Digital film festivals emerged in the mid- to late-1990s, to showcase artists and filmmakers utilizing the nascent tools of desktop

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s and

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are now commonly found in mainstream

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s, but these events laid the groundwork for pioneering works in the area as useful nexus points for digital artists and debates on digital distribution and creation. The earliest digital film festivals included the MiniDV Festival (now called The Digital Video Festival) in Los Angeles, Low Res (later to split into the DFilm and

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events),

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, and Exploding Cinema (the International Film Festival Rotterdam digital cinema sidebar). Other digital film festivals include .Mov (Japan), Darklight (Ireland), Bifilm (Germany), MP4Fest at

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(Los Angeles, CA), 0110 (India), Clone (Norway), as well as

's international network of events across 60 cities worldwide, among others. These festivals stretch the traditional boundaries of "film festivals" by including hybrid works from

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, web animation, computer and video gaming,

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, etc. In 2008, the Paso Digital Film Festival set new standards and for six years has moved between #1 and #3 on all of the major search engines when "digital film festivals" is searched. The event was held in November 2008, and was attended by

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and 20 people from his film company Malpaso including his Academy Award-winning editor

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. Also attending were Sir Nigel Sinclair, Cass Warner the granddaughter of Jack Warner, musicians

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(Clint's son), TV actors Gary Conway and Max Gail,

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and his band

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. The festival included a day of 3-D with some of the early pioneers in 3-D from Los Angeles attending and showing independent 3D movies. Elements of the festival were streamed live online from the website. In 2013, the Digital Media Festival in

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set another standard with a full shift from the world of "film" to the new age of "digital media" and staged in Silicon Valley, California. It was attended by filmmakers from San Francisco and Los Angeles, including Cass Warner, from the

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family, Len Dell'Amico, the long time music video producer known as "the

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's Video Guy", the author and photographer Chris Felver, the author and Stanford University professor Fred Turner and the actor

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List of digital film festivals

* Digital MediaFestival.com 2012 - 2014 * FFTG Awards * MP4Fest at

- digital festival-within-a-festival * Nodance Film Festival *

* Paso Digital Film Festival from 2008- to 2014 *

* Streaming Festival

References

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List of digital film festivals

See also

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