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Pacific Data Images opens in 1 2 3 4 Redwood City, CA (1980).

Oscar Nomination Voting Begins Jan. 2 Online Balloting Begins Palm Springs Int’l Festival Wizard World New Orleans Jan. 1 Jan. 2-13 | Palm Springs, CA Jan. 3-5 | New Orleans, LA New Year’s Day

Hayao Miyazaki is born (1941). 5 6 7 8 9 10 11

Oscar Nomination Voting Ends Jan. 7

Golden Globes Int’l Licensing Show CES Impact Reality Summit Flickerfest Jan. 5 | Beverly Hills, CA Jan. 6-8 | Hong Kong Jan. 7-10 | Las Vegas, NV Jan. 9-10 | , WA Jan. 10-19 | , Australia

12 13 14 15 16 Director 17 Chinese animation pioneers 18 is born (1970). Laiming and Guchan Wan are born (1900).

Annie Awards Online Balloting Ends Oscar Nominations Announced Santa Barbara Int’l PAX South Producers Guild Awards Jan. 12 Jan. 13 Jan. 15-25 | Santa Barbara, CA Jan. 17-19 | , TX Jan. 18 | , CA

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Slamdance Film Festival Jan. 24-30 | Park City, UT

Wizard World Portland Annie Awards Jan. 24-26 | Portland, OR Jan. 25, | Los Angeles, CA

NATPE Miami Sundance Film Festival Festival Goya Awards Jan. 21-23 | Miami, FL Jan. 23-Feb. 2 | Park City, UT Jan. 24, | Pasadena, CA Jan. 25 | Malaga, Martin Luther King Jr.’s Birthday 26 27 28 29 30 31

VES Awards Oscar Final Voting Begins Jan. 30 Jan, 29 | Beverly Hills, CA Angouleme Int’l Comics Festival Paris Images Digital Summit Jan. 30-Feb. 2 | Angouleme, Jan. 29-Feb. 1 | Paris, France Clermont-Ferrand Int’l Short Film VOID - Int’l Animation Film Fest. Festival Comic Convention Spielwarenmesse Toy Fair Jan. 30-Feb. 8 | Copenhagen, Jan. 31-Feb. 8 | Clermont-Ferrand, Jan. 26 | Costa Mesa, CA Jan. 29-Feb. 2 | Nuremberg, France ON | CANADA JANUARY MARCH SMTWTFS SMTWTFS

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Writers Guild Awards Feb. 1 | Los Angeles, CA

Animotion Film Festival Feb. 1 | Florence,

2 3 4 5 6 7 “Patriarch of Soviet animation” 8 Ivan Ivanov-Vano is born (1900).

Bray Pics releases the first color cartoon in the U.S., The Debut of Thomas Cat (1920).

BAFTA Film Awards Feb. 2 | London, U.K. Oscar Final Voting Ends Feb. 4 Groundhog Day 9 Tom & Jerry debut in 10 11 12 13 YouTube launches (2005). 14 15 Puss Gets the Boot (1940). TAAFI Feb. 14-16 | , ON, Canada

SPARK FX Kidscreen First Look XR Market Feb. 14-16 | Vancouver, BC, Canada Feb. 10-13 | Miami, FL Feb. 11 | Vancouver, BC, Canada CineLebu Licensing World Russia Pan African Film + Arts Festival Feb. 14-16 | , DC FluXus Animation Film Festival Feb. 9 | Hollywood, CA Feb. 10-16, | Lebu, Feb. 11-13 | , Russia Feb. 13-23 | Los Angeles, CA Feb. 15 | Zaandam, Lincoln’s Birthday Valentine’s Day 16 17 18 19 hits air (2005). 20 Avatar: The Last Airbender 21 Animator-producer 22 ’s What a Cartoon! powers up (2005). Pat Sullivan is born in launches (1995). Australia (1885).

Anima Toy Fair New York Berlin Int’l Film Festival Feb. 21-Mar. 1 | Brussels, Feb. 22-25 | New York, NY Feb. 20-Mar. 1 | Berlin, Germany New York Int’l Children’s Film Berlinale Co-Production Market MOVE Summit European Film Market Festival Feb. 22-26 | Berlin, Germany Feb. 19-21 | Edinburgh, Scotland Feb. 20-27 | Berlin, Germany Feb. 21-Mar. 15 | New York, NY President’s Day Washington’s Birthday 23 24 25 26 27 28 29

César Awards Feb. 28 | Paris, France

Animac Canterbury Anifest Feb. 27.-Mar. 1 | Lleida, Feb. 28-Mar. 1 | Canterbury, U.K.

