The Digital Media Festival

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.

Speakers from leading studios will show their recent work, demonstrate their techniques and talk directly to you in a vibrant, engaging environment.

Top cinematographers, directors and VFX artists will share their secrets with you during three days of seminars, workshops networking and screenings. DMF is an inspiring and enjoyable way for filmmakers, producers, animators and cinematographers to learn the latest digital techniques for videography, visual effects & animation, editing, sound integration, imaging and visualisation for all projects from feature films to web video shorts.
The preliminary festival program is now online. Below is a brief lineup of speakers.
Festival Program
The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian

Adam Valdez, Animation Director, Visual Effects Supervisor

Moving Picture Company (MPC) London
TIPPETT STUDIO Beverly Hills Chihauha

Jim Brown, Animation Supervisor, Tippett Studios
RED & DIGITAL CAMERAS TODAY

John Bowring , ASC
Houdini at Kanuka Studios

Rangi Sutton, founder
Scorching cross-platform televison

Director/producer Marcus Gillezeau and producers

Kylie du Fresne and Ellenor Cox
The Sixty40 question

Matt Taylor, Animation Director,

and Mark Simpson, Design Director, sixty40
RED - The Nothing Men

Peter Holland, DoP
Conceiving a Dying Breed

Rod Morris, writer and Producer,

and Michael Boughen, co-producer
Monkeylab Magic

Octavio De Lellis and Monica Alfaro, Monkeylab
Making Mary & Max

Henry Karjalainen, Melodrama Pictures
DIGITAL VIDEO - Capturing The Moment

Evan Butson the founder of The Difference Engine
Animal Logic

Australia's most famous VFX and animation companies

makers of Australia's first digital animated feature, Happy Feet,

and a host of award-winning TVCs series and feature film visual effects.
BLENDER - "The Lighthouse" on a

(mostly) open source pipeline

James Neale- Producer and Matt Ebb

Lighting and Shading TD, ProMotion Studios
RED & working for real in 4K

Stuart Monksfield, Cutting Edge

Monkeylab magic

Octavio De Lellis and Monica Alfaro, Monkeylab
Black Water

John Biggins, DOP, David Nerlich, Co-Director
The Ruins

Carsten Kolve, CG Supervisor
Making a 3D TVC

Clinton Downs, the lab Sydney

Dawn of War 2

Nathan Maddams, Creative Director and Dean Finnegan,

Animation Supervisor, Plastic Wax
PLUS

WORKSHOPS

Plug into the Future with Panasonic

Learn the benefits of tapeless workflow (in context of P2HD and AVCHD)

See P2HD/AVCHD workflow with common NLE systems

Learn the difference between Intra/Interframe codec’s

AVC-I (differentiate from AVCHD) AVCHD (differentiate from AVC-I)

Get hands on with two new hand held cameras on display,

AG-HPX172 and AG-HMC152.
AEAF Awards Entry form Rob Coleman - Oscar nominee twice as Animation Director on Star Wars - Attack of the Clones and The Phantom Menace will head our international panel of judges for the AEAF Awards 2008.
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The progrram is being updated regularly - keep looking as extra sessions will be added. Festival Program click here