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Festival Digital creation & virtual worlds
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4-8 April 2018 Forum des Halles
forumdesimages.fr
3 The festival of digital creation and virtual worlds We’ve certainly set our sights high! In April 2018, the Paris Virtual Film Festival (PVFF) and I Love Transmedia will launch NewImages, a brand new festival dedicated to digital creation and virtual worlds. It’s an ambitious challenge, but one we’ve believed in for a long time. “It always seems impossible until it’s done.” These words from Nelson Mandela, who would have turned 100 this year (an event we will celebrate during the festival) certainly resonate with us. Us? Yes us, because the NewImages festival results from an alliance between two flagship events in their field: the Paris Virtual Film Festival, a pioneer of VR creation, with a focus on film; and I Love Transmedia, a key player and influencer in the digital revolution. Built on this partnership, NewImages is the answer to a common goal: to create a unique global event that celebrates digital creation in all its forms. This is why, true to its roots, the Forum des images will become a hub of creative innovation in 2018–a place of experimentation, discovery and sharing, where new images are finally given the attention they deserve. Over five days, visitors will discover an exciting program, encompassing all new forms of images, from virtual reality to holograms, video games, and YouTube creations. Held at the Forum des images and at other locations, NewImages is a chance for everyone to experience something new, and to reach out to new audiences. With a total of about 70 works in all categories, international competitions, a hologram show designed exclusively for the 100th anniversary of Nelson Mandela’s birth, a professional component featuring industry experts, international guests, a next-generation mixed reality design challenge, and a brand new VR app, the NewImages festival is a groundbreaking event that gives everyone the chance to embrace the digital creation of today… and tomorrow. The future starts here. Let’s embrace it. Enjoy the festival! Michaël Swierczynski NewImages Festival Director
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Competition
and prizes
INTERNATIONAL JURY MEMBERS
VR COMPETITION Myriam Achard (Centre Phi, Montreal),
Marc Caro (director), Hubert Charuel
This year, the Masque d’Or awards (director), Sophie Goupil (producer, Les
are back with a new format. Poissons Volants) and Jan Kounen (director)
Two Grands Prix will reward the best
VR Theater experience and the best
interactive VR experience.
The awards ceremony will take place on Friday 6
April, at the end of the industry-only days.
“INVENT AND AUGMENT”
CHALLENGE MR NEWIMAGES/MINSIGHT 24H
The Forum des images will be holding a 24H where they will “recreate”, in mixed reality,
experimental MR challenge on Saturday an iconic scene or atmosphere from the
31 March, in partnership with Minsight, selection of movies to be screened during
which is developing the first ever software the festival. The results of this creative
on HoloLens. Combining cutting-edge challenge will be shown during the festival.
technology and classic parody, participants THIS EVENT IS BEING ORGANIZED
will engage in a fun, creative exercise BY FORUM DES IMAGES AND MINSIGHT
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Virtual reality
Whether in cinema or standing mode, virtual reality embraces all
In Competition
genres, while challenging our senses and expectations.
VR is constantly moving the goalposts, as this international
panorama shows.
VR Theater — Program 1
WED. 4, THU. 5 SAT. 7 & SUN. 8 APRIL Lenght: 28 min
& FRI. 6 APRIL SCREENINGS AT 1 PM - 2 PM Entrance hall
SCREENINGS AT 7 PM & 8 PM 3 PM - 4 PM - 5 PM AND 6 PM Booking recommended
DANS LA PEAU THE OTHER THE TRAIN
DE THOMAS DAKAR HAMASEN
PESQUET Selly Raby Kane - Electric South
Big World Cinema & Goethe Institut
EUROPEAN PREMIERE
Kuan-Yuan Lai - Poké Poké Creative
WORLD PREMIERE Senegal fantasy 8min 2017
& Kaohsiung VR Film Lab
o.v. with English subtitles
Jürgen Hansen & Pierre-Emmanuel Le Goff Taiwan fantasy 8min 2017
o.v. with English subtitles
La Vingt-Cinquième Heure - ProspectTV - DVgroup A little girl is chosen to
& France Télévisions
France doc. 12min 2018 - in French discover the hidden face People from different
of Dakar, a 360° hommage cultures and generations
Thomas Pesquet fulfills coexist in a dreamy world
to Senegalese Mythology.
