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Potsdam prepares itself for INSIGHT OUT

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- For its eighth edition, international symposium INSIGHT OUT (March 19-23) will focus on the challenges of digital production

From March 19 to 23, the Konrad Wolf Film and Television University in Potsdam will hold the eighth edition of internationally renowned symposium INSIGHT OUT. The programme, directed by Martin Steyer and supported by the European Union’s MEDIA Progamme as well as the Medienboard Berlin-Brandebourg, has long shed light on the consequences of an expanding digital world, but this year has made it its central theme. Its slogan will be “from film-based to file-based production”.

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This theme will be approached from three angles: broadcasting, 3D and its latest developments, and “cloud computing" (in which data is delocalised to a remote server to form a cloud-like network such as in Mydrive and Dropbox) in cinema and television productions.

Among the speakers at the many planned debates, masterclasses, workshops, and case studies will be award-winning editor Peter R. Adam (who recently worked on Anonymous [+see also:
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by Roland Emmerich), camera director Keith Partridge who is specialised in documentary and very knowledgable in the possibilities and limits of existing technologies, and 3D guru Ludger Pfanz. Thomas Palm and Gérard Geyer will recount the story of television channel ARTE and how it evolved in terms of technical support. Special effects expert Peter Hjorth will present a case study on pan-European co-production Melancholia [+see also:
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by Lars van Trier, showing how five countries worked together on it.

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(Translated from French)

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