Speaking

Upcoming Events

South By Southwest Film Festival, 2012

Panel: Does HTML5 offer a montage moment for web cinema?

Imagine if you could weave the sum of all human knowledge seamlessly into your film or documentary. New technologies like HTML5 make this possible. Video, audio and animation no longer needs to be in a “black box”, separate from other elements on a page. Recent works like The Wilderness Downtown, 3 Dreams of Black, and the hypervideo experiments from Mozilla’s Web Made Movies lab point to a radical shift in how we think of moving images. In the same way that montage pioneers like Eisenstein and Griffiths showed us that new formal and technical possibilities could blow our perceptions of cinema wide open, these panelists will bring examples and ideas that point to the storytelling potential when the web is fused with the power of cinema. The panel will include a brief presentation of a few innovative examples that feature high quality story and aesthetics as well as advanced technologies like: WebGL, Popcorn.js and the upcoming HTML Stream Processing API (an open standard for browser access to camera and microphone).

Brett Gaylor – Project Lead, Mozilla Popcorn Project
Jigar Mehta – 18 Days in Egypt
Ingrid Kopp – Tribeca New Media Fund

Past Speaking Events

Open Video Conference, 2011

Fun with WebGL, The audio API, and more

Modern web broswers can make some amazing audiovisual candy, through new capabilities like HTML5, fast Javascript, and WebGL. All these capabilities point to untapped creative possibilities—though we’re starting to see some really cool web-native cinema, like Google Creative Lab’s Three Dreams of Black and NFB’s 1 Millionth Tower; and in a burgeoning WebGL gaming community. In this session, members of the web demoscene and creative communities will take turns showcasing their cool hacks and proofs-of-concept. Stuff like 3D and physics, beat detection, video processing, chromakey and lumakey, and more. Free form discussion, and possibly hacking, will follow.

Brian Chirls – Seriously.js
Robert Richter – Mozilla
Mr. Doob – Three.js
Corban Brook – Mozilla Audio Data API
Charles “CJ” Cliffe- CubicVR.js

Transilvania International Film Festival, 2011

Thursday, June 9th
Panel: Regional cooperation for postproduction, distribution and exhibition of feature films

The roundtable will focus on digital distribution evolution, new models of distribution and will offer the opportunity to present and discuss concrete studies of films produced and distributed in the region, using innovative strategies. Our main belief is that cooperation between producers and distributors is more important than competition during this period of transition.

with Jamie King, CEO of VODO.

South By Southwest Film Festival, 2010

Sunday, March 14th – 12:30 PM to 1:30 PM
Panel: The Main Event: Finding an Audience for Your Film

The music industry is in freefall, bringing speculation that live shows are the revenue stream of the future. But what about film? Learn how to create events from four-walling, to multiple screenings how to make these screenings profitable, both financially and critically.

Laure Parsons – x + x films / Director/Consultant
Mila Aung-Thwin – EyeSteelFilm / VP
Brian Chirls – Three Eyed Labs
Liz Ogilvie – B-Side
Jon Reiss – Hybrid Cinema / Filmmaker & Consultant

The Conversation, 2010

Saturday, March 27th – 3:15 PM to 4:15 PM
Workshop: Social Media Consults

Social media experts will briefly highlight some of their favorite strategies for generating awareness – then answer your questions about tools and tactics that will work for your projects.

Angel Aviles-Clinton, Co-Founder, BeScene Marketing
Mila Aung-Thwin – EyeSteelFilm / VP
Sean Fitzroy, Founder, Cineshift
Joselin Mane, CEO, LITBeL
Host: Scott Macaulay, Producer and Editor, Filmmaker Magazine

DIY DAYS NYC, 2010

Saturday, April 3, 2010 – Time TBD
Content TBD, but I promise it will be sci-fi and trippy

Harvard Business School Entertainment and Media Conference

Thursday, February 11, 2010
“From the “Window” to the “Wall”: Changing Distribution Patterns in the Film Landscape”
with Mark Gill (CEO, The Film Department), John Logigian (Former COO, Walden Media), Georg Szalai (Editor of The Hollywood Reporter), Anita Elberse (Harvard Business School)

Open Video Conference

Saturday, June 20, 2009 @ 2:30 pm
Vanderbilt Hall, NYU
40 Washington Square S
New York, NY 10012
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Independent Film Festival Boston

Sunday, April 26, 2009 @ 12:00 pm
Somerville Theatre
55 Davis Sq
Somerville, MA 02144
(617) 625-5700
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New Producers Alliance DigiDays Panel at Berlinale

Sunday, February 8, 2009 @ 11:00
HomeBase Lounge
Köthener str. 44
10963 Berlin
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Hosted by New Producers Alliance

International Film Festival Rotterdam 2009

Cinemart/Rotterdam Lab Workshop
DIY Workshop, Monday, January 26, 2009
“Why DIY?” Panel, Monday, January 28, 2009
with Lucius Barre, Lance Weiler (Seize The Media, dir. Head Trauma), Michel Reilhac (ARTE France Cinema), David Pope (New Producers Alliance), Michael Gubbins (Screen International), Della Churchill (Chilling Pictures), Liz Rosenthal (Power to the Pixel)

New Zealand Film Commission, “Smashing The Window: A New Era of Film Distribution”

October 3, 2009
Presentation: “A New Physics of Storytelling”
Presentation: Four Eyed Monsters War Stories
Panel Discussion
with Jason Janego (Magnolia Pictures), Andy Freedman (Substance PR)

From Here to Awesome, DIY Days San Francisco

August 17, 2008
Presentation: “Cinema and the Singularity”
with Jerry Paffendorf (Wello Horld)

South By Southwest Film Festival, 2008

March 11, 2008
Panel: We Like Short Shorts
with Jigar Mehta (The New York Times), Nathan Zellner (Goliath), Brent Hoff (Wholphin DVD), Nicole Barnette (Fourteen)

International Film Festival Rotterdam 2008

Cinemart Panel

Big Apple Film Festival

November 17, 2007
Panel: Distribution in the New Age
with Aaron Levine (Gen Art), Peter Goldwyn (Samuel Goldwyn Films), Clémence Taillandier (Zeitgeist Films), Erik Davis (Cinematical.com)
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