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Join us in this panel as we discuss what it takes to tell a story in VR, from concept, to production, to distribution. Mike Woods (Framestores Digital Department), Marcelle Hopkins (director of the Immersive Documentary Recipe for Famine), Ray Tintory (Court 13 filmmaking collective), Heidi Boisvert (future Perfect lab), Jaime Pallot (Emblematic Group) will bring together creative forces across different facets of VR storytelling, from CG animation to live action documentary, from branded content to originals. The panel will be moderated by Jess Engel, producer at Virtualize.
Virtual Reality is being touted as the new frontier in storytelling. So what does this really mean?
This panel discussion brings together creative forces across different facets of VR storytelling from CG animation to live-action documentary, from branded content to originals. Please join us during this evening as we discuss what it takes to tell a story in VR from concept, to production, to distribution. As the medium is rapidly advancing, we'll share our trials and tribulations as well as our enthusiasm and our skepticism as this new form of storytelling evolves.
Panelists: Mike Woods, Ray Tintorri, James Pallot, Marcelle Hopkins, Heidi Boisvert
Moderator: Jess Engel
Schedule:
Demos: 6:30pm 7pm
Panel discussion: 7pm 8pm
Demos + drinks: 8pm 10pm
Mike Woods is the founder of Framestores Digital Department, where he propelled its digital capabilities forward for 10 years. Working out of London and New York, he helped transform the fledgling department into one of the most creative and nimble in the industry, channeling Framestores 20-plus years of TV and film knowledge into quality and innovative content for interactive uses.
With creative and technical knowledge of all things gaming, social and experiential, Woods has become a pioneer of new techniques. Particularly real-time animation and Virtual Reality, techniques he used in successful campaigns for Coca-Cola, Geico and Beats by Dre.
Effectively pushing an Oscar-winning VFX studio into real-time rendering game engines, in spring 2014 Woods launched Framestores VR Studio, a dedicated content studio for Virtual Reality. From the groundbreaking HBO Game of Thrones Oculus Rift exhibit, launch apps for the Samsung GearVR, The Teleporter for Marriott Hotels, a tour of the Endurance spaceship from Christopher Nolans film Interstellar, and two groundbreaking Marvel applications, the VR projects continue to deliver thick and fast.
In June 2015, Woods left Framestore and co-founded a new Virtual Reality company called White Rabbit. Its first ambitious offering is due in April 2016.
Woods had the unique honor of being part of the 2013 Creativity 50, alongside Jay-Z and Daft Punk.
Marcelle Hopkins is an award-winning journalist specializing in human rights and humanitarian crises. She is currently directing
Recipe for Famine, an immersive documentary on South Sudan for PBS's investigative series FRONTLINE. In 2015, she received a Magic Grant from the Brown Institute for Media Innovation and a Social Justice Media Fellowship from the Made in NY Media Center by IFP. Last year, Marcelle wrote and produced an interactive documentary on Sri Lankas recovery from civil war, which won a UN Foundation Prize and a Horizon Interactive Award.
Through seven years at Al Jazeeras United Nations bureau, she has covered nearly every major international conflict and crisis of the past decade.
She holds a Masters degree from Columbia Universitys Graduate School of Journalism and a B.A. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Ray Tintori is a writer/director and founding member of the Court 13 filmmaking collective. His 2007 short film 'Death to the Tinman' won an award at the Sundance Film Festival and played in over 100 festivals worldwide. He directed 4 music videos for MGMT's first album including 'Time To Pretend' and 'Kids'. For Court 13's first feature 'Beasts of the Southern Wild', Tintori directed the 'Aurochs Unit' responsible for all scenes featuring the titular Beasts. He is currently developing his first feature with Court 13 and directing VR commercials with M ss ng P eces.
Heidi Boisvert is a new media artist, game designer, creative technologist, experimental filmmaker, and writer based in New York. Heidi founded and serves as the CEO and Creative Director of the futurePerfect lab, a boutique creative agency that works with non-profits, cultural and educational institutions to develop imaginative and playful applications of integrated media and emerging technology. She was formerly the Multi-Media Director at Breakthrough, a global human rights organization, where she designed, developed and virally propagated a wide range of new media and pop culture campaigns that helped raise awareness and instigate policy change on pressing social issues. She created the first 3D social change game, ICED I Can End Deportation, to shift the frame around unfair U.S. immigration policies. ICED was downloaded by over 250,000 players in 166 countries, and earned tremendous media attention (23 newspapers, 134 blogs, 295 radio broadcasts, 68 television broadcasts, and 76 internet news & search engines). She is currently a Media Impact Fellow at the Harmony Institute.
Jamie Pallot is is co-founder of Emblematic Group, pioneering producers of virtual reality news and non-fiction. He was formerly Editorial Director of Cond Nast Digital, where he won a National Magazine Award for General Excellence, overseeing web sites including style.com, epicurious.com, and concierge.com and launching the companys first iPhone and iPad apps. Pallot has led major digital initiatives at Time Inc., Microsoft, and NewsCorp, as well as editing The Virgin Film Guide in the U.K. He is a Contributing Editor at Vanity Fair and has written for The Wall Street Journal, the Financial Times Magazine, and Harpers Bazaar.
Jess Engel is a producer and content creator at Virtualize, a new boutique virtual reality content agency, committed to creating world-class cinematic VR.
Previously, she was the Creative Executive at Electric City Entertainment in Los Angeles working on critically acclaimed films such as Derek Cianfrances THE PLACE BEYOND THE PINES and Tim Burtons BIG EYES. In addition to working on feature films, she's produced branded content, commercials, and short films. Jess is based in Brooklyn, New York.
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