GARY RYDSTROM

Sound Designer, Skywalker Sound, Winner of 7 Academy Awards, BRAVE, WAR HORSE, MISSION IMPOSSIBLE, TOY STORY, A BUGS LIFE, FINDING NEMO, TITANIC, THE LORD of THE RINGS, JURASSIC PARK

Gary Rydstrom has been nominated for 16 Academy Awards™ (7 wins), 12 Golden Reel Awards (5 wins), 5 C.A.S Awards (2 wins), and 5 BAFTA Awards (2 wins).

Gary Rydstrom can truly be described as one of the inventors of modern cinema sound design. After gaining invaluable experience as a sound technician on Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, he went on to design the sound for the comedy Spaceballs. Rydstrom’s original sound effects from Backdraft, which were prepared from scratch and are an essential part of the “personality” of the fire in the film, are constantly referenced and have been used for numerous other films including the The Lord of the Rings film trilogy and Shrek.

Rydstrom’s sound design for Backdraft was the precursor for his design for some of the biggest blockbusters (and most memorable soundscapes) in modern cinema – here is just a small sampling of the many films he has helped create: Terminator 2: Judgment Day (which earned Rydstrom two Academy Awards™- Best Sound and Best Sound Editing), Jurassic Park (the very first motion picture to be presented in DTS Digital Theater System, which earned him another two Academy Awards™, again for Best Sound and Best Sound Editing), Titanic (Academy Award™ for Best Sound), Saving Private Ryan (two Academy Awards™ for Best Sound and Best Editing), Minority Report and Finding Nemo.

He has recently made his directorial debut with the Pixar animated short, Lifted, for which he received his fourteenth Academy Award™ nomination; for the same studio he directed and wrote the screenplay for the 2011 animated short Hawaiian Vacation.

ERIC DARNELL

Director of the MADAGASCAR trilogy. Eric brings to VIEW MADAGASCAR 3: EUROPE’S MOST WANTED

Eric Darnell is the writer/director of Madagascar (2005), Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa (2008) and this summer’s major release Madagascar 3: Europe’s Most Wanted. Eric’s feature directorial debut was as co-director (with VIEW 2010 keynote speaker Tim Johnson) of Antz, the very first computer animated feature produced by Pacific Data Images/DreamWorks Animation, in 1998.

After graduating with degrees in broadcast journalism from the University of Colorado and in Experimental Animation from the California Institute of the Arts, Eric joined Pacific Data Images, where he worked as a character animator on the 1991 Hanna-Barbera Halloween special The Last Halloween, and was the writer/director/lead animator for the Pacific Data Images short film Gas Planet. In addition to his directing duties, Eric also wrote the song “Welcome to Duloc” for the 2001 film Shrek, for which he also worked as story artist.

DAN ATTIAS

Director, Winner of the Directors Guild of America Award, DR. HOUSE, THE SOPRANOS, LOST, THE WIRE, SIX FEET UNDER

Dan Attias has directed many of the most celebrated American television shows in recent history, including The Sopranos, The Wire, Deadwood, Lost, Six Feet Under, Homeland, Damages, Big Love, Dr. House, Alias, Heroes, True Blood, The Killing, Northern Exposure, and Entourage. He has been nominated for multiple Emmy Awards and has won the Directors Guild of America Award for Distinguished Directing in Episodic Drama.

A gifted storyteller and teacher, Dan will speak about how he approaches story, both in his preparation for a project and in the actual production of a television episode.

 JOSH HOLMES

Creative Director of HALO. Josh will premiere at VIEW HALO 4

Josh Holmes is an accomplished video-game producer and designer best known for his work as Executive Producer and then Creative Director for the multi-billion dollar video-game franchise Halo. Holmes is currently the Franchise Creative Director for 343 Industries, the Microsoft Game Studios unit formed to to oversee development of Halo, which includes video games, novels, comics, and other multimedia content.

