The 2016 NAB Shows The Future of Cinema Conference: The Immortal Movie, produced in partnership with SMPTE, will explore how content creators and storytellers combine artistry with motion-imaging technology to thrive today - and into the future. At the SMPTE booth, the Society will highlight significant advances in standards development, promote its upcoming educational conferences, and expand on details about its centennial celebration. The Society continues to encourage and support student engagement in the motion-imaging field through scholarships, membership programs, and events. SMPTE board members and directors will again engage with students at the Societys annual networking social, which drew 100 participants to the SMPTE booth in 2015.
2016 NAB Shows The Future of Cinema Conference: The Immortal Movie, Produced in Partnership with SMPTE
The newly crafted The Future of Cinema Conference: The Immortal Movie (FoCC), produced in partnership with SMPTE, is scheduled for April 16-17 during the 2016 NAB Show. The refocused technical conference will examine how creativity and motion-imaging technology are intersecting to make a lasting impact, and it will emphasize the work and inspiration of the industrys newest generation of filmmakers.
The FoCC opens with First Forays: High Dynamic Range in Animation, a session in which speakers will examine the benefits and challenges afforded by technology to the animating industry. Leaders in the alternate-content realm will pick up on the idea of technical innovations during the session How Does Event Cinema Deal With Advanced Technologies? They will discuss the future of event cinema as it relates to distributing content to theaters in 4K/8K, wide color gamut (WCG), higher frame rate (HFR), and high-dynamic-range (HDR). The panel How to Increase Diversity in the Future of Cinema will present steps that industry leaders can take to create a more inclusive environment. During this session, creatives and technologists will share stories and provide ideas and tactics for increasing and sustaining diversity in cinematic arts.
Acclaimed film director Ang Lee will give the keynote address, Pushing the Limits of Cinema, and discuss his vision for cinema and the creative opportunities for the future of filmmaking. Along with editor Tim Squyres and production systems supervisor Ben Gervais, Lee also will talk about creating the groundbreaking new movie Billy Lynns Long Halftime Walk. In a world exclusive, attendees will enjoy the first public screening of footage from the upcoming movie in its native 4K, 3D, 120 frames-per-second (FPS) format using the innovative Dual Christie Mirage dual-laser projection system. Stereographer Demetri Portelli and Scot Barbour, vice president of production technology at Sony Pictures, will join the group for further discussion of the technical challenges of production and postproduction of 4K, 3D, 120 FPS content.
SMPTE members may use code EP01 to take $100 off the NAB nonmember rate for a SMART or Conference Flex Pass registration, or to get a free Exhibits Pass. The offer expires April 1.
www.nabshow.com/attend/future-of-cinema-conference
SMPTE Resources and Events at the 2016 NAB Show:
Membership Services
SMPTE Manager of Member Relations Roberta Gorman, members of the SMPTE Sections leadership, and members of the SMPTE Board of Governors will be on hand at the 2016 NAB Show to discuss membership benefits and the Societys role in international standards and interoperability. Prospective members will be able to join and existing Members may renew their memberships on site. SMPTE Members who bring their co-workers, clients, and colleagues to the SMPTE booth to sign up for SMPTE membership will receive a thank you gift. SMPTE will also be taking Hollywood Professional Association (HPA ) memberships, giving prospects an opportunity to join both organizations at once.
www.smpte.org/memberreferral
SMPTE Student Support: Events and Sponsored Memberships
Students are invited to the SMPTE booth for a social mixer while interacting with SMPTE Members, including board members and directors, who will discuss their work in sound, digital cinema, cameras, broadcasting, and manufacturing. In fact, the Societys support for students goes well beyond offering expert advice and social events. Through a challenge grant established in 2012 by William C. Miller, SMPTE membership vice president, the Society has been able to sponsor more than 650 student memberships. Additionally, SMPTE has issued a call for papers for the SMPTE Student Paper Award, is accepting applications for the Louis F. Wolf Jr. Memorial Scholarship, and is calling for entries for the Student Film Festival, a collaboration with the Hollywood Professional Association (HPA ), to take place in October at the SMPTE 2016 Annual Technical Conference & Exhibition in Hollywood, California.
www.smpte.org/students
SMPTE Members Honored
Also during the 2016 NAB Show, a number a SMPTE Members will be honored for their contributions to the motion-imaging field. Broadcasting & Cable magazine will pay tribute to technology leaders who have displayed innovation, imagination, and achievement, and this years honorees will include SMPTE Members Joe Addalia, director of technology at Hearst Television; Gregory Coppa, director of advanced technology and engineering at CBS; Glenn Oakley, executive vice president of media technology, production, and operations at Discovery Communications; and Renu Thomas, executive vice president of media operations, engineering, and IT at Disney|ABC Television Group. SMPTE Member Michelle Munson, CEO and co-founder of Aspera, will be honored with the Women in Technology Leadership Award from TVNewsCheck.
SMPTE 2016 Event Showcase:
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