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January 2014 Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Danny Antonucci’s Ed, Edd 29 30 31 1 2 3 ‘n’ Eddy comes to Cartoon 4 December 2013 February 2014 S M T W T F S S M T W T F S Network, 1999. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 26 27 28 29 30 31 1 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 29 30 31 1 2 3 4 23 24 25 26 27 28 1

Palm Springs Int’l Festival Jan. 3-13 New Year’s Day Palm Springs, CA is born The first Flash Gordon comic EP The PJs premieres on Fox, in Tokyo, 1941. 5 6 strip appears, 1934. 7 8 is born in , 1961 9 1999. 10 11 Halas and Batchelor’s Animal Farm premieres, 1954.

Hong Kong Licensing Show Jan. 6-8 Wanchai, Hong Kong Int’l CES Wild & Scenic Environmental Film Festival FlickerFest Jan. 7-10 Jan. 9-12 Jan. 10-19 Epiphany Las Vegas, NV Nevada City, CA Sydney, Australia Yuriy Norshteyn’s Tale of Hanna-Barbera’s Magilla the Sailor Man first 12 Tales opens in Soviet Russia,13 Gorilla debuts, 1964. 14 15 16 appears in Thimble 17 18 1979. Theatre, 1929. Genndy Tarta- kovsky is born in Moscow, 1970.

Sundance Film Festival Slamdance Film Festival Jan. 16-26 Jan. 17-23 Park City, UT Park City, UT Disney- CCO John 19 20 Lasseter is born in ,21 22 23 24 25 1957.

AOD 2014 Wizard World Portland Jan. 25-26 Jan 24-26 ,CA Portland, OR Rotterdamn Int’l Film Festival Göteborg Int’l Film Festival KidFilm Festival Martin Luther King Jr.’s Jan. 22-Feb. 2 Jan 24- Feb. 3 Jan. 25-26 Birthday Rotterdam, Netherlands Göteborg, Sweden Dallas, TX debuts on ABC, flits to TV, 2004. Disney’s Sleeping Beauty 1994. 26 27 28 opens, 1959. 29 30 31 1

Angouleme Int’l Festival Jan. 30-Feb. 2 Angouleme, France ReelOut Queer Film & Video Festival Jan. 30-Feb 8 Kingston, ON, Canada CalComicCon NATPE Show Nuremberg Toy Fair Santa Barbara Int’l Film Festival Clermont-Ferrand Int’l Festival Jan. 26 Jan. 27-29 Jan. 29-Feb. 3 Jan. 30-Feb 9 Jan. 31-Feb. 8 Yorba Linda, CA Miami, FL Nuremberg, Germany Santa Barbara, CA Clermont-Ferrand, France

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Annie Awards Feb.1 , CA Winsor McCay presents 2 3 4 5 6 7 Gertie the Dinosaur, 1914. 8 Animator and producer is born, 1961.

Berlin Int’l Film Festival Victoria Film Festival Feb. 6-16 Feb. 7-16 Groundhog Day Berlin, Germany Victoria, BC, Canada Auguste and Louis Lumière is 9 10 11 12 patent the cinématographe, 13 14 created, 1984. 15 1934. Simpsons and creator VES Awards is born, 1954. Animated Exeter Feb. 12 Feb. 10-22 Beverly Hills, CA Imagina Exeter, U.K. Dam Short Film Festival Feb. 13-15 Katsucon Animex Int’l Festival of & Fab. 12-16 Monte-Carlo, Monaco Feb. 14-16 Computer Games iLearning Forum Boulder City, NV Boulder Int’l Film Festival National Harbor, MD BAFTA Awards Feb. 10-14 Feb. 11-12 Feb. 13-16 Feb. 16 Middlesbrough, U.K. Paris, France Lincoln’s Birthday Boulder, CO Valentine’s Day London, U.K. 16 17 18 19 20 21 22

Digital Kids Conference (Engage Digital) Feb. 18-19 New York, NY Toy Fair ‘14 Big Muddy Film Festival DC Independent Film Festival Feb. 16-19 Feb. 18-23 Feb. 19-23 New York, NY President’s Day Carbondale, IL Washington DC Washington’s Birthday Animation legend 23 24 25 Frederick “Tex” Avery is born 26in 27 28 1 Texas, 1908.

