MEDIA BIZ Oktober 2019 #243

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Legacy of one generation to another
While travelling on a train through Austria young
people - mostly teens in their twenties - take their
last chance to ask their grandparents about their experience
before, during, and after the Nazi regime.
How did the victims survive the Holocaust? What did
the bystanders know? What did they do? And what
haven‘t they done?
What can we learn from their experience? How can
we take responsibility today?
Each conversation has a unique focus on a special
part of history in an inimitable way.
Dialogues like this have never been recorded before:
The youngest participant is 12 years old while
the oldest is 104 years old.
The goal of the Austrian filmmaker Fabian Eder, who runs
a small production company called Backyard – Manufactory
for Films, and his wife Katharina Stemberger is to premiere
the feature length documentary „Talk to Me“ and
the 15 episodes series in Canada and in the US during fall
2020 before it will be released in Europe in November
2020. The combination of the
documentary and the series
represents not only over 900
minutes of screening time,
but a very unique archive for
the world.
www.indiegogo.com/projects/talk-to-me-a-documentary-series#/
https://talk-to-me.backyard.at
© Backyard – Manufactory for Films
VR Experience Day 2019
November 6, Baden-Württemberg
The VR Experience Day is organized by the Animation
Institute of the Film Academy Baden-Württemberg.
This year’s focus is on the creation of interactive
and immersive content for non-fictional, documentary
and research-based formats. International
industry experts and projects of the Animation Institute
offer insights into content-related, creative and
technical possibilities for experiencing virtual worlds
and realizing one‘s own VR/AR/XR ideas. Besides
the lectures, there will be a panel discussion with all
speakers and the XR-Experiences Time during which
the Albrecht-Ade-Studio will be transformed into
a virtual experience space and current VR/AR/XR-Media
projects of the speakers and teams of the animation institute
will be brought to life.
The teams of the VR NOW Talent Promotion Initiative will
present their current projects and the VR NOW - responsible
persons will be available for questions and exchange
regarding the application. VR NOW is a project-related
talent promotion initiative for graduates of Baden-
Württemberg universities and institutions of tertiary education.
Alumni and professionals from the fields of art /
production / computer science / technology / etc. have
the opportunity to further develop their innovative VR /
AR / XR project ideas into presentation-ready prototypes.
Unique contents in the field of virtual realities should be
expressed at the highest artistic and technical level.
The application deadline for VR NOW is 1 December, 2019.
www.animationsinstitut.de/en/vrexperienceday
www.animationsinstitut.de/en/vrnow
AVIXA Launches
the AV Experience Awards
AVIXA, the Audiovisual and Integrated
Experience Association announced
the launch of the AV Experience
Awards program to recognize the innovative integration of
content, space, and audiovisual technology to enrich experiences.
The AV Experience Awards program celebrates the ability of AV
technology to expand human capabilities, or to excite, inspire, or
enhance an experience across diverse markets and industries. The
program‘s different categories showcase how thoughtful design
and execution achieve the projects‘ distinct goals.
„Audiovisual technology has the power to enhance how we experience
the world around us - from how we shop, bank, attend
sporting events, check into hotels, and so much more,“ said Dan Goldstein,
Chief Marketing Officer of AVIXA. „We created the AV Experience
Awards to applaud the remarkable ways professionals are designing and
applying AV technology to a multitude of diverse environments.“
In addition to the professional AV community, AVIXA is also soliciting
partner end-user vertical markets for award entries. Artists, designers,
engineers, and creative professionals will be recognized in the following
categories:
- Best Dynamic Art Experience celebrates AV as art - whether it is to
amaze, create a cultural centerpiece, energize people, reinvigorate a
functional space, or display information in a stimulating way.
- Best In-Person Experience recognizes when AV is used strategically to
motivate potential attendees to get out into the real world to experience
something they can‘t see, do, or feel anywhere else.
- Best Individualized Experience highlights applications where technology
creates personalized experiences.
- Best Immersive Experience recognizes illusionary or simulated environments
that envelope individuals into a multi-sensory experience.
- Best Flexible Space Experience highlights AV applications that create
spaces that are constantly changing, adaptable, and facilitate the activities
that happen within them.
- Best Collaborative Experience celebrates applications of AV that bring
people together via technology when they cannot be together in person.
Award entries may be submitted by anyone involved in the project,
whether project originator, creative or technology agency, or the customer.
This includes brand agencies, experience design firms, AV consultants,
designers and integrators, AV manufacturers, and others. Entries
are accepted via direct entry to the program and the following partner
industry awards programs: EHI Awards, World Retail Congress, EUNIS, Experiology,
EdSpaces, and the Association of Luxury Suite Directors (ALSD).
Entries close February 5, 2020.
avxawards.avixa.org
The winners will be recognized in an awards’ presentation at the Info-
Comm 2020 show in Las Vegas on 17 June. Each category winner will
receive travel and hotel accommodations for two individuals to the show.
avixa.org
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Art Visuals & Poetry Film Festival Vienna
29 November to 1 December, 2019: Metro Kinokulturhaus
In 2019, the USA will be the guest country with three film programmes
dedicated to US films.
The international program of films will be accompanied by the
winners of the Weimar Poetry Film Award. The world‘s largest
poetry film festival ZEBRA Münster/Berlin will also present its
own host programme in Vienna.
With 101 film projections, the Art Visual & Poetry Film Festival
Vienna will again be the second largest Poetry Film Festival in
the world.
Trailer: www.youtube.com/watch?v=V77Afj-2YM4
www.poetryfilm-vienna.com
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