31st August 2006 - aniMOweb 4th edition DVD published.
The DVD-ROM containing all the animations and videogames on the topics of war and peace has been published. The distribution is free and it is possible to receive a copy asking by email.
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7th July 2006 - AniMOweb 4th Edition (on the themes of War and Peace) Prize Awarding. The report, the video, the photos.
Saturday, 11th March, the prize awarding of aniMOweb 4th Edition took place at Teatro San Carlo, after the preceding week devoted to film reviews at Sala Truffaut, seminars and meetings with the authors and the jury members at Istituto Fermi and Teatro San Carlo.
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29th June 2006 - The final events of aniMOweb 4th Edition: the report and the video about the meetings and the seminars.
Thursday, 9th March the movies of aniMOweb were shown to the students of the Modenese schools. Friday, 10th March, and Saturday, 11th March, were the concluding days of the 4th edition of the festival: the meetings and the seminars of the contestants and special guests of the jury took place at Aula Magna Istituto Fermi and San Carlo Theatre.
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21st April 2006 - aniMOweb 4th edition: the decision of the jury
The jury of AniMOweb 4th edition has voted for the first time mainly online, through a mailing list. During previous editions, some meetings took place at Provincia di Modena. This year, such solution was not possible, since not all the members were able to meet in Modena.
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20th April 2006 - The audience prize to Loriana Aprea, Manuel Fallmann, Paola Ambrosecchia and Loredana Costi
The audience prizes have been assigned by the visitors of the site www.aniMOweb.it. The pages devoted to the online vote and to the submissions on the themes of peace and war have been browsed and visited by thousands of people from all over the world.
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14th March 2006 - The aniMOweb 4th edition prize winners
In the evening of Saturday, 11th March the Prize Awarding Ceremony of aniMOweb 4th edition about the theme of conflicts, war and peace took place at S.Carlo Theatre in Modena. It was introduced by Luca Raffaelli.
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20th February 2006 - The events of the three concluding days of aniMOweb, from 9th to 11th March
Seminars, discussions, films, contributions of Italian and foreign authors: the three concluding days of aniMOweb - each with a peculiar quality - take place in three different theatres, from 9th to 11th March in Modena.
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19th December 2005 - aniMOweb presents the works of 4th Edition
The works submitted for 4th Edition of aniMOweb are on line. The themes are conflicts, culture of peace vs. culture of war. They are a mosaic of 90 multimedia creations by authors from all over the world. These artists have taken this unique opportunity to express their ideas and viewpoints through animated images and sounds for everybody's vision and consideration.
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6th December 2005 - The jury of aniMOweb 4th Edition
The jury members' appointing for the official prize awarding of aniMOweb 4th edition - on the theme of conflicts, war and peace - has been completed. They are the following (in alphabetical order): Matteo Bittanti, Gili Dolev, Daniela Marsino, Nina Paley, Luca Raffaelli, Chiara Rubbiani.
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15th November 2005 - Interview with Mimmo Càndito
In the framework of the themes of conflicts, war and peace - the subjects of aniMOweb 4th edition - here is an enquiry on how war is communicated by mass media. We have discussed this topic with Mimmo Càndito, journalist of La Stampa, who recently wrote the book Il Braccio Legato dietro la Schiena, stories about reporters in war territories.
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14th November 2005 - Towards the deadline of 4th December
To take part in aniMOweb fourth edition, the deadline of 4th December (postponed from 30th November) is the expire date to submit intros, games, interactive applications and short films. To provide further help, here are the final tips for authors that are going to send their works.
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3rd November 2005 - Interview with Modena CSV
AniMOweb editorial staff asked some questions to CSV (Modena Volunteer Service Centre), main sponsor with Modena Province of the 4th edition of aniMOweb on the themes of conflicts, cult of war, culture of peace. Among other things, we talked about voluntary social work, solidarity, culture of dialogue, pacifism, social justice.
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5th October 2005 - Group interview with aniMOweb 2004 prize winners
Like every year, here is the appointment with the traditional group interview with the prize winners of the previous edition of aniMOweb. This is the last flashback on the themes of women and equal opportunities, the last homage to 2004 prize winners before devoting ourselves to the edition on conflicts, the cult of war in opposition to the culture of peace.
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7th September 2005 - Interview with Matteo Bittanti
Matteo Bittanti is one of the most outstanding experts in video games and new technologies. Writer, teacher at university masters and event organiser, he has created two editorial series on video games criticism. They are unique in their genre and were devised to recount, study and extend the knowledge about video games in Italy. AniMOweb editorial staff has interviewed him, focusing attention on the themes of the 4th edition of the contest and in particular on the relationship between videogames and violence, between war and peace videogames.