Anima - The Brussels Animation Festival Feb. 28-Mar. 9 Brussels, Belgium Fantasporto Int’l Film Festival Andina Link - FICA VidTrans14 Byron Bay Film Festival Feb. 24-Mar. 9 Feb. 25 Feb. 26-28 Feb. 28-Mar. 9 Rua Aníbal Cunha, Portugal Cartagena de Indias, Colombia Arlington, VA Byron Bay, Australia

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Theodor Geisel (Dr. Seuss) is , one of Disney’s Klasky-Csupo’s born, 1904. 2 3 Nine Old Men, is born, 1914. 4 arrives on USA, 1994. 5 6 7 8 Cartoon Movie Mar. 5-7 SXSW Gaming Expo Lyon, France Mar. 7-16 Tampere Film Festival Austin, Texas Mar. 5-9 The Cinequest Film Festival New York Int’l Children’s Film Festival Tampere, Finland Mar. 2 Mar. 3-16 Mar. 7-30 Hollywood, CA San Jose, CA Mardi Gras Ash Wednesday New York, NY Terrytoon’s G-Man Jitters Animator Jules Engel, 9 premieres, introducing Gandy10 founding director of CalArts 11 12 13 14 15 Goose, 1939. Experimental Animation, is born in , 1909. Hayao Athens Animfest CeBIT Mar. 13-19 Mar. 10- 14 Miyazaki’s Nausicaa of the Athens, Greece Hannover, Germany FICCI Frames Cartagena Int’l Film Festival Malmö Int’l Children & Young People’s Film Festival Valley of the Wind debuts, 1984. Mar. 10-15 Mar. 12-14 Mar. 13-19 Malmo, Sweden Mumbai, India Cartagena, Colombia Paramount premieres The , one of Disney’s 16 17 Lost Dream, introducing Little18 19 20 Boston 21 Nine Old Men, is born, 1909. 22 Game Developers Conference ad:tech New Delhi Mar. 21-23 Mar. 17-21 Audrey, 1949. Mar. 20-21 Boston, MA San Francisco,CA Holland Animation Film Festival New Delhi, India MegaCon Independent Games Festival Mar. 19-23 Cinema Du Reel Mar. 21-23 Mar. 17-21 Utrecht, Netherlands Mar. 20-30 Orlando, FL San Francisco,CA ad:tech Sydney Cleveland Int’l Film Festival Paris, France Bermuda Int’l Film Festival Mar. 18-19 Mar. 19-30 Mar. 21-27 Purim St. Patrick’s Day Sydney, Australia Cleveland, OH First Day of Spring Hamilton, Bermuda (1901) DreamWorks’ Monsters vs. Matt Groening’s Futurama 23 and Joe Barbera (1911) were24 25 26 Aliens opens, 2009. 27 debuts on Fox, 1999. 28 29

born this day. MacWorld Conference & Expo Mar. 27-29 Ann Arbor Film Festival Emerald City ComicCon San Francisco,CA Mar. 25-30 Vail Film Festival Mar. 28-30 Ann Arbor, MI Mar. 27-30 Seattle, WA Vail, CO Hong Kong Asia Film Financing Forum Cartoon Masters Transmedia ad:tech San Francisco Atlanta Film Festival Fribourg Int’l Film Festival Bradford Int’l Film Festival Mar. 24-26 Mar. 25-27 Mar. 26-27 Mar. 27-Apr.6 Mar. 28-Apr. 6 Mar. 29-Apr. 5 Kowloon, Hong Kong Munich, Germany San Francisco,CA Bradford, U.K. Atlanta, GA Fribourg, Switzerland and Gary Powerpuff Girls Goldman’s Thumbelina 30 creator Craig McCracken is 31 1 2 3 4 5 opens, 1994. born, 1971.