Kinofilm PAX East C2E2 Feb. 26-Mar. 1 | Manchester, U.K. Feb. 27.-Mar. 1 | , MA Feb. 28-Mar. 1 | , IL Mardi Gras Ash Wednesday

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Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday 1 Porky Pig debuts in I Haven’t 2 3 Disney’s Cinderella 4 5 6 The 7 Got a Hat (1935). premieres (1950). are broadcast for the first time (1955). Mobile Suit Z hits Director Vickey Jenson Japanese TV (1985). is born (1960). Cartoon Movie Mar. 3-5 | Bordeaux, France

Cinequest Film & Creativity Australian Toy and Licensing Fair Festival Middle East Film & Comic Con Wizard World Cleveland Mar. 1-4 | Melbourne, Australia Mar. 3-15 | San Jose, CA Mar. 4-8 | Tampere, Finland Mar. 5-7 | Dubai, U.A.E. Mar. 6-8 | Cleveland, OH

8 9 10 11 12 13 opens in 14 Tricky Women (1975). Mar. 11-15 | Vienna, Austria Cartoomics Our Fest Mar. 13-15 | Milan, Italy Mar. 11-15 | Buenos Aires, British Animation Awards Award Festival Regard Mar. 12 | London, U.K. Mar. 13-16 | Tokyo, Japan Mar. 11-15 | Saguenay, QC, Canada

FICCI Festival SXSW Mar. 11-16 | Cartagena, Mar. 12-1 | Seattle, WA Mar. 13-22 | Austin, TX Daylight Savings Time Begins

15 16 17 18 19 Animation Dingle 20 21 Mar. 20-21 | Dingle, Ireland

VRDC@GDC ad:tech Capital City Comic Con Mar. 16-1 | , CA Mar. 19-20 | New Delhi, India Mar. 20-22 | Victoria, BC, Canada

GDC AnimFest Bermuda Int’l Film Festival Mar. 16-20 | San Francisco, CA Mar. 19-22 | Athens, Mar. 20-26 | Hamilton, Bermuda

FICG Ciné Court Animé Monstra GLAS Animation Festival Mar. 20-27 | Guadalajara, AnimeJapan Mar. 16-22 | Roanne, France Mar. 18-29 | Lisbon, Mar. 19-22 | Berkeley, CA Mar. 21-22 | Tokyo, Japan St. Patrick’s Day First Day of Spring 22 French animator Paul Grimault 23 24 25 26 27 28 is born (1905). premieres (2010). Hong Kong Asia Film Financing Forum Mar. 25-27 | Hong Kong

Cartoon Business Hong Kong FILMART Mar. 24-26 | Las Palmas, Spain Mar. 25-28 | Hong Kong

Ann Arbor Film Festival IEEE VR Canadian Screen Week & Awards Cleveland Int’l Film Festival RiverRun Int’l Film Festival AmDocs Puppet Animation Festival Mar. 24-29 | Ann Arbor, MI Mar. 22-26 | , GA Mar. 23-29 | Toronto, ON, Canada Mar. 25-Apr. 5 | Cleveland, OH Mar. 26-Apr. 5 | Winston-Salem, NC Mar. 27-31 | Palm Springs, CA Mar. 28-Apr. 18 | Edinburgh, U.K.

29 30 31 premieres (2000).

MIPTV Aspen Shortsfest Mar. 30-Apr. 2 | Cannes, France Mar. 31-Apr. 5 | Aspen, CO GURU STUDIO | CELEBRATING 20 YEARS GREAT STORIES HAPPEN HERE MARCH MAY SMTWTFS SMTWTFS

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 1 2 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 APRIL 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 29 30 31 31 Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday 1 2 3 4

