Citizens of Split exhilarated with the new ultra-modern cinema in Dalmatia and unique 4DX™ screen

 

Only four more days before European filmmakers, EFA Members, guests, nominees and winners will gather to celebrate European cinema at its finest at the 30th European Film Awards in Berlin!

On this special occasion the ceremony will, of course, celebrate this year's films and achievements but it will also shed a special light on some of the films and people that have accompanied the EFAs throughout the past 30 years.

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Apply for six months of intensive editing and development for your documentary film  aiming for premiere by early autumn 2018: / Work with 25 internationally-active    filmmakers throughout    the postproduction period / Find your film's unique perspective    within a global context and sharpen    the storytelling / Learn new marketing tools used in    a complex strategy to target and    attract a worldwide audience / Introduce your nearly-finished film to    key international decision-makers at    Nordisk Panorama		The whole team, comprising a director, a producer and an editor, participates in three one-week residential sessions: / 1st Session (6 days) - rough cut    April - Czech Republic / 2nd Session (6 days) - fine cut    June - Slovakia / 3rd Session (8 days) - near picture lock    September - Sweden
apply here with your rough cut before january 31st
www.dokincubator.net

 

 

It’s probably to fill your “think tank” with information and to network.

Stereopsia scouted the Earth to unearth the world’s best “immersion” surprises for you. The program of the Professional Conference (PCON) contains several surprising titles like “The end of storytelling & the future of immersive narrative” & “Follow flirtation: how human intimacy is defining the future of frontier tech”, by Stephanie Riggs & Natacha Merritt, resp., members of Women in VR.

To whet your appetite, Stereopsia asked Natacha Merritt to give a preview of her presentation:

“This talk explores frontier technology as it relates to intimacy. It’s a novel perspective of the current state of VR, social media, big data, and chatbots. Natacha Merritt tells her personal story, from her best seller “Digital Diaries” - the first digital photography book - to VR developer to tech venture capitalist and back. While many are focused on marginalizing erotic content, Natacha takes the opposite approach. From a Darwinian evolutionary perspective, she demonstrates that we should all be asking ourselves “How can I use this new technology for sex or intimacy?” She argues that this has the power to create an ethical checks and balances between humanity and the technology around us. By focusing on the intimate and sexual uses of tech we can find great investments, cure loneliness, and save ourselves from tech dystopia.”

If this abstract surprises you, Stereopsia has already succeeded in one of its missions, and this presentation is for you! Please, dig for it in the PCON program. You’ll also see that N. Merritt is an experienced angel investor & entrepreneur, as she will also talk about “VR AR investing in Silicon Valley: trends from top VCs”. As for the Valley, Baobab Studios will also be present with a surprising-title presentation “Jumping Through the 4th Wall: Baobab’s adventures in VR storytelling”, by Kane Lee.

 

 

You are invited to take part in a one-of-a-kind, phenomenal buffet of “immersion” delicacies brought to you by Stereopsia right in the center of Europe, in Brussels, the Capital of both Belgium & the European Union, featuring 3D, VR, AR, XR, lighfield, holoscopy,…

The combined Scientific Conference (IC3D) and Professional Conference (PCON) bring you 81 presentations and 2 panels with 87 speakers from 25 countries and 4 continents.

IC3D - technically co-sponsored by the IEEE Signal Processing Society - features 26 papers with 99 co-authors, and 26 corresponding presentations with 28 speakers, from 17 countries and 4 continents. A total of 38 research papers were submitted, leading to a selective acceptance rate of 68 %. The proceedings of IC3D 2017 will be archived in the IEEE Xplore Digital Library, giving considerable, worldwide visibility to the authors. You’ll find the presenters’ photos & short biographies on the IC3D webpage (scroll down to “Speakers” section).

PCON features 55 presentations and 2 panels involving 59 speakers from 14 countries and 3 continents. You’ll find the presenters’ photos and short biographies on the PCON webpage (“Speakers” section).

IC3D & PCON follow each other, covering the full 3 days of Stereopsia, from 9:00 am on Mon 11 Dec till 5:20 pm on Wed 13 Dec. They overlap for one joint session, where the keynote speech by Frank Rose from Columbia University, New York City, will be given, with title “A new grammar of storytelling for the digital age”. He is the author of the 354-page book “The Art of Immersion”, a title in perfect sync with the phrase “World Immersion Forum”!

The Stereopsia team is looking forward to welcoming many of you next week at the Center for Fine Arts, Brussels, affectionately called “Bozar”.

 

We are very happy to reveal the 9 new feature film projects that have been selected for Feature Launch 2018.

 

The Adam Mickiewicz Institute, the Eureka Media company based in Warsaw, the Centre for Open and Multimedia Learning of the University of Warsaw and The Centre for Modern Information Techniques and Visual Arts from Kiev invite to participate in the debate about possible forms of communication, dialogue and understanding between Ukrainians and Poles. We are particularly interested in the opportunities offered by new interactive technologies. But everyone is invited, whether you use such technologies or not.

The seminar will take place on 8 December, 6:00-7:30 PM at the centre of Kiev (we will give the address to the selected participants). On 9 December 2017 we will conduct interviews with selected participants who register until 7 December 2017 6:00 PM, Kiev time. Please contact us: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. (Ukrainian, Russian, English).

Our most important questions:

What knowledge do Ukrainians and Poles need about both countries and their cultures?

What is the best way to discuss mutual relations and to look for common goals?

What technologies, communication strategies and marketing tools can be utilised to reach the widest possible audience - participants of the interactive project Ukraine - Poland.  New Gaze?

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The Seminar Ukraine – Poland. New Gaze will be the first stage of a project focused around an interactive documentary platform meant to present - in multi-layered and broad thematic terms acknowledging different points of view - the history of Polish-Ukrainian relations and the problems of contemporary relations between both societies. Interactive documentary films will constitute a significant part of the platform. The films will use newly recorded materials and archival footage as well as integral original works. They will be made by students and young graduates of film schools and media faculties from both countries, selected in a contest.

Interactive documentary film is a fairly new phenomenon. Its appeal comes from a combination of the possibilities of three genres (means of communication): traditional documentary film, websites and computer games. While traditional documentary has a closed structure protected by copyright law, interactive documentaries give the viewer - the participant of a communication process - the opportunity to choose their own path leading to the goal understood as, e.g. acquiring knowledge about the topic of the film. While a website is full of dispersed content, an interactive documentary does have a narrative structure. After all, it is telling a story, even if there are several (or more) ways of getting to its essence. And while a computer game requires constant, and often intuitive activity of the participant of the communication process, usually ended with losing or winning, an interactive documentary presents more unchangeable materials and thus it offers the opportunity for deeper thought and for an artistic level of communication.

Using the interactive documentary genre in the project Ukraine - Poland. New Gaze will make it possible to present - in an attractive, interactive and cinematic form - the many different historic and social narratives present in the public space of both countries and in commentaries on their relations that have been and still are published beyond their borders. Participants of the communication process will get the opportunity to verify the truthfulness of those messages, to get to know common narratives that seem dissonant at first glance, and to reach their own conclusions. The debate will be moderated which shall ensure its high quality and help avoid one-sided voices and propaganda. Trusting young professionals - students and young graduates of film and media studies from both countries - with production will ensure a fresh look, an unflinching attitude and honesty in using source materials. We will welcome new technologies thanks to the broad and, by definition, open form of the interactive documentary.

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