“Cross-media Storytelling for Cinema and Games Conference” – CVG Festival, Rome, 9 may

 CVG Fest is the first italian festival focusing on the relationship between cinema and videogames hold in Rome from 7 to 9, may 2010 in the amazing location of  Tecnotown, the italian Museum of new technologies in the amazing location of Villa Torlonia.  Three days of conferences scheduled by AIOMI and Zètema Progetto Cultura, to explore the new [...]

Donkey Kong in Manhattan: “Pixel” the (short)movie

Space invaders in New York?  Donkey Kong rising up to the Empire State Building? Tetris deleting the Manhattan  skyline? “Pixels” is the original shortmovie written and directed by Patrick Jean, produced by One More Production to celebrate the ‘80 Videogames Classics. Result? Over 1 million viewers in less than 24 hours for the

Cross-media & Animation: Rapallo’s Conference, Italy

It has been an honour, and such an amazing experience, to moderate and be part of the ”Cross-media & Animation” conference in Rapallo last saturday, 17 april. Jeff Gomez, President and CEO of Starlight Runner Entertainment, focused his speech on transmedia storytelling for cinema and advertising, Christy Dena, Director of Universe Creation 101, stressed her attention on the [...]

Star internazionali al “Cross-media day” di Rai Trade

Cinema, videogame, fiction e animazione non possono farne più a meno ormai: è il cross-media, ovvero l’uso simultaneo di più mezzi di comunicazione per ideare e promuovere grandi progetti editoriali, film, games, personaggi e grandi serie dell’intrattenimento in tutto il mondo. Primo ad aver scommesso nel grande successo mondiale dei “media incrociati”, Cartoons on the [...]

“Star Wars”: an animated sitcom, soon?

After ”Star Wars: The Clone Wars”, second season of the animated series of the saga, and after the tv serial recently announced and in production in Australia, Lucasfilm Animation is developing an animated series (probably a sitcom?)based on Star Wars. Seth Green e Matthew Senreich, as “Variety” says, creators and producers of “Robot Chicken” the stop motion tv series, would be already [...]

A cross-media factory in France: Ankama

Founded in 2001 by Anthony Roux, Camille Chafer and Emmanuel Darras, ANKAMA is a French independent creation group with offices in Roubaix, Paris, Lyon or Tokyo and employing 450 people. Drawing on its success with the MMORPG DOFUS launched in 2003, which gathered near to 30 million players, ANKAMA positions itself across various markets: online [...]