Saturday, June 11, 2011

at Cinema 2, TIFF Bell Lightbox

4:00 – 5:00PM Passes and tickets pick up at Box Office

5:00 – 5:30PM – Opening
3D FLIC and York University mark the official opening of the first Toronto International Stereoscopic 3D Conference.

• Opening remarks by Juana Awad, 3D FLIC Project Director.
• Welcome remarks by Michael Longford, Associate Dean of Research, Faculty of Fine Arts York University.
• Address by Karen Thorne-Stone, President and Chief Executive Officer, Ontario Media Development Corporation (OMDC).

5:30 – 7:30PM Keynote / Master class
Wim Wenders – On PINA
Internationally renowned filmmaker Wim Wenders, who has made masterpieces such asWings of Desire, Paris, Texas and the Cuban music documentary Buena Vista Social Club, presented his latest documentary PINA, a 3D dance film that is a tribute to the legendary German contemporary dancer and choreographer Pina Bausch, at this year’s Berlin Film Festival in February. As Wenders explains: “The two-dimensional cinema screen is simply not capable of capturing Pina Bausch’s work, either emotionally or aesthetically. When I watched her dance for the first time twenty-five years ago, I was captivated and deeply moved. I was able to understand human movement, gestures and feelings in a whole new way. And this magic is what I would like to translate to the screen […] 3D gives us the possibility of taking the audience directly onto the stage, into the middle of the event.” Showing excerpts from the film, Wenders will present a case study on PINA and discuss the creative possibilities that 3D technologies open up for filmmakers.

*Wim Wenders and Gian-Piero Ringel are guests of the Goethe-Institut Toronto and the OMDC

7:30 – 9:30PM Speakers Reception
at TIFF Blackberry Lounge (by invitation only)

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