A DREAM I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Joanna Priestley Screenings at the REDCAT</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/animation/joanna-priestley-screenings-at-the-redcat/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Apr 2009 21:25:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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PRESS RELEASE 
FILM AT REDCAT PRESENTS 
  Joanna Priestley: Fighting Gravity
Mon Apr 20 &#124; 8:30 pm
Jack H. Skirball Series
$9 [students $7, CalArts $5]
Los Angeles premiere
Dubbed “the queen of independent animation” by Bill Plympton, Joanna Priestley unveils her new short Missed Aches,  a humorous rant about the need for proofreading. This can’t-miss  program for animation buffs also includes a series of animated gems  representing the range of the artist’s techniques: Voices, Grown Up, All My Relations, Streetcar Named Perspire, Utopia Parkway, Candyjam, She-Bop, Pro and Con, and Dew Line.  Mentored by Jules Engel at CalArts, Priestley had previously made 19  award-winning films about subjects as varied as relationships, plants,  magic, menopause, abstraction and prison. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Milt Kahl: The Animation Michelangelo, A Centennial Celebration</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/classics/milt-kahl-centennial/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Mar 2009 05:27:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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&#34;Milt  Kahl: The Animation Michelangelo, A Centennial Celebration,&#34; an homage to Disney animator Milt Kahl (right), will be presented  on  Monday, April 27, at 7:30 p.m. at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences&#8216; Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills. Animator  Andreas Deja (creator of characters such as Gaston in Beauty  and the Beast, Scar in The Lion King, and Lilo in Lilo &#38;  Stitch) will host the evening, which will include a panel  discussion moderated by animation critic Charles Solomon. 
Among the scheduled  panelists are Kathryn Beaumont (the voice artist for Alice in Alice in  Wonderland and Wendy in Peter Pan), Academy Award-winner Brad Bird (for The Incredibles and Ratatouille), [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Animacor 2009: Animation Film Festival Calls for Entries</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Feb 2009 08:16:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Massimo David</dc:creator>
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PRESS RELEASE
Prize-winnings totaling 39,000 € will be awarded. The winners will also  receive the &#34;Carrasquito&#34; statue, which is in the shape of the festival  logo. 
The Association for the Development of the  Animation Industry of Córdoba is announcing the call for entries with  the publication of the rules and regulations of the 5th International Animation Film Festival of Córdoba, Animacor&#8217;09, which will be held from November 2nd to 7th of this year.
The internationally prestigious Animacor&#8217;09 Festival has gained in  scope over the course of its lifetime, putting Córdoba on the  international circuit of animation festivals. Each year the number of  films has increased, not only from European and Latin American  countries, but [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Andrew Stanton, Chris Williams, Byron Howard at Academy&#8217;s Animated Feature Symposium</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Feb 2009 20:59:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deborah Arthur</dc:creator>
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Those images are from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences&#8216; symposium for the 2009 Oscar-nominated animated features on Thursday, February 19, 2009, at the  Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills. 
Above: Mark Osborne, John Stevenson,  Tom Sito, Chris Williams, Byron Howard, Andrew Stanton
Click on the photos to enlarge them.
Photos: Richard Harbaugh / ©A.M.P.A.S.