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30th June 2005 - The fourth edition of AniMOweb opens and the theme is about peace
Thursday, 30th June a.m. the press conference, which officially opens the 4th edition of aniMOweb on the conflicts and themes of peace and war, takes place at 11.30 in the Palace of Modena Province. The contributors are the Councillor for Culture Beniamino Grandi and the representatives of CSV (Centro Servizi Volontariato) of Modena together with the editorial staff of aniMOweb, Andrea Cavazzuti and Cristina Poppi.
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1st June 2005 - 4th Edition of aniMOweb on the themes of War and Peace
The 4th edition of aniMOweb on the theme "CONFLICTS: THE CULT OF WAR AND THE CULTURE OF PEACE" is going to start. The event is promoted by Modena Province, main sponsor of the contest since 2002. The co-sponsor for this edition is Centro Servizi Volontariato (CSV) of Modena, which boasts a long experience of activity with Associations of Volunteers dealing with themes like peace, human rights and solidarity.
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27th February 2005 - aniMOweb DVD is published
On the celebration of Women's Day on 8/3/2005, the DVD-ROM containing all the movies submitted for aniMOweb 2004 on the theme of women and equal opportunities is being published.
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11th December 2004: The official prize awarding of 30 October at Teatro San Carlo. A report, the videos, the photographs.
In the impressive setting of Teatro San Carlo in Modena, on Saturday, 30 October at 9 p.m. Michela Miraglia was introducing the Official Prize Awarding of aniMOweb 2004 in front of the authorities of Modena Province and a large audience. The prize awarding ceremony was being broadcast in real time at Caffè Concerto in Piazza Grande, Modena.
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6th December 2004: aniMOweb 2004 promotion: COMPA, WebMatch, Emilia Romagna regione animata, Energie Creative with BazarWeb, SkyLab, other festivals.
After the prize awarding of 30th October, the promotional events for aniMOweb 2004 were the following: the fair COMPA in Modena Province stand, aniMOweb as special guest in a webmatch in Bologna, a contribution in the conference Emilia Romagna regione animata, the participation in Energie Creative with Bazar in Turin, a video in the TV program SKYLAB, some movies of aniMOweb 2004 nominated in other festivals.
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2nd December 2004: Concluding week of aniMOweb: Film review at Sala Truffaut, seminars and meetings with the authors on 30/10/2004.
The main events of the concluding week of aniMOweb took place as announced. The film review at Sala Truffaut was attended by some classes of students of Istituto D'Arte Venturi. The meetings with the authors and the scheduled seminars took place at Teatro San Carlo and were video-recorded on 30/10/2004.
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16th November 2004: the decision of the jury. A report on the prize awarding, the list of winners and the reasons.
On Friday, 29th October 2004, aniMOweb jury met at 2 p.m. in Sala Giunta of Modena Province. Dario Picciau, Veronique Brossier, Giulia Balladore, Fabio Pin and Federica Nannetti compared their preferences and discussed in a plenary session until 8 p.m. to assign the prizes for a total budget of € 9.000. The complete list of aniMOweb 2004 winners.
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9th November 2004: aniMOweb 2004 movies in Computer Graphics and Publishing by IHT
aniMOweb 2004 movies are published in the CD-ROM enclosed in the November-December issue of the magazine Computer Graphics & Publishing by IHT Gruppo Editoriale. The CD-ROM contains a long report on 2004 edition of the contest as well as almost all the movies submitted for the contest. The magazine can be bought at all Italian newsagents from 9th November.
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8th November 2004: The audience prize to Hermes Mangialardo, Gaia Soavi and Nicola Brusco.
The audience prizes have been assigned by more than 1.000 visitors of the aniMOweb site. In the intro section on the theme "women and work" the highest score was obtained by Hermes Mangialardo from Copertino (Lecce, Italy) with "Mary's Day". In the section of games the majority of visitors preferred Gaia Soavi from Piacenza, Italy, with the game "Women and Equal Opportunities". In section C of short films the winner is Nicola Brusco with "Summer".
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20th October 2004: Concluding Week of aniMOweb 2004.
Animoweb editorial staff is busy organising the events of the concluding week of aniMOweb 2004. The schedule from 25th to 30th October has already been decided and everybody is ready to welcome the guests in Modena. Here are the appointments: FlashAnimathon begins on 25th October, animation films are being proposed on 28th and 29th , the jury is meeting on 29th, while the prize awarding with Michela Miraglia is taking place on 30th. It is possible to vote for the audience prize until 28th October.
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22nd September 2004: The-Tab prize and interview with Digital Video. Increased budget of official prizes.