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Animator ’s Danny Artexpo New York 30 31 is born in Poland, 1957. George1 2 Phantom arrives, 2004. 3 Apr. 4-6; New York, NY 4 5 March 2014 May 2014 ECU European Independent Film Festival S M T W T F S S M T W T F S and Martha debuts Apr. 4-6; Europe 23 24 25 26 27 28 1 27 28 29 30 1 2 3 Ashland Independent Film Festival Reel 2 Real Int’l Film Festival on YTV, 1999. Apr. 3-7; Ashland, OR Apr. 4-11; Vancouver, Canada 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 The Palm Beach Int’l Film Festival Film Festival 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 Apr. 3-10; Palm Beach, FL Apr. 4-13; Orlando, FL 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 Future Film Festival Wisconsin Film Festival WorldFest Houston 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 Apr. 3-10; Madison, WI Apr. 4-13; Houston, TX Apr. 1-6 Rome Independent Film Festival RiverRun Int’l Film Festival Bologna, Italy Ozark Foothills Filmfest NAB Show Apr. 3-11; Rome, Italy Apr. 4-13; Winston-Salem, NC Apr. 2-6 Dallas Int’l Film Festival Sarasota Film Festival Apr. 5-10 April Fool’s Day Locust Grove, AR Apr. 3-13; Dallas, TX Apr. 4-13; Sarasota, FL Las Vegas, NV J. Stuart Blackton’s Humorous , Disney’s Phases of Funny Faces debuts,6 last , 7 8 9 10 11 12 1906. Aardman’s Timmy Time premieres, 1939 comes to TV, 2009.

Rochester Int’l Film Festival Athens Int’l Film + Video Festival Apr. 10-12 Apr. 11-17 Rochester, NY Athens, OH ViewFinders MIPTV Indian Film Festival of Los Angeles Tiburon Int’l Film Festival Arizona Int’l Film Festival Apr. 6-12 Apr. 7-10 Apr. 8-13 Apr. 10-18 Apr. 11-27 Halifax, NS, Canada Cannes, France Los Angeles, CA Tiburon, CA Tucson, AZ Director Katsuhiro Otomo is Jiří Trnka’s The Emperor’s Shinji Aramaki’s 13 born, 1954. My Little Pony 14 Nightingale opens, 1949. 15 16 and ’s Hair 17 18 19 comes to animation, 1984. Ranma ½ launches on Fuji TV, High premiere, 2004. 1989. WonderCon Apr. 18-20 Anaheim, CA Tribeca Film Festival Nashville Film Festival Sakura Con Apr. 16-27 Apr. 17-26 Apr. 18-20 Filmfest Dresden New York, NY Nashville, TN Seattle, WA Apr. 15-20 Palm Sunday Dresden, Germany Passover (start) Maundy Thursday Good Friday Holy Saturday Director ’ Home Movies 20 21 22 23 24 is born, 1953. 25 arrives on UPN, 1999. 26

FMX Apr. 22-25 Stuttgart, Germany USA Film Festival High Falls Int’l Film Festival Visions du Reel Int’l Film Festival Nyon Stuttgart Int’l Animation Festival Apr. 23-27 Apr. 24-27 Apr. 25- May 3 Apr. 22-27 Dallas, TX Rochester, NY Nyon, France Stuttgart, Germany Independent Film Festival of Boston Newport Beach Film Festival AniFest Apr. 23-30 Apr. 24-May 1 Apr. 25-30 Easter Passover (end) Boston, MA Newport Beach, CA Teplice, Czech Rep. is born, 1899. Indie animator Bill 27 28 29 Plympton is born in Oregon, 30 1 2 3 1946.

BAFTA Television Craft Awards Apr. 27 London, U.K.

Yom Hashoah

May 2014 Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday SpongeBob SquarePants 27 28 29 30 premieres on , 1 2 3 April 2014 June 2014 S M T W T F S S M T W T F S 1999. 30 31 1 2 3 4 5 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 Int’l Short Film Festival Oberhausen 27 28 29 30 1 2 3 29 30 1 2 3 4 5 May 1-6 Oberhausen, Germany

National Day of Prayer is maestro Disney’s The Skeleton 4 5 6 created, 1914. 7 is born, 1913. 8 9 Dance, the first Silly 10

Digital Hollywood - Spring Symphony, premieres, 1929. May 5-8 Marina del Rey, CA Cartoon Master Digital may 5-7 Helsinki, Finnland Cinco De Mayo Yom Haatzmaut Legendary directors Metro-Goldwyn-Meyer is 11 12 13 Robert Zemeckis (1951) and 14 15 16 established, 1924. 17 (1944) are born this day.

