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FILMGATE MIAMI is a not-for-profit film organization that empowers actors, writers, and independent filmmakers in Florida. We strive to bring audiences and creators together through workshops, screenings, and educational events that benefit our community at large.

 
 
 
 
 
 
 

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15 Days away! Enter the FILMGATE XR PORTAL • Enjoy over 41 sensory experience projects @ FILMGATE INTERACTIVE MEDIA FESTIVAL #06 - we are happy to be amongst all the #artbaselmiami #miamiartweek events. 19 VIP passes remain (designed for tech business leaders, video production company owners & artists of augmented & virtual reality) • TECH PLAYGROUND is FREE at the Downtown Media Center - a video & sound gear expo filled with free film workshops and Florida media businesses booths! Hope you enjoy!
⭐️PhD and MA in Communication, University of Southern California; BA in Physics, Haverford College.⭐️ 😱 •Benjamin Stokes is a civic media scholar and game designer. •He is an Assistant Professor in the School of Communication, and at the AU Game Lab. Previously, he co-founded Games for Change, the movement hub for advancing social change with games. At the MacArthur Foundation prior to academia, Benjamin was a program officer in their portfolio on Digital Media and Learning. Benjamin has also worked at the UC Berkeley School of Information as a postdoctoral scholar in data science. Design experience in civil society includes leading teams at NetAid/Mercy Corps in global citizenship education.
⭐️Hayoun Kwon (KR), born in 1981, is a multimedia artist and cofounder of Innerspace VR. ⭐️ •She graduated from the Fresnoy – Studio national des Arts contemporains and she lives and works in France and in Korea. Her film Lack of evidence (2011) and Village Model (2014) has been awarded several times and shown at a number of film festivals. •The reflection on identity and borders is central to her previous works. She has focused more specifically on the construction of historical and individual memory and their ambivalent relationship to reality and fiction.
⭐️Born in 1985, lives and works in Paris.⭐️ • Balthazar Auxietre is a graduate of Le Fresnoy studio national des arts contemporains, after a course in the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs. Currently, he is creative director at Innerspace, a virtual reality studio he co-founded in 2014. Since, he has produced several narrative-driven experiences shipped with the launch of all major VR headsets. • Balthazar is one of the world’s most recognized creator in the field of VR and his piece Firebird: La Péri has received numerous awards for both innovation and artistic direction.
Executive Director of @filmgate_interactive & curator of FilmGate Interactive Media Festival 2018 Diliana Alexander finalizes new virtual reality & augmented reality additions to this years festival - see you Nov 30th in Downtown Miami ☀️ Florida
If you are interested in enhancing your media & new media related art & business we ☝🏼have something for you • FILMGATE VIP PASS the all-access $150 pass ends this Friday. FilmGate Interactive Media Festival 2018 DEC 1st & 2nd we spotlight the ways new technology is revolutionizing the media industry and its relationship with audiences. In other words be here & see how together we can make impactful journalism & sound storytelling happen. Hear it from the people & companies currently are setting the path. Welcome to Magic Leap, The New York Times, VICE media, The Washington Post, Vox , HP and more
A warm ☀️ Miami welcome to KEYNOTE SPEAKER ⭐️JOANNA POPPER OF HP VR • Joanna Popper is a Hollywood and Silicon Valley media executive. She recently became HP’s Global Head of Virtual Reality for Location Based Entertainment. Prior she was EVP of Media & Marketing at Singularity University and VP Marketing at NBCUniversal. Joanna developed a TV show partnership with NBC and Singularity University for a new TV series on technology and innovation. Joanna was selected as “50 👩🏼Women Can Change the World in Media and Entertainment,” “Top Women in Digital: Game Changers,” “101 Women Leading the VR Industry” and is on the Coalition for the Women in XR Fund. Our FilmGate members are thrilled to have Joanna as the KEYNOTE SPEAKER at FILMGATE DEC 2nd in Downtown Miami - Let’s connect!