his childhood dream of Embark in her fantastic "Hamasen", once the
becoming an astronaut. universe and discover most prosperous area in
Along with American Peggy the hidden face of the Kaohsiung. A train falls
Whitson, they undergo Senegalese capital. from the sky, arrives at the
intensive training, from A SPOTLIGHT ON AFRICA PRESENTATION platform on the screen, like
Houston to Moscou. in a movie, and gathers
Thomas takes us with him everybody for a journey
through time and space.
into the pool of the Johnson
Space Center, in the
centrifuge and in the Soyouz
capsule that will launch him
into space.6 VIRTUAL REALITY IN COMPETITION
VR Theater — Program 2
WED. 4, THU. 5 SAT. 7 & SUN. 8 APRIL Lenght: 30 min
& FRI. 6 APRIL SCREENINGS AT 1 PM - 2 PM Entrance hall
SCREENINGS AT 7 PM & 8 PM 3 PM - 4 PM - 5 PM AND 6 PM Booking recommended
NAIROBI BERRIES
FRENCH PREMIERE
Ng’endo Mukii - Electric South
Kenya fiction 8min 2017 – o.v. in English
In the empty spaces we
cannot claim as our own,
YOUR SPIRITUAL in forests full of smoke and
beneath still waters, two
TEMPLE SUCKS women and a man wrangle.
FRENCH PREMIERE Each must hollow out
John Hsu - Serendipity Films the other’s core for fruits
Funique VR & Kaohsiung VR Film Lab
Taiwan fiction 10min 2018 – o.v. in English
promised but only ever
borne in dreams. A poetic
Mr. Chang arrives to his
700 REQUINS 'Spiritual Temple' in the
symphony on Nairobi,
the city we call home.
DANS LA NUIT afterworld, a place that
represents one's destiny.
A SPOTLIGHT ON AFRICA PRESENTATION
WORLD PREMIERE
Manuel Lefèvre & Frédéric Gourdet - Neotopy
To solve his marital crisis
Le Cinquième Rêve & ARTE France doc. and financial problems, he
2×6min 2017 – in French summons his guardian-
In the tiny Fakarava atoll, The Thunder God, to modify
lost in the middle of the the temple from the ground
Pacific ocean, Laurent is up. It turns out to be a big
about to give a final answer mistake...
to his quest: understanding
the hunting behavior of the
biggest shark pack in the
world. Hundreds of grey
sharks living there together
and hunting at night…
Sharing excitement and
doubts, laugh and fears...VIRTUAL REALITY IN COMPETITION 7
VR Theater — Program 3
WED. 4 & FRI. 6 APRIL SAT. 7 & SUN. 8 APRIL Lenght: 30 min
SCREENINGS SCREENINGS AT 1 PM - 2 PM Grand Foyer
AT 7 PM & 8 PM 3 PM - 4 PM - 5 PM AND 6 PM Booking recommended
LET THIS BE
A WARNING
FRENCH PREMIERE
Jim Chuchu - Electric South & Goethe Institut
Kenya drama science 11min 2017 – o.v. in English
A group of Africans have
left the Earth to create a
colony on a distant planet.
VAYSHA L’AVEUGLE
They respond with disquiet VR
to the arrival of an uninvited Theodore Ushev - Marc Bertrand,
Julie Roy & NFB
guest. Surrounded from all Canada animation 8min 2017 – in French
sides, you are this uninvited
guest while your hosts are Vaysha was born with one
wondering what to do with WHO WE REMAIN green eye and the other
you. UNCUT VERSION (previously unseen) brown. Her odd-eyes are
A SPOTLIGHT ON AFRICA PRESENTATION Trevor Snapp & Sam Wolson - Nuba Reports, not the only characteristic
Emblematic Group, ARTE, New York Times & AJ+ of her look. She sees only
USA-Soudan-Allemagne-France doc.