As the audience vote is going on, we take pleasure in announcing important news about the aniMOweb 2004 prizes. The FlashGoddess and Shortvillage prizes will be flanked with the Digital Video prize, consisting in copies of The-Tab software to the best female participant and to the FlashAnimathon winners. The budget of official prizes has also been increased by 1.000 euros, thus adding two further prizes for section C of short animated films.
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19th August 2004: The audience vote is on line
The time to vote, in order to assign the audience prize of the site aniMOweb, runs from 19th August to 28th October 2004. The prize consists in € 100 for each section of the contest (total budget of € 300) and will be assigned to the three works reaching the highest score per section. Click the following links in order to vote section A (intro), section B (games) and section C (animated short films).
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9th August 2004. aniMOweb presents the works submitted for the 3rd edition of the contest
The 77 works submitted for 2004 edition are on line. The contest is about some aspects of women's life, like work and equal opportunities, the social role of women and the relationship with men. AniMOweb organizers believe they have received a special treasure from authors all over the world. This treasure is composed of web animation and interactive movies offering a rich variety of important issues, viewpoints and food for thought.
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22/7/2004. Towards the deadline of 31st July
To take part in aniMOweb 2004, third edition, the deadline of 31st July is the expire date to submit intros, games, interactive applications and short films. To avoid too much bothering, here are the final tips for female and male authors that are going to send their works.
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26/6/2004. Group interview with prizewinners of AniMOweb 2003.
AniMOweb editorial staff asked some questions to the prize winners of the previous edition of the contest. This by now recurring event aims at confronting the idea we have of authors from their Flash movies with the ideas they express in the interview.
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25/6/2004. Promotion of aniMOweb: ShortVillage, DVD, Dols.net.
We highlight three news on the promotion of aniMOweb. First the Shortvillage prize will be assigned to the best short films of section C by Shortvillage.com editorial staff. Second a DVD containing all the competing movies will be produced instead of the CD-ROM previously announced. Last Dols.Net, the Italian on line portal of women, interviewed aniMOweb editorial staff granting visibility to our contest.
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26/5/2004. The aniMOweb 2004 Jury.
The the jury members' appointing for the official prize awarding of 2004 edition of aniMOweb has been completed. They are the following: Dario Picciau and Roberto Malini (their combined votes are valid as the vote of a single member), Veronique Brossier, Giulia Balladore, Fabio Pin, Federica Nannetti.
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24/4/2004. Ann-Marie Cheung interviewed by aniMOweb
Animoweb editorial staff has interviewed Ann-Marie Cheung, Canadian multimedia designer, founder and creator of FlashGoddess.com. This amazing site showcases and promotes the works of the FlashGoddesses, that is the most outstanding world-wide web designers working with Macromedia Flash. Ann-Marie announces a special prize: a feature in the highly prestigious Gallery section at FlashGoddess for the most impressive female contestant of aniMOweb 2004, according to the Canadian site panel.
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1/4/2004. The third edition of AniMOweb opens and the theme is about women
AniMOweb 2004 opens officially: this third edition of the contest promoted by Modena Province is devoted to women and equal opportunities (in 2002 and 2003 the themes were respectively tourism and environment). The introductory press conference is taking place Monday, 5th April at 10.30 in Palazzo della Provincia, Viale Martiri della Libertà 34 in Modena. The Councillor for Equal Opportunities Morena Diazzi is the contributor.
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9/2/2004. Towards aniMOweb 2004
While aniMOweb 2003 on environmental themes is still being promoted, the editorial staff is busy organising the next edition of the contest. The Council for Equal Opportunities between men and women will be the principal promoting partner of Modena Province Presidency Department. The assigned themes will be: women, their role in society (in particular work), heroines and female characters, the relationship between sexes and the resulting consequences on the development of the human species.
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5/11/2003. The meeting of the authors and the official prize awarding. A summary, the videos, the photographs.
The afternoon of aniMOweb 2003 devoted to the films, to the authors and to the jury members started at 2.30 p.m., 25th October, in the impressive setting of San Carlo Theatre in Modena. At 21 p.m. Carlo Massarini presented the Prize Awarding Ceremony in front of the Authorities of Modena Province and a crowded theatre.
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31/10/2003: The movies of aniMOweb 2003 are published in Computer Graphics and Publishing by IHT.
The movies of aniMOweb 2003 are published in the CD-ROM enclosed in the November-December issue of the magazine Computer Graphics & Publishing by IHT Gruppo Editoriale. A long description of 2003 edition of aniMOweb contest as well as almost all the movies submitted for the contest are included in the CD-ROM. The magazine can be bought at all Italian newsagents.
