Friday, November 6

9 - 10 am      Keynote Presentation: Bryce Zabel "Technocalypse Now?"

10:15 am - 12 pm    

Panel #1: New Developments in Film Marketing and Distribution

Moderator: Jon Lewis, Oregon State University

• Lyla Foggia, Foggia Public Relations, former Vice President of Publicity for TriStar Pictures

• Kelly Neal, film distribution consultant, formerly President of Skouras Pictures, head of Universal Studios Classics 

• Mark Christiansen, Executive VP, Domestic Theatrical Distribution, Paramount Pictures

• Gary Garfinkel, VP of Content Strategy & Acquisition, Showtime Networks

Panel #2: Making a Living in Media: What Will Change and What Will Stay the Same?

Moderator: Wesley Benson Jones, AFTRA

• Cholee Thompson, Owner, Ryan Artists

• Robert Blanche, Actor and President, Screen Actors' Guild Portland Branch

• Charlie Carlsen, Business Manager, IATSE Local 488

Panel #3: Independent Film and Other Media in the Digital Age, Part 1

Moderator: Jon Palfreman, University of Oregon

• Tom Schatz, University of Texas Film Institute

• Tim Holt, Perludus

• Darren Demetre, Independent Producer

• Diego Rimoch, Living Room Theaters

12 - 1:30 pm     Lunch Break: Pizza and Pix   

Munch pizza and enjoy a special screening of Arusi Persian Wedding (60 min., dir. Marjan Tehrani)  

• Set against the turbulent relationship between the U.S. and Iran, Iranian-American filmmaker Marjan Tehrani captures the struggle and excitement of her brother Alex and his bride Heather as they plan a Persian-Islamic wedding in Iran. But when Alex's Iranian-born parents and Heather's conservative American father meet for the first time, cultures clash and test the couple to their limits. 

1:30 - 2:30 pm  Keynote Panel: Government/Film Industry Relationships in the Digital Age

Moderator: Al Stavitsky, University of Oregon

• Vince Porter, Governor’s Office for Film and Video

• Michael Fine, Film/TV, Portland Mayor’s Office

• Bill Bowling, International Production Consultant

2:45 - 4 pm

Panel #4: "Write Now!: Screenwriting in the Digital Age"

• Jackie & Bryce Zabel, Writers Guild award winners for the miniseries “Pandemic"

Panel #5: Documentary Film

Moderator: Gabriela Martinez, University of Oregon

• Erin Donovan, A Million Movies a Minute

• Ian McCluskey, NW Documentary Center

• David Davis, Oregon Public Broadcasting

• Phoebe Owens, documentary film producer

Panel #6: Filmmaking in Oregon: The State of the Industry

Moderator: Vince Porter, Governor's Office of Film and Video

5 pm     Reception with Northwest Film Center @ Portland Art Museum

Saturday, November 7

9 - 10 am      Keynote Presentation: Stuart Cunningham "Rates of Change: Online Distribution as Disruptive Technology in the Film Industry"

10:15 am - 12 pm    

Panel #7: Defining Digital Cinema

Moderator: Kate Mondloch, University of Oregon

• Mauro Pommer, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Florianópolis – Brazil, On How to Define Cinema

• Kristen M. Daly, Columbia University, How Cinema is Digital

• Kevin Hagopian, Penn State University, The