NOV 30th FILMGATE KICKOFF EXPERIENCE EVENT! Featuring 👉🏼 Miami Motel Stories™ is an, real-time immersive theatre experience that takes place in developing neighborhoods, inside selected buildings. Here, writers will work, alongside developers, to tell the story of Miami’s past, present, and future, one room at a time. The work will reflect the undercurrent of history, both real and imagined, bringing artistry, responsible growth, and home-grown craft to Miami’s ever-quickening rush to develop. Get your FILMGATE VIP PASS! (Limit 30 passes remain)
⭐️Meet Armando Turco ⭐️ Armando Turco is the General Manager of Vox Creative at Vox Media. He leads the creative excellence, growth, and go-to-market strategy of the company's rapidly growing content businesses. Vox Creative is also home to the team that leads creative strategy and production for all of Vox Media’s advertising partners. Since joining Vox Media in January 2017, Armando has nearly doubled the Vox Creative team and launched its offshoot - The Explainer Studio. In the last year, they have successfully overseen the production of more than 75 campaigns for clients like Spotify, the NFL, Volvo, Capital One, Google and more. Armando has nearly 20 years experience in the advertising and marketing industry, working in an executive capacity at world-class agencies such as Redscout, BBH and McCann Erickson. He resides in NYC with his husband and his rescue mutt, Andre Johnson.❤️
⭐️Meet Chris Adamo *Featured Speaker* The New Tropic/ whereby.us, ⭐️ At media-tech startup WhereBy.Us, the creators of local publications like Miami’s The New Tropic, Seattle’s The Evergrey, Portland's Bridgeliner, and Orlando's Pulptown, he is the Chief Business Officer focused on growing their revenue model across the country working with local stakeholders and brands to create more inclusive and connected cities. Before joining the team at WhereBy.Us, he spent 8 years at 1800 Flowers.com, growing their corporate partnerships and digital gifting business, across 5 different roles in the organization centered around innovation. On the Community side, Chris is a founding partner of Social Venture Partners Miami, a non-profit fund focused on strategic investments in Miami's social impact organizations. He also lends his time as a mentor and advisor at the Watson Institute, Binghamton University, Audubon House, any entrepreneurs that express an interest in having a positive social impact. Chris has an MBA and BS from Binghamton University and resides in Miami with his wife, Randi Wolfson along with his vibrant collection of hawaiian shirts.
⭐️Meet Julian Aubert*FEATURED SPEAKER* ⭐️ He founded and runs Bigger Than Fiction in Paris since 2011. As a digital agency, BTF has been inventing with major French producers and broadcasters new strategies to gather the audience of a TV program on Social Media. The production company has sold breakthrough social media formats. SUMMER (ARTE) is the first Instagram comic series. A drama-comedy about love and new experiences in 60 days and 60 episodes. RAP FIGHTER (Studio 4) is a 7 * 4 minutes Youtube rap battle tournament where real rappers play characters from animated movies. INSTRAVIATA (ARTE Concert) tells the opera La Traviata in a animated comics series and the life of her lead-singer in the first Stories-documentary. Julien has graduated an MBA Creativity & Innovation at Federation University, Australia.
⭐️ Coming DEC 1st to Downtown Miami • 🏄 THE POINT BREAK PARADIGM with Cameron Farrelly of Virtue/ VICE - As the most important film in cinema history, Point Break influenced culture far beyond Hollywood. It challenged masculine ideals, invited shrouded subcultures into the mainstream, and blurred the lines of good and evil in ways the world had never seen. Point Break is as punk rock as it is philosophical. Without it, there would be no Ace Ventura, Fast & The Furious or Moonlight. Yet its legacy is seldom celebrated for the progressive paths it paved and the storytelling masterclass it offers up to future filmmakers. 27 years on, join Cameron Farrelly as he dismantles this cult classic to reveal five timeless lessons hidden within, and how they unintentionally helped Miami become so sociologically significant in media and entertainment. Catch this and many more eccentric events at FilmGate Interactive Media Festival #06 NOV 30 - DEC 2nd 2018 in Miami Florida ☀️