Cartoons on the Bay Festival Content Tokyo & Apr. 2-5 | TBA, Italy Licensing Japan Apr. 1-3 | Tokyo, Japan Cardiff Animation Festivall David Di Donatello Awards Apr. 2-5 | Cardiff, U.K. Apr. 3 | Rome, Italy Go Short Apr. 1-5 | Nijmegen, The Netherlands British Academy Games Awards Cyprus Film Days Apr. 2 | London, U.K. Apr. 3-11 | Nicosia, Cyprus April Fool’s Day launches (2010). 5 6 7 8 9 10 11

WonderCon Apr. 10-12 | Anaheim, CA

Anime Boston Apr. 10-12 | Boston, MA Athens Int’l Film & Video Festival San Francisco Int’l Film Festival Sakura-Con Apr. 6-12 | Athens, Greece Apr. 8-21 | San Francisco, CA Apr. 10-12 | Seattle, WA Passover Begins Lillian Friedman Astor, 12 13 14 Yoshiaki Nishimura founds 15 16 17 18 first woman hired by an Studio Ponoc (2015). studio, is born (1912). Ibero-American Animation Quirino Awards Int’l Children’s Film Festival Apr. 16-18 | Tenerife, Spain Apr. 15-23 | Lucknow, India MegaCon Orlando Tribeca Film Festival Apr. 16-19 | Orlando, FL Film Festival NAB Show Apr. 15-26 | New York, NY Apr. 17-26 | Central Florida Apr. 18-22 | Las Vegas, NV Passover Ends Margaret J. Winkler, first 19 20 21 woman to produce and 22 23 24 25 distribute animation, is born (1895). Laval Virtual Apr. 22-24 | Laval, France Busan Int’l Short Film Festival Apr. 22-27 | Busan, British Academy Television Craft Animocje Brussels Short Film Festival Expo Awards Apr. 19-25 | Bydgoszcz, Apr. 22-May 2 | Brussels, Belgium Apr. 23-26 | Calgary, AB, Canada Apr. 24 | London, U.K. Earth Day 26 27 28 29 30

XR LA Asian Pacific Film Festival Apr. 28-29 | London, U.K. Apr. 30-May 8 | Los Angeles, CA

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Free Day May 2 | U.S.A. Cape Town Int’l Animation Festival May 1-3 | Cape Town, South Africa May 2-5 | Tokyo, Japan

Facebook Developer Conference 3 Director Lauren Montgomery 4 May 5-6 | San Jose, CA 5 6 Jennifer Yuh, first woman to solo 7 8 A-1 Pictures opens in 9 is born (1980). FMX May 5-8 | Stuttgart, Germany direct a major animated feature, Japan (2005). ChileMonos May 5-8 | Santiago, Chile is born (1972). CEE Animation Forum May 5-8 | Liberec, Khem Animation Film Festival ANIMAYO May 5-9 | Gran Canaria, Spain May 8-9 | Newark, NJ Stuttgart Int’l Festival of Animated Film May 5-10 | Stuttgart, Germany Animation Production Days May 8-10 | Miami, FL NCCC Film & Animation Festival Anifilm May 5-10 | Liberec, Czech Republic May 6-8 | Stuttgart, Germany May 9 | Sanborn, New York Cinco De Mayo National Day of Prayer

10 11 Cannes XR 12 13 14 15 16 Development Showcase German Short Film Award Asia Amusement May 15 | Bonn, Germany & Attractions Expo Animex Int’l Festival of Animation May 12-17 | Cannes, France Pictoplasma Festival Berlin May 13-17 Berlin, Germany May 10-12 | Guangzhou, China & Computer Games Marché du Film | Trollywood Animation Festival CTN Road Trip May 11-15 Middlesbrough, U.K. May 14-16 Trollhattan, Sweden | May 12-21 | Cannes, France | May 15-17 | Burbank, CA VR & AR Fair & Summit Oberhausen Int’l Short Film May 10-12, | Guangzhou, China Golden Kuker-Sofia Festival De Cannes Festival Seattle Inf’l Film Festival May May 11-17 | Sofia, May 13-18 | Oberhausen, Germany 14-Jun. 7 | Seattle, WA May 15-17 | Chicago, IL Mother’s Day May 12-23 | Cannes, France

17 18 19 20 21 Director 22 23 Licensing Expo is born (1960). May 19-21 | Las Vegas, NV Digital Hollywood - Spring A-Kon May 19-21 | Los Angeles, CA May 21-24 | Dallas, TX May 22-24 | Toronto, ON, Canada British Academy Television Awards Microsoft Build FanimeCon May 17, | London, U.K. May 19-21 | Seattle, WA May 21-24 | Phoenix, AZ May 22-25 | San Jose, CA

24 25 Industrial Light & Magic 26 27 28 29 30 opens in Van Nuys, CA (1975).