Seattle Int’l Film Festival Cannes Film Festival May 15-Jun. 8 May 14-25 Seattle, WA Mother’s Day Cannes, France Shrek 2 opens in theaters, Filmmaker , animator and 18 2004. Animator, historian and19 is born, 1884. 20 union activist, is born, 1914. 21 22 23 24 teacher is born, 1956.

Lag B’Omer ASIFA Hollywood WB debuts ’ Disney animator Milt Neil 25 26 27 president Frank Gladstone is 28 Naughty but Mice, 29 (1914) and voice legend Mel 30 31 born, 1950. introducing Sniffles, 1939. Pixar Blanc (1908) are born. releases Pete Docter’s Up, 2009. Zlin Film Festival for Children & Youth May 30-Jun. 4 Zlin, Czech Rep. Krakow Film Festival Brooklyn Film Festival May 25-Jun. 1 May 30-Jun. 8 Krakow, Poland Brooklyn, NY

June 2014 Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Silhouette animator Lotte Hanna-Barbera’s Hey There, WB’s Rabbit Stew and 1 Reiniger is born, 1899. 2 It’s ! hits theaters, 3 4 5 6 Rabbits Too, starring Rapid 7 1964. Rabbit, premieres, 1969.

BNF - Int’l Franchise and Licences Fair Jun. 4-5 Sydney Film Festival Animafest Zagreb - World Festival of Jun. 4-15 Animated Film Sydney, Australia Jun. 3-8 Zagreb, Croatia Shavuot Disney premieres Wilfred 8 Jackson’s , 9 10 11 12 13 14 ’s debut, 1934.

Shanghai TV Festival Banff World Media Festival Jun. 9-13 Jun. 10-12 Jun. 8-11 Shanghai, China Los Angeles, CA Banff, AB Annecy Int’l Animation Film Festival Los Angeles Film Festival San Francisco Black Film Festival Toronto Animation Arts Festival Int’l Jun. 9-14 Jun. 10-19 Jun. 12-15 Jun. 14 Pentecost Annecy, France Los Angeles, CA San Francisco,CA Toronto, ON, Canada Disney opens Roger Allers Disney’s swings into The Tasmanian Devil first and Rob Minkoff’s The Lion 15 16 17 theaters, 1999. 18 appears in Robert 19 20 21 King, 1994. McKimson’s Devil May Hare, 1954.

Broadcast Asia Conference Jun. 17-19 Marina Bay Sands, Singapore CineEurope Licensing Expo Edinburgh Int’l Film Festival Wizard World Philadelphia Jun. 16-19 Jun. 17-19 Jun. 18-29 Jun. 19-22 Father’s Day Barcelona, Spain Las Vegas, NV Edinburgh, Scotland Philadelphia, PA First Day of Summer Tummy Trouble, the first Robert Taylor’s The Nine 22 Roger Rabbit toon, debuts, 23 24 25 Lives of Fritz the Cat opens, 26 27 28 1989. 1974.

NATPE Europe Jun. 23-26 , Czech Rep. Special effects legend : Bigger, Longer is born, 29 & Uncut assaults theaters, 30 1 2 3 4 5 May 2014 July 2014 1920. 1999. S M T W T F S S M T W T F S 27 28 29 30 1 2 3 29 30 1 2 3 4 5 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 27 28 29 30 31 1 2

July 2014 Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday 29 30 1 2 3 4 5 June 2014 August 2014 S M T W T F S S M T W T F S 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 27 28 29 30 31 1 2 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 Anime Expo 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 Jul. 3-6 Karlovy Vary Int’l Film Festival 29 30 1 2 3 4 5 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 Los Angeles, CA Jul.4-12 Karlovy Vary, Czech Rep. Jul. 3-6 Miami Beach, FL Independence Day 6 7 8 9 10 11 12

ad:tech Singapore July 8-9 Suntec, Singapore Cartoon Connection Ai-Kon July 8-11 Jul. 12-14 Korea Winnipeg, MB, Canada Filmmaker Dave Aardman Animation’s ’s Pom Poko Studio Ghibli’s My 13 Fleischer (1894) and TV toon14 debuts, 15 premieres, 1994. 16 Neighbors the Yamadas hits 17 18 19 legend (1910) are 1989. theaters, 1999. Katsuhiro born this day. Otomo’s opens, 2004.