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30/10/2003: The decision of the jury. A summary of the prize awarding.
On 24th October 2003 the jury of aniMOweb contest presided by Marcella Albiero and composed of Han Hoogerbrugge, Joshua Held, Stefano Campioli and Giovanni Rompianesi met at 2 p.m. in Sala Giunta at Modena Province. The meeting lasted until 8 p.m. and the prizes for a total amount of € 8.150 (€ 7.800 for the main prizes + 350 € for special prizes) were assigned.
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29/10/2003: The Audience Prize goes to Hermes Mangialardo, Gaia Soavi and Pulcini Gialli
The audience prize has been assigned by more than 500 visitors of the site aniMOweb. In the intro section about the theme "Environment: Virtues and Vices" the highest score was reached by Hermes Mangialardo from Copertino (Lecce) with the movie "Lines". The winner for the games section is Gaia Soavi from Piacenza with the game "The recycling machine". In section C of short films won The Pulcini Gialli with "But you can't go on without me".
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16/10/2003: Concluding Week of aniMOweb 2003
Animoweb editorial staff is busy organising the events of the concluding week of aniMOweb 2003. The program from 20th to 25th October has already been decided and everything is ready to welcome the guests in Modena. Here are the appointments: FlashAnimathon begins on 20th October, animation films are scheduled for 22nd, Exhibition Their Circular Life is inaugurated on 24th while the jury meets, the prize awarding with Carlo Massarini takes place on 25th. Audience price vote postponed until 23/10/2003.
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14/8/2003: The audience vote is running
The period to vote for the audience prize runs from 14th of August to 20th of October. The prize consists in 100 Euros for each section of the contest (total budget 300 Euros) and will be assigned to the 3 movies that will reach the highest score per section. Click the following links in order to vote section A (intro), section B (games) and section C (short animated films).
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4/8/2003: aniMOweb presents the works submitted for 2003 edition of the contest
The 57 works on environmental themes submitted for 2003 edition of the contest are on line. The organizers are very happy about what they received since their goals have been attained. In particular, participants from abroad have increased and the quality of works is very high, much more than expected.
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14/07/2003: Interview with Joshua Held
Waiting for the close deadline of the 31st of July and for the publishing in the following days of the works submitted for the contest, the editorial staff of aniMOweb has interviewed Joshua Held, member of the jury 2003. We thanks the author that has found time for us and for the visitors of our site, providing some interesting starting points about his personality, about his activity and may be some indications about his possible way of judging.
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14/06/2003: The events during aniMOweb official prize awarding ceremony
The current edition of aniMOweb contest is ending with the customary prize awarding ceremony. In order to enliven the occasion, further events have been organized: the exhibition Their Circular Life, the handing over of the FlashToons Awards, the public performance of the documentary film Dream Machine TV, the workshop FlashAnimathon, the authors' contributions and the homage to the jury members.
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27/05/2003: the members of the jury
The last phase of the jury members' designation has been completed. They have been chosen according to the following criteria and requirements: 1) to create a balance of competences referred to all the three sections of the contest 2) to warrant non - Italian authors 3) to appoint at least one of the winners of the previous edition of the contest 4) to create a balance also between the number of female and male members.
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05/05/2003: Group interview with prizewinners of AniMOweb 2002
Animoweb editors asked a few questions to prizewinners of 2002 edition of the contest. The purposes of these interviews were different: to discover something more about the personal approaches to art, work and life, to focus on AniMOweb peculiarities.
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2/04/2003: the second edition of AniMOweb opens and the theme is environment.
The press conference inaugurating 2003 edition of AniMOweb contest is scheduled for 9/04/2003 in Modena Province Palace at 11.30. Modena Province President Graziano Pattuzzi and the Councillor for Environment and Sustainable Development Ferruccio Giovanelli will illustrate the main features of the contest.
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4/3/2003: Environment and pollution as 2003 Animoweb Contest subject
The organizers of Animoweb Contest have decided the theme for web artists of year 2003 edition: environment and, in particular, pollution. The preoccupation that social and economical development does not hinder the conservation of the planet, of the environment and of its inhabitants should be a priority among the decisions taken by local and national authorities on a global, as well as on a local level.
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6/2/2003: A report of AniMoweb 2002 edition on a Cd-rom with the magazine Computer Graphics & Publishing
In the cd-rom enclosed with the November - December issue of Computer Graphics & Publishing - published by IHT Gruppo Editoriale a long report about the 2002 edition of AniMoweb was included. About half of the submitted films and the biographies of all authors are introduced in the presentation.
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10/9/2002: Prize awarding ceremony of aniMOweb contest. The report, the videos, the photos.
The prize awarding ceremony took place in Sestola (Belvedere Cinema) on the night of 6/9/02, as had been announced. Carlo Massarini, the famous anchorman of Mediamente, brilliantly presented the event with the contribution of local administrators, numerous authors and some of the winners.
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10/09/2002. The decision of the jury: a summary and the results.
On 6/09/02 AniMOweb contest jury, presided by Carlo Massarini, started their works, at 2 p.m. in Modena Province Palace. The "plenary sitting" lasted until 6 p.m. in order to assign the 6 prizes for a total amount of € 5000.
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10/09/02: Audience prizes awarded: Clemens Conrad and Giuliano Parodi.
The audience prizes were assigned with the vote of 450 AniMoweb site visitors. The winning intro opening the site about the Modenese Apennines is by the Berliner Clemens Conrad (€ 100 with 228 scores). As for highly interactive applications and games, the winner is Giuliano Parodi from Piombino (Livorno, Italy).The audience prizes were assigned with the vote of 450 AniMoweb site visitors.
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27/8/2002: 6/9/2002 Prize awarding ceremony in Sestola at 9 p.m. Carlo Massarini as presenter.
The 1st edition of AniMOweb contest will officially be closed on the night of 6/9/2002 with the prize awarding ceremony at Cinema Belvedere in Sestola. Carlo Massarini is presenting the event. The famous anchorman of RAI TV program Mediamente also presides the jury that will assign prizes for a total budget of € 5000.
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26/8/2002: audience price awarding postponed until 5/9/2002
Due to a change in organization the on-line vote deadline (29/8/2002) for the awarding of the audience prize (€ 200) is postponed to 5/9/2002. The winners of such prize will be proclaimed only during the prize awarding ceremony on 6/9/2002 in Sestola.
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3/7/2002: The works submitted for the contest are online. The situation up to now.
The works submitted for the contest are 80. The contest organizers are very glad for the number of participants, but for the quality of works above all. The movies can temporarily be seen at the address ../partecipanti2002.htm.
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18/6/2002: The members of the jury: interview with Alessandro Dapra', Macromedia Italia
We continue to interview the members of the jury. It is now the turn of Alessandro Dapra', working for Macromedia, the company producer of Flash and Director.
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1/6/2002: The members of the jury: interview with Marcella Albiero, Melazeta
Who are the members of the jury? The editorial staff of aniMOweb is going to interview them all. Let's start with Marcella Albiero, working for Melazeta, the famous newmedia agency in Modena.
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22/5/2002: Carlo Massarini will preside the jury of Animoweb contest
The designation of the members of the jury is completed.
The President will be Carlo Massarini, the famous anchorman of Mediamente, the cult TV broadcast of Rai Educational that for many years has informed us regularly with news about information technology, multimedia, entertainment communication, internet and new technologies.
The other members of the jury will be:
for specific competences concerning Flash and Director ->
Alessandro Daprà Macromedia Italia, popular divulger of new versions of the products of the important multinational company
Marcella Albiero, member of Melazeta, the newmedia agency in Modena specialized in producing animations and games for internet;
for specific competences in Modenese tourism (assigned theme for the contest) ->
Paola Bonfreschi Modena Province Council for Tourism
Paolo Guerri Municipality of Sestola, co-sponsor of the project.

9/5/2002: Interview with Fabio Pin, a multimedia designer
The editorial staff of aniMOweb contacted Fabio Pin, recent winner of the contest for the animation of the logo of the site HTML.IT. We publish the interview to provide some interesting starting points to the participants of the aniMOweb contest.
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13/4/2002: Videoclip: Modena terra d'autore
We present the video "Modena terra d'autore". It can be useful for the participants in Animoweb contest to get to know the territory of Modena province better. To see the videoclip you need to have Real Player version 8 basic previously installed. The movie, that lasts about 26 minutes, has been produced by the Province of Modena, the Munipality of Modena and by the Chamber of Commerce of Modena.

5/4/2002: Starting of 2002 edition of Animoweb contest
2002 edition of Animoweb contest is officially opened. It will be possible to submit Flash or Director Shockwave animations about tourism in the province of Modena until 30/6/2002. Two sections have been established:
A) animated intro for the site www.appenninomodenese.net;
B) videogames, highly interactive applications about tourism in the territory of Modena province.
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5/4/2002: Press conference on 2002 Animoweb
Press conference in the Palace of Modena Province to present Animoweb. The Councillor for Tourism Mario Lugli together with Paolo Guerri (as representative for the Modenese Apennines Municipalities, sponsors for the initiative) will be present.
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