ANNIE NEWS: Call for Judges, Winsor Suggestions and Sponsors

Annie News 8/26/09

Call for Winsor McCay Award Recipients

Call for Nomination Committee Judges

Advertising and Sponsorship Opportunities

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Call for Winsor McCay Award Recipients

Recommendations are being accepted for the Winsor McCay Award.

The Winsor McCay Award may be awarded to a maximum of three individuals in recognition of lifetime or career contributions to the art of animation in producing, directing, animating, design, writing, voice acting, sound and sound effects, technical work, music, professional teaching, or for other endeavors which exhibit outstanding contributions to excellence in animation.

An entry fee is not required to recommend a person for a Winsor McCay Award. However, the person submitting the application must be a member of ASIFA-Hollywood. Membership to ASIFA-Hollywood is $75, or $100 if the person is residing outside the United States.

The deadline to submit Winsor McCay Award recommendations is Friday, September 18, 2009.

Click here to submit a Winsor McCay Award Recommendation

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Call for Nomination Committee Judges

ASIFA-Hollywood is seeking individuals interested in serving on nomination committees for the 37th Annual Annie Awards. Nominating committees shall select the Annie Award production nominations and individual achievement nominees.

Nomination judging is scheduled to take place on Saturday, November 14, 2009, at Woodbury University, in Burbank, California. Judges may also be required to do some additional judging on other days, as well as participate in pre-selection activities, via email, prior to the judging session(s).

Applications must be received no later than Friday, September 25, 2009. Individuals who are selected to serve on a nomination committee, shall receive a pair of complementary VIP tickets to the 37th Annual Annie Awards, which will take place on Saturday, February 6, 2010, at UCLA's Royce Hall, in Los Angeles, California.

Click here to apply to serve on an Annie Award nominating committee

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Advertising and Sponsorship

Advertising and sponsorship opportunities are now available for the 37th Annual Annie Awards.

Presented by the International Animated Film Society, ASIFA-Hollywood, the 37th Annual Annie Awards will be held on Saturday, February 6, 2010, at UCLA's Royce Hall, in Los Angeles, California. The award ceremony will also be webcasted on www.annieawards.org at a later date.

Proceeds from the event will benefit the ASIFA-Hollywood Animation Archives, Library and Museum.

The Annie Awards provides one of the most innovative platforms for animation partners to participate in these high-profile awards and market their goods and services. There's no better way to reach animation industry insiders-from top studio brass to production executives, animation artists, students and fans of the art form - than in the pages of the annual Annie Awards program. A glossy keepsake chronicling the evening celebration and the year's winners, the program offers a range of ad options. For those looking to support the event and highlight their businesses in an even larger way, sponsorship packages offer myriad high-profile benefits.

The deadline to reserve an advertisement in the program book or to become a sponsor is December 20, 2009.

Click here for further Advertising/Sponsorship information

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For further information about the Annie Awards, please visit www.annieawards.org.

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Zim Books Are Now Available

For the first time in nearly a century, Eugene "Zim" Zimmerman's legendary 1914 cartooning course is available again in a deluxe two-volume edition published by the ASIFA-Hollywood Animation Archive. Lavishly illustrated with nearly 1,000 B&W illustrations and 22 hand-tipped color plates, this landmark course deserves a place on every cartoonist's bookshelf.

Edited by Stephen Worth and with a foreword by Ralph Bakshi, these books cover a broad range of subjects, from practical advice for aspiring artists to philosophical musings on what it means to be a cartoonist. Zim's infectious sense of humor and vividly observed caricatures leap off the page. This drawing course may just be the keystone document of American cartooning.

These books are now being offered to the general public for $250 a set, and to members of ASIFA-Hollywood at a discounted price of $200 (plus $15 shipping and CA sales tax).

ORDER NOW

As a special price for readers of the ASIFA-Hollywood Animation Archive blog who are not yet members of ASIFA-Hollywood, we are offering a discounted bundle of both books and a year's membership in ASIFA-Hollywood for only $275.

Shipping to Canada on both of these offers is an additional $17. International shipping is an additional $40. Proceeds from the sale of these books go to support the ASIFA-Hollywood Animation Archive. ASIFA-Hollywood is a 501(c)(3) California non-profit organization, so your contribution may be tax deductible. (See your tax accountant for details.)

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VISIT OUR GALLERY OF FINE ART PRINTS

The ASIFA-Hollywood Animation Archive in association with Imagekind is proud to present a collection of fine art prints representing some of Eugene Zimmerman's best work. Produced on demand from high resolution archival scans, these prints are of sufficient quality to be printed all the way up to poster size without any image degradation. Vist the Zim Gallery at Imagekind to see all the available images.
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Pop Cultural Literacy 102: Second Helping of Fun

FREE SUMMER SCREENING AT WOODBURY!


The Marx Brothers
Pop Cultural Literacy 102
A Series of Summer Screenings
Friday, August 14th, 2009
September Date To Be Announced
Short Subjects Start At 7pm, The Feature Film Starts At 8:30.
Admission FREE to the animation community
Woodbury University
School of Business / Fletcher Jones Foundation Theater
7500 Glenoaks Bl
Burbank, CA 91510
(Click for printable map)


Laurel & Hardy
Last month, we screened some of the greatest musical performances of the 20th century along with the granddaddy of all adventure films. This month we have a laff-riot program planned with the funniest comedians to ever perform on celluloid. This show is guaranteed to make you say "WOW!" Don't miss it.

For more about the Pop Cultural Literacy programs at Woodbury, see...

Pop Culture 101: Famous Comedians

Pop Culture 101: Great Musicians

Pop Culture 101: Experimental Live Video Feed
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