Pacific Media Expo

The Pacific Media Expo (PMX) is an annual three day multi-genre convention held during October/November at the Sheraton Los Angeles San Gabriel in San Gabriel, California. PMX was created in 2003 by Mike Tatsugawa, founder of Anime Expo.<ref name="ann2003"/> Pacific Media Association, the parent of Pacific Media Expo is based in Los Angeles, California.<ref name="apaucla2007">Template:Cite news</ref>

Programming

The convention typically offers art exhibitions, artists market, anime music video contest, anime video rooms, autograph sessions, concerts, live performances, exhibit hall, fashion show, gaming tournaments, iron cosplay, masquerade, panel discussions, swap meets, video rooms (animation, Asian cinema, and Korean drama), and workshops.<ref name=pw09032015/><ref name="ann2010pr">Template:Cite web</ref><ref name=ann2015weekend>Template:Cite news</ref>

History

PMX was formed by staff members from several conventions and former staff of Anime Expo after several years of planning and research.<ref name="ann2003featuremt">Template:Cite news</ref> The convention was created as a for-profit event due to concerns over the restraints of non-profit status. Miyavi cancelled his appearance at Pacific Media Expo in 2004 due to the lack of an engineer and the convention offered a registration refund.<ref name="acmiyavicancel">Template:Cite news</ref> Silver Ash was unable to attend due performer visa backlogs.<ref name="ann2004intmt"/>

Several issues affected the success of the 2004 convention, including the concerts being on a separate day (28th) from the convention (29th-31st), and the concerts and convention having separate tickets.<ref name="ann2004pmx">Template:Cite news</ref> The convention utilized the same space as Anime Expo. Potential attendance was overestimated, as PMX prepared for 10,000, but only had 3,000.<ref name="ann2003featuremt"/><ref name="ann2004intmt">Template:Cite news</ref><ref name="ann2004pmx"/> Concert turnout was considered a success, but only an estimated 25% attended the convention afterwards.<ref name="ann2004intmt"/> Also complicating the event was the Memorial Day weekend with graduations, proms, and FanimeCon. The convention for 2005 moved to Labor Day with adjustments made to the space required.

Pacific Media Expo did not occur in 2017 due to schedule conflicts with NCAA football and the convention's traditional November date.<ref name="pme2017">Template:Cite web</ref> Pacific Media Expo 2020 was a virtual convention due to the COVID-19 pandemic.<ref name="pmefb08062020">Template:Cite webTemplate:Cbignore</ref><ref name="AC-2020">Template:Cite web</ref>

Event history

Dates	Location	Atten.	Guests

See also

• Anime Expo
• List of multigenre conventions

External links

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