Who's NEXT: The players in Cannes!
Next members
Adastra Films is an innovative production company based in Cannes, specialized in interactive cinema and virtual reality 360° content. The ‘Alpha Pill’ project, a unique experience that allows the viewers to interact live with the film, is premiering in Cannes on 17th May 2016. The company is awarded Best Emerging Producer by France Télévisions in 2014 and one of the Future Leaders in Production by Screen magazine in 2015. Adastra Films received more than 250 festival awards worldwide. Contact in Cannes: Sébastien Aubert, CEO and Founder, s.aubert@adastra-films.com
Agit Prog is an online film catalogue for an alternative circuit of theatrical exhibition. It brings together a diverse collection of unique titles that have been barely or not at all distributed. Agit Prog aims at being a tool for independent exhibitors who wish to set up a different kind of programming as well as a stepping stone for films that have not received the exposure they deserve outside the festival circuit. This initiative is meant to promote theatrical screenings worldwide by using digital flows to facilitate access to the films on the platform in all territories and for all audiences. Contact in Cannes: Aurélie Gomes, CEO and Founder, agitprogfilm@gmail.com Agit Prog
The third B3 Biennial of the Moving Image will take place in Frankfurt/Main, Germany. The main focus of the B3 is to celebrate and invigorate crossparticipation across all the artistic disciplines (from film to TV to VR to art to games). More than 200 artists and media professionals will present their films and projects in more than 20 venues.
B3 Biennial of the Moving Image, Frankfurt/ Main, Germany; November 29 – December 3, 2017 Note! B3 Beijing (China) in October 2016. Contact in Cannes: Anna-Katharina Gerson, Head of Festival Programming and Public Affairs, gerson@b3biennale.com B 3 Biennial of the Moving Image
Cinando was launched by the Marché du Film - Festival de Cannes in 2003 as the complete database of the attendees at Cannes. Since then, it has become the premier network offering film professionals the best tools to navigate the film industry: contacts, films, projects in development, market screening schedules, market attendees, screeners... it’s all here! Cinando is also available on iPhone and Android. Contact in Cannes: Charlotte Hurni, Communication Coordinator, churni@cinando.com Camillle Rousselet, Project Manager, crousselet@cinando.com Daily tips for Cinando users: learn useful hints to navigate the first networking platform for film professionals and become a Cinando expert! Every day at the NEXT Pavilion from Wednesday May 11 to Friday May 20 (Check the schedule on location). Cinando 11
Cineuropa (www.cineuropa.org) is an online information portal that promotes European cinema worldwide. The website is updated daily in four languages and is specially designed for professionals and moviegoers. Cineuropa employs one journalist in each member state of the EU who write for 40.000 readers visiting the website every day. Contact in Cannes: Valerio Caruso, Director, caruso@cineuropa.org Domenico La Porta, Editor in Chief, laporta@cineuropa.org Cineuropa
Cross Video Days is the leading market for Digital-first Content, one of the best place to capture trends and discover the very finest of the interactive & immersive creation. The event hosted 500 1-to-1 meetings with some of the most emblematic digital Commissioners Tribeca, Youtube, Sony Pictures, Red Bull, VICE, BBC, ZDF, Arte… 7th Edition will be held in Paris on June 8-10th with conferences & demo space focusing on VR! Contact in Cannes: Bruno Smadja, Founder and CEO, bruno@mobilevent.com Elie Levasseur, Head of Content Market, elie@mobilevent.com Pitching Session: When Cinema goes VR & Digital. On Thursday May 12 from 2:00pm to 4:00pm, Next Conference Room Cross Video Days
CtrlMovie owns a unique and patent-pending IP, which allows creating seamless interactive movies of cinematic quality for mobile devices, interactive theatrical screenings and home entertainment. CtrlMovie creates interactive movies on its own and offers its technology, expertise and services to third party producers. In March 2016, CtrlMovie launched its first feature-length production called ‘Late Shift – Your Decisions Are You’. Contact in Cannes: Baptiste Planche, CEO, baptiste@undsoehne.ch Conference: Late Shift – How we married multi-branched storytelling with the language of cinema. On Tuesday May 17 from 12:00pm to 1:00pm, Next Conference Room Market Screening: Late Shift - Your Decisions Are You. On Wednesday May 18 from 3:30pm to 5:30pm, Palais J CtrlMovie
Geneva International Film Festival Tous Ecrans has been exploring the relationship between cinema, television, and new forms of digital creation since 1995, with a programme based on one simple idea: Authors are at the heart of audio-visual creation and their viewpoints are expressed through our screens. As a place where all genres and disciplines meet, the Festival fosters an attitude of celebration and experimentation. Five competitive sections enforce the discovery of new talents, while the out-of-competition programme (Nuits blanches, Focus, Retrospective, Highlight Screenings, Workflow, etc.) celebrates - in picture and music - the diversity and wealth of audio-visual arts. Contact in Cannes: Emmanuel Cuénod, Executive and Artistic Director, ec@tous-ecrans.com VR Experience: Birdly and Real Virtuality. From Wednesday May 11 to Saturday May 14, VR Showroom Conference: Beyond Cinema: the Swiss Digital Revolution. On Friday May 13 from 2:00pm to 4:00pm, NEXT Conference Room Festival Tous Ecrans media partner
