Friday 29 October, 10am-6pm Filmbase
As part of our day-long Transmedia Symposium Friday 29 October we're hosting a number of workshops and talks with guest panelists Lance Weiler, Salford Film collective Future Artists’s Mark Ashmore and Jenny Inchbald; Power to the Pixel founder Liz Rosenthal; South African producer Jeremy Nathan of DV8 films. It's gonna be hard to choose as they're all stunning and amazing and heroes of their fields so here's the low-down.
The Darklight Transmedia Symposium run with Official Festival Industry Partners Bord Scannan na hEireann / Irish Film Board will explore the potential of digital and analogue networks as a creative tool for storytelling, as well as a means to reach audiences and finance and distribute films. Our esteemed international and Irish guests will discuss all aspects of Transmedia production.
Participants will be asked to sign up for the afternoon workshop of their choice ON REGISTRATION on the morning of the 29 October at Filmbase, so come early to book your place!
Symposium Morning Sessions
Keynote presentation by Lance Weiler, Transmedia Hero and pioneer of all things digital, film, art, games and beyond. Creator of Workbookproject.com, Lance is a writer and director and is currently producing Transmedia projects with Seize The Media.
Round table discussion with our International Heroes: Lance Weiler, Future Artists, Liz Rosenthal, Jeremy Nathan. A number of Irish experts and practitioners will also be invited to give their home grown perspective. Topics on the agenda include fund-raising models, distribution platforms and crowd-sourcing collectives, and we’ll also be looking at what it means to write, direct and produce projects destined for the big screen, the small screen, the internet, apps, graphic novels, live performance and immersive experiences.
Symposium Afternoon Sessions
Case studies: Four Irish projects currently in production will be selected to receive feedback from our international guests, the Irish experts and their peers in the audience.
The day will end with four workshops led by our guests, Liz Rosenthal, Future Artists, Jeremy Nathan and Lance Weiler.
Workshop 1: Liz Rosenthal: Adventures in Cross-Media
As audiences interact and engage with stories across ever-evolving platforms, devices and places, how can filmmakers and media companies extend their stories across media to extend the audience, life and the value proposition of their film properties? Liz Rosenthal, Founder and MD of Power to the Pixel will present a variety of international case studies to illustrate.
Workshop 2: Future Artists: Working on a creative project in an online environment
Using director/producers Mark Ashmore breakthrough transmedia film ‘Project Praxis’ as a starting point and case study, students will hear why the project was created as an online experiment to ‘test’ the future artists manifesto, how it was done using only two social media portals of facebook and twitter, and why all the media was generated by participants from around the world, all in 9 days as part of the filmonik film lab, with a live event, that generated ticket sales that covered the cost of the film, which was also broadcast around the world, with online participants using twitter to interact with those at the gig.
Workshop 3: Jeremy Nathan: Towards a 3rd (3.0) World – Some initial thoughts on filmmaking in the brave new digital era
Is Africa struggling to bridge the digital divide, or is it exploding with possibilities? Are there lessons we can learn from its poverty, corruption, unlimited optimism and hope? Is Nollywood a new model, a glimpse into a digital filmic future? Or just another 419 scam?
How can a continent of over 900 million people, with an average annual per capita income of less than US$1 per day, have any use for the Internet, where electricity is still a priviledge. Yet with vertical mobile and Internet growth statistics, people are creating, consuming, converging.
If the Internet has been partially driven largely by a free economy, by the young and the poor, and underpinned by global piracy or free peer-to-peer sharing of content, then Africa, though its social and political DNA, is poised to make a significant impact on all our digital futures.
Will African filmmakers, and indeed all independents the world over, remain permanently relegated to the margins of the art-house festival ghettos, trapped in the systemic failure that is the global film industry, or will they break free, exploring and pioneering new ways to produce innovative stories, and creating and reaching new audiences?
Workshop 4: Lance Weiler: Screening of his project Radar followed by a Q&A
Lance Weiler presents a selection from his RADAR project, a weekly mini-doc series offering a timely, insiders view into the cutting edge of storytelling & creativity, & the attendant tools, tech, models and community. Includes Q&A session with Lance Weiler.
For more information on the Transmedia Symposium and to book your ticket check out here