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Berlinale Keynotes
The Age of Collaboration
Programme
Tuesday, February 12, 2008, 2.00 – 6.00 pm, Palmenhof and Silbersall, Berlin
Moderator: Melinda Crane, Journalist, Berlin
Welcome
Dieter Kosslick, Festival Director, Internationale Filmfestspiele Berlin
Petra Müller, Managing Director, Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg
FILM AND WEB2.0
“Film and Web 2.0” will focus on the interplay between the film industry and the Internet with its interactive and collaborative structures. To what extent can the so-called “Wiki-Principle” transform an economy? Although the film industry is now only at the very beginning of what will inevitably be a fundamental transformation process, real-life success stories already exist and demonstrate how films can be made even without traditional studio and marketing strategies.
for creative alliances.
Keynote
Rethinking Film and Film industry for the 21st Century
Don Tapscott, Chief Executive, New Paradigm, Toronto
The End of Celluloid!
Remixing Cinema – A Swarm of Angels
Matt Hanson, Visual Intelligence Agency, Brighton
Free for everyone: Open Movies, Open Games
Ton Roosendaal, Chairman, Blender Foundation, Amsterdam
Coffee Break
FILM AND GAMES
The digital revolution has transformed the film industry and brought with it an entire new culture revolving around the video game. This development continues to affect the film industry, as new interactive narratives and aesthetics influence “traditional” screen productions. Excellent prospects
for creative alliances.
Not your Daddy's Game: Why the best movie talent is getting
involved in Video Games
Jade Raymond, Producer, Ubisoft, Montreal
“Prince of Persia” reloaded. Creative and Strategic Alliances for
the Future of the Film Industry
Jordan Mechner, Screenwriter and Game Designer, Los Angeles
Outlook: The Age of Collaboration
Jade Raymond, Jordan Mechner, Don Tapscott, Matt Hanson, Ton
Roosendaal
Reception
Followed by reception. By invitation only.
The Berlinale Keynotes are a joint initiative of the Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg and the Berlin International Film Festival, and address international decision-makers from the fields of film, media, games and Web 2.0. The event is being organized in cooperation with the mabb Medienanstalt Berlin-Brandenburg/Medienwoche and the media.net berlinbrandenburg.
Attendance is by invitation only. The conference will be held in English.
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Jade Raymond. This ground-breaking 32 year-old is considered to be the first star producer in the games industry. In November 2007, she launched her much anticipated game “Assassin’s Creed,” which went on to sell 2.5 million copies within 4 weeks. Ms. Raymond was already developing software on her computer at the age of 14. She went on to work as a programmer... 
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Writer, game designer and filmmaker Jordan Mechner is one of the videogame industry's most respected creators. His games, including Karateka, Prince of Persia, and The Last Express, have sold millions of copies and received worldwide critical acclaim. His film Chavez Ravine was named Best Short Documentary by the International Documentary Association and was short-listed for an Academy Award... more
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Don Tapscott is a top consultant and university professor as well as founder and head of the international think tank New Paradigm. As the creator of the Wikinomics Theory, Mr. Tapscott knows his way around the networked universe and has written eleven bestsellers on the digital economy, all of which have been translated into more
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Matt Hanson, director, producer and founder of the Visual Intelligence Agency, has set himself an ambitious goal, namely the production of the feature film “A Swarm of Angels” using the Open Movie principle. The budget of 1.5 million euro will be helped along by roughly 50,000 community members who will in turn have a say in all project phases ... more
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Ton Roosendaal is the head of the Dutch foundation “Blender” and chief developer of Blender, the free 3D graphic software. “Elephant Dream” is the first short film to have been created using the free software and the input of developers worldwide. Roosendaal subsequently started the Open Movie project “Peach” and is now also working on a parallel project entitled... more
Moderator:
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Melinda Crane will moderate this year‘s Berlinale Keynotes. Ms. Crane is a presenter in several different formats at Deutsche Welle TV and also Executive Producer of Sabine Christiansen’s “Global Players,” the top international talk show on CNBC. more
The Berlinale Keynotes are a joint initiative of the Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg and the Berlin International Film Festival, and address international decision-makers from the fields of film, media, games and Web 2.0. The event is being organized in cooperation with the mabb Medienanstalt Berlin-Brandenburg/Medienwoche and the media.net berlinbrandenburg.
Attendance is by invitation only. The conference will be held in English.