13min 2017 – in French the past of the left eye
and the future of the right
In 2011, war broke out between
eye. She is blinded by the
the Sudan government and
past and tormented by the
the rebel Sudan People’s
future; her unique gaze is
Liberation Army-North
perfectly divided into two
(SPLA-N) in the Nuba
irreconcilable temporalities.
Mountains of Sudan. Today,
outsiders rarely venture to this
region. Humanitarian aid has
been blocked, and Sudanese
journalists are banned from
covering the war, facing
potential imprisonment for
doing so.
A SPOTLIGHT ON AFRICA PRESENTATION8 VIRTUAL REALITY IN COMPETITION
VR Theater — Program 4
WED. 4 & FRI. 6 APRIL SAT. 7 & SUN. 8 APRIL Lenght: 30 min
SCREENINGS SCREENINGS AT 1 PM - 2 PM Grand Foyer
AT 7 PM & 8 PM 3 PM - 4 PM - 5 PM AND 6 PM Booking recommended
THE REAL THING
INTERNATIONAL PREVIEW
Benoit Felici & Mathias Chelebourg - Artline Films,
DVgroup, en coproduction
ARTE France
France doc. 15min 2018
o.v. Chinese with French subtitles
All around Shanghai, THÉÂTRE
thousands of people have
chosen to live or work in D’AUTOMNE
stunning copies of Paris, FRENCH PREMIERE
Mathieu Barrette & Myriam Coulombe - LOREL,
Venice, and London.
Théâtre du Bic & Théâtre les gens d’en bas
This VR documentary film Canada fiction 9min 2017 – in French
invites viewers to a day-trip
into a parallel world where
Things mature with winter, SPIRIT ROBOT
but the thaw makes them PREMIÈRE FRANÇAISE
famous touristic landmarks real again. At the border of Jonathan Dotse - Nubian VR & Electric South
have been turned into vast three levels of reality, you Ghana doc. 8min 2017
neighborhoods. Bewildering are the last-minute guest, without dialogue
copycats that look virtual, the intru- der, the relief actor Spirit Robot is a VR
though absolutely real... who, now in character, must documentary which
take action in the story. You explores the dynamism
will be there, here, now or and ambition of the Chale
elsewhere, you will feel the Wote Street Art Festival
crowd without seeing it. in Accra, an alternative
event that brings art, music,
dance and performance out
of the galleries and onto
the streets, driving an art
renaissance in the city’s
public spaces
A SPOTLIGHT ON AFRICA PRESENTATIONVIRTUAL REALITY IN COMPETITION 9
Stand up VR & installations
MANIFEST 99
FRENCH PREMIERE
Bohdon Sayre & Adam Volker
Flight School Studio
US exp. 10-30min 2017
in English
Manifest 99 is an ominous
IBOX, LA BOÎTE and eerie story about
À INSULTES finding redemption in the
afterlife. Set on a mysterious
FRENCH PREMIERE
train, you assist four travel
Emmanuel Albano - 3Motion Inc.
Canada exp. 5-15min 2017 companions on a journey to
o.v. in French & English their final destination. Look
The spectator finds himself into their eyes and uncover
in conversation with IMMERSIVE the reason why they – and
four actors each seeking
the viewer’s attention.
MUGSHOTS you – are on this train.
