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The 2009 Sundance Film Festival announced Wednesday the jury prizes in shorts filmmaking based on outstanding achievement and merit. The Sundance Film Festival runs January 15-25, 2009 in Park City, Salt Lake City, Ogden and Sundance, Utah. Full awards will be announced the evening of January 24 at the 2009 Sundance Film Festival Awards Ceremony at the Park City Racquet Club.

This will be an evening of new work by local artists and friends from around the globe. Anyone is welcome to bring animated/special effects work unannounced the night of the show (DVD and 16 mm) and it will be shown. Wednesday, January 14, 7:15 p.m. at the Exploratorium's McBean Theatre in San Francisco, free, public invited. The open screening for student films will be in May.

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Animation is not just kids' stuff anymore, and Nexus Productions Ltd. is in the thick of the changing creative and business market for animated films of all kinds. The London-based company, founded 10 years ago to create creative, family animation for commercials, music videos and shorts, has recently doubled its size, secured new avenues of funding, and positioned itself to take advantage of a revolution in the field. In addition, two recent short films produced by Nexus, THIS WAY UP and DAMAGED GOODS, have qualified for the 2008 Academy Award for animated short.

AWN has learned that GLAGO'S GUEST, the latest short from Walt Disney Animation Studios and helmed by BOLT co-director Chris Williams, will not play with BOLT when it opens.

The short, experimenting in smoke and hair animation and the studio's first stereoscopic 3-D CG short, had long been scheduled to play in front of BOLT, coming November 21, but Disney said Wednesday it was pulling GLAGO'S GUEST.

Magnolia Pictures is adding a short film to the theatrical presentations of MAN ON WIRE in New York and Los Angeles: Michael Sporn's THE MAN WHO WALKED BETWEEN THE TOWERS. It is an award-winning, animated adaptation of Mordicai Gerstein's Caldecott Medal-winning children's book. The 2005 short film is narrated by Jake Gyllenhaal, and is an elegant adaptation of the children's book that illustrates the planning and execution of Philippe Petit's legendary wire walk between the two towers of the World Trade Center in 1974.

The ADVENTURE TIME short from Pendleton Ward has been picked up for a full series commitment, according to CARTOON BREW (via The Animation Guild blog).

The seven-minute quirky short was produced for Nickelodeon's RANDOM CARTOONS produced by Fred Seibert.

See the short on YouTube.

THE PIXAR BLOG has confirmed that BURN-E will be the extra short film included on the WALL-E DVD and Blu-ray when it is released in November. An official announcement about the home video package is expected soon.

BURN-E's title was leaked last month, and was expected to be the DVD/Blu-ray short. BURN-E is the welder robot who gets locked out of Axiom in the film. The short will likely feature him trying to get back into the spaceship.

A week packed with 300 short films ended on Monday June 9 in Hamburg. The 24th International Short Film Festival screened 214 of almost 4,000 submitted short films in the competitive categories and a further 100 films in non-competitive special programs.