Film Festival Announces First Filmmaker's Forum Panel Discussion: "The Digital Filmmaking Revolution -Making Movies Without Film?"
Monday, November 24, Electra Palace Hotel, Thessaloniki
This year the International Thessaloniki Film Festival will convene a
filmmaker's forum, dealing with the latest trends and methods of
filmmaking. The first discussion of the series will examine the impact of
digital video on filmmaking.
Over the last few years, new digital video (DV) technology has
dramatically
changed the accessibility and affordability of documentary and feature
film
productions. Video as a viable medium is no longer confined to television
productions. Digital technology allows filmmakers to shoot more
cost-effectively with video, and then transfer their work to film.
Numerous theatrically-released feature films have been made in this way.
And accomplished directors like Barry Levinson, Spike Lee, Oliver Stone,
and Jonathan Demme are just a few of the many who have incorporated
digital
video in their films.
Does the cost-savings compromise creativity or does it allow for
greater experimentation?
How does the finished product compare to a work created entirely
on
film?
And how do distributors and programmers react to these films?
These are some of the questions to be addressed by this year's panelists,
which will include U.S. producer Anthony Bregman of New York's Good
Machine
Productions, New York-based documentary filmmaker Michel Negroponte, and
Greek director/producer Andreas Tsilifonis. The filmmakers will share
their
experiences working with digital video.
A question-and-answer period will follow the discussion, as well as
hands-on demonstrations of professional and consumer DV cameras and
post-production editing systems.
Additionally, films directed and produced by each of the panelists will
be
presented. These include Negroponte's Emmy Award-winning Jupiter's Wife,
and Love God, produced by Bregman, which premiered at this year's
Sundance
Film Festival.
The screenings are tentatively scheduled for November 22
and
23 -- exact dates and times will be announced in the coming weeks.
The panel is open to the general public.