DISCOP Abidjan Vienna Shorts Festival MCM Comic Con London May 27-29 | Abidjan, Ivory Coast May 28-Jun. 2 | Vienna, Austria May 29-31 | London, U.K.

Cartoon Digital Augmented World Expo St. Kilda Film Festival Zlin Film Festival May 26-28 | Cagliari, Italy May 27-29 | Santa Clara, CA May 28-Jun. 6 | St. Kilda, Australia May 29-Jun. 6 | Zlin, Czech Republic Memorial Day

20th Century Fox Film 31 is founded (1935).

Krakow Film Festival May 31-Jun. 7 | Krakow, Poland © DISNEY/ 2020 MAY JULY SMTWTFS SMTWTFS

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Sydney Film Festival Wizard World St. Louis VRTO Jun. 3-14 | Sydney, Australia Jun. 5-7 | St. Louis, MO Jun. 6-8 | Toronto, ON, Canada

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New Europe Market AR & VR World Summit Jun. 8-11 | Dubrovnik, Jun. 9-11 | Los Angeles, CA Jun. 10-11

Animafest Zagreb BroadcastASia Norwegian Short Film Festival Florida Animation Festival Huesca Int’l Film Festival Jun. 8-13 | Zagreb, Croatia Jun. 9-11 | Jun. 10-14 | Grimstad, Norway Jun. 11-14 | Tallahassee, FL Jun. 12-20 | Huesca, Spain

14 opens in 15 16 17 18 19 20 Tokyo (1985).

Palm Springs ShortFest Jun. 16-22 | Palm Springs, CA Academy Sci-Tech Awards Annecy Festival & Mifa Market Int’l Film Festival Jun. 20 | Beverly Hills, CA Jun. 15-20 | Annecy, France Jul. 16-Aug. 5 | Montreal, QC, Canada First Day of Summer 21 Animator 22 premieres (2000). 23 24 25 26 27 is born (1935). ’80s toon titan Sunbow Ent. opens (1980). premieres (1955).

Neum Animated Film Festival CCXP Cologne Jun. 27-Jul. 2 | Neum, Bosnia and Jun. 25-28, | Cologne, Germany Herzegovina Father’s Day 28 Animation/effects artist Ray 29 30 Harryhausen is born (1920).

Natpe Budapest Jun. 30-Jul. 3 | Budapest,

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Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday 1 2 3 4 Jul. 2-5 | Los Angeles, CA

Fest Anca Jul. 2-5 | Zilina, Slovakia

Japan Expo Paris RTX ( Expo) Jul. 2-5 | Paris, France Jul. 3-5 | Austin, TX Independence Day

5 6 7 8 premieres (2010). 9 10 11

The Children’s Media Conference Jul. 7-9 | Sheffield, U.K.

Galway Film Fleadh Open World Animation Festival Animator Jul. 7-12 | Galway, Ireland Jul. 9-11 | Allentown, PA Jul. 10-16 | Poznan, Poland

12 13 Director-producer Bill Hanna 14 15 16 Disneyland opens in 17 18 Seoul Promotion Plan is born (1910). Anaheim (1955). Jul. 13-15 | Seoul, South Korea

Anibar Insomnia Fest Jul. 13-19 | Peja, Kosovo Jul. 16-20 | Moscow-Kaluga Area, Russia Melbourne International Animation Festival Licensing Expo China Jerusalem Film Festival Jul. 13-21 | Melbourne, Australia Jul. 15-17 | Shanghai, China Jul. 16-26 | Jerusalem, Israel

19 launches in 20 21 22 23 24 25 Oregon (2005).

SIGGRAPH Comic-Con Int’l Jul. 19-23 | Washington, DC Jul. 23-26 | , CA

26 Bugs Bunny officially 27 28 29 30 31 debuts in A Wild Hare (1940).

DISCOP Joburg FEEDBACK Animation & NATPE Streaming+ Jul. 29-31 | Johannesburg, Screenplay Festival July 28 | Hollywood, CA South Africa July 30 | Los Angeles. CA Jul. 31-Aug. 2 | Washington, DC

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Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Crusader Rabbit, the first limited 1 animated TV series, premieres in LA (1950).

