The lineup of speakers is taking shape for SHOOT‘s first ever Directors Symposium, which is being held in conjunction with SHOOT‘s 8th Annual New Directors Showcase Event.
The daytime learning/networking Symposium will be held May 11 at the DGA Theatre in New York, as will the evening’s New Directors Showcase. Register here.
Among the panelists confirmed thus far are:
o Laura Belsey, director, Shadow Pictures and C-Entertainment, & teacher, “Commercial Directing,” Graduate Film School of NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts
o Wayne Best, executive creative director, JWT New York
o Caleb Deschanel, director/cinematographer, Dark Light Pictures
o Bob Giraldi, director, Giraldi Media, & teacher, “The Project Class” & “Evolutionary Dynamics in Advertising”, School of Visual Arts, NY
o Bonnie Goldfarb, founder & executive producer, harvest
o Jeffrey A. Greenbaum, managing partner, Frankfurt Kurnit Klein & Selz
o Nick Iannelli, VP, Deluxe Postproduction, Toronto
o Kevin Kerwin, director, Authentic Films, & 2009 Showcase director
o Craig Leffel, partner/senior colorist, Optimus
o Stacey Mokotoff, president, Bird Bonette Stauderman Inc.
o David B. Perry, executive VP/head of TV production, Saatchi & Saatchi, New York
o Allison (Ally) Polly. head of strategy and brand partnerships, Filmaka Entertainment Studios
o Bobby Sheehan, producer/director/writer/cameraman/co-founder, Working Pictures Inc.
o Kristi VandenBosch, CEO, Publicis & Hal Riney
The Directors Symposium (9:30 a.m.-3:30 p.m., including lunch) will feature a series of panel discussions and Q&A sessions with leading directors, agency creatives, production company entrepreneurs and other notable artists and executives who will share their expertise, helping to define opportunities in an evolving marketplace spanning advertising and entertainment (and the coming together of those two worlds). Speakers and panelists will also relate their experiences with emerging tools and processes, and delve into the art of building an individual director’s brand. Talent from past New Directors Showcases will share how their careers have since progressed, providing inspiration for our latest crop of directors to be introduced in the evening.
The decision to expand the reach of the New Directors Showcase with the launch of the Directors Symposium was spurred on by several dynamics, including this being the year SHOOT celebrates its 50th anniversary as well as the Showcase’s scheduling to coincide with CreativeWeekNYC (May 10-14), a week-long series of events, such as The One Show, that will be attended by creatives and creative management from all over the world.
The evening’s New Directors Showcase (6-10 p.m.) will feature: a screening of the Showcase reel consisting of 25 to 30 pieces of work culled from submissions from this year’s New Directors Search; a panel introducing six of the new directors with two industry pros providing insight and perspective; and an after-party downstairs at the DGA.
Registration for the Directors Symposium Daytime Event includes the Symposium, lunch and guaranteed seating to the evening’s New Directors Showcase Event & After Party. Individual tickets are $195. (Early bird rate of $175. through Friday, Apri. 16th!) Groups of three or more receive a 10 percent discount. Event details and registration info are available at www.shootonline.com/go/register.
Apple and Google Face UK Investigation Into Mobile Browser Dominance
Apple and Google aren't giving consumers a genuine choice of mobile web browsers, a British watchdog said Friday in a report that recommends they face an investigation under new U.K. digital rules taking effect next year.
The Competition and Markets Authority took aim at Apple, saying the iPhone maker's tactics hold back innovation by stopping rivals from giving users new features like faster webpage loading. Apple does this by restricting progressive web apps, which don't need to be downloaded from an app store and aren't subject to app store commissions, the report said.
"This technology is not able to fully take off on iOS devices," the watchdog said in a provisional report on its investigation into mobile browsers that it opened after an initial study concluded that Apple and Google effectively have a chokehold on "mobile ecosystems."
The CMA's report also found that Apple and Google manipulate the choices given to mobile phone users to make their own browsers "the clearest or easiest option."
And it said that the a revenue-sharing deal between the two U.S. Big Tech companies "significantly reduces their financial incentives" to compete in mobile browsers on Apple's iOS operating system for iPhones.
Both companies said they will "engage constructively" with the CMA.
Apple said it disagreed with the findings and said it was concerned that the recommendations would undermine user privacy and security.
Google said the openness of its Android mobile operating system "has helped to expand choice, reduce prices and democratize access to smartphones and apps" and that it's "committed to open platforms that empower consumers."
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