Archive for April, 2005

the box office is open!

April 25th, 2005 posted by jessica

http://www.vidfest.com/vidfest.php?id=11
psst - tickets are now on sale! early bird prices available for a limited time…

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berlin visionary joins mobile panel

April 25th, 2005 posted by jessica

Maks Giordano, one of the founders of Germany’s Icon Mobile has agreed to participate on our Mobile Content Keynote Panel! The topic is ‘Beyond Voice and Text: Creating a Cultural Compass’.
Maks will be joined by fellow industry innovators Emma Payne (Wired Woman founder and CEO of At Large Media) and LA’s Beau Buck […]

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Yay!

April 20th, 2005 posted by jessica

http://www.cnma.ca/finalists.html
Lynda Brown, our fearless leader over here at VIDFEST HQ, has just been named a finalist in the category of ‘Industry Advocate of the Year’ for the Canadian New Media Awards.
In addition to heading NMBC and VIDFEST, Lynda also chairs the national new media association and is the national president of Wired Woman.
How she does […]

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attention all Phone cam photogs

April 11th, 2005 posted by jessica

Fresh from the CBC ZeD site:
In the name of fame, fortune, and of course art, we challenge you to fuse form and function through the cell phone medium. So start snapping and send us your phonecam images because the Grand Prize Winner gets 500 bucks in cold, hard Canadian cash.
The theme is “interact”…
Shortlisted photos will […]

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New Media Slam winners online

April 6th, 2005 posted by jessica

VIDFEST was more than happy to sponsor this year’s New Media SLAM - an event in which teams are given 48 hours and an ‘inspiration package’ to create a digital media piece.
You can check out the winning teams and their inventive pieces here. Very entertaining and impressive!

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