OUR VISION Future of cinema, few know, few share, we do both! We are taking this think tank on the road throughout the global festival circuit. Let us embark for a trip a few decades ahead of us. Our first stop is Cannes, with possible next stops on the festival circuit in Paris, Rome, Ischia, Stockholm and more.

FUTURE OF CINEMA SALON Series FESTIVAL DE CANNES 2008

CONTEXT

Fest21.com, CFC Media Lab and Telefilm Canada are proud to present another installment of our Future of Cinema Salon Series at the Cannes Film Festival. This year promises to be a stellar line up that includes MingleTalk at the Canadian Pavilion - an event that will be brokering conversations around the future of distribution amongst a varied group of maverick directors, rebellious producers and daredevil distributors. We will also be hosting in the Palais des Festivals our annual Future of Cinema Blockbuster Panel that brings together international voices around the table, plus a special hands-on demo of some of the most innovative works coming out of Canada, including Late Fragment a critically-acclaimed dramatic interactive feature film which premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival.

OUR VISION

Future of cinema, few know, few share, we do both!
We are taking this think tank on the road throughout the global festival circuit.
Let us embark for a trip a few decades ahead of us.
Our first stop is Cannes, with possible next stops on the festival circuit in Paris, Rome, Ischia, Stockholm and more.

THE PROGRAM

MINGLETALK
conversations about the future of distribution
Tuesday May 20th, 2008
Canadian Pavilion
3:00PM - 5:00PM

Come to the Canadian Pavilion where, with coffee in hand, The Future of Cinema Salon Hosts will introduce you to daredevil distributors, maverick producers, and rebellious directors for some lively contextualized networking under the sun. Ask your questions. Engage in a debate. Tell your point of view. MingleTalk is the new Future of Cinema Salon format where the serious gets social.

Future of Cinema Blockbuster Panel
in association with Moving Pictures Cineuropa.org and Film & Festivals Magazine
Wednesday May 21st, 2008
Jean-Louis Bory Auditorium, Palais des Festivals
10:00AM - 11:00AM

Moderated by Eliott V. Kotek - Moving Pictures, Editor

For the third consecutive year, Future of Cinema Salon presents an international roundtable of innovators engaged in changing (...)

On March 6th, 2008 at the Beverly Hilton in Beverly Hills, California, HD EXPO presents a number of educational opportunities for attendees to help define the future. Intel's Françoise Bourdonnec joins Variety's David Cohen in a thought provoking one-on-one conversation entitled "Does Technology Define the Audience, or Does The Audience Define the Technology," which focuses on her research group's groundbreaking global studies that are illuminating how and what the audience is watching. Also on March 6th, Ted Schilowitz (RED) is joined by Michael Cioni (PlasterCITY), and cinematographer Bengt Jonsson for the Dynamic Case Study of a real world workflow for the RED ONE digital camera.

Bourdonnec is Director of Domestic Designs and Technologies Research at Intel, a unique research unit of anthropologists within their Digital Home Division.  Led by Bourdonnec, the team has observed and researched viewers around the world to understand how they are consuming content. Intel is using global anthropological research to guide product design and creative decisions as they plot a course of action for content creators and consumers.

Kristin Petrovich, CEO of HD EXPO, noted that "Our March 6th event is tagged 'Delivering the Future,' and these experts do just that.  Intel's efforts to understand the end users of technology are pioneering a new understanding of how and why people around the world are consuming every kind of media. Participation in the creative process and the enabling technology demands an understanding of the audiences. We are excited to present a speaker of Francoise Bourdonnec's caliber; our attendees will be empowered by her research results."

Schilowitz, Cioni and Jonsson will take attendees through a Dynamic Case Study focusing on a production-post production pipeline.  The workflow, incorporating Apple's Final Cut Pro and other tools, starts at production and ends with delivery. Petrovich added "To have Ted from RED, Michael and a talented cinematographer like Bengt is a great opportunity for our attendees to get the information they are excited to get, first-hand, from the top.  We are thrilled to have them with us to discuss this new workflow."

HD EXPO's popular Intensives, which are free for attendees with prior registration, are being presented by technology leaders including Digital Vision, Sony, and Panasonic. 

HD EXPO will present a full day of education, networking opportunities and a sold out exhibition area on March 6th at the Beverly Hilton.  Registration for HD EXPO is free until March 1, 2008.  For further information and registration, visit http://www.emsrvr.com/c.php?co=35612199&su=16914035495&ca=624214373&li=355153764&u=http://www.hdexpo.net/ or call 818.842.6611.

Late Fragment -- interactive script wall 2nd draft

For the past ten years, Canadian Film Centre Media Lab has been in the forefront of the thrust toward
interactive media, having developed original content for a variety of platforms, including cellphones, digital
cinema broadband and gaming consoles. It was time to take it to the people.