FilmDoo is an online platform helping to redefine the way people experience and engage with films and content from around the world. FilmDoo launched its Beta in May 2015 in the UK and Ireland with over 750 features and short films and is now launching globally with over a thousand features and shorts available. FilmDoo anticipates having over 10,000 hours of content available by year-end. FilmDoo also has a rapidly expanding B2B sub-licensing business and other business streams in the pipeline. Contact in Cannes: Weerada Sucharitkul, Co-founder & Director, wps@filmdoo.com FilmDoo Film265 is a consortium consisting of a number of European partners from the video coding field and the film industry who delivers a comprehensive approach to support European small and medium VoD services with the most innovative video codec technology. It aims at providing them with the technological edge needed to compete in the international market of film distribution on the Internet. Contact in Cannes: Mauricio Alvarez-Mesa, Developer, mauricio@aes.tu-berlin.de Conference: Don’t let video compression kill your film. On Tuesday May 17 from 4:00pm to 6:00pm, Palais I
Film265 Founded in 2007, the pioneering IDFA DocLab program at the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam has become one of the world’s leading platforms for virtual reality and other new forms of interactive cinema and art. In November, IDFA DocLab will celebrate its 10th anniversary edition. At Cannes, IDFA DocLab will present a showcase of virtual reality projects pushing the boundaries of the documentary genre. Contact in Cannes: Caspar Sonnen,Head of New Media, caspar@idfa.nl VR screening and discussion: IDFA DocLab VR Documentary Showcase. On Monday May 16, NEXT VR Cinema IDFA International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam
Founded in 2009, IPEDA is a non-profit association dedicated to helping its members (Film Producers, Distributors, Sales companies, and professional associations) in film distribution and marketing, while being dedicated to the advancement of the European Film Industry in the digital age. IPEDA is dedicated to increasing the cross-border circulation and monetization of content, providing market and research information to all stakeholders of the film industry, and sustaining a healthy development of VoD distribution models to the service of the independent film industry. Contact in Cannes: Muriel Joly, treasurer, muriel.joly@ipeda.eu Conference: Digital marketing for VoD distribution: mind the gap. On Saturday May 14 from 12:00pm to 1:00pm, Next Conference Room IPEDA
PICKUP was created in July 2014 with the aim to distribute audiovisual content in innovative ways. As early as July 2015, Pickup enters the nascent industry of virtual reality and starts building commercial and creative ties with the first players in VR. Today, PICKUP enables audiences to access VR with pickupVRcinema, the first VR cinema in France. This is the first step to a bigger ambition: we want to become the first european player to be active from content production to its exploitation. Contact in Cannes: Camille Lopato, Acquisition, camille.lopato@pickupfilms.com VR screening: pickupVRcinema Showcase (Private screening – on invitation only) On Monday May 16, Next VR Cinema Pickup
The Festival Agency (TFA) connects film programmers worldwide (festivals, cinemas...) to the largest diversity of films: from award-winning contemporary films to cult classics. Programmers can select films from prestigious line-ups including HanWay, SND, StudioCanal, Pathe, XYZ, TF1, Altitude, Content, Magnolia and independent gems. TFA provides filmmakers & sales agents with full consultancy services on international and festival strategies, and manages bookings from submissions to logistics and servicing. Contact in Cannes: Leslie Vuchot, CEO & Founder, lv@thefestivalagency.com The Festival Agency
TimeTonic helps movie professionals save time, stay in synch and manage all production details: castings, planning, filming locations, photos, videos, equipment, people, decors, costumes & expenses. Combining real-time messaging and Smart-Tables® (a new kind of powerful database as flexible as a spreadsheet and as easy to use as cards), elegant and friendly, optimized for mobile access & custom-tailored in seconds, TimeTonic is the first agile team communication & information management platform. Contact in Cannes: Jean-Michel Durocher, CEO, jmd@omailey.com
The R/O institute fosters the creation of original content and the acceleration of Transmedia projects built around tomorrow’s heroes and rich intellectual properties. Only a very selective batch of projects are admitted within the walls of R/O institute (and creative sandbox) each year. Original ideas and intellectual properties are developed over the course of a 6 to 9 months immersive training by some of the best international experts, talented creators and innovative tech developers. R/O aims at tuning strong cultural projects for today’s convergent market. Contact in Cannes: Stéphanie Thirion, Operations Manager, stephanie@ro.institute Conference: Call for talents: the R/O institute is looking for the next generation of storytellers. On Tuesday May 17 from 5:00pm to 6:00pm, Next Conference Room. Followed by a cocktail from 6:00pm to 8:00pm at the Next Pavilion offered by the r/o Institute and Wallimage Creative.