Hong Kong Book Fair Jul. 16-22 Wan Chai, Hong Kong Studio Ghibli’s Kiki’s The Graphics Group, 20 21 Delivery Service opens, 22 23 24 later Pixar, releases The 25 26 1989. Adventures of Andre and Wally B., 1984.

Comic-Con Int’l Jul. 24-27 San Diego, CA 27 28 29 30 31 1 2

Melbourne Int’l Film Festival Jul. 31-Aug. 17 Melbourne, Australia

August 2014 Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday India animator Don Studio Ghibli’s Castle in 27 28 29 30 31 Hertzfeldt is born, 1976. 1 the Sky debuts, 1986. 2 July 2014 September 2014 S M T W T F S S M T W T F S 29 30 1 2 3 4 5 31 1 2 3 4 5 6 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 27 28 29 30 31 1 2 28 29 30 1 2 3 4

WB releases ’s The Animator is 3 4 5 Iron Giant, 1999. 6 7 born, 1924. The first puppet 8 9 animator, Ladislas Starewicz, is born, 1882. Rhode Island Int’l Film Festival Aug. 5-10 Providence, RI Locarno Film Festival Aug. 6-16 Tisha B’Av Locarno, Switzerland Craig McCracken’s Foster’s Asterix creator René Columbia releases Ratskin, 10 11 12 Home for Imaginary Friends 13 Goscinny is born in France, 14 the first talkie, 15 16 debuts, 2004. 1926. 1929.

SIGGRAPH gamescom Aug. 10-14 Aug. 13-18 Vancouver, BC, Canada Cologne, Germany SpongeBob SquarePants 17 18 19 20 creator is21 22 23 born, 1961.

Hiroshima Int’l Animation Festival Aug. 21-25 Hiroshima, Japan Cel animation inventor Atomic Betty debuts on 24 John Randolph Bray is born, 25 26 27 28 , 2004. 29 30 1879.

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September 2014 Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Feline Follies premieres, Czech animator Jan Disney Legend Frank DePatie-Freleng’s The Pink 31 introducing , 1919.1 2 3 Svankmajer is born, 1934. 4 Thomas is born, 1912. 5 Panther Show debuts on NBC, 6 Crusader Rabbit is the first 1969. animated TV series, 1949.

Baltimore ComicCon Sep.5-7 Labor Day Baltimore, MD Life Begins for Andy Panda Jan Svankmajer’s Faust Mega Man comes to TV, Scooby-Doo, Where Are 7 8 introduces the Walter Lantz 9 opens, 1994. ReBoot, the 10 1994. 11 12 You? begins airing, 1969. 13 character, 1939. first half-hour CG series, debuts, Director Don Bluth is born, 1937. 1994.

Patriot Day Walter Lantz’s Dinky Animator is The Fast and the Furry-ous Injun Trouble, the last WB 14 Doodle debuts in The Magic 15 born in Manhattan, 1924. 16 17 introduces Roadrunner and 18 19 cartoon until 1980, 20 Lamp, 1924. Producer Fred Wile E. Coyote, 1949. Voice premieres, 1969. Producer Jay Seibert is born, 1951. legend is born, 1917. Ward is born, 1920.

Ottawa Int’l Animation Festival Sep. 17-21 Ottawa, ON, Canada Toon legend Chuck Michael Eisner is appointed creator Animator and cartoonist Jones is born, 1912. 21 CEO of The 22 23 Jim Henson is born, 1936. 24 25 Winsor McCay is born, 1869.26 27 Company, 1984.

Cartoon Forum Edmonton Int’l Film Festival Sep. 23-26 Sep. 25-Oct. 4 Toulouse, France Edmonton, AB, Canada

First Day of Autumn Rosh Hashanah Hanna-Barbera’s The Quick 28 Draw McGraw Show 29 30 1 2 3 4 August 2014 October 2014 premieres, 1959. S M T W T F S S M T W T F S 27 28 29 30 31 1 2 28 29 30 1 2 3 4 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 26 27 28 29 30 31 1 31 1 2 3 4 5 6

October 2014 Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday 28 29 30 DreamWorks’ Shark Tale hits 1 2 Underdog swoops to NBC, 3 begins 4 September 2014 November 2014 theaters, 2004. 1964. airing in Japan, 1984. S M T W T F S S M T W T F S 31 1 2 3 4 5 6 26 27 28 29 30 31 1 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 28 29 30 1 2 3 4 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 Alternative Press Expo 30 1 2 3 4 5 6 Oct. 4-5 Digital Video Expo West San Francisco,CA Oct. 1-3 Los Angeles, CA Yom Kippur Cinématographe inventor 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 Louis Lumière is born, 1864.