PREVIEW INTERNATIONAL WED. 4, THU. 5 & FRI. 6 APRIL
Whenever you pay more DeStéphane Barbato & Nicolas Gagnon - Creative FROM 7 PM TO 9 PM
attention to one, the tension Gymnasium & DV Group - France exp. 8-15min
SAT. 7 & SUN. 8 APRIL
rises as the actors lose 2018 - o.v. with French subtitles
FROM 1 PM TO 7 PM
their patience. iBox is Rob, an American Yankton
an interactive emotional Sioux, who, pretending to go Foyer 50
and personal experience on a quest to collect a sacred Single-User Experience
delivered in spatialized pipestone, actually provides every 30 min or so
audio. us with fragments from his Booking recommended
past. During his journey,
WED. 4, THU. 5 & FRI. 6 APRIL
the many lives of Rob are
FROM 7 PM TO 9 PM
disclosed; he has been a
SAT. 7 & SUN. 8 APRIL
gangster, a soldier, an inmate...
FROM 1 PM TO 7 PM
WED. 4, THU. 5 & FRI. 6 APRIL
Foyer 500
FROM 7 PM TO 9 PM
Single-User every 15 min or so
SAT. 7 & SUN. 8 APRIL
Booking recommended
FROM 1 PM TO 7 PM
Salle 50
Single-User every 15 min or so
Booking recommended10 VIRTUAL REALITY IN COMPETITION
MUNDURUKU
FRENCH PREMIERE
Grace Boyle & James Manisty
Peter Speller & Greenpeace
UK - Brazil doc. 14min 2017 - in English
Immerse yourself in the
lives and struggle of the
Munduruku Indigenous TRINITY
People, deep in the heart EUROPEAN PREMIERE
of the Amazon rainforest. Patrick Boivin - UNLTD
Canada science-fiction 12min 2018 - in English
The experience features
360 video, binaural sound, Trinity is a highly
perfume, heat, wind, innovative, fully immersive,
interactive virtual reality
vibration and humidity, and
takes place inside a giant, experience using live- WOLVES
egg-shaped multisensory action characters and IN THE WALLS
VR pod... big-movie VFX. We’re
creating a new storytelling
(CHAPTER 1)
WED. 4, THU. 5 & FRI. 6 APRIL platform, working with an EUROPEAN PREMIERE
FROM 7 PM TO 9 PM amazing new narrative Pete Billington & Jessica Yaffa Shamash - Oculus
SAT. 7 & SUN. 8 APRIL Story Studio & Fable Studio
and visual language that’s US animation 9min 2018 - in English
FROM 1 PM TO 7 PM revolutionizing the way we Lucy suspects that wolves
Foyer 500 tell stories. live in the walls of her
Single-User Experience WED. 4, THU. 5 & FRI. 6 APRIL family’s home. She has no
every 15 min or so FROM 7 PM TO 9 PM one to believe her ... but you.
Booking recommended SAT. 7 & SUN. 8 APRIL This exquisitely crafted
FROM 1 PM TO 7 PM animated experience casts
you as an active performer
Foyer 500 in a narrative where you
Single-User Experience interact, have a relationship
every 15 min or so with, and go on a quest with
Booking recommended the central character.
WED. 4, THU. 5 & FRI. 6 APRIL
FROM 7 PM TO 9 PM
SAT. 7 & SUN. 8 APRIL
FROM 1 PM TO 7 PM
Salle 50
Single-User Experience
every 15 min or so
Booking recommendedLE 7 BAR e ON THE MEZZANINE FLOOR LUNCH - COFFEE BREAK - DRINKS WEDNESDAY 4 THROUGH SATURDAY 7 APRIL, FROM NOON TO 9:30PM SUNDAY 8 APRIL, FROM NOON TO 8:30PM
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ACCREDITED MEMBERS ONLY
Industry Days
THU. 5 & FRI. 6 APRIL FROM 8AM Details: see planning p. 19-21
With two industry days, the festival provides professionals with
a broad and ambitious offer. From conferences and meetings to
exclusive presentations of projects in development, networking
sessions and more, this professional component features well-known
industry experts, and aims to examine and promote digital creation
in all its forms.