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Flickers Locarno Film Festival MIFF MVAAFF Aug. 4-9 | Providence, RI Aug, 5-15 | Locarno, Aug. 6-23 | Melbourne, Australia Aug. 7-15 | Martha’s Vineyard, MA

Betty Boop debuts in 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 Dizzy Dishes (1930). AnimeFest Aug. 14-17 | Dallas, TX

Sarajevo FIlm Festival HollyShorts Film Festival Aug. 14-21 | Sarajevo, Aug. 13-22 | Hollywood, CA Bosnia and Herzegovina

Animator Myron “Grim” 16 17 18 19 ’s controversial 20 21 Krazy Kat creator George 22 Natwick is born (1890). Coonskin premieres (1975). Herriman is born (1880).

Wizard World Chicago Aug. 20-23 | Chicago, IL

Hiroshima Int’l Animation Festival Aug. 20-24 | Hiroshima, Japan

23 24 25 26 27 28 29 Aug. 26-29 | Cologne, Germany

BronzeLens Film Festival Celebration Aug. 26-30 | Atlanta, GA Aug. 27-30 | Anaheim, CA Animaze Montreal Int’l Film Festival Odense Int’l Film Festival ContentAsia Summit Aug. 29-Sept. 1 | Montreal, QC, Aug. 24-30 | Odense, Denmark Aug. 26-27 | , Aug. 27-30 | Toronto, ON, Canada Canada

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Popeye the Sailor bows on TV 1 releases 2 , one of Disney’s 3 4 5 (1960). (1955). Nine Old Men,

Studio opens in Linoleum Festival of Tokyo (1975). Contemporary Animation Sept. 2-6 | Kyiv, Ukraine Fantoche Int’l Animation Film Festival Venice Biennale Sept. 1-6 | Baden, Switzerland Sept. 2-12 | Venice, Italy Sept. 3-7 | Atlanta, GA

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Chaniartoon Ars Electronica TIFF Sept. 11-20 | Chania, Greece Sept. 9-13 | Linz, Austria Sept. 10-20 | Toronto, ON, Canada Labor Day Patriot Day

13 arrives 14 15 Director-producer Jules Bass 16 17 18 19 on TV (1990). is born (1935). FanX Salt Lake Comic Con Sept. 17-19 | , UT

Gwangju ACE Fair Sept. 17-20 | Gwangju, South Korea Tirana Int’l Film Festival Cartoon Forum Nordisk Panorama Sept. 19-25 | Tirana, Albania Sept. 14-17 | Toulouse, France Sept. 17-22 | Malmo, Sweden Rosh Hashanah Rosh Hashanah

Producer Jay Ward 20 21 22 ’s The 23 24 25 26 is born (1920). premieres (2005). Int’l Film Festival Sept. 24-Oct. 3 | Edmonton, AB, Ottawa Int’l Animation Festival Canada Sept. 25-29 | Ottawa, ON, Canada

Encounters Film Festival MICHEL Children & Youth Film Sept. 20-26 | Bristol, U.K. Viborg Animation Festival Sept. 24-27 | Tokyo, Japan Festival Sept. 21-27 | Viborg, Denmark Sept. 25-Oct. 3 | Hamburg, Germany Rosh Hashanah First Day of Autumn

27 28 29 go on 30 the air (1965).

Yom Kippur Yom Kippur

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Animatou Anim’est WEIRD (3D Wire) Oct. 1-10 | Geneva, Switzerland Oct. 2-11 | Bucharest, Romania Oct. 3-6 | Segovia, Spain

4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Neon Genesis Evangelion My Little Pony: Friendship airs in Japan (1995). arrives (2010). Oct. 8-11 | New York, NY Is Magic Hamptons Int’l Film Festival Pioneering woman animator Oct. 8-12 | East Hampton, NY Laverne Harding is born (1905). Heartland Int’l Film Festival Oct. 8-18 | Indianapolis, IN Biennial of Animation Bratislava Brand Licensing Europe Festival du Nouveau Cinema MIP Junior Oct. 5-9 | Bratislava, Slovakia Oct. 6-8, | London, U.K. Oct. 7-18 | Montreal, QC, Canada Oct. 10-11 | Cannes, France Oct. 8-18 | Sitges, Spain

11 12 Looney Tunes director Bob 13 14 15 16 17 McKimson is born (1910).