Josh turned to game design after several years pursuing a career as a film actor, and his early training in drama and storytelling continues to inform his work as a game designer. Holmes got his start in the video-game business in 1995 at the Burnaby, Canada campus of gaming giant Electronic Arts. At EA, Josh created the hit Def Jam series of fighting games, as well as the NBA Street series. In 2005, Josh cofounded the Vancouver based video-game studio Propaganda Games, which was acquired by Disney Interactive shortly after it opened. Holmes left Propaganda Games in 2008, moved to Microsoft where in 2009 he was an Executive Producer on Halo Waypoint and Halo Reach, and now heads up all creative on what has become one of the biggest gaming franchises of all time.

VIEW Conference launches a new contest to celebrate the creative power of technology at the service of society.

Are you a designer, a visual artist or a computer graphics lover? This is what you are looking for!

If during, 2011 and 2012, you have made a movie, a short, a music video or a commercial using 2D/3D animation and/or VFX focusing on themes of social relevance, we are interested in receiving your work. For more information please download the entry form from our website: www.viewconference.it

Deadline to submit is Sept. 15th 2012
submission is free of charge
First Prize: 1500 €

Just fill the entry form and send it to us.

In Partnership with the Goethe-Institut Turin, VIEW launches a contest for animated short films in occasion of the 200 anniversary of the Children and Household Tales by the Brothers Grimm.

Are you a young animator and do you accept the challenge to explore Grimms classics innovatively and transport them into today’s reality creating animated short films with a maximum length of 5 minutes?
How many aspects of fantasy and fairy tales can still be found in our world and what expressive means correspond to the universes of Grimm in the 21st century?

The contest is dedicated to students of film academies, universities or other film schools, as well as young artists under 30 years of age in Italy and Germany.

Deadline to submit is August 24, 2012
Submission is free of charge
First Prize: audience award of 1500 € for each an Italian and German short.

The winners will be screened during the VIEWFest (Turin, 19-21 October 2012).

For more information and submission of your films please consult the website www.goethe.de/grimmland or directly download the Call for Entries (pdf.)

For further informations: 

Hannah Weiss 

Goethe-Institut Turin 

Piazza San Carlo 206 

10121 Torino 

Tel.: +39 011 543830 (int. 205) 

weiss@turin.goethe.org

Here’s the list of the 2012 VIEW AWARD VIDEOGAME categories:

Best Gameplay

Best Art Design

Best Architecture

Best Music

Rules and Regulations:

1. All entries must have been completed from 2011 to 2012 to be eligible
2. Both individual and group projects are accepted
3. No durational limits
4. All platforms and formats are accepted
   N.B. Submitted media will not be returned
5. Submitted work must be accompanied by some Hi-Res screenshots of the project and an Hi-Res photo of the director
6. Submitted work must be accompanied by a completed entry form, containing original signature of the person entering VIEW AWARD competition
7. All entries must provide written authorization for any copyrighted material included in the work
8. All entries must be received by September 15, 2012

To enter the competition simply fill out the entry form and send us your games.

Download entry form   Download rules 

The best of 2011 VIEW AWARD and ITALIANMIX in tour around the world! 
From Paris to Athens, from London to Barcelona, with a stop in 
Columbia and Australia, the ‘Best of VIEW 2011′ starts the 2012 with an worldwide tour 
through the best film and animation festivals. The 6th of March has came back in 
Turin, guest of the Piemonte Movie gLocal Film Festival. Wednesday 7th March will close the international animated shorts festival of Athens, the 7° Animfest. The rendezvous is @ the GREEK FILM ARCHIVE, h 22!

Here some of the works included in the selection: “A Morning Stroll” 
directed by G. Orchard (Studio AKA), “Paths of Hate” directed by D. 
Nenow (Platige Image), “De riz ou d’Arménie” directed by H. Marchal, S. 
Barras, R. Blondelle, C. Seille (Supinfocom Valenciennes), winner of the 
2011 VIEW AWARD and “Four” directed by M. Premuroso, winner of the 2011 
YOUTH ITALIANMIX . 

We are proud to let you know that Tintin’s visual effects supervisor, Wayne Stable, who spoke at VIEW Conference last October 2011, has been nominated for a BAFTA award.