Vancouver International Digital Festival

08.05.15

How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Digital

Jordan Kawchuk is a producer / director who currently makes the video podcasts for CBC Radio3. This is his guest post.
It took me a while to digitize myself.
When I made the leap from making capital “T” television with a large crew and big broadcaster to making TV by myself with a camera, a laptop, […]

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VIDFEST Press Releases

May 5: The PopVox Awards Power to the Public
April 7: VIDFEST highlights power of digital media to create positive change

PopVox Fact Sheet

High-res press stills

Mondo Spider

Contact Information

For high-resolution press stills or interview opportunities, please contact:
Sara Bearchell
604-623-3007 x. 240
sara.bearchell@karyo-edelman.com

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Social Media Release

VIDFEST highlights power of digital media to create positive change.
Nexon North America welcomes Wired Magazine’s Chris Anderson to VIDFEST 2008.

Core Facts

• VIDFEST 2008 is showcasing the power of digital media to achieve altruistic goals, from tackling climate change to enabling entrepreneurs in the developing world.
• Nexon North America is bringing Wired Magazine’s Chris Anderson to VIDFEST 2008 to deliver keynote speech on the economy of “free”
• VIDFEST 2008 is presented by New Media BC and runs May 21-24 on Granville Island. Venues include the Granville Island Hotel, Arts Club Theatre and the Emily Carr Institute
• VIDFEST takes place during the Vancouver Digital Week, also featuring the Vancouver International Games Summit (VIGS), Convergence 2008 and the PopVox Awards
• VIDFEST programme, registration, passes and ticket information available online at Vidfest.com, with early bird passes available until May 1.

VIDFEST 2008 speaker highlights include:

• Chris Anderson, Editor-in-Chief of Wired Magazine, considered one of the most insightful thinkers on the new economy of “free,” will address VIDFEST on the model of “giving it away” as a key business strategy for generating revenue
• Tom Williams, CEO of GiveMeaning.com, an online charitable foundation that brings people together to support a charity of their choice
• Erik Karjaluoto, founder of DesignCanChange.org, an online movement to unite designers to collectively address climate change
• Dylan Higgins, from Kiva.org, the first person-to-person micro-lending website that enables entrepreneurs in the developing world
• Jason Mogus, the developer behind NothingButNets.net, a website dedicated to preventing the spread of Malaria throughout the African continent
• Super-star bloggers Heather Armstrong of Dooce.com and Maggie Mason of Mightygirl.com

PopVox Awards:

VIDFEST is hosting the second annual PopVox Awards Gala, a world-class people’s choice awards event for the digital media industry. Nominations for the PopVox Awards are open April 1-30 and content creators can submit their work to PopVoxAwards.com. Public voting is open from May 1-12, 2008. Winners will be announced at the VIDFEST gala on May 23.

PopVox Award categories for 2008 include:

• Best Digital Animated Short
• Best Digital VFX
• Best Game (Console/PC)
• Best Game (Casual)
• Best Mobile (Game)
• Best Mobile (Application)
• Best Digital Campaign
• Best User Generated/Crowd-sourced Content Site
• Best Digital Score
• Best Do-Gooder site (Social Change Initiative)
• Homegrown Award (Best BC-based Venture)

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Multimedia materials

VIDFEST photos on Flickr:

2007 Recruiting Fair 2007 speaker, John Walker, Pixar

Lynda Brown-Ganzert, PopVox awards
Damian Kindler, Sanctuary – 2007 PopVox winner, Best VFX
Richard Patterson, Sanctuary – 2007 PopVox winner

Visit the VIDFEST Flickr photo stream.

VIDFEST videos on YouTube:

Visit VIDFEST’s YouTube channel.

Audio interviews

Kirstin Richter, Creative Director of VIDFEST

Kenton Low, President of New Media BC

Quote attributable to Kirstin Richter, Creative Director of VIDFEST

“There’s a positively charged atmosphere surrounding VIDFEST this year. We’ve drawn some of the top minds from across the creative industries — people who are using digital technologies to solve complex problems and give back to others.”

Quote attributable to Kenton Low, President of New Media BC

“British Columbia is a leader in the global creative economy. We created Vancouver’s Digital Week to bring together a portfolio of top events focusing on digital media and encourage cross pollination and collaboration to grow our vibrant creative industries”.

Quote attributable to Kirstin Richter, Creative Director of VIDFEST

“We’re proud to continue hosting a world-class digital media awards event based on an audience-driven, democratic process. Content creators submit their own work online, and it’s up to the people to decide who wins.”

VIDFEST 2008 in Print

Georgia Straight May 15

Vancouver Sun May 15

Vancouver Sun April 10

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Presented by New Media BC and supported by Telefilm, VIDFEST is Canada’s biggest annual digital content event, drawing participants from across the digital media and creative sectors including games, web 2.0, interactive design, animation and mobile. For more information, visit http://www.vidfest.com/.