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Bitfilm Festival for digital film is online

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For the first time, the Bitfilm Festival for digital film will show its entire programme on the internet. The decisions about the Bitfilm Awards will take place in a „viral voting“ process within the global internet community.On September, 7 the festival starts on the web at www.bitfilm.com/festival. More than 130 long and short films compete in seven categories: from feature-length 3D films from Hollywood or 30 seconds short clips for mobile phones – the Bitfilm team has selected the best...

Experience_Sound Track

  This Audio Track is coming from my short "Experience (2005)", a short film made as a student project in my first year at the Concordia University in fall 2005.   5:44 minutes (5.24 MB)

Amnesia SoundTrack

This is the sound track from the film Amnesia... 6:55 minutes (6.33 MB)

Cannes Market Download stations for PDA, Palm for Market contacts and screening schedules

We organized, with our partner L&A, the Cannes Market Download stations for PDA, Palm for all Market contacts and screening schedules. 2 stations are available, at each entrance of the Riviera, the one bellow coming from the Palais: Online version available for your PDA or Palm at: download ...

Blu-ray Disc Association in Cannes

This Blu-Ray association presents this new High-Definition platform with impressive specifications. Blu-ray discs hold from 25 to 50GB, video and sound quality is superior, interactivity is on a new level, Internet access will be included in the coming versions of hardware... Remains to be seen at what price the first harware and disks will be priced in Q3 or Q4 of this year and how the digital rights management handles all this... Check also the interview of Blu-ray Disc Association head, ...

Blu-ray in Cannes

The web café picture

It’s a simple way, fast and free to surf on Internet. As you can see, even the saturday morning all the computers are used.

CES launch of Sonic Debuts First DVD on Demand System for Electronic Sell-through of Movies

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Sonic Debuts World's First DVD on Demand System for Electronic Sell-through of Movies and Television ContentLAS VEGAS --(Business Wire)-- Jan. 5, 2006 New AuthorScript DVD on Demand Software Development Kit Enables Secure Download and Burn of Premium Video on Set-top, Desktop, and Enterprise Platforms Sonic Solutions(R) (NASDAQ:SNIC) today introduced AuthorScript(R) DVD on Demand(TM)(DoD), the world's first software development kit (SDK) for secure, managed download-and-burn of video to DVD. Bui...

Mobile media symposium in Hamburg at BitFilm 05

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On 4th November mobile multimedia professionals will meetat Schmidt-Theater in Hamburg, to explore trends, content and business models for mobile media. The symposium is organised by the team of Bitfilm Festival, which takes place at the same time, in cooperation with the State of Hamburg’s Independent Media Commission (HAM), Studio Hamburg and Debitel subsidiary Midray.Will we watch TV on cell phones ? Will animated ring videos replace ring tones?Which fi lms, series, and games work well on t...

Digital Conference at the Montreal World Film Fest

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International Digital Conference at the Montreal World Film FestivalThe Montreal International Digital Market will hold a series of conferences on digital distribution and exhibition August 29 -30 during the 2005 Montreal World Film Festival.The International Digital Conference will sum up the state of digital distribution and exhibition, examine experiences of distributors and exhibitors worldwide and will look at the different strategies to be implemented in the coming year.The International D...

Apple delivers "Naked Cannes" to E! via web

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E! Entertainment, the channel dedicated to the world of Hollywood celebrities, revels in the underground of the Cannes Film Festival and unlocks the myth. Titled, Naked Cannes, this five-part series features hosts Sarah Lelouch and Thierry Colby delivering daily chronicles of the festival and exclusive talent interviews with celebrities.E! Entertainment has a prime seat at this annual event, and Apple Computer will be there to support. Apple along with Prime Cut Productions, will be using the la...

Ericsson launches interactive mobile TV at MIlia

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Ericsson has used the Milia TV and broadcasting event to demonstrate an application that truly brings interactive television to multimedia mobile devices. In the first showcase of this kind, Ericsson is demonstrating how an existing interactive TV format can be fully aligned with mobile devices with multimedia capabilities. Viewers are able to interact with mobile TV shows, via voting or greeting (SMS-to-TV or MMS-to-TV), just by pushing a response key. Mobile TV viewers can also access such add...

Film on Mobile time is ripe: Milia and Cannes Market new focus

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Cannes Market is launching a new initiative within the Short Film Market:The Short Film Digital Avenue sponsored by ADMC is a place next to the Short Film Corner where technolgy leaders will demonstrate during Cannes Festival the breakthrough avenues of new windows, new media, new delivery systems, adaptation of old media to new technology...New sources of revenues.A NEW AVENUE FOR SHORT FILMMAKERSBooths, displays, demos, sampling, The Short Film Digital Avenue is a co production between CannesM...

The ADMC Digital Media Initiative

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The ADMC Digital Media InitiativeResponding to the Challenges of Digital Media for Multi-PlatformsSummary of the results of the workshop on February 1st, 2005 at AIC, Sophia-Antipolis, France- The AIC Business Resort and the ADMC Cluster Initiative- How to Get European Funding- New Challenges for Satellite Broadcasting- Convergence, a Broadcaster's Point of View- Panel 1: New Platforms for Digital BroadcastingWhat are the New Challenges? Which Content for Which Platform?- Panel 2: New Models of ...

Sir Howard Stringer new head at Sony Corp

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A Welshman in Japan.Sony Corporation's current management team proposed the creation of a new management structure designed to expand upon its core strengths as a global electronics, entertainment and technology company. The proposal was approved at the Board of Directors' Meeting held today. Effective June 22, subject to approval at Sony Corporation's Ordinary General Shareholder's Meeting that day, the following new management team will lead the company: 1) Sir Howard Stringer (currently Chair...

The Cannes Market webcafé

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Cannes Market 2004: The webcafé located in the center of the Palais offered free web services to thousands of Market registered particpitants.Internet access, Free IP Phone calls to local and cell phone numbers. Powered by Filmfestivals for the third consecutive year.The webcafé was sponsored by Antipolis Studios: the digital Image cluster in Antipolis.Altevia voice over IP....

Jana Bennett will open MIPTV proceedings

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Jana Bennett, Director of Television BBC, will open proceedings at MIPTV and MILIA 2004 (Cannes, March 29 – April 2), with a keynote speech on “The Future of Television Programming in a Cross-Platform World” (March 30).Jana Bennett replaces former BBC Director General Greg Dyke as the opening keynote speaker. Greg Dyke resigned from the BBC on January 29.Jana Bennett’s speech will underline the growing importance of convergence to television executives – a subject which is set to be at...

Vibrator

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At first sight, the title of Ryuichi HIROKI’s latest movie refers to sexual misery and loneliness. After all, it’s what a vibrator is about and we cannot forget that the helmer made his directing debut in 1982 in erotic films before receiving the Grand Prix in the video section of the Yubari Fantastic Film Festival for the 1993 film "Sadistic City". Or maybe it refers to the cellphone that vibrates in the inner jacket of 30-year old Rei Hayakawa (played by Shinobu Terashima, Arts Festival pr...

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