Edef to showcase event cinema and Vr.
A month-long festival dedicated to event cinema and virtual reality has launched this week, marking the first major festival of its kind.
The inaugural Edinburgh Digital Entertainment Festival (Edef) will run from Aug 4-28, comprising 68 screenings of exhibitions and ‘live’ theatrical performances, a Vr ‘cinema’ and a raft of keynote speeches and panel discussions from industry experts.
Edef is the brainchild of William Burdett-Coutts, CEO of London’s Riverside Studios and founder of theatre and comedy promotion company Assembly - one of the major venue operators at Edinburgh Festival Fringe, which also kicks off today.
“At Riverside, we’ve been exploring what digital can do for the arts and entertainment world and whether there should be a focus on that work,” Burdett Coutts told Screen.
“We saw a festival as a way to pull together all the ideas we were thinking of, encapsulating where the industry is right now and...
A month-long festival dedicated to event cinema and virtual reality has launched this week, marking the first major festival of its kind.
The inaugural Edinburgh Digital Entertainment Festival (Edef) will run from Aug 4-28, comprising 68 screenings of exhibitions and ‘live’ theatrical performances, a Vr ‘cinema’ and a raft of keynote speeches and panel discussions from industry experts.
Edef is the brainchild of William Burdett-Coutts, CEO of London’s Riverside Studios and founder of theatre and comedy promotion company Assembly - one of the major venue operators at Edinburgh Festival Fringe, which also kicks off today.
“At Riverside, we’ve been exploring what digital can do for the arts and entertainment world and whether there should be a focus on that work,” Burdett Coutts told Screen.
“We saw a festival as a way to pull together all the ideas we were thinking of, encapsulating where the industry is right now and...
- 8/5/2016
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
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