New York Comic Con Oct. 9-12 New York, NY MIP Junior Oct. 11-12 Succot Cannes, France DreamWorks SKG is 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 formed, 1994. Anime director is born in Japan, 1963. Hong Kong Electronics Fair (Autumn) Oct. 13-16 Wanchai, Hong Kong Brand Licensing Europe MIPCOM Oct. 14-16 Franchising & Licensing Asia Oct. 13-16 London, U.K. Oct. 16-18 Cannes, France Int’l Film Festival Ghent Film Festival Singapore Oct. 14-25 Oct. 15-19 Columbus Day Ghent, Belgium Woodstock, NY Sh’mini Atzeret Simchat Torah South Park creator Trey 19 20 Disney Legend Mary 21 22 23 Disney’s Gargoyles arrives, 24 25 Parker is born, 1969. Blair is born, 1911. 1994.

ad:tech London Austin Film Festival Int’l Children’s Film Festival Oct. 21-22 Oct. 23-30 Oct. 24-Nov. 2 London, U.K. Austin, TX Chicago, IL creator 26 27 Pauvre Pierrot is the first 28 29 Nickelodeon premieres 30 Disney Legend Ollie 31 1 Seth MacFarlane is born, 1973. cartoon to be projected in Aaaahh! Real Monsters, Johnston is born, 1912. public in France, 1892. 1994.

Halloween It’s Time to Spread Your Wings!

L.A.’s World Animation and VFX Summit! November 2-5, 2014 www.animationmagazine.net/summit November 2014 Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday 26 27 28 29 30 31 1 December 2014 October 2014 S M T W T F S S M T W T F S 30 1 2 3 4 5 6 28 29 30 1 2 3 4 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 28 29 30 31 1 2 3 26 27 28 29 30 31 1 All Saints Day Astro Boy creator The first feature A Boy , the only short 2 is born, 1928. 3 Named Charlie Brown comes 4 produced by Bill Hanna and 5 6 7 8 out, 1969. Aardman co-founder Joe Barbera after forming their Peter Lord is born, 1953. studio, premieres, 1959. Pixar’s World Animation & VFX Summit The Incredibles hits theaters, Nov. 2-5 2004. Los Angeles, CA American Film Market Nov. 5-12 Daylight Savings Time Ends Election Day Santa Monica, CA Quirino Cristiani unveils the Robert Zemeckis breaks ’s Hey, Hey, Hey, Disney releases Ron Peanuts animator first animated , El 9 mo-cap ground with The 10 11 It’s Fat Albert special airs on 12 13 Clements and ’s14 Bill Melendez is born, 1916. 15 Apostol, 1917. Polar Express, 2004. French NBC, 1969. The Little Mermaid, 1989. director Sylvain Chomet is born, 1963.

Veteran’s Day Don Bluth’s All Dogs Go to Stephen Hlilenburg’s Studio Ghibli releases ’s 16 Heaven premieres, 1989. 17 18 SpongeBob SquarePants: 19 Howl’s Moving Castle in 20 21 becomes the first computer 22 The Movie hits theaters, 2004. Japan, 2004. animated film, 1995. The Rocky & Bullwinkle Show debuts, 1959. Mar del Plata Int’l Film Festival Nov. 16-24 Buenos Aires, Argentina Pixar’s Toy Story 2 opens, Peanuts creator 23 1999. 24 25 Charles M. Schulz is born, 1922.26 27 28 29

Thanksgiving Day 30 1 2 3 4 5 6 © A Charlie Brown Christmas (1965) Mendelson/Melendez Productions. /Warner Home Video December 2014 Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday 30 1 2 3 4 Walt Disney is born in 5 Rankin-Bass’s Rudolph the 6 Chicago, 1901. Red-Nosed Reindeer premieres on NBC, 1964. Wallace & Gromit creator is born, 1958.