MIPCOM Oct. 12-15 | Cannes, France New Orleans Film Festival AFI Fest Oct. 14-21 | New Oreleans, LA Oct. 15-22 | Los Angeles, CA Columbus Day 18 19 20 21 22 23 24

Franchising & Licensing Asia Oct. 22-24 | Singapore

VIEW Conference Uppsala Int’l Short Film Festival Austin Film Festival Reel Sisters of the Diaspora Oct. 18-23 | Turin, Italy Oct. 19-25 | Uppsala, Sweden Oct. 22-29 | Austin, TX Oct. 24-25 | Brooklyn, NY

Artist Tyrus is born 25 26 27 28 Producer-director 29 30 31 in China (1910). is born (1935).

DOK Leipzig Oct. 26-Nov. 1 | Leipzig, Germany Halloween

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1 2 3 4 5 Aaron McGruder’s The 6 7 Digital Hollywood – Fall Boondocks hits air (2005). Nov. 4-6 | Los Angeles, CA VR Days Europe Nov. 4-6 | Amsterdam, NL

Winterthur Int’l American Film Market World Animation & VFX Summit Short Film Festival Nov. 4-11 | Santa Monica, CA Nov. 1-3 | Los Angeles, CA Nov. 3-8 | Winterthur, Switzerland Leeds Int’l Film Festival Daylight Savings Time Ends Election Day Nov. 4-19 | Leeds, U.K. 8 9 10 11 12 13 14

VR World Nov. 10-11 | London, U.K.

Interfilm Berlin Nov. 10-15 | Berlin, Germany Nov. 13-Dec. 12 | Atlanta, GA Veteran’s Day

15 Casper debuts in Isadore 16 17 ’s Ghost in 18 19 20 21 Sparber’s The Friendly the Shell premieres in Ghost (1945). Japan (1995).

CTN Animation eXpo Nov. 19-22 | Burbank, CA

SIGGRAPH Asia Chicaco Toy & Game Week Anime NYC Nov. 17-20 | Daegu, South Korea Nov. 19-22 | Chicago, IL Nov. 20-22 | New York, NY

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Cartoon 360 Dec. 1-3 | Lille, France

Asia Television Forum Dec. 1-4 | Singapore

6 7 8 9 10 “Mother of Czech animation” 11 12 Hermina Tyrlova is born (1900).

Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day Hanukkah Begins Hanukkah

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20 Animator Phil Roman 21 22 23 premieres 24 25 26 is born (1930). (1970).

