Discussions with UTS Film-makers - Future of Storytelling

At the 2021 Sydney Film Festival - Learn how the talented UTS Film-makers make their films in this special Event.

This years festival promises some of the most thought-provoking, inspiring and exciting work from within the tenacious and talented pool of UTS colleagues, friends and alumni.  

Learn about the UTS Animal Logic Academy, UTS’s education and research studio focusing on creative practice and digital technologies and how they are delivering their current and future projects through the use of interactive and immersive media and the Jumbunna Institute for Indigenous Education and Research who are producing and developing some of Australia’s highly skilled Indigenous filmmakers.

The Future of Storytelling 

Woman wearing VR glasses with gold sparkle lighting in the background

Join Academic, artist and filmmaker, Dr Gregory Ferris (SFF 2017 & 2019), as he explores the future of storytelling.  What role will AI, Interactive and Immersive media have in how we tell our tales? Are we on the verge of a technological revolution? Is the narrator’s voice uniquely human?

 Panel includes:

  • Author, researcher, engineer, futurist Mark Pesce
  • Researcher and author of The Manifesto for Virtual Futures. Julia Scott-Stevenson
  • Filmmaker JJ. Winlove

Don't miss this  view the online event available on-demand throughout the festival as this illustrious group of futurists discuss the Future of Storytelling. 

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