Filmgate Miami is back with a new French Spotlight. This year's program will take place at the University of Miami's School of Communication. The festival has invited over 20 speakers including several French talents such as Arnaud Colinart (Producer at AGAT Films & Cie / EX NIHILO), Jérémy Pouilloux (associate producer of La Générale de Production, based in Paris), and Fred Volhuer (VR Marketing & Distribution Specialist). As in previous editions, the program includes interactive art with the latest VR creations, panels, specialty workshops, the interactive tech playground, and interactive screenings featuring "Tantalum" by French filmmaker, Gilles Porte. Filmgate French Spotlight is made possible with the support of the French Embassy Cultural Services.
FRENCH SPOTLIGHT AT FILMGATE INTERACTIVE
INTERACTIVE ART:
Ongoing
Notes on Blindness / La Peri, (2016 winner of VR Festival in Paris) / I Philip
PANELS:
The VR Generation with Kim Grinfeder (UM School of Communication), Arnaud Colinart (Agat Studios/Notes on Blindness), Milica Zec & Winslow Porter (Giant).
INTERACTIVE SCREENING:
TANTALE
Directed by Gilles Porte
France | 60 Minutes | 2016 | Colour
Politics - Sport - Corruption
This interactive film features 5 different endings and 25 ways of getting there. Presented by French producer Jérémy Pouilloux (I Love Transmedia Festival).
NOTES ON BLINDNESS
Directed by Peter Middleton and James Spinney
England | 90 Minutes | 2016 | Colour
Documentary
Notes on Blindness is an ambitious and groundbreaking work - both affecting and innovative - and one of the most essential British documentaries of the year. Film introduction by Fred Volhuer.