7 Creator of the first 8 9 Sony releases Rob 10 Disney releases John 11 12 13 projected cartoon Charles-Émile Minkoff’s Stuart Little, 1999. Musker and Ron Clements’ Reynaud is born, 1844. The Princess and the Frog, 2009.

14 Hayao Miyazaki’s directorial 15 16 Matt Groening’s The 17 DePatie-Freleng’s The 18 19 20 debut The Castle of Simpsons gets its own Pink Phink introduces the Cagliostro premieres, 1979. slot on Fox, 1989. , 1964.

Hanukkah DreamWorks Animation 21 ’s Gulliver’s 22 23 24 25 26 27 CEO is born, Travels opens, 1939. 1950.

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Spring Andina Link - FICA www.andinalink.com BNF - Int’l Franchise and Licences Fair http://www.digitalhollywood.com/ Angouleme International Animation Film Festival http://www.bizbarcelona.com/ Digital Kids Conference (Engage Digital) www.bdangouleme.com Boulder International Film Festival www.biff1.com www.digitalkidscon.com AniFest www.anifest.cz Bradford International Film Festival Digital Video Expo West http://www.dvexpo.com/ Anima - The Brussels Animation Festival www.animatv.be www.bradfordfilmfestival.org.uk E3 www.e3expo.com Animafest Zagreb - World Festival of Animated Film Brand Licensing Europe www.brandlicensing.eu ECU European Independent Film Festival www.animafest.hr British Academy Film Awards www.bafta.org www.ecufilmfestival.com Animated Exeter www.animatedexeter.co.uk Broadcast Asia Conference http://www.broadcast-asia.com/ Edinburgh Int’l Film Festival www.edfilmfest.org.uk Anime Boston www.animeboston.com Brooklyn Film Festival Edmonton Int’l Film Festival www.edmontonfilmfest.com Anime Expo www.anime-expo.org http://www.brooklynfilmfestival.org/ Emerald City ComicCon Animex Int’l Festival of Animation & Computer Games Byron Bay Film Festival http://www.emeraldcitycomicon.com/ http://animex.tees.ac.uk/ http://www.bbff.com.au/category/bbff2013 Fantasporto Int’l Film Festival www.fantasporto.com Ann Arbor Film Festival www.aafilmfest.org ComicCon www.calcomiccon.com FICCI Frames www.ficci-frames.com Annecy Int’l Animation Film Festival www.annecy.org Cannes Film Festival www.festival-cannes.com Filmfest Dresden http://www.filmfest-dresden.de/ Annual http://annieawards.org/ Cartagena Int’l Film Festival www.ficcifestival.com FlickerFest www.flickerfest.com.au AOD 2014 http://www.aodsf.org/ Cartoon Forum www.cartoon-media.eu Florida Film Festival www.floridafilmfestival.com Arizona International Film Festival Cartoon Movie www.cartoon-media.eu Florida SuperCon http://www.floridasupercon.com/ http://www.filmfestivalarizona.com/ CeBIT www.CeBIT.de FMX www.fmx.de Artexpo New York www.artexpos.com Chicago Int’l Children’s Film Festival www.cicff.org Franchising & Licensing Asia Ashland Independent Film Festival www.ashlandfilm.org CineEurope www.showest.com/cineeurope http://www.franchiselicenseasia.com/ Athens Animfest http://athensanimfest.eu/ Cinema Du Reel www.cinereel.org Fribourg Int’l Film Festival www.fiff.ch Athens Int’l Film + Video Festival www.athensfest.org Cinequest Film Festival www.wizardworld.com Future Film Festival http://www.futurefilmfestival.org/ Game Developers Conference www.gdconf.com Mar del Plata Int’l Film Festival Slamdance Film Festival www.slamdance.com gamescom www.gamescom-cologne.com www.mardelplatafilmfest.com Stuttgart Int’l Animation Festival www.itfs.de Goteborg Film Festival www.giff.se MegaCon www.megaconvention.com Sundance Film Festival www.sundance.org/festival High Falls Int’l Film Festival Melbourne Int’l Film Festival http://miff.com.au/ SXSW Gaming Expo sxsw.com/interactive/gaming/expo