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festival.facets.org Fluxus Animation Film Festival...... faff.nl Ars Electronica...... ars.electronica.art/festival/en The Children’s Media Conference...... thechildrensmediaconference.com FMX...... fmx.de Asia Amusement & Attractions Expo...... aaaexpos.com ChileMonos...... chilemonos.cl Foyle Film Festival...... foylefilmfestival.org Asia Television Forum...... asiatvforum.com Cinanima...... cinanima.pt Franchising & Licensing Asia...... franchiselicenseasia.com Asian Animation Summit...... aas.kidscreen.com CineLebu...... cinelebu.cl Free Comic Book Day...... freecomicbookday.com Aspen Shortsfest...... aspenfilm.org Cinequest Film & Creativity Festival...... cinequest.org/film-festival FUPItoons Festival...... africananimation.net Athens AnimFest...... athensanimfest.eu Ciné Court Animé...... animationfestival.roanne.fr Galway Film Fleadh...... galwayfilmfleadh.com Athens International Film & Video Festival...... athensfilmfest.org Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival...... clermont-filmfest.org gamescom...... gamescom.global Atlanta Film Festival...... atlantafilmfestival.com Cleveland Int’l Film Festival...... clevelandfilm.org GDC...... gdconf.com Augmented World Expo...... awexr.com Comic-Con Int’l...... comic-con.org German Short Film Award...... deutscher-kurzfilmpreis.de Austin Film Festival...... austinfilmfestival.com Comiket...... comiket.co.jp GLAS Animation Festival...... glasanimation.com Australian Toy and Licensing Fair...... austoy.com.au/toy-fair Content Tokyo & Licensing Japan...... content-tokyo.jp/en-gb.html Go Short...... goshort.nl Golden Globes...... goldenglobes.com MIPTV...... miptv.com SPARK Animation...... sparkfx.ca Golden Kuker-Sofia...... 2020.animationfest-bg.eu Monstra...... monstrafestival.com SPARK FX...... sparkfx.ca Goya Awards...... premiosgoya.com Morelia Int’l Film Festival...... moreliafilmfest.com Spielwarenmesse Toy Fair...... spielwarenmesse.de Guanajuato Int’l Film Festival...... giff.mx MOVE Summit...... movesummit.co.uk St. Kilda Film Festival...... stkildafilmfestival.com.au Gwangju ACE Fair...... acefair.or.kr/fairDash.do MVAAFF...... mvaaff.com St. Louis Int’l Film Festival...... cinemastlouis.org Hamptons Int’l Film Festival...... hamptonsfilmfest.org NAB Show...... nabshow.com ...... starwarscelebration.com Heartland Int’l Film Festival...... heartlandfilm.org Nashville Film Festival...... nashvillefilmfestival.org Hiroshima Int’l Animation Festival...... hiroanim.org Natpe Budapest...... natpe.com Stuttgart Int’l Festival of Animated Film...... itfs.de HollyShorts Film Festival...... hollyshorts.com NATPE Miami...... natpe.com Sundance Film Festival...... sundance.org/festival Hong Kong Asia Film Financing Forum...... haf.org.hk NATPE Streaming+...... natpe.com SXSW...... sxsw.com Hong Kong FILMART...... hkfilmart.com NCCC Film & Animation Festival...... niagaracc.suny.edu/ncccfilmfestival ...... sff.org.au Hong Kong International Film Festival...... hkiff.org.hk Neum Animated Film Festival...... naff.ba TAAFI...... taafi.com Hong Kong International Licensing Show...... hktdc.com New Chitose Airport Int’l Animation Festival...... airport-anifes.jp/en Taiwan International Children’s Film Festival...... ticff.org.tw/en Huesca Int’l Film Festival...... huesca-filmfestival.com New Europe Market...... neweumarket.com Tampere Film Festival...... tamperefilmfestival.fi Ibero-American Animation Quirino Awards...... premiosquirino.org New Media FIlm Festival...... newmediafilmfestival.com Tbilisi Int’l Animation Festival...... facebook.comTbilisianimfest IEEE VR...... ieeevr.org/2020 New Orleans Film Festival...... neworleansfilmsociety.org/ Tehran International Animation Festival...... tehran-animafestival.ir Impact Reality Summit...... about.kaleidoscope.fund/impact-reality-summit New York Comic Con...... newyorkcomiccon.com TIFF...... tiff.net In the Palace...... inthepalace.com New York Int’l Children’s Film Festival...... nyicff.org Tirana Int’l Film Festival...... tiranafilmfest.com Insomnia Fest...... insomniafest.ru Nordisk Panorama...... nordiskpanorama.com Interfilm Berlin...... interfilm.de Norwegian Short Film Festival...... kortfilmfestivalen.no TOFUZI...... adf.ge Int’l Children’s Film Festival...... cmsfilms.org Oberhausen Int’l Short Film Festival...... kurzfilmtage.de Tokyo...... animefestival.jp Irish Animation Awards...... irishanimationawards.ie Odense Int’l Film Festival...... filmfestival.dk Tokyo Game