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Legacy Film Festival LogoLegacy Film Festival is a celebration of the achievements, contributions and issues of black and minority ethnic people around the world. Its focus is largely, but not solely on that of the African diasporas as part of Black History Month in October. Legacy Film Festival was born out of an idea that came into being back in January 2010 as part of the plans for Brighton & Hove Black History Month.

www.alltimecricket.com shows live cricket sores in a multilingual format to all the cricket fans. The site also provides a robust interactivity platform for its visitors and is in line to produce animated movies on cricketing events.

Alltimecricket.com LogoAlltimecricket, a sports media company from Bangalore launched a brand new cricket-focused, interactive website this month www.alltimecricket.com. The site is a one-stop hotspot for cricket fans. In line with the other cricket websites, it showcases the latest cricket news and up-to-the-minute live cricket scores; however, taking a step ahead it also presents the scores in a multilingual format for all the matches. It has informative and insightful blogs from the site's editors, a forum for cricket-relevant discussions and on top of that, visitors are able to chat with other online fans.

Siggraph 2011 LogoSIGGRAPH 2011 seeks cutting-edge Real-Time Live! content to be presented at this year’s prestigious Computer Animation Festival. Examples of accepted real-time simulations and graphics submissions include:

* Military or industrial simulations
* Interactive animation and graphics
* Research projects
* Computer games
* Real-time art explorations
* Scientific visualizations: medical, astrophysics, astronomy
* Interactive data visualization and information graphics

Cartoon Network LogoTom is aiming to have Jerry 'caught behind' while Jerry gets in the line of fire at 'silly point'. Indeed, Cartoon Network catches the cricket fever with the world's first, TJ Cup! India's number one kids' channel, Cartoon Network, plans a toony-googly with the power-play of wits between the world's most popular cat and mouse duo, Tom & Jerry.

Optitrack LogoAs the role of motion capture in virtual production expands, OptiTrack™ continues to offer game developers and animation studios optical tracking technology that is priced to meet an independent budget, but powerful enough to drive AAA development. GDC 2011 marks the release of a new advancement in accessible motion capture: the OptiTrack V120:Duo and V120:Trio tracking systems.