PRACTICAL INFORMATION
FORUM DES IMAGES AND ACCEDITATION OFFICE
OPPENS AT 8AM
The accreditation provides entry to all festival
activities (except those reserved for industry
professionals), subject to availability. Attendees must
collect a ticket from the front desk.
EXPERIENCES AND INSTALLATIONS
Professionals only: Thursday and Friday
from 1 pm to 6 pm: TALKS & PANELS
• VR Theater Specialists from around the world give
one screening per hour, from 1 pm to 5 pm their assessment of digital creation,
• Video games, interactive narratives and reflect on the links between digital
Looped, subject to availability technology and artistic production. Through
numerous presentations, they outline their
• Stand-up VR and installations
development strategies, talk about the
Looped, subject to availability
narrative, technical and sociological issues
raised by creative innovation, and detail
HOLOGRAM SHOWS
their expectations for the years to come.
Two sessions reserved for accredited professionals
Thursday 5 april at 8:45 pm and 9:30 pm
(subjet to availability)
See p.18INDUSTRY DAYS 13
A LOOK AT THE CANADIAN FOCUS ON IMMERSIVES
MODEL REALITIES
An ambitious and innovative country, and In partnership with the French Institute,
the envy of many other nations, Canada NewImages welcomes around thirty industry
now has the opportunity to rank among the players (creators, producers, distributors,
leaders of digital creation and virtual reality. event planners, etc.) from around the world
Creators, government representatives, and to identify the cultural applications and
support funds are all coming up with more creations of immersive reality. Through
and more exciting initiatives and proposals. discoveries and demonstrations, talks and
Let’s get up to speed with the Canadian speed-meetings, this is an opportunity for
approach, find out what makes it work, and French and foreign professionals to meet,
learn about its future objectives. highlight French creation and expertise,
engage in new international markets, and
encourage overseas cooperation.
See p.17
VR LAB
During the festival, film industry
professionals are given a brief introduction
to virtual reality. Led by well-known mentors,
this artistic and educational initiative
is a great opportunity to explore the full
potential of VR, and investigate the new
IN THE SPOTLIGHT: ways it can be applied in the field of the arts.
THE AFRICAN CONTINENT
From the development of the African
Tech Industry, and related studios, to
the organization of ambitious creative
hackathons, to the increase in VR displays
at local festivals, there’s no shying away
from Africa’s dynamism and exceptional
creativity when it comes to digital creation.
A whole new generation of African artists
and entrepreneurs are harnessing digital
technology in order to create. Using new
narrative formats and drawing inspiration
from history and current events, they help
outsiders see the continent in a new light.
They are the ones inventing the Africa of
today and tomorrow.14 INDUSTRY DAYS
WORK-IN-PROGRESS
SESSIONS
At an exclusive event, young creators
and producers will pitch projects they
are developing in front of an audience of
industry professionals. Come and have
a listen, and be the first to discover the
creations of the future!
The following projects will be presented:
Sex Buyers Experience by Ève-Marine Joly,
Griffin by Romain Bonnin and Louise Genis
Cosserat, The Werewolves Experience by
NETWORKING SESSIONS
Business breakfasts, cocktails, one-to-
Christopher Morrison, and Dreamin’ Zone by
one meetings–there’s no shortage of
Fabienne Giezendanner.
opportunities to meet, boosting interaction
and networking, as well as fostering
TIU LAB discussion and collaboration between young
European creators and global players.
NewImages has inherited the TIU LAB, an
educational laboratory run by the festival’s
organizing body, I Love Transmedia.
Professionals and students work together
in the LAB to develop exciting digital
projects. This year, TIU will introduce a
new generation of European interactive
designers.
