9:00a.m. — 10:00a.m. Knitting Factory Continental Breakfast

10:15a.m. — 11:15a.m. The Digital Revolution: Technology Takes Center Stage In Today’s Filmmaking
presented by Intel

Panelists:

*Jannat Gargi — VP of Acquisitions and Development for Atom Films

*Amy Talkington — Director of The New Arrival

*Ken Howarth — Exec. VP Of World Sales Digital Media Network for IMAX LTD

*Marc Levey - Chairman of the New Media Committee for the Producers Guild of America

*Greg B. Thagard -VP, Advanced Technology, Warner Bros.

Everyone is watching the Internet trying to second guess which of the multitude of companies providing streaming video content will secure their place in the web distribution niche. The trouble is that no one knows where the Internet is headed. What we do know is that the Internet is one of the most flexible forums ever invented. It seems that every other day someone creates a new use for Internet technology. Web distribution is only one of the many ways that the Internet can change the cinematic experience. Come hear from industry professionals how the Internet can help you bounce your project up to the next level; from script writing to producing; from marketing to distribution.

Panelists:

*Dimitri Falk - President and Co-CEO Camouflage Productions

*John Valenti — Co-Founder and Vice President, Business Development for Creative Planet.com

Digital filmmaking has changed the format in which the movie industry conducts business. Production costs are coming down at the same time as every computer screen in the world is becoming a potential venue. The playing field has been dramatically widened, with amateurs and seasoned Hollywood professionals competing in the same market. This change in form is having a dramatic effect on content that we are only just beginning to see. For many people this is creating a choice between artistic integrity and economic success. In the past the films given wide release had already undergone an intensive screening process and been selected from a pool of thousands of competitors. At the same time the pressure to make shorter and shorter product has reached a peak. Our panel of filmmakers, content providers, and industry innovators invite you to join in a discussion of where these Darwinian forces are driving film as a mode of artistic expression and mass entertainment. Explore with us the new opportunities for creativity provided by the new forum of digital film.

Moderator: *Nick DeMartino - AFI Associate Director for Strategic Planning; Director, New Media Ventures

Panelists

*Mark Osborne — Director of MORE

*Julie Delpy and Emily Wagner — Creators of LOOKING FOR JIMMY

*Kevin Foxe — Executive Producer of THE BLAIR WITCH PROJECT

DAY TWO

Entertainment is becoming as easy to obtain online as information. A film can be broken down into bits of ones and zeroes and copied again and again on the average household computer, and sites like Scour and Napster provide an easy way to share copyrighted materials. But while information has historically been available for free, entertainment content has not. As these Internet and Entertainment perspectives collide, we find ourselves in the middle of an increasingly complex debate between public demand, legislative action and artists' rights. Come listen to our panelists engage in this debate, as they discuss all sides of the issue.

This panel will be recorded for later webcast at AFIFEST.com courtesy of marchFIRST.

Moderator: *Nick Rothenberg - Sr. Partner March First

Panelists:

*Luke McDonough - Co-founder and Executive Vice President, Corporate Development IFILM

*Lewis Henderson - Vice President, Head of the New Media Department for the William Morris Agency.

*David Werthheimer - President & CEO Wirebreak

*Gordon Paddison — Senior VP, Worldwide Interactive Marketing & Business Development New Line Cinema

Since the end of the 1920s, when a series of moving pictures were first transmitted into a new device called the television, our world's eyes have been held spellbound by the flickering light of this tiny, glowing box. Now, over seventy years later, the box hasn’t changed much, but the way the images get there has. The digital revolution is wreaking havoc on the systems of distribution established over the last century. Everyone is struggling to create a model that accommodates the new forms of content dissemination. Whether it is simulcast in movie theaters, captured on Tivo, broadcast over the Internet, or downloaded onto a Webtv, the game is the same but the form is totally new. The goal is to grab the attention of as much of the world as you can, and hold it. What nobody knows is how to do it and keep doing it. Come and listen as our panel of filmmakers and web content professionals discuss what works and what doesn't in the new distribution.

This panel will be recorded for later webcast at AFIFEST.com courtesy of marchFIRST.

Moderator: *Jonathan Wells — Director Res Fest

Panelists:

*Mark Stern - Founder Big Picture

*Barry Rebo — Co-founder of Emerging Cinemas LLC

*John Bernstein — Editor In Chief Film Fest DVD

In the late 1950’s and early 60’s there was a dramatic change in filmmaking as directors seized more control of their projects. The smaller, lighter, and more compact cameras gave them more freedom to control the filmmaking process. Now we are witnessing a similar shift as Digital Video technology brings the camera literally into the filmmaker’s hands. These more flexible cameras mean a closer relationship between filmmakers and their product. At the same time the new format lets them edit on a personal computer and deal directly with a distributable form. This means that there is more free play of expression but it also means that a different group of people will have influence over the content and creativity. Hear our panel discuss what this new format allows film to do both technically and creatively from production through post-production and who will be doing it.

This panel will be recorded for later webcast at AFIFEST.com courtesy of marchFIRST.

Moderator: *Michael Rubin - author: NONLINEAR

Panelists:

*Randal Kleiser — director of GREASE and HONEY I SHRUNK THE AUDIENCE

*Jacques Thelemaque — President of Filmmakers Alliance