Tribeca Talks: Future of Film - Education and Advocacy in VR
Tribeca Talks
| 45 MINUTESPanelists
Amy Seidenwurm
Amy Seidenwurm is the Executive Producer of Oculus’ VR for Good Creators Lab, where filmmakers and nonprofits are teamed up to create impactful and beautiful VR experiences. Amy worked in the record business at Elektra, Virgin and Sub Pop before she got sucked into the technology vortex at the height of the grunge years in Seattle. She's been running tech-driven marketing initiatives for music and cultural organizations ever since.
Eliza McNitt
McNitt is a writer and director. She is an Emmy Awards Finalist and recipient of the VR Grand Prize at The Venice Film Festival. From astronauts to astrophysics, McNitt explores the cosmic collision of science and art. She is the creator of SPHERES, a VR journey through the hidden songs of the Universe, Executive Produced by Darren Aronofsky and starring Millie Bobby Brown, Jessica Chastain, and Patti Smith. SPHERES made history as the first VR acquisition out of Sundance. Her work has appeared at Sundance, SXSW, AFI Fest, Cannes, CPH:DOX, Tribeca, Telluride, and Venice.
Elise Pearlstein
Elise Pearlstein is Senior Vice President of Documentary Film & TV at Participant Media where she manages the company’s slate of documentaries from development to release. An Oscar®-nominated, Emmy®-winning film producer prior to joining Participant, Pearlstein produced a range of non-fiction projects for theatrical release and broadcast. She has served on the board of the International Documentary Association and is a member of the Documentary Branch of the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences.
Ingrid Kopp
Ingrid Kopp is a co-founder of Electric South, a non-profit initiative to develop virtual reality and innovative mobile storytelling projects across Africa. Ingrid also curates the Tribeca Storyscapes program for interactive and immersive work at the Tribeca Film Festival and is one of the producers of Immerse, a publication for Medium on emerging media. She is now based in Cape Town.
Dr. Courtney Cogburn
Dr. Cogburn’s research focuses broadly on the role of racism in producing racial inequities in health. She is particularly interested in improving the characterization and measurement of racism and psychosocial processes that link racism-related stress and disease. Her work also explores the potential of media and technology (e.g. virtual reality) in eradicating racism. Dr. Cogburn is an assistant professor at the Columbia University School of Social Work. She completed postdoctoral training at Harvard University and received her Ph.D. in Education and Psychology from the University of Michigan.