Chris Williams, Byron Howard

Andrew Stanton

Mark Osborne, John Stevenson

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Oscar 2009: Hollywood &#38; Highland Photos
Doug Sweetland, David Frankel at  2009 Shorts! Evening
2009 Oscar Ceremony: More Oscar Night Preparations
Oscar Ceremony 2009: Preparations on Hollywood Boulevard
Jessica Biel at 2009 Scientific and Technical Achievement Awards Ceremony
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		<title>Oscar 2009:  Animated and Live Action Short Film Screenings in New York City</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/shorts/oscar-2009-animated-shorts-live-action-shorts/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Feb 2009 05:46:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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&#34;Shorts!,&#34;  the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences program featuring the 2009 Oscar nominees in the Animated and Live Action Short Film categories, will be presented in New York City on Saturday, February 14, at the Academy Theater  at Lighthouse International (111 East 59th Street). There will be two  separate screenings of the nominated films, the first at noon and an  encore presentation at 4 p.m. 
Film historian Robert Osborne, who is  a columnist for The Hollywood Reporter, host of Turner Classic Movies, and author of the new book 80 Years of the Oscar: The Official History of the Academy Awards, will act as host of the noon screening. Osborne  will also be [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Animated Feature Symposium 2009</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Feb 2009 21:08:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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The first Animated Feature Symposium will be presented by  the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences   on Thursday, February 19, at 7:30  p.m. at the Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills. Moderated by animator and animation historian Tom Sito, the evening will  feature onstage discussions with the nominated filmmakers (subject to  availability) and film clips.
The 2009 Animated Feature Film nominees are:

Bolt, Chris Williams and Byron Howard, directors
Kung Fu Panda, John Stevenson and Mark Osborne, directors
WALL-E, Andrew Stanton, director

Note: Admission  is free, but advance tickets are required. Since the Animated Feature Symposium is already  sold out, a  standby line will be formed at the theater’s west doors on the day of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Oscar 2009: Animated, Live-Action Shorts Screening</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Jan 2009 07:59:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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New Boy by Steph Green (top); Oktapodi by Emud Mokhberi and Thierry Marchand (bottom)

The 2009 Academy Award-nominated films in the Animated and Live Action  Short Film categories will be screened as part of the program &#34;Shorts!,&#34; presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and  Sciences on Tuesday, February 17, at 7:30 p.m. at the  Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills. The program will feature onstage discussions with the nominated filmmakers (subject to availability). Not to be missed&#8230;
The 2009 Animated Short Film and Live Action Short Film nominees are:


Animated Short Film
    La Maison en Petits Cubes (above), Kunio Kato, director
    Lavatory-Lovestory, Konstantin Bronzit, director
    Oktapodi, Emud Mokhberi and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Annie Awards 2009</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Jan 2009 06:33:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deborah Arthur</dc:creator>
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2009 Annie Awards
2009 International Animated Film Society&#8217;s Annie Award nominations: December 1, 2008
2009 Annie Award winners: January 30, 2009
(&#34;*&#34; denotes the winner in each category)
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Kung Fu Panda was the surprising &#8212; shocking? &#8212; big winner at the 2009 Annie Awards. The animated feature won 10 Annies &#8212; in every single feature category &#8212; including best animated feature, best direction (John Stevenson and Mark Osborne), best screenplay (Jon Aibel and Glenn Berger), and best voice acting (Dustin Hoffman). Odds-on favorite WALL-E failed to win a single award. It should be noted that since 2001, when the Academy instituted the best animated feature category, only once has the Annie winner failed to nab the Academy Award. (Cars won the Annie; Happy Feet [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Oscar 2009 Predictions: Best Documentary, Animated Film</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Dec 2008 06:35:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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Encounters at the End of the World

BEST DOCUMENTARY, FEATURE
Encounters at the End of the World
  I.O.U.S.A.
  Man on Wire
  Standard Operating Procedure
  Trouble the Water
This is another specialty category that&#8217;s hard to hazard a guess. 