Attending schools: CELSA - Fonderie de
l’Image (Paris), DSAA - Lycée Jacques
Prévert (Boulogne), ESAAT (Roubaix), ESAD
(Valenciennes), Escola Universitària – ERAM
(Gérone), GOBELINS - CNAM ENJMIN
(Paris), LISAA Paris)TÉLÉCHARGEZ L’APPLICATION :
© Istockphoto - On est Ensemble Productions
afrique.tv5monde.com
/tv5mondeafrique16 INDUSTRY DAYS
Guests & Speakers
The Industry Days Talk sessions, to be held on Thursday 5 and
Friday 6 April, are a great opportunity to meet industry players.
MYRIAM ACHARD MILAN BOISGARD SAMANTHA COOK
Director of Public CEO - NEON VR & Co-founder and
Relations and GoGlasses producer exécutive -
Communications - Artifact 5
Phi Center ROMAIN BONNIN
YELENA RACHITSKY Author, Director, DAVID DUFRESNE
Executive Producer EMMANUEL ALBANO Head of Digital Director
- Oculus VR Director & Founder - Development - Flair
3MOTION INC Production JONATHAN GAGNÉ
CEO -
AVI AMAR SIMON BOUISSON MasterpieceVR
Producer - Floréal Director
Films SOPHIE GARRIC
GRACE BOYLE Videomaker
BENOÎT ARBELOT Director & Founder -
MIKE KNOWLTON MARIE-PIER GAUTHIER
R&D Engineer - The Feelies
Business Builder & Producer - ONF/
Studio Théoriz
Content Innovator - TEGAN BRISTOW NFB
Campfire CHRISTOPHE BAUDOUIN Director - Fak’ugesi
Producer - Mia African Digital - LOUISE
productions Innovation Festival GENIS-COSSERAT
Producer -
DOUNIA BEN MOHAMED LOUIS CACCIUTTOLO Webspider
Director - Africa CEO - VRrOOm Productions
News Agency
ED SOLOMON STÉPHANE CARDIN FABIENNE
Writer & Producer ALON BENARI VP, Industry and GIEZENDANNER
Chief Creative Public Affairs - Director
Officer - Eko Canada Media Fund
ULRICO GRECH-CUMBO
LORENZO BENEDETTI ANTOINE CARDON Co-Founder & Chief
CEO - Studio Bagel CIO - DVgroup Executive Officer -
Productions & DeepVR
CATHERINE ALLEN Digital Creative ANTOINE CAYROL
VR Curator Director - Canal+ Producteur - AtlasV JOHN HAMILTON
& Founder - Limina CEO - UNLTD VR
Immersive PETE BILLINGTON DAVID-ALEXANDRE
Author, Director CHANEL JUSTIN HENDRIX
& Immersive Co-founder, Executive Director -
Storyteller - Fable Creative and NYC Media Lab
Studio Managing Director -
Studio ThéorizINDUSTRY DAYS 17
BENJAMIN HOGUET MARIANNE ANA SERRANO AMMIN YOUSSOUF
Author & Immersive LÉVY-LEBLOND Chief Digital Officer Impact Technologist
Storyteller Head of Web and - Canadian Film & CEO - Afrobytes
Transmedia Projects Centre & Director -
HOLTA HOXHA-CARRON - ARTE CFC Media Lab HÉLÈNE ZEMMOUR
Managing director Head of Digital -
- 1000 Visages CAMILLE LOPATO TREVOR SNAPP TV5Monde
Production Founder - Diversion Photographer,
cinema journalist & Director
SORAYA JABER
Co-founder - CÉDRIC MAL SAM WOLSON
Minsight Publishing Director
Manager - Le Blog
ÈVE-MARINE JOLY Documentaire
Producer - Day for
Night Productions FRÉDÉRIC MALÈGUE
As part of the Focus on Immersive Realities
Founder - Goyaves/
FRÉDÉRIC JOSUÉ GingaLab In collaboration with the French Institute,
Director - Havas come and meet them:
& VP - Uni-XR CHARLES MICHEL
Experience IVON BENSASON MUAID KHITI
SELLY RABY KANE Designer Koc University Dubai International
