SPEAKERS 2023
National & international innovators from the worlds of Film | Gaming | Animation | Immersive | and more.
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Production Stills Photographer
Internationally renowned stills photographer, David James’ career includes 11 collaborations to-date with Steven Spielberg, renowned projects such as Star Wars - The Force Awakens, Star Wars VIII, Jack Reacher, Jesus Christ Superstar, Mission Impossible – Fallout and authoring two books. Read More.
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Writer / Producer
Mike Reiss, legendary TV comedy writer, is the longest-serving writer and producer of THE SIMPSONS, the most enduring prime-time series in TV history. Reiss joined the show to work on the very first episode in 1989, and continues to be involved 30 years later, more than 630 episodes later. Read more.
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Represented by Charmaine Chan (Associate Visual Effects Supervisor).
Charmaine joined ILM in 2007 and with over 15 years of experience has worn many hats such as compositing, tech leading, and supervising across projects ranging from Transformers, Rango, Black Panther, Warcraft, and Star Wars: The Last Jedi. Read More.
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Thought Leader Immersive Art / Art Director
Dorothy is one of the world's foremost voices in the global phenomenon of immersive and interactive art curation. As the creator/founder of MOLTEN IMMERSIVE ART, she leads a collective of international experiential artists and researchers. Together they work at the cutting edge of new technology and art as creators, cultural strategists and digital immersive experience designers. Read More.
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Represented by Eoghan Cunneen (Virtual Production Technology Supervisor).
Eoghan is a Senior Pipeline Engineer at Lucasfilm’s Advanced Development Group, a research and development team within Lucasfilm’s New Media division tasked with investigating real time techniques to expand the Star Wars universe across all platforms and powering much of the new ILMxLAB experiences. Read More.
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Ramsey Avery started his career art directing the small midwestern town of Roseanne and most recently designed and brought to life the Second Age lands of The Lord of the Rings. He’s contributed, as an Art Director, to the future worlds of Minority Report and A.I., eventually becoming the Supervising Art Director on projects spanning the breadth of time and space, such as Team America; Star Trek: Into Darkness; Mirror, Mirror; Tomorrowland; and Guardians of the Galaxy, vol 2. Read More.
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Represented by Gary Marshall (Senior Director - Virtual Production)
Hailing from London, Gary has enjoyed a 20+ year multi award-winning career spanning feature film, commercials, games and location based entertainment. Read More.
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Represented by Shaddy Safadi (Creative Director & Founder - One Pixel Brush).
With 15 years of industry experience, Shaddy has worked with some of the most talented developers in the world on projects such as Uncharted 2,3,4, Bioshock Infinite and The Last of Us 1,2, Call of Duty and dozens of other AAA games. Read more.
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Represented by Victoria Eyton (Creative Producer).
DARKFIELD produces innovative immersive experiences at the forefront of technology and theatre - both location based experiences and digital work. Read More.
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Represented by Kris Kelly (CEO).
Represented by Kris Kelly (CEO - Enter Yes™ and BAFTA nominated Director).
Enter Yes™ is Belfast’s premium award-winning Visual Effects and Animation studio. We specialise in high end visuals for film, television, and games. Read More.
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Production Stills Photographer
A chance to go behind the scenes on Game of Thrones with principal stills photographer Helen Sloan. Helen will be talking about her job, the kit and techniques she uses. Sharing some of her amazing images – including some fascinating, behind the scenes photos and stories. If you’re a fan of Game of Thrones or film set photography this is definitely one to attend. Read More.
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Artist / Designer / Curator
Erik Kessels is a Dutch artist, curator and communication designer, with great interest in art and photography. Erik Kessels is since 1996 Creative Partner of communications agency KesselsKramer in Amsterdam/London and has created campaigns for national and international clients such as Nike, Heineken, Diesel, Oxfam, Vitra, Citizen M, I amsterdam and The Hans Brinker Budget Hotel. Read More.
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Represented by Marko Martiskainen (Chef Commercial Officer, Zoan)
ZOAN blurs the boundaries between physical and virtual realms. They are 3D modelers, Unreal Engine artists, producers, visual effects experts, creatives and storytellers helping top global brands accelerate into the new era of virtual reality. Read more.
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Represented by Dr Shaojun Bian (Applied Research Scientist – Humain).
Humain specialise in high-end 3D character rigging services for film, episodic television and video games (AAA, PC, Console, Mobile). Read More.
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Represented by Allan Rankin (Co-Founder).
Target3D provides 3D and tracking solutions for motion capture, virtual production, AR/VR, training & simulation, robotics, biomechanics, animation, VFX, gaming, 3D scanning, haptics and more. Read More.
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Represented by Tom Box (Co-Founder and joint Managing Director - Blue Zoo).
Blue Zoo is a British animation studio known for producing children's television series, commercials and, short films. The studio has received numerous BAFTAs and in 2021 won two Daytime Emmy awards.
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Represented by Colin Williams (Creative Director - Sixteen South).
Sixteen South have produced over 200 episodes of premium children's television, which air across the world. Their shows include Sesame Tree, Big City Park, Big and Small, Pajanimals and Driftwood Bay and currently air in over 300 million homes globally. Read More.
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Represented by Holly Johnstone (Talent Acquisition) & Chris Thursten (Narrative & Editorial Lead).
Starting out as a YouTube channel making Minecraft Adventure Maps, Hypixel is now one of the largest and highest quality Minecraft Server Networks in the world, featuring original games such as The Walls, Mega Walls, Blitz Survival Games, and many more! Read More.
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Represented by Theresia McCearney (Art Lead) & Richard Gordon (Managing Director / Producer).
JAM Media is one of the leading creators and producers of multi-award winning animated and live action content for the children’s and pre-school audience. Read More.
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Represented by Giovanna Ferarri (Animation Director).
Cartoon Saloon is an Irish animation film, short film and television studio based in Kilkenny which provides film TV and short film services. The studio is best known for its animated feature films The Secret of Kells, Song of the Sea, The Breadwinner and Wolfwalkers. Read More.
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Represented by Mark Gordon (Co-Founder)
Our award-winning music can be heard everyday across the globe - in films such as the 2018 Oscar-winning The Shape of Water and animated preschool shows on Disney Jr, Nickelodeon and PBS Kids. Read More.
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Represented by Auronda Scalera (Co-Director/ Art Curator) & Alfredo Cramerotti (Co-Director/ Art Curator).
IAM–Infinity Art Museum is the first ever-evolving art museum in the Metaverse. It promotes art by connecting artists, curators, and collectors in a creative and immersive way. Read More.
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Dermott has worked as a 3D Environment, concept and visual development artist in both the Animation and Video Game Industry, working on new IPs and existing AAA titles such as Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order. Read More
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Chipzel is a BAFTA nominated, award-winning composer and music producer. Chipzel has been developing a new video game, combining alternative hardware with powerful sound to encourage play and movement in social, public and community spaces. This new game, ‘TieYourLaces’, will be launching at RENDR Festival. Read More.
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Represented by Robin Morgan (Post Producer & Company Director).
Outpost provides the very best in sound, video and full post-production services to clients globally. Never afraid to be on the bleeding edge, Outpost built Ireland’s first Dolby accredited Atmos suite in 2022, which has since released major label albums and mixed content for global streaming platforms. This passion for innovation coupled with a boutique outlook on the post-production and the editorial process has seen their films win awards internationally. Read More.
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Tara Rueping is an award-winning Art Director with over 15 years of experience in Art Direction, Concept Art, and Visual Design for games and TV animation. Her titles and credits showcase a wide range of styles, and include Tales From The Borderlands, Star Wars: The Clone Wars (the animated series), Walking Dead a New Frontier, and Lord of the Rings Online. Read More.
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Panel Discussion: Tech Skills for Creative Storytellers.
VP, VR, AR, AI, VFX. What skillsets will be essential for the next wave of screen storytellers? How are new trends in technology changing content and careers? Good stories will always be good stories but the ways in which we tell them and watch them are changing fast. This has implications for everyone in the sector – creatives, techies and bean counters. This session explores what do we stand to gain and what might we lose if we open our minds to new ways of producing content. Come with an open mind, lots of questions and as many acronyms as you know. Read more.
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RETìníZE is one of Europe’s fastest-growing creative-tech companies, they have been best known for its award-winning Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality and immersive multi-screen experiences. However, since 2019 the company has been in stealth mode, developing Animotive, its immersive animation production tool. Read More.
LIVE PERFORMANCES
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Live Modular Performance: Mount Palomar
Belfast based electronic music producer and live act, Neil Kerr, launched his Mount Palomar moniker via 4 highly sought after live gigs in the world famous Berlin dance music institution, Berghain. Booked to play his innovative live hardware sets at the infamous venue four times within his first year, Neil went on to play at events such as the AVA Festival, Celtronic Festival, Fred Perry “All Our Tomorrows” Festival and many more.
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Live DJ Performance: Venus Dupree B2B Marion Hawkes. The local Belfast legends will take to the stage, playing back to back.
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Live DJ Performance: Chipzel
Chipzel is a BAFTA nominated, award-winning composer and music producer. Chipzel has been developing a new video game, combining alternative hardware with powerful sound to encourage play and movement in social, public and community spaces. This new game, ‘TieYourLaces’, will be launching at RENDR Festival. Read More.
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Live VR Performance: Watch in real time as Kev creates artworks in VR.
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Live VR Performance: Watch in real time as John creates artworks in VR.
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Live VR Performance: Watch in real time as Emic creates artworks in VR.
WORKSHOPS
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Workshop: Writing Comedy For Screen.
Mike Reiss, legendary TV comedy writer, is the longest-serving writer and producer of THE SIMPSONS, the most enduring prime-time series in TV history. Reiss joined the show to work on the very first episode in 1989, and continues to be involved 30 years later, more than 630 episodes later. Read More.
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Workshop: Animating in VR.
RETìníZE is one of Europe’s fastest-growing creative-tech companies, they have been best known for its award-winning Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality and immersive multi-screen experiences. However, since 2019 the company has been in stealth mode, developing Animotive, its immersive animation production tool.