The critically acclaimed Sundance winner Man on Wire is the only shoo-in, unless there&#8217;s another Hoop Dreams or The Thin Blue Line upset. 
I.O.U.S.A. is quite relevant &#8212; the title says it all;
 Standard Operating Procedure comes from the hands of Errol Morris, whose The Fog of War: Eleven Lessons from the Life of Robert S. McNamara won the 2003 Oscar in this category;
 Trouble the Water is another doc that has been greeted by solid reviews and that has been [...]]]></description>
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		<title>MARY AND MAX to Open Sundance 2009</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Nov 2008 00:32:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Massimo David</dc:creator>
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The 2009 Sundance Film Festival will open with Adam Elliot&#8217;s clay animation feature Mary and Max, the tale of an 8-year-old Australian girl who becomes the pen pal of an obese, 44-year-old male  New Yorker. Throughout their two-decade exchanges, they discuss a wide range of subjects, from autism to taxidermy.
Written and directed by Elliot, who won an Academy Award for his 2002 animated short Harvie Krumpet, Mary and Max sounds like a quirky variation on the 84 Charing Cross Road theme, the James Roose-Evans play that became a 1984 movie directed by David Hugh Jones, and starring Anne Bancroft and Anthony Hopkins as long-term, pen-paling bookworms. She in New York; he in London.
Mary and Max features the voices of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Oscar 2009: Animated Film Submissions</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/oscar-2009-animated-films-submissions/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Nov 2008 07:39:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Fourteen features have been submitted for consideration in the Animated Feature Film category for the 81st Academy Awards&#174;.
The 14 submitted features are:

&#8220;Bolt&#8221;
    &#8220;Delgo&#8221;
    &#8220;Dr. Seuss&#8217; Horton Hears a Who!&#8221;
    &#8220;Dragon Hunters&#8221;
    &#8220;Fly Me to the Moon&#8221;
    &#8220;Igor&#8221;
    &#8220;Kung Fu Panda&#8221;
    &#8220;Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa&#8221;
    &#8220;$9.99&#8221;
    &#8220;The Sky Crawlers&#8221;
    &#8220;Sword of the Stranger&#8221;
    &#8220;The Tale of Despereaux&#8221;
    &#8220;WALL-E&#8221;
    &#8220;Waltz with Bashir&#8221;

