See the fruits of The Great Animation Challenge, the best entries to last year’s Flip Animation Festival and chew the fat with Animation Forum WM members at the next Animation Forum West Midlands event, Out Of Hours: Animation on Tuesday 21st July 2009 at the Light House, Wolverhampton.

The event starts at 7pm, with screenings of [...]

Matt Rebeiro has posted an interesting message:
2008’s Virgin Media Shorts winners, Phil and Olly, won with a film called ‘Black Hole‘, which has since gone on to be included in this year’s Cannes festivities. They’ve had quite a year since winning the Virgin Media Shorts competition (judged, amongst others, by Kevin Spacey) and if you’d [...]

A reminder that this Thursday 4 June, RTS Futures – part of the Royal Television Society – is holding its Pitching Multiplatform Ideas event at the Hyatt Regency on Bridge Street in Birmingham from 7pm. To book your place and hear pitching tips from the people that matter, follow this link:
http://rts360.eventbrite.com/
Here’s what RTS Futures [...]

Great looking event coming up via Screen WM:
04 June 2009 7:30 PM — 9:00 PM
Hyatt Regency Birmingham, 2 Bridge Street, Birmingham
What is a 360-degree idea?
Should all programme pitches have a multiplatform element to them? 
‘Pitching Multiplatform Ideas’ will demystify the process of how to pitch 360-degree concepts plus the do’s and don’ts of pitching. Hear the experiences [...]

Apologies for copying and pasting, but here’s a very nourishing looking talk on marketing via Screen WM.

Screen WM and Channel 4 / 4iP in conjunction with Creative Networks invites you to:
Platform Alteration
Keynote by Lord David Puttnam CBE
Wednesday 10 June
6pm – 8pm The Patrick Centre, Birmingham Hippodrome
Followed by a drinks and canapés reception
Media is moving fast, [...]