FULL LINE UP ANNOUNCED FOR IRELAND’S FILM AND TECHNOLOGY FORUM, DIGITAL BISCUIT
The Sopranos creator, David Chase joins line-up as headline speaker
Science Gallery, Dublin | Wednesday 28 – Friday 30 January
The Screen Directors Guild of Ireland today announced the full line up for the third annual Digital Biscuit, which will feature a talk by writer and producer David Chase, who created The Sopranos.
Digital Biscuit is an international film and technology forum that aims to foster innovation and collaboration in film and television production, set to take over Dublin’s Science Gallery, 28 – 30 January.
Guests at the Digital Biscuit launch today included Emmy and BAFTA award winning director, Dearbhla Walsh (Roald Dahl’s Esio Trott), Mads Damsbo and Lasse Andersen, who brought their innovative virtual reality experience The Doghouse from Denmark for a sneak preview ahead of its Irish Premiere at Digital Biscuit later this month. The launch also featured film and animation demos from Brown Bag Films, Eurotek and the latest Hexicam drone camera.
Inspired by William Wellman’s The Public Enemy and his early years in New Jersey, David Chase created and developed the HBO series The Sopranos, the most financially successful series in the history of cable television. David will join Digital Biscuit as headline speaker to discuss his career as a director, writer and producer par-excellence.
Speaking about his forthcoming visit, David Chase said: “I’m delighted to come to Ireland, a place of great storytelling tradition, and look forward to exploring the future of stories at Digital Biscuit.”
David Chase joins Michel Gondry, director, screenwriter and producer of Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind and Bruno Delbonnel, cinematographer for Amelie, Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince and Tim Burton’s Big Eyes and Franklin Leonard – Film Executive and founder of The Black List in this years line up of Digital Biscuit speakers.
The three-day event will kick off with a special screening of Paul Thomas Anderson’s psychedelic surf noir Inherent Vice at the IFI (28 Jan, 8pm). Digital Biscuit is delighted to present the Irish Premiere of Is the Man who is Tall Happy? an animated conversation with Noam Chomsky, directed by Michel Gondry, (29 Jan, 6.30pm, IFI).
Digital Biscuit also announces its Brain Trust, a core group entertainment industry leaders who act as ambassadors for Digital Biscuit. Members include Damini Kumar (European Ambassador for Creativity & Innovation); Marie Schmidt Olesen (Commissioning Editor, New Danish Screen and Nick Meaney (CEO at Epagogix)
Speaking about Digital Biscuit SDGI director, Birch Hamilton said, “Making a movie is one of the biggest creative collaborations between people that exists today. To truly be creative is to make connections with the people and world around us. With Digital Biscuit we are trying to enable the Irish film industry to improve its global position as a centre of creative and technological excellence. It is our hope that through Digital Biscuit groundbreaking new works will be made and new relationships formed between people in different disciplines. We are fortunate to have a global Brain Trust of leading experts in film, technology, finance, games, augmented reality, animation, software and hardware that have guided us in what I think is a really exciting line up for 2015.”
This year Digital Biscuit will be partnering with leading global mobile event app provider, DoubleDutch who have created a social platform that enables Digital Biscuit attendees to connect, expand their network and share best practices.
Digital Biscuit | Speakers |
Writer, director and producer David Chase (The Sopranos); Michel Gondry (Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind); Cinematographer Bruno Delbonnel (Amélie, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince and Dark Shadows); Neil Jordan (The Crying Game, Michael Collins); Genevieve Dexter, IP financing expert and founder of Serious Lunch; Lizzie Gillett, Producer of climate change blockbuster, The Age Of Stupid; Franklin Leonard – Film Executive and founder of The Black List; Triona Campbell; Director of beActive Entertainment; Bobby Boermans, Creative Director of 2C Films; Sophia Stuart, Digital strategist, director and writer; Mads Damsbo & Johan Knattrup Jenson, Producer and Director of The Dog House – 20min virtual reality, multi point-of-view film installation for Oculus Rift; Harry McCann, Founder of the Digital Youth Council; Prof. Charles Spence, Head of Crossmodal Research Laboratory, Oxford University, Director, Writer & Producer of The Hardy Bucks; Dr Brian Vaughan, Lecturer or Digital Media, DIT; Shimmy Marcus, Creative director, Bow Street; Eibhlin Curley, Assistant Head of Enterprise, Local Enterprise Office; Dublin Maureen Hughes, Casting Director (The Butcher Boy, Love / Hate); Anitti Haikala, director and animator (Niko & The Way To The Stars, Little Brother, Big Trouble); Eoghan Kidney, Rotor and Glen Southern, Southern VFX Artist (Penny Dreadful); Donald Clarke, Chief Film Correspondent, The Irish Times; John Maguire, Film Critic, Sunday Business Post; ); Karlin Lillington, Technology Journalist and Columnist at The Irish Times; Andrew Kavanagh, CEO & Founder, Kavaleer Productions; Damini Kumar, European Ambassador for Creativity & Innovation; Tom Conroy, Production Designer (Legend, The Vikings, The Tudors); Vincent Aupetit, Previsualization Artist (Gravity, Thor – The Dark Kingdom); Tara Brady, Film Critic, The Irish Times; Gavin Burke, Film Critic, Entertainment.ie; Owen McPolin, Cinematographer (Penny Dreadful, Da Vinci’s Demons); Thomas Horton, VFX Supervisort & Producer (Da Vinci’s Demons, The King’s Speech); Peter Doyle, Supervising Visual Colorist (Edge Of Tomorrow, Big Eyes, Inside Llewyn Davis); Gerry Grennell, Vocal Coach (Avengers: Age of Ultron, Heart of The Sea, Thor: The Dark World
Find out more about Digital Biscuit Speakers at http://www.digitalbiscuit.ie/#