Show...... expo.nikkeibp.co.jp Japan Expo Paris...... japan-expo-paris.com Open World Animation Festival...... openworldanimation.co Tokyo Int’l Anime Festival/TIFFCOM...... jcs.tokyo/en Jerusalem Film Festival...... jff.org.il Otakon...... otakon.com Toy Fair New York...... toyfairny.com Kaboom Animation Festival...... kaboomfestival.nl Ottawa Int’l Animation Festival...... animationfestival.ca Tribeca Film Festival...... tribecafilm.com Katsucon...... katsucon.org Our Fest...... stopmotionourfest.com Tricky Women...... trickywomen.at Khem Animation Film Festival...... khemfest.com Outfest Los Angeles...... outfest.org Trollywood Animation Festival...... trollywoodanimation.se Kidscreen...... summit.kidscreen.com Palm Springs Int’l Animation Festival & Expo...... psiaf.org Uppsala Int’l Short Film Festival...... shortfilmfestival.com KingstOOn...... kingstoonfest.com Palm Springs Int’l Film Festival...... psfilmfest.org UrbanWorld Film Festival...... urbanworld.org ...... kinofilm.org.uk Palm Springs ShortFest...... psfilmfest.org Venice Biennale...... labiennale.org Krakow Film Festival...... krakowfilmfestival.pl Pan African Film + Arts Festival...... paff.org KROK...... krokfestival.com Paris Images Digital Summit...... parisimages-digitalsummit.com VES Awards...... visualeffectssociety.com LA Asian Pacific Film Festival...... vcmedia.org PAX East...... paxsite.com Viborg Animation Festival...... animationsfestival.dk LA Shorts Fest...... lashortsfest.com PAX South...... paxsite.com Vienna Shorts Festival...... viennashorts.com Lanterna Magica...... lanternamagicafestival.com Phoenix Fan Fusion...... phoenixfanfusion.com VIEW Conference...... viewconference.it Laval Virtual...... laval-virtual.com Pictoplasma Festival Berlin...... pictoplasma.com VOID - International Animation Film Festival...... voidfilmfestival.com Leeds Int’l Film Festival...... leedsfilm.com POFF Shorts ...... shorts.poff.ee VR & AR Fair & Summit...... vrarfair.com Les Nuits Magiques...... lesnuitsmagiques.fr Producers Guild Awards...... producersguild.org VR Days Europe...... vrdays.co Leuven Int’l Short Film Festival...... kortfilmfestival.be Puppet Animation Festival...... puppetanimationfestival.org VR World...... vrworldevent.com Licensing Expo...... licensingexpo.com Raindance Film Festival...... raindance.org VRDC@GDC...... gdconf.com/vrdc Licensing Expo China...... licensingexpochina.com ReAnima...... reanimafestival.net VRTO...... conference.virtualreality.to Licensing Expo Japan...... licensingexpojapan.comen Reel Sisters of the Diaspora...... reelsisters.com VRX ...... events.vr-intelligence.comvrx Licensing World Russia...... licensingworld.ru Regard...... festivalregard.com LIFANIMA...... uspbrands.comabout/lifanima.php Rencontres du Court...... rencontresducourt.fr Warsaw Int’l Film Festival...... wff.pl/en Linoleum Festival of Contemporary Animation...... linoleumfest.com Rising of Lusitania – AnimaDoc Film Festival...... animadocff.wixsite.comanimadoc WEIRD (3D Wire)...... mercado3dwire.es Locarno Film Festival...... locarnofestival.ch RiverRun Int’l Film Festival...... riverrunfilm.com Winterthur Int’l Short Film Festival...... kurzfilmtage.ch/ London Int’l Animation Festival...... liaf.org.uk RTX (Rooster Teeth Expo)...... rtxevent.com ...... wizardworld.com Los Angeles Animation Festival...... blog.laafest.com Sakura-Con...... sakuracon.org Wizard World Cleveland...... wizardworld.com Lucca Comics & Games...... luccacomicsandgames.com San Francisco Int’l Film Festival...... sffilm.org Wizard World New Orleans...... wizardworld.com Manchester Animation Festival...... manchesteranimationfestival.co.uk Santa Barbara Int’l Film Festival...... sbiff.org Wizard World Portland...... wizardworld.com Marché du Film...... marchedufilm.com/en Sarajevo FIlm Festival...... sff.ba Wizard World St. Louis...... wizardworld.com MCM Comic Con London...... mcmcomiccon.com Seattle Inf’l Film Festival...... siff.net WonderCon...... comic-con.org/wca MegaCon Orlando...... megaconorlando.com Seoul Promotion Plan...... spp.kr World Animation & VFX Summit...... animationmagazine.net/summit MICHEL Children & Youth Film Festival...... michel-kinderfilmfest.de Short Shorts...... shortshorts.org World Animation Celebration...... worldanimationcelebration.com Microsoft Build...... microsoft.com/en-us/build Show Me Shorts...... showmeshorts.co.nz Middle East Film & Comic Con...... mefcc.com/en SICAF...... sicaf.org World Immersion Forum...... 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