⭐️ USING PLAYFUL TECHNOLOGY FOR SOCIAL CHANGE panel • are you an experience designer or enjoy audience activations then this panel is for you. Among the myriad of opportunities around mixed reality and playful technologies is the ability to engage communities with stories that compel them. The panel shares lessons learned in telling stories through playful technology. What are the best ways to start such projects, What are the potentials of such projects and how do you implement this work on a limited budget? The panel is designed to provide a combination of practical and inspiring advice on using playful technology to tell unique, exciting stories. SPEAKERS: Benjamin Stokes, Lindsay Grace MODERATOR: Lien Tran • all FILMGATE panels & guests will be in Miami DEC 1 & 2nd - passes are available now
⭐️ FILMGATE PREMIERE ⭐️ SPHERES is an interactive virtual reality series exploring the music of the cosmos. Instead of looking at the Universe, for the first time we listen to its songs. We enter an immersive world that transports us to the deepest corners of the Universe. EPISODE ONE: CHORUS OF THE COSMOS We discover the Universe through sound. Space is full of frequencies that we can listen to. Uncovering these waves, we create music. Our solar system becomes an instrument. We play its song, crafting a unique musical journey. This is the chorus of the cosmos. EPISODE TWO: SONGS OF SPACETIME Narrated by Jessica Chastain Dive into the heart of a black hole and uncover the hidden songs of the cosmos. In this interactive VR experience, the breakthrough discovery of gravitational waves transforms how we see the Universe. Fall into the darkness, and you will find the light. EPISODE THREE: PALE BLUE DOT Narrated by Patti Smith In this cosmic journey from the edges of the universe to our “pale blue dot,” we uncover echoes of the Big Bang; gaze back in time; trace the history of sound across the cosmos, traverse the Universe and ultimately find the strangest song of all - the human voice. CREATED BY: Eliza McNitt KEY COLLABORATORS: Darren Aronofsky, Ari Handel, Jess Engel, Arnaud Colinart, Dylan Golden IN COLLABORATION WITH: Oculus Studios, Protozoa Pictures, Intel, Kaleidoscope CAST: Patti Smith, Jessica Chastain and Millie Bobby Brown RELEASE DATE: 2018 LANGUAGES: English DURATION: 3 episodes, 15 minutes . Welcome to this PRE MIAMI ARTWEEK / ART BASEL interactive media festival DEC 1st & 2nd
20 DAYS AWAY! Get your hands on the VIP PASS • this year at FilmGate Interactive Media Festival we spotlight the ways new technology is revolutionizing the media industry and its relationship with the audience. In other words be here & see how together we can make impactful journalism & sound storytelling happen. Hear it from the people & companies currently are setting the way. welcome to Magic Leap, The New York Times, VICE media, The Washington Post, Vox , HP and more
BURY ME, MY LOVE • Inspired by real events and imbued with themes of love, hope and migration, Bury me, my Love tells the story of Syrian refugee Nour and her husband Majd as Nour undertakes a perilous journey to safety. The title of the story-driven interactive fiction comes from the Syrian goodbye phrase that roughly means “Take care, and don’t even think about dying before I do.” This phrase takes on a deeper meaning as players take on the role of Majd, who is forced to stay behind and can only able to communicate with his wife through their smartphones. By reading instant messages and choosing response options, players help Nour overcome the hardships she will encounter, with the story featuring multiple endings. PRODUCTION: The Pixel Hunt, Figs, ARTE France PLATFORMS: iOS, Android (mobile devices and tablets) RELEASE DATE: 2017 SELECTIONS/AWARDS: Games Developer Conference 2018, International Mobile Game Awards 2018 (best meaningful play, winner) Games for Change in NYC 2018 - #socialchange #immigration #newmedia