But how do you make an innovative interactive feature film with two producers, three writer-directors, multiple
storylines, and the opportunity for the viewer to click and change the scene at any time? It was a challenging
exercise as remarkable and complex as the end product itself because the methodological process, tools and
techniques all had to be created.

As Ana Serrano CFC interactive architect and producer of Late Fragment explained, “The greatest challenge
was to devise a hybrid form with a mainstream audience in mind, and working with a creative team from both
traditional and new media. We intended the interactive film to be easily apprehensible, emotionally engaging
and intellectually satisfying as well.” All these factors interact to create something fresh for interactive viewers.”

Serrano and the teams at the CFC and the co-producing National Film Board of Canada planned a dual focus
on a traditional story frame and the new technology. “It’s been an exhilarating partnership,” said NFB producer
Anita Lee. “The whole idea of multiple POVs, coupled with the notion of interactive media and the
collaborative nature of the project allowed for intense discussion and ingenious ways of thinking about
narrative.” Like the CFC, the NFB has long been interested in new media, interactive technologies and digital
platforms, all offering distinctive educational and new media program possibilities. “I think there will be
multiple audiences for it,” added Lee.

Late Fragment, which will be delivered via DVD-video and presented as a live VJ-d performance theatrically,
was shot in Toronto with an HD camera and recorded directly onto a digital card which went straight into the
computer. The $1.3-million production involved a traditional filmmaking process as well as the creation and
implementation of up to thirteen different digital tools to complete.

Notwithstanding the digital process, making a film that lets viewers interrupt the story at any time and switch
to another scene while still following a three-act narrative structure also meant that a whole new way of
thinking about cinema and story had to be invented. “Components, clicks, non-clicks, rabbit-holes and loops”
were words that peppered the conversation in the edit suites.

To share and execute the vision, the producers needed to find three writer-directors willing to embark on this
new journey. “We were looking for a particular breed of director,” said Serrano, “essentially a structuralist, with
a high sensitivity of how narrative is structured in space and time, who was unafraid of innovation and taking
risks, and who had a distinct enough voice not to mind other voices crowding theirs.”

It was a tall order — filled by young writer-directors Daryl Cloran, Anita Doron and Mateo Guez. Along with
Serrano and Lee, the th (...)

Toronto (August 15, 2007) - The Canadian Film Centre (CFC) and the National Film Board of Canada (NFB)
are delighted to announce the world premiere of Late Fragment, North America’s first interactive dramatic
feature film, at the 32nd Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF), as part of the Future Projections program.
Late Fragment, an interactive film by Daryl Cloran, Anita Doron, Mateo Guez, Anita Lee, and Ana Serrano,
addresses a new language for filmmaking in the 21st century, where viewers can impact the way the story unfolds
by navigating the interlocking narratives of the film with a simple click of their remote. This interactive film is
an important model of collaboration in leading-edge experimental dramatic content and format that will be
engrained into Canada’s filmmaking history.

Six two-hour presentations of this powerful and unique interactive film will take place at Toronto’s CAMERA
BAR & SCREENING GALLERY (1028 Queen Street West), where interactive screenings will be performed live,
premiering September 10th at 7 pm, 9 pm and 11pm. A second series will take place on September 12th at 7 pm,
9 pm and 11pm. The performances will be followed by a Q&A with the creators. Personal viewing stations will
be set up where viewers can “play” their own version of the film, and discover the magic behind this new and
innovative cinematic experience.

Late Fragment’s multi-plot, non-linear and interactive narrative lets audiences discover the stories of three
strangers. Faye (Krista Bridges), Kevin (Michael Healy) and Theo (Jeff Parrazo) are drawn together as
participants in a restorative justice process, where victims and offenders share their stories. Emotionally broken
from the violence they have experienced, they turn to the restorative justice process in hopes of finding
wholeness, balance, forgiveness, redemption and a sense of safety. Three story lines interconnect, and this
unique cinematic experience allows the viewer to “play” a creative and interactive role by weaving in and out
of the film’s story lines – whenever they choose –by clicking the remote.

In 2003, the CFC Media Lab initiated the Interactive Narrative Feature Program (INFP) to experiment with
every aspect of interactive filmmaking – from creation through distribution – to increase Canadian capacity
and talent in interactive narrative production. For the INFP’s inaugural project, the CFC Media Lab joined
forces with the National Film Board of Canada, who brings a history of successful collaboration and content
innovation, and a commitment to impeccable storytelling as a co-producer of this revolutionary dramatic
interactive feature film.

As Ana Serrano CFC interactive architect and producer of Late Fragment explained, “The greatest challenge
was to devise a hybrid form with a mainstream audience in mind, and working with a creative team from both
traditional and new media. We intended the interactive film to be easily apprehensible, emotionally engaging
and intellectually satisfying as well.” All these factors interact to create something fresh for interactive viewers.”

Serrano and the teams at the CFC and the co-producing National Film Board of Canada planned a dual focus
on a traditional story frame and the new technology. (...)

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