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Jul 30, 2007, 4:50 PM
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Int'l animation judges sought for 2007 Elan Awards
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The Second Annual Canadian Awards for the Electronic and Animated Arts announced its call Tuesday for judges to animation and video game companies around the world for the 2007 Elans, to be held November 2 in Vancouver at The Centre for the Performing Arts.
While the awards are primarily held for the globally-renowned work of Canadian companies, the Elans now have international categories to include accolades to every participating country around the world. International categories added to the 2007 Elans include "Best International Feature Length Animated Production," "Best International Animated Production (Television Series)" and "International Student of the Year Award."
"The response to our call for submissions has been absolutely outstanding," says Elans founder and producer Holly Carinci. "This is the first year we opened to international competition, and we haven't even staged our second awards show, yet we received just amazing, even excited, replies from animation studios, video game companies and digital art/new media institutions from around the world. Russia, India,
Scotland, Spain, France, the Netherlands, China, Sweden, the Czech Republic, Korea… loads from the UK, USA, Australia and New Zealand.… Did I mention the Czech Republic?"
The Canadian judges will have their hands full selecting the final four nominees and, ultimately, the winner in each of the international categories, as well as the finest digital art students in Canada. Meanwhile, the international judges will have the difficult job of trying to choose the top talent and productions in each of the 24 Canadian categories for animation and video gaming from such world-leading companies as EA, Nelvana Studios, Ubisoft, Sony Pictures, Studio B Production, next level games, Cuppa Coffee Studios, Mercury Filmworks, Radical Entertainment, Voicebox Productions, XGen Studios, Bardel Entertainment, Bluecastle Games and AKA Cartoons.
The CAEAA judicial process is as follows:
Jury panels consist of five jurors per panel. Each category has one panel. No juror sits on more than one panel.
Each industry's panels consist of jurors from within its industry. All companies or institutions providing jurors may provide more than one. No two representatives from one company or Institution will be selected by the CAEAA to sit on the same panel.
Every juror must sign a non-conflict agreement to be approved by the CAEAA. Each CAEAA industry category is juried by panels from outside Canada, while each international category is juried by panels from within Canada.
Anyone working full-time in the animation or video game industry who would like to be a judge for the 2007 Elans is invited to e-mail Carinci directly at holly-caeaa.com.
Names of the judges and their companies will be released -- but not the category panels on which they have been placed -- before September, during which all judicial processes will be completed.
For more information, visit www.theelans.com, or call Carinci at (604) 921-4744 (direct phone) or (604) 218-3993 (cell).
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"Oh boy." -- Allan Sherman
(This post was edited by eminovitz on Jul 30, 2007, 4:50 PM)
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