<div dir="ltr"><p class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:14px"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(20,20,20)">The <b>Screen Futures Summit</b></span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(20,20,20)"> (Melbourne July 1-3, 2016), an international conference on the future of the screen has just released the full program! </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:14px"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(20,20,20)"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:14px"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(20,20,20)">Structured around education, industry and innovation, it is pitched at both the education sector and industry.</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(26,26,26)"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:14px"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(20,20,20)">See the</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(20,20,20)"> <b>full program</b> at: </span><span style="font-family:Calibri"><a href="http://screenfutures.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/2016-Screen-Futures-Summit-program.pdf" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:14pt;color:rgb(16,60,192)">Summit </span></a></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:14px"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(20,20,20)"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:14px"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(20,20,20)">Website: </span><span style="color:rgb(20,20,20);font-family:Arial;font-size:15px">:</span><span style="color:rgb(20,20,20);font-family:Arial;font-size:15px"> </span><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:15px;color:rgb(16,60,192)"><a href="http://screenfutures.com/" target="_blank">http://screenfutures.com</a></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:14px"><span style="color:rgb(20,20,20);font-family:Arial;font-size:11pt"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:14px"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(26,26,26)"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:14px"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(20,20,20)">Some conference highlights include several<b> keynotes</b> and keynote panels each day. Among them are:</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(26,26,26)"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1cm;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:14px"><b><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(20,20,20)">Emeritus Professor Graeme Turner </span></b><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(20,20,20)">~ </span><i><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(29,29,29)">The Re-invention of the Media: Issues for the Future of Media Studies</span></i><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(26,26,26)"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:14px"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(20,20,20)">Turner’s recent book advances the idea of the media having been 're-invented' and needing new theories or perspectives for analysis because the old ones no longer are 'fit for purpose'. This keynote examines the key issues for Media Studies in the post-broadcast, post-analogue, and post-mass media era.</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(26,26,26)"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:14px"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(26,26,26)"><a href="http://screenfutures.com/2015/10/01/graeme-turner/" target="_blank"><span style="color:rgb(16,60,192)">http://screenfutures.com/2015/10/01/graeme-turner/</span></a></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:14px"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(20,20,20)"> </span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(26,26,26)"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1cm;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:14px"><b><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(29,29,29)">Professor </span></b><b><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(20,20,20)">Paul Wells</span></b><b><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(29,29,29)"> <i>~ </i></span></b><i><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(29,29,29)">Inter-animating Life, Love and the Universe: Or How We All Learned to Multi-mediate, and Why Animation Can Save the World</span></i><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(20,20,20)"> </span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(26,26,26)"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:14px"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(20,20,20)">Wells, has written many books on animation and his students worked on ‘<i>Harry Potter</i>’ as part of coursework. He is Director of the Animation Academy at Loughborough University and </span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(29,29,29)">editor of a new journal, <i>Animation Practice, Process and Production</i> (Intellect)</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(20,20,20)">. This keynote explores animation and the moving image in the context of the shifting and change creating social media and digital culture landscape. <a href="http://screenfutures.com/2015/07/14/paul-wells/" target="_blank"><span style="color:rgb(16,60,192)">http://screenfutures.com/2015/07/14/paul-wells/</span></a></span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(26,26,26)"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:14px"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(20,20,20)"> </span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(26,26,26)"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:14px"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(20,20,20)">* See <b>other keynotes</b> on the website, they include <b>Leena van Deventer</b>, who<b> </b>was recognised for paving the way for women in games when she was awarded the ‘Pioneer of Women in Games for 2015’; <b>John Cabrer</b>, a US web series Creator speaking on ‘Content as Community’.</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(26,26,26)"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:14px"><b><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(20,20,20)">Panels</span></b><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(20,20,20)"> include topics such as the Future of Journalism, Indigenous Community Media, Creative strategies for growing audiences through YouTube and Diversity to achieve innovation.</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(26,26,26)"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:14px"><b><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(20,20,20)">Industry sessions</span></b><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(20,20,20)"> are extensive and include a Q& A with Noni Hazlehurst and a ‘<i>Barracuda</i>’ session (a new ABC TV show from producers of 'The Slap'). </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:14px"><b><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(20,20,20)">Screening events</span></b><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(20,20,20)"> include ‘Chasing Asylum’ from Oscar nominated Eva Orner with a moderated Q&A by Julian Burnside (OA).</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(26,26,26)"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:14px"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(20,20,20)"> </span><i><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(26,26,26)"></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:14px"><font color="#1a1a1a" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:15px"><i>Apologies for cross-postings</i></span></font><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small"> </span><br></p><div><br></div>-- <br><div data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><p style="margin:0px;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;font-size:10px;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial">Lisa French</p>
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