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Four animators and an Iranian animation expert were selected as the jury members for the International Section of the Fifth Tehran International Animation Festival, which will be held Feb. 25-March 1, 2007, reports the Mehr News Agency.

Olivier Catherin (from France), Nancy Mary (Canada), Otto Alder (Switzerland), Borivoj Dovnikovic (Croatia), and Abdollah Alimorad (Iran) were selected as jury members.

Sony Pictures Television International (SPTI) has signed a landmark agreement to exclusively acquire all international television, Internet, digital sell-through, gaming and mobile rights to AFTERWORLD, a futuristic 2.5D animated episodic property from Stan Rogow (LIZZIE MCGUIRE, ALL I WANT FOR CHRISTMAS) and multiplatform writer Brent Friedman (COMMAND & CONQUER: TIBERIUM WARS videogame, DARK SKIES, MORTAL KOMBAT 2).

Prescott Wright, a founder of the ASIFA-San Francisco Chapter, producer of the Tournee Of Animation for many years and a founder of the Ottawa Animation Festival passed away on Dec. 28, 2006, at a hospital in Albuquerque at the age of 71, reports Karl Cohen, animation professor/historian and president of ASIFA-SF.

He had been in slow decline for several years with Picks Disease, a form of dementia related to Alzheimers.

MTV Networks International has promoted Mark Levine to svp, Nickelodeon marketing & communications, in an expanded role to drive Nickelodeon's continued business growth and kids'-first brand proposition around the world. Pooja Midha also has been promoted to vp, marketing, reporting to Levine.

Lynn Chadwick has been promoted from vp, European sales and distribution to vp, worldwide sales and distribution for Nelvana Enterprises, responsible for overseeing sales activities around the globe. She has moved from the London office to company headquarters in Toronto with all international sales execs reporting directly to her. Chadwick reports to Doug Murphy, president, Nelvana Enter.