Anime Festival Orlando

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Anime Festival Orlando
Location	Wyndham Orlando Resort Orlando, Florida
Country	United States
Years in existence	2000 to present
List of events	Video screenings, AMV contest, panels and workshops, cosplay, dance, video gaming, dealers' room, and game shows
Official Website

Anime Festival Orlando (AFO) is an anime convention held at the Wyndham Orlando Resort in Orlando, Florida in early August. AFO has a variety of anime events and programming, guests, and many of the things to be expected an at anime convention.

AFO #8 will be held August 3-5, 2007 at the Wyndham Orlando Resort in Orlando, FL.

1 History
- 1.1 2000
- 1.2 2001
- 1.3 2002
- 1.4 2003
- 1.5 2004
- 1.6 2006
2 Events
3 External links
4 References

[edit] History

[edit] 2000

AFO began as a two day convention August 19th - 20th, 2000 , achieving an attedance of 450 people at the Ramada Gateway in Kissimmee, FL. Guests included Steve Bennett, Marshall Hash, and Wendee Lee. ^[1]

[edit] 2001

Anime Festival Orlando 2 July 27th - July 29th 2001

[edit] 2002

August 16th - 18th, 2002 While Anime Festival Orlando 3 was arguably its best year, the budget behind the convention nearly bankrupted the con.

[edit] 2003

Anime Festival Orlando 4

[edit] 2004

Anime Festival Orlando 5 August 6th - 8th, 2003

[edit] 2006

Anime Festival Orlando 2006 was held July 28-30 at the Wyndham Orlando Resort in Orlando, FL. Guests were Lindsay Cibos, Aaron Dismuke, Quinton Flynn, Marc Handler, Jared Hodges, Vic Mognogna, Jeff Nimoy, Jack Povlitz, Chris Sabat, Doug Smith, Veronica Taylor, and Travis Willingham. ^[2]