On Friday night, another mob scene waited outside the Arlington for their honoree and ultimately filled the house.  Every year the Santa Barbara International Film Festival presents a Director In Residence and this year the versatile David Fincher opened up at the Q & A, dishing the 411 on his film career and the industry in general. Jake Gyllenhaal and Taraji P. Henson were also on hand making additional contributions as per their experience working with Finch with Pete Hammond on deck ...

The Digital Media Festival is a 3-day conference and exhibition for digital content creators. The seminar program covers filmmaking from image acquisition, effects and animation to editing and post production for cinema, TV, DVD and the internet.Nigel Sumner: Digital Supervisor - Digital Artists GroupLucasfilm Animation, SingaporeWorking in a 24-hour international production environment 12pm 13 November.Managing the process of delivering a vision into images - Nigel will discuss the benefits and...

This blog was submitted by Libbey Coghlan of www.artfxfilms.com (Thanks Libbey!) Saturday June 23rd I attended "Behind the Curtain With ILM, A Talk With Dennis Muren"  followed by a special screening of A.I. Artificial Intelligence.  Industrial Light and Magic (ILM) is an SFX company started by George Lucas, the director of Star Wars. Dennis is the senior visual effects supervisor at ILM. In the late 1990's Kubrick collaborated  with Dennis on the special visual effects for the ...