www.highfallsfilmfestival.com MIP Junior www.mipcomjunior.com Sydney Film Festival www.sff.org.au Hiroshima Int’l Animation Festival www.hiroanim.org MIPCOM http://www.mipcom.com/ Tampere Film Festival www.tamperefilmfestival.fi Holland Animation Festival http://www.haff.nl/en/ MIPTV www.miptv.com The Academy Awards http://oscar.go.com/ Hong Kong Asia Film Financing Forum www.haf.org.hk NAB Show www.nabshow.com The Palm Beach Int’l Film Festival www.pbifilmfest.org Hong Kong Book Fair www.hkbookfair.com Nashville Film Festival www.nashvillefilmfestival.org Tiburon Int’l Film Festival www.tiburonfilmfestival.com Hong Kong Electronics Fair (Autumn) NATPE www.natpe.org Toronto Animation Arts Festival International http://taafi.com/ http://www.hktdc.com NATPE https://www.natpe.com/ Toy Fair 14 www.toyfairny.com Hong Kong Licensing Show www.hklicensingshow.com www.nycomiccon.com Tribeca Film Festival www.tribecafilm.com iLearning Forum www.ilearningforum.org New York Int’l Children’s Film Festival www.gkids.com USA Film Festival Imagina www.imagina.mc Newport Beach Film Festival Vail Film Festival http://www.vailfilmfestival.com/ Independent Film Festival of Boston www.iffboston.org www.newportbeachfilmfest.com VES Awards www.visualeffectssociety.com/ves-awards‎ Independent Games Festival http://www.igf.com/ Nuremberg Toy Fair www.spielwarenmesse.de Victoria Film Festival http://www.victoriafilmfestival.com/ Indian Film Festival of Los Angeles Ottawa Int’l Animation Festival www.animationfestival.ca VidTrans13 www.videoservicesforum.org http://www.indianfilmfestival.org/ Ozark Foothills Filmfest www.ozarkfoothillsfilmfest.org ViewFinders www.atlanticfilm.com/festivals/viewfinders Int’l Short Film Festival Oberhausen www.kurzfilmtage.de Palm Springs Int’l Film Festival psfilmfest.org Visions du Reel - Int’l Film Festival Nyon Int’l CES www.cesweb.org Reel 2 Real Int’l Film Festival www.r2rfestival.org www.visionsdureel.ch Internationl Film Festival Gent www.filmfestival.be ReelOut Queer Film & Video Festival www.reelout.com Wild & Scenic Environmental Film Festival Karlovy Vary Int’l Film Festival www.kviff.com Rhode Island Int’l Film Festival www.film-festival.org www.wildandscenicfilmfestival.org Katsucon http://www.katsucon.com/ RiverRun Int’l Film Festival www.riverrunfilm.com Wisconsin Film Festival www.wifilmfest.org KidFilm Festival www.usafilmfestival.com Rochester Int’l Film Festival www.rochesterfilmfest.org Wizard World Philadelphia www.wizardworld.com Krakow Film Festival http://www.krakowfilmfestival.pl/en/ Rome Independent Film Festival (RIFF) www.riff.it Wizard World portland www.wizardworld.com Krakow Int’l Film Festival kiff.com.pl Rotterdamn Int’l Film Festival WonderCon www.comic-con.org/wc Licensing Expo www.licensingexpo.com www.filmfestivalrotterdam.com Woodstock Film Festival www.woodstockfilmfestival.com Locarno Film Festival www.pardolive.ch Sakura Con http://www.sakuracon.org/ WorldFest Houston https://worldfest.org/ Los Angeles Film Festival www.lafilmfest.com San Francisco Black Film Festival www.sfbff.org Zlin Film Festival for Children and Youth MacWorld Conference and Expo Santa Barbara Int’l Film Festival www.sbfilmfestival.org http://www.zlinfest.cz/en www.macworldexpo.com Sarasota Film Festival www.sarasotafilmfestival.com http://www.rosedor.com/ Malmö Int’l Children and Young People’s Film Festival Seattle Int’l Film Festival www.siff.net www.buff.se Shanghai TV Festival www.stvf.com SIGGRAPH www.siggraph.org It’s Time to Spread your Wings!

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