&#8220;Bolt,&#8221;  &#8220;Delgo,&#8221; &#8220;Dragon Hunters,&#8221; &#8220;$9.99,&#8221; &#8220;The Sky Crawlers,&#8221; &#8220;The Tale of  Despereaux&#8221; and &#8220;Waltz with Bashir&#8221; have not yet had [...]]]></description>
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		<title>MADAGASCAR: ESCAPE 2 AFRICA Trailer</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/hollywood/madagascar-escape-2-africa-trailer/</link>
		<comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/hollywood/madagascar-escape-2-africa-trailer/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Oct 2008 06:26:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deborah Arthur</dc:creator>
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Directed by Eric Darnell and Tom McGrath, Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa  apparently revolves around culture clashes between New York City zoo animals and their African buddies. I&#8217;ll probably wait for the Samoyedan version to come out before I venture into a movie theater playing this film.
Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa voices: Ben Stiller, Chris Rock, David Schwimmer, Jada Pinkett Smith, Sacha Baron Cohen, Bernie Mac, Alec Baldwin. 
Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa opens in the US on November 7.
Official Site.
Clip posted by morot172.
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TRICK &#8216;R TREAT Trailer
Daniel Craig in QUANTUM SOLACE Trailer
SAVING MARRIAGE Trailer
Paul Rudd, Seann William Scott in ROLE MODELS Trailer
THE HAUNTING OF MOLLY HARTLEY Trailer
THE BOY IN THE STRIPED PAJAMAS Trailer
Anne Hathaway in PASSENGERS Trailer
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		<title>FEAR(S) OF THE DARK Trailer</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/european-cinema/fears-of-the-dark-trailer/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Oct 2008 22:52:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Massimo David</dc:creator>
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Peur(s) du noir /  Fear(s) of the Dark features several intertwined stories focusing on nightmares, phobias, and the like. The Fear(s) of the Dark segments were written and directed by graphic artists Blutch,  Charles Burns, Marie Caillou, Pierre di Sciullo, Lorenzo Mattotti,  and Richard McGuire. Blutch, Burns, and di Sciullo also co-wrote the  screenplay, along with  Romain Slocombe, Jerry Kramsky, and Michel Pirus.
Among the voices featured in Fear(s) of the Dark are those of Guillaume Depardieu and  Nicole Garcia.
Fear(s) of the Dark opens in the US on October 24. It opened in France on February 13.
Official Site.
Clip posted by watchmoviepreviews.
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Edward Norton, Colin Farrell in PRIDE AND GLORY Trailer
ENRON: THE SMARTEST GUYS IN THE ROOM [...]]]></description>
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		<title>National Film Board of Canada Salute</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/classics/national-film-board-of-canada-salute/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Oct 2008 19:14:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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&#8220;A Salute to  the National Film Board of Canada&#8221; (NFB) will be presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences&#8216; &#8212; in  partnership with the Charles Guggenheim Center for the Documentary Film and the Foundation for the National Archives &#8212;   on Thursday, October 23, at 7  p.m. at the William G. McGowan Theater at the National Archives in  Washington, D.C. The event will be hosted by animation critic and  historian Charles Solomon, following  an introduction by Academy President Sid  Ganis.
The National Film Board of Canada salute will include a panel discussion with  NFB Chair and Government Film Commissioner Tom Perlmutter, NFB  animation producer Marcy Page, and Torill [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Disney&#8217;s Rights to Mickey Mouse Questioned</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/hollywood/disney-rights-to-mickey-mouse-questioned/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 24 Aug 2008 06:35:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Massimo David</dc:creator>
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Joseph Menn&#8217;s &#34;Disney&#8217;s rights to young Mickey Mouse may be wrong&#34; in the Los Angeles Times:
&#34;Brand experts reckon his value to today&#8217;s Walt Disney Co. empire at more than $3 billion. Acts of Congress have extended Mickey&#8217;s copyright so long that they provoked a Supreme Court challenge, making Mickey the ultimate symbol of intellectual property.
&#34;All signs pointed to a Hollywood ending with Disney and Mickey Mouse living happily ever after &#8212; at least until a grumpy former employee looked closely at fine print long forgotten in company archives.
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&#34;Although studio executives are not yet hurling themselves from the parapets of Sleeping Beauty&#8217;s castle, the unexpected discovery raises an intriguing question: Is it possible that Mickey Mouse now belongs to the world [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Animation Events: Now Hear This!, Frederic Back, Normand Roger</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/technical-personnel/now-hear-this-frederic-back-normand-roger/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jul 2008 22:57:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences will present a weekend of public events and exhibitions focusing on the art and science of animation: &#34;The Sound behind the Image II: Now Hear This!,&#34; &#34;Normand Roger on The Animation Soundtrack,&#34; and &#34;Frederic Back: A Life&#8217;s Drawings.&#34; The events will be held from Friday&#8211;Sunday, August 8&#8211;10, in Beverly Hills and Hollywood.
On August 8, &#34;Now Hear This!,&#34; presented by the Academy&#8217;s Science and Technology Council, will examine the evolution of sound in animation throughout the decades. The program will begin at 7:30 p.m. at the Academy&#8217;s Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills.
Hosted by Academy Award nominee Mark Mangini (Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home, Aladdin, The Fifth Element), &#34;Now Hear This!&#34; will [...]]]></description>
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		<title>BATMAN: GOTHAM KNIGHT</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/film-reviews/batman-gotham-knight/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Jul 2008 23:23:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Reginald Williams</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Batman: Gotham Knight  (2008)
Direction: Shoijiro Nishimi, Futoshi Higashide, Hiroshi Morioka, Yasuhiro Aoki, Toshiyuki Kubooka, Jong-Sik Nam. Screenplay: Brian Azzarello, Alan Burnett, Jordan Goldberg, David S. Goyer, Josh Olson, Greg Rucka; based on Bob Kane&#8217;s character. Voices: Kevin Conroy, David McCallum, Gary Dourdan, Corey Burton, Jason Marsden, Jim Meskimen, Kevin Michael Richardson, George Newbern
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Batman: Gotham Knight is a direct-to-DVD animated film in six segments, each directed by a different East Asian filmmaker. The animation quality, both in terms of character and environment detail, exceeds that of the animation found in all the Batman: The Animated Series, Batman: Mask of the Phantasm, and all the other Batman animated films. The fore and backgrounds aren&#8217;t after thoughts; they have as much care [...]]]></description>
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