ICL:LGB:Video: Tue Aug 30
Imprint Culture Lab brings the mavericks of viral video in its many iterations to Los Angeles, with dinner and a symposium.
ICL: Long Beach
What Price VIDEO?
Featured Speakers:
Keith Schofield
Carlton Evans
Ted Schilowitz
Thom Andersen
Dan Smith
KEITH SCHOFIELD
Keith Schofield is a commercial and music video director based out of Los Angeles. He has directed videos for Charlotte Gainsbourg & Beck, Justice, The BPA (Fatboy Slim), and Supergrass; and commercials for K-Swiss, Sony, McDonalds and Virgin Mobile. In 2009 he won a Cannes Gold Lion for Diesel “SFW XXX.” His hobbies include drawing, eating Urkel-O’s™, and writing autobiographies in the third person.
CARLTON EVANS
Carlton Evans is the co-founder and executive director of The Disposable Film Festival, currently in its 4th season, which celebrates achievements in new media filmmaking internationally. He is also an independent film producer and screenwriter whose productions have screened at top festivals worldwide, including Sundance, Tribeca, and Rotterdam. Carlton produced and co-wrote the documentary feature CONNECTED, the short YELP, and was a creative consultant on the narrative feature THE WOODS, all of which premiered at Sundance 2011. He was the associate producer and director of distribution of THE TRIBE (Sundance 2006), which was singled out by The New York Times, Variety, and the Sundance Institute for its groundbreaking distribution strategy. Carlton has taught film theory, art history, and architecture at Stanford, San Francisco State University, and SF Art Institute, and lectures worldwide about film and new media. Carlton holds a PhD in Art History and Film Theory from Stanford University.
TED SCHILOWITZ
Ted Schilowitz is one of the founding members and part of the development team at RED Digital Cinema. He is an industry consultant, strategist and recognized expert in the field of broadcast television, feature film, and ultra high resolution Digital Cinema production, post production and distribution. Before Ted joined RED as The First Employee of RED Digital Cinema, he was with AJA Video Systems. Ted was part of the team that created the first High Definition Video capture cards for Apple’s OS X, and the revolutionary IO box, a co-developed product from AJA and Apple that handles 10bit uncompressed video and audio over firewire, as an elegant and simple solution designed to work with Final Cut Pro and other professional video applications for the Macintosh platform.
THOM ANDERSEN
Thom Andersen has lived in Los Angeles for most of his life. In the 1960s, he made short films, including Melting (1965), Olivia’s Place (1966), and — ——- (1967, with Malcolm Brodwick). In 1974 he completed Eadweard Muybridge, Zoopraxographer, an hour-long documentation of Muybridge’s photographic work. In 1995, with Noël Burch, he completed Red Hollywood, a videotape about the filmwork created by the victims of the Hollywood Blacklist. Their work on the history of the Blacklist also produced a book, Les Communistes de Hollywood: Autre chose que des martyrs, published in 1994. In 2003 he completed Los Angeles Plays Itself, a videotape about the representation of Los Angeles in movies. It won the National Film Board of Canada Award for Best Documentary Feature at the 2003 Vancouver International Film Festival, and it was voted best documentary of 2004 in the Village Voice Film Critics’ Poll. He has taught film composition at the California Institute of the Arts since 1987.
DAN SMITH
Dan Smith is Vice President of digital programming and a producer at Playboy Media Enterprises. He is an innovative programmer, marketer and production executive in cross-platform digital media with demonstrated ability to launch programs that succeed profitably in TV, online, mobile, worldwide. In 2010, launched Playboy.tv video site. Site was profitable within one month of launch and it grows daily. Smith has also helmed two successful cable network relaunches, replacing older-skewing programs with new reality series that attracted significantly younger audiences.
