Virtual Reality & Online Movies At TIFF

This week Kris Abel introduces What She Said’s Christine Bentley, Sharon Caddy, and Kate Wheeler to…

From the Toronto International Film Festival we explore the growing digital changes to the festival scene.

Jody Sugrue, Director of Digital for TIFF, discusses an experiment to offer movies online while capturing the experience that makes festivals so different from other movie screenings.
tiff.net/festivals/festival15/shortcutsremix

We play a clip from “Bacon & God’s Wrath” directed by Sol Friedman and featuring 90 year-old Razie and her discovery of “The Google”

Ana Serrano from the Canadian Film Centre shares with us the growing use of Virtual Reality and what that means for the future of film production.
cfccreates.com/

Sophie Perceval, co-founder of Wondereur, describes her upcoming Augmented Reality project that uses your smartphone to tell contextual stories from visual artists.
wondereur.com/

Featured apps:

Avedon
iPhone/iPad
Free

Guillermo Del Toro’s Cabinet of Curiosities
by Guillermo Del Toro & Marc Zicree
Kindle/iBooks/Kobo

BFI Sci-Fi: Days of Fear and Wonder
iPad
Free

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