Registration and continental breakfast

Panel:  What is Digital Cinema?

Bart Cheever, D.FILM Digital Film Festival
Nicholas Constant, D. Film Digital Film Festival, Destroying America
Cynthia Conti and Kurt Lancaster, MIT Comparative Media Studies Program, Building a Home Studio and Getting Your Films Online

10:30 - 10:45 am
Room 345,Bldg. E51

Break

Panel: Access

Vilma Gregoropoulos, Could Be Worse!
Richard Rowley, Big Noise Films, This is What Democracy Looks Like
Angela Northington, Urban Entertainment

Bag lunch

Case Study: Star Wars Fan Cinema

Henry Jenkins, MIT Comparative Media Studies, Textual Poachers: Television Fans and Participatory Culture
Evan Mather, Quentin Tarantino's Star Wars
Kevin Rubio, Troops

Break

Case Studies: Three Digital Productions

Carlos Cantu, Alex Chisholm, and Christa Starr, Can-Do-Home Productions, Earthen Vessels
Marc Forster, Everything Put Together
Hans Uhlig, Industrial Light & Magic

Conference moves to Wong Auditorium, Bldg. 51

Panel: Antecedents

Karen Ishizuka, Japanese American National Museum
Alexandra Juhasz, Pitzer College, Women of Vision
Patty Zimmermann, Ithaca College, Reel Families: A Social History of Amateur Film

Registration and continental breakfast

Panel:  Aesthetics

Lev Manovich, University of California-San Diego, The Language of New Media
Sean Schur, The Moving Picture Company

10:30 - 10:45 am
Wong Aud., Bldg. 51

Break

Panel: Economics

Dion Algeri, iCAST
James Root, Windows Media

Bag lunch

Panel: The Future

Anthony Soohoo, ALWAYSi.com
Todd Rosenberg, Atom Films
Jason Wishnow, Wishnow.com, Tattooine or Bust

Break

Screening:
Comparative Media Studies Film Festival