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The Ninth FilmGate Interactive Media Festival, a one-of-a-kind event, returns to Miami Art Week 2022 and over eight days continues to explore international mind-bending stories and concepts, using extended reality (XR) storytelling, as its platform.
The 2022 Festival is taking place in person and virtually in Miami and Miami Beach, and is designed to highlight and showcase how emerging tech empowers new ways of artistic and media expression. Over the course of four days, between Nov. 28 and Dec 5, creators, producers, tech companies and curious audiences will have access to over 30 interactive experiences, 15 labs and talks, interactive exhibits, four dome experiences, a financing market, b2b meetings, music, and live events, accessible to all ages.
The theme of the Ninth Annual FilmGate Interactive Festival is Solar Punk — a science fiction literary genre and an art movement.
“We decided to present works that search for and explore answers to the most provocative issues of our time, issues that challenge our very existence,” said Diliana Alexander, festival and FilmGate’s co-founder/executive director.
“We live at a time when difficult and important decisions must be made to address human impact, and human-machine relationships, as the world as we know it is irreversibly changing. We dare our community to envision how the future might look, if humanity succeeded in solving major contemporary challenges,” Alexander added.
Over 30 works will take place at various locations in Miami and Miami Beach, including Phillip and Patricia Frost Museum of Science, Downtown Media Center, SE Financial Center, O Cinema South Beach, and Fountainbleu Hotel, promising what will be “unforgettable experiences – at the intersection of art and technology,” Alexander said.
For example, the festival will feature extended reality (XR) programming using headset devices, but also interactive installations and experiences that do not require headsets, all which “will make audiences feel as if they are in the entirely new digital world, or in a word augmented by almost magical layers. We are leaping into a world first imagined by science fiction writers and everyone from Meta and Microsoft, to independent creators, are exploring what that means. And we are bringing it to Miami for everyone to experience, first-hand.”
For full program information visit https://www.filmgate.miami/09.
Confirmed attendees are: Apple, Microsoft, Magic Leap, Meta, Snap, the National Film Board of Canada, Piko, Atlas V, head programmers from Tribeca, SXSW, Bifan (South Korea), Sandbox (China), Taicca Taiwan, Psychic VR Lab Japan, the Nouveaux Regards Festival Guadeloupe, a delegation of 20 Canadian tech and production companies, Telefilm, DPT, Vaudeville and others.
FilmGate’s mission is two-fold — to cultivate talent, to promote innovation from within Miami’s evolving film and media industry by hosting workshops and monthly film screenings, and to expand minds and provide immersive and multi-level experiences using the most current technology. Since launching the inaugural festival in 2013, the festival has hosted fire chats, and labs, showcased the works of 300-plus creatives, and co-produced over 20 creative projects.
“It has been our goal to focus our programming and partnerships on the issues of our region, issues that truly resonate globally: climate change, immigration, accessibility, and equality. We search for originality, innovation, and boldness, as we shape new roads for humanity,” Alexander said. “As we approach a possible united virtual space at an increasing rate, aka ‘the metaverse’, we explore the multiverses and 3D spaces that are paving the roads to the future.”
FilmGate 2022 partners are: National Endowment for the Arts, Miami Dade Cultural Affairs Office, Florida State’s Department of Cultural Affairs, Philip and Patricia Frost Museum of Science, Downtown Development Authority, Microsoft, Knight Foundation, Canadian Consulate Miami, French Embassy in Miami, German Consulate in Miami, and O Cinema.
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