{"id":14486,"date":"2012-02-23T01:12:53","date_gmt":"2012-02-23T01:12:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/?p=14486"},"modified":"2012-02-23T10:27:03","modified_gmt":"2012-02-23T10:27:03","slug":"the-future-of-cinema-pane-vancouver-film-festival-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/2012\/02\/23\/the-future-of-cinema-pane-vancouver-film-festival-2011\/","title":{"rendered":"The Future of Cinema Panel at VIFF 2011"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/The-Future-of-Cinema-VFF-2012.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-14487\" title=\"The Future of Cinema VFF 2012\" src=\"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/The-Future-of-Cinema-VFF-2012.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"280\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A <a href=\"http:\/\/filmguide.viff.org\/tixSYS\/2011\/xslguide\/eventnote.php?EventNumber=3524\">panel last September<\/a> at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.viff.org\/\">Vancouver Film Festival<\/a> raised some interesting points about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/2011\/11\/15\/from-celluloid-to-digital\/\">the digital revolution<\/a> affecting cinema.<\/p>\n<p>The panel included: film critic <a href=\"http:\/\/www.davidbordwell.net\/\">David Bordwell<\/a>; producer <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm1444286\/\">Simon Field<\/a>; film critic and TIFF programmer <a href=\"http:\/\/tiff.net\/thefestival\/filmprogramming\/programmers\/andrea\">Andr\u00e9a Picard<\/a>; film critic and Vancity program coordinator <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rottentomatoes.com\/critic\/tom-charity\/\">Tom Charity<\/a>; and the director of VIFF, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.viff.org\/festival\/about\/staff-board\/\">Alan Franey<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/31824426\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The discuss the following topics:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The imminent death of 35mm prints and what that means<\/li>\n<li>The possible future of film festivals in the digital age<\/li>\n<li>Whether celluloid is like vinyl<\/li>\n<li>Parallels with the music business<\/li>\n<li>Torrenting and the problems it poses<\/li>\n<li>The quality of projection<\/li>\n<li>The importance of festivals in developing a more rounded appreciation of the medium<\/li>\n<li>Failure of film education to expose students to new forms of cinema<\/li>\n<li>The serious problem of preserving digitally native films (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.davidbordwell.net\/blog\/2012\/02\/13\/pandoras-digital-box-pix-and-pixels\/\">Bordwell&#8217;s blog post is here<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>Higher\u00a0frame-rates<\/li>\n<li>The projection difference between digital (pixels)\u00a0and\u00a0celluloid (molecules)<\/li>\n<li>Challenges facing festivals in appealing to the next generation<\/li>\n<li>A new generation of critics emerging online<\/li>\n<li>The\u00a0responsibility festivals have to cinema history<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0How hard social times might be good for filmmakers<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>[via <a href=\"http:\/\/filmstudiesforfree.blogspot.com\/2011\/11\/future-of-cinema-discussion-with-david.html\">Film Studies for Free<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>&gt; <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/viff\">Vancouver Film Festival on Vimeo<\/a><br \/>\n&gt; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/2011\/11\/15\/from-celluloid-to-digital\/\">From Celluloid to Digital<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A panel last September at the Vancouver Film Festival raised some interesting points about the digital revolution affecting cinema.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14487,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,16],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14486"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14486"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14486\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}