Pretty, gosh, darn excited about the fabulously creative minds that we’ve got out for the WIFF New Media Day on Wednesday March 4th, 2009! Really looking forward to this, as it should be a fantastic event to fire up the synapses, share some ideas and really get the creative juices flowing. Here’s the exciting cast of characters that are making this an event, not to be missed:
Our Illustrious Speakers
Getting Your Feet Wired
- Bridget O’Neill, Confluence Creative Media
- Dennis Chenard, Centre for Digital Media
- Catherine Warren, FanTrust
- Daniella Sorrentino, New Forms Festival
Moderator / Panelist: Danika Dinsmore, Writer / Director
Social Media How To
- Monica Hamburg, Writer / Social Media Evangelist
- Carol Sill, Creative Producer / Social Media Consultant
- Gillian Shaw, Journalist with the Vancouver Sun & Canwest
Moderator / Panelist: Erica Hargreave, Writer / Creative Producer / New & Social Media Consultant
Emerging Trends & Technologies
- Thecla Schiphorst, SFU
- Jean Hebert, Mobile Muse
- James Eberhardt, Echo Mobile
- Shannon McKarney, Overlay.tv
Moderator: Jennifer Ouano, Elastic Entertainment
Monetizing Your Content
- Bradley Shende, M2O Media
- Maura Rodgers, Strutta
- Amielle Lake, tagga
- Rochelle Grayson, work[at]play
Moderator: Tracey Friesen, NFB
The Social Media Team
These are the sharp and savvy storytellers for the day, capturing it in tweets, photos, video, and live blogs. They are all pretty friendly too, so don’t be afraid to ask them about what they are doing and how exactly social media works.
- Raul Pacheco
- Tris Hussey
- Marina Antunes
- Peter Marshall
- Dan Udey
- Rebecca Bollwitt
- Fearless City
- Mobile Muse
Applications
New and Emerging Technologies that you can use to tell your stories and check out whilst enjoying an ice cold bevie from Molsons.
Exhibitors
Examples of how others are using new technologies and platforms to tell their stories
- “Egg Cinema” – Angela Smailes
- “Tongue Tales” – Tassia Poynter & Sharon Lee
- “I Know a Place” – Maia Iotzova
- “Fluxus” & “Mordant” – Karin Schmidlin
- “Murmur Video” – Maayan Cohen
- “Lost Cause” – Kirsten Johnson
- “Graffiti Wall” – Alex Beim
- “Don’t Stop” – Julie Gendron
- “Grafik Dynamo” – Kate Armstrong & Michael Tippett
Should be an exciting day! Get your tickets before they sell out.
And thanks again to Telefilm, BC Film and Molsons for sponsoring the day!
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