Fashion Designer (Turkey) Film Festival
and Director MARGAUX MISSIKA (United Arab
Producer - Upian ALEXANDRU
ELISHA KARMITZ BERCEANU Emirates)
Co-Owner and CHRISTOPHER Cinetic (Romania) TERESA KWONG
Managing Director MORRISON Hong Kong Arts
- Mk2 IGNACIO DE LA VEGA
Author & Director Center (Hong Kong)
LEV Festival
VINCENT KAWNICK NG’ENDO MUKII (Spain) KEVIN LIM
Co-founder - Virtual Director National Gallery
Room SHARI FRILOT
(Singapore)
THOMAS NIGRO Chief Curator, New
NATHALIE KLIMBERG Co-founder - Frontier & Senior JUDITH OKONKWO -
Editor-in-Chief - Minsight Programmer - IMSI 3D (Nigeria)
Mediakwest Sundance Film
PHILIPPE PASQUIER Festival (USA) MAURICE ORTEGA
PIERRE-EMMANUEL Associate Professor JONES
LE GOFF GABRIEL GIANDINOTO Jones - Mutek Japan
SIAT, Simon
Producer - La Vingt- Ventana Sur (Japan)
Fraser University,
Cinquième Heure Vancouver (Argentina)
DELPHINE SEITIEE
FABIO HOFNIK
LUCAS SERRALTA Festival Hyper World VR Forum
Head of Digital (Switzerland)
Virtual (Brazil)
Experience - Canal+
XU XIAN
Whaley VR (China)
YUNG CHU YANG
Funique (Taiwan)18
Off-Site
In 2018, the festival is venturing into the heart of Paris. NewImages
will be organizing several events in iconic locations across the Halles
district, to give as many people as possible a chance to explore the
artistic potential of new technologies. Come and try out virtual
worlds, where you least expect them!
I AM PREPARED TO DIE
MANDELA, A LANDMARK TRIAL
Hologram show at the Church of Saint-Eustache
As part of the spotlight on Africa, and to
mark the 100 th anniversary of his birth, the
French National Audiovisual Institute (Ina)
and the Forum des images will be paying I AM PREPARED TO DIE - MANDELA, LANDMARK TRIAL
tribute to Nelson Mandela.
Rivonia, South Africa, June 1964 – The
court sentences Nelson Mandela, the leader
of the struggle against Apartheid, and his
companions, to life in prison. Recreated
in holograms and 3D in the magnificent
setting of the Church of Saint-Eustache, this
extraordinary immersive experience will STAR WARS : JEDI CHALLENGE
place attendees at the heart of the trial.
The show, which will have its world premiere
during the Festival, was created using
IMMERSIVES
unpublished audio archives from Mandela’s EXPERIENCES
oral argument, and prosecutor Percy Under the canopy of Forum des Halles
Yutar’s cross-examination. Sourced from Do you fancy a VR movie session, or would
the National Archives (NARSSA) of the you rather have a lightsaber fight in the
Department of Arts and Culture of Star Wars: Jedi Challenge?
South-Africa, these were digitized and A range of immersive and communal
restored by Ina and LARHRA (ENS-Lyon). experiences, open to everyone for the
An Ina production, presented by Ina and Forum des duration of the festival, will be organized
images, in association with TV5MONDE. Based on an under the canopy of Forum des Halles,
original idea by Forum des images. giving spectators a taste of the incredible
Directed by Adrénaline Studio sensations promised by virtual worlds.
THURSDAY 5 APRIL FROM WEDNESDAY 4 TO SATURDAY
7 APRIL, 2 PM - 8 PM
AT 8:45 PM AND 9:30 PM
SUNDAY 8 APRIL, 2 PM - 9 PM19
AGENDA
INDUSTRY DAYS
ACCREDITED MEMBERS ONLY
THURSDAY 5 APRIL p.12
Throughout Forum
1 to 6 pm IMMERSIVE EXPERIENCES
des images
9.30 to 9.45am OPENING REMARKS Salle 300
9.45 to 10.15am
IMMERSIVE STORYTELLING WITH CAMPFIRE Keynote Salle 300
Mike Knowlton
MINSIGHT: A FRENCH STARTUP TAKES ON THE CHALLENGE
10 to 10.30am OF MIXED REALITY Keynote Salle 100
Soraya Jaber, Thomas Nigro
LOCATION-BASED ENTERTAINMENT:
10.30 to 11am A TROJAN HORSE FOR VR Keynote Salle 300
Antoine Cardon
METAPHORICAL STORYTELLING
10.45 to 11.15am THROUGH SOUND AND SIGHT Keynote Salle 100
Samantha Cook
11.15am MOBILE STORYTELLING: THE OTHER ELDORADO?
Marianne Lévy-Leblond, Simon Bouisson, Round Table Salle 300
to 12.15 pm David Dufresne, Benjamin Hoguet
11.30am to 12 pm
NEW IMAGES: HOW CAN WE FOSTER NEW TALENTS? Keynote Salle 100
Holta Hoxha-Carron, Avi Amar
YOUTUBE CREATION: A VIRGIN CONTINENT
12.30 to 1.30 pm Margaux Missika, Sophie Garric, Round Table Salle 300
Christophe Baudoin, Lorenzo Benedetti
THE FUTURE OF SCREENING SITES AND IMMERSIVE
12.30 to 1.30 pm
ENTERTAINMENT CONTENT Round Table Salle 100
Louis Cacciuttolo, ElishaKarmitz,
Vincent Kawnick, Camille Lopato, Milan Boisgard
AFRICA–READY TO TAKE ON THE DIGITAL WORLD
2.30 to 3.30 pm Ulrico Grech-Cumbo, Ammin Youssouf, Round Table Salle 300
Hélène Zemmour, Dounia Ben Mohamed
NYC MEDIA LAB: LABS AND INCUBATORS
2.30 to 3.15 pm IN SUPPORT OF INNOVATION Case Study Salle 100
Justin Hendrix20 AGENDA
THE FREEDOM OF CREATIVITY
3.30 to 4 pm THROUGH EXPERIMENTATION Keynote Salle 100
Emmanuel Albano
VR FUNDING AND SCREENING MECHANISMS IN CANADA
3.45 to 4.45 pm Myriam Achard, Stéphane Cardin, Ana Serrano, Round Table Salle 300
Nathalie Klimberg
BETWEEN IMMERSION AND NARRATIVE:
4.30 to 5 pm CONSTRUCTING STORIES IN VR Keynote Salle 100
Trevor Snapp, Sam Wolson
5 to 5.30 pm
MUNDURUKU: A MULTISENSORY EXPERIENCE Keynote Salle 300
Grace Boyle, Charles Michel
DANS LA PEAU DE THOMAS PESQUET: THE FIRST VR SPACE
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Pierre-Emmanuel Le Goff
HOW OCULUS VR IS WORKING WITH PARTNERS
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Louise Genis-Cosserat, Christopher Morrison,
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MONETIZATION OF VR: HOW CAN ALL THIS GREAT THIS
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Antoine CayrolAGENDA 21
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Alon Benari
CAN VR CREATIONS MAKE US SEE AFRICA IN A NEW LIGHT?
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Bristow
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David-Alexandre Chanel, Benoît Arbelot
WHERE ART MEETS TECHNOLOGY: A LOOK BACK AT
3.45 to 4.15 pm MASTERPIECE VR Case Study Salle 100
Jonathan Gagné
AUGMENTED CREATION: ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AS AN
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Frédéric Malègue, Philippe Pasquier,
Lucas Serralta, Frédéric Josué, Marianne Hurstel
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DIGITAL CREATION MADE IN QUEBEC Round Table Salle 100
Marie-Pier Gauthier, John Hamilton, Cédric Mal
I HAVE NO IDEA WHAT THIS THING IS CALLED:
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Ed Solomon
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