The Shepton Mallet Digital Arts Festival (also known as the Shepton Digi Fest) is a British annual public arts festival and creative industry showcase based in the

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town of Shepton Mallet at venues including Kilver Court. The Festival was founded in 2009 and marked its third year with a three-day programme of events from 6 to 8 October 2011. The 2011 festival featured contributions from Merlin Crossingham, the creative director of

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, Aardman model maker Jim Parkyn, film composer William Goodchild, Natural History film-maker Paul Appleby, Icon Film's Dominic Weston and camera workshops from award-winning director of photography Jeremy Humphries. The festival describes itself as "The South West Showcase of New Film, Photography & Performance" and states its aims as connecting young talent in the

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with established businesses and professionals and showcasing digital creative talent in the whole of the

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, including

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and Bath. 2011 also saw the festival's first engagement with the gaming industry, linking up with Edinburgh Interactive and Sean Dromgoole of industry research company GameVision. The festival is non-profit, and is supported by the Arts Council; The Open Innovation partners South West One, IBM, Plymouth University and Somerset County Council; Shepton Mallet Town Council and a number of other public and industry bodies.

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