SLOTCAR Ep3 Launches

http://www.slotcar2009.com

Animax Retains Media Link

Animax Entertainment retained Media Link Partners as a business development consultant to accelerate opportunities in branded entertainment. Media Link is a strategic advisory firm whose clients include Microsoft, AT&T, Unilever, Home Depot, Colgate-Palmolive, The Walt Disney Company, Viacom, Comcast, Fremantle and Sony. Michael Kassan, Media Link's founder and managing principal, and former President/Chief Operating Officer and Vice-Chairman of Initiative Media Worldwide, will be the lead on the engagement.

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A Stellar Night

Starlight Children's Foundation invites you to attend A Stellar Night 2009 to celebrate
the inspiring Starlight kids and families and honoree Teri Hatcher. Animax produced content and visuals for the 2008 gala and will be doing so again this year.

Animax at the Oscars

Animax Entertainment will be at the Oscars. Well, sort of. Right now at Hollywood and Highland is a huge billboard promoting the site we worked on for Disney and the Ad Council for Keep Oceans Clean. The Little Mermaid isn't up for an Oscar this year, but she'll be waving to all the celebrities as they walk the red carpet into the Kodak Theater.

SLOTCAR - Ep2 Trash Talk'n Busch

Cartoon Script Winners

Animax announced the winners of its Canucks Cartoon Script Contest at KidScreen Summit today. Congratulations go out to:

• First place: Ryan Cordes and Gerald Thompson for "Journey Quest,"
• Second place: Atul N. Rao and Greg van Riel for "Bem and Buzzy in 'Dawn of the Dynamic Deviants,'" and
• Third place: Hollis Ludlow-Carroll's "D.V. Productions."
  

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Watch SLOTCAR !!!

Get your engines started! Hardee’s® has signed on as the premier sponsor of the original Animax Unplugged video series, SLOTCAR which can be seen at http://www.slotcar2009.com. The no-holds-barred, explosive webisodes, produced by Animax Unplugged, launches online this week and parodies one of America’s largest and favorite sports – stock car auto racing. Watch the teaser now!

Animax has a proven track record having won the first-ever Broadband Emmy for ESPN’s “Off-Mikes.” SLOTCAR will be directed by Richard D’Alessio (Unplugged TV), who has three Cannes Lions and has worked alongside Barry Levinson and Jerry Seinfeld on the pioneering series, “Adventures of Seinfeld and Superman.” D'Alessio was also the creative force behind “Knob Hockey,” a similar branded entertainment series spoofing the NHL.

The first full webisode featuring a Hardee’s slotcar will launch Sat., Feb. 7th on http://www.Slotcar2009.com and http://www.hardees.com. Carl’s Jr., is also a series sponsor and will be featured in future webisodes on http://www.carlsjr.com.

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Animax at KidScreen Summit

Animax Entertainment is headed to the KidScreen Summit next week and there is a lot going on:

• We're meeting with broadcasters and co-production partners about original properties we have in development.
  
• Michael Bellavia is speaking on the "Keeping it Real in the Virtual World Space" panel about kids and virtual worlds.
• We're announcing the winners of the First Ever Animax Cannucks Cartoon Script Contest.
  

Animax Health Launches

Animax Entertainment announces the launch of a new division dedicated to the wellness market: Animax Health. Animax Health will provide innovative technology coupled with engaging front-end design to change the way healthcare providers, educators, pharmaceutical firms and non-profits connect and communicate with their patients. The division will provide strategic solutions to help improve language accessibility and cultural competence across diverse communities of care.

We are also participating in a panel at the Health IT TEPR+ 2009 conference entitled "The New Wave: Participatory Wellness and prevention for Patients and Providers."

Read the Animax Health press release here.