Our annual festival - Tampere Art Factory (TAF) - was in May, but much of the student works seen there are still visible online. In this part of the story we present the games and music videos and the contribution of the Dutch Academy of Popculture.

Sideline, written and directed by Maria Kaurismäki, has been invited to Film Forum “Ecology of Soul” International Competition of debut&student shorts, August 23-27, 2009, Riga & Jurmala, Latvia and to Reikäreuna Film Festival September 9-13, Orivesi, Finland.

Our annual festival - Tampere Art Factory (TAF) - was in May, but much of the student works seen there are still visible online. In this posting we present the fine art's students works and animations that were shown at TAF, which can be understood without knowledge of Finnish language.

The Swan Lake: Moving Image & Music Award (SL:MIMA) invites young talented filmmakers to participate with a movie in one of the three categories: ’Computer-Animation’, ‘Digital Film’ and ‘Interactive Movie’. Modern piano music by international artists serves as the basis for the competition.