Mike
Figgis chairs the panel at The film Council's New Cinema Fund Digital
Seminars
'Beyond
The Curve - Digital Seminar' deals with creative and artistic choices
borne from the new medium. It focuses on the conflict between established
principles of storytelling and novel options intrinsic in the media, and
the effect of the media on all disciplines of film. Mike Figgis chairs
the panel which includes Lunar Girl director, Janis Sharp, Liz Rosenthal
of Next Wave Films, and other film makers at the Raindance film festival.
The topics
of discussion are artistic merits of shooting in a digital format, and
the advantages and disadvantages of Hi-definition to the creation of
tomorrows movies. The
panel fielded questions from a packed audience of film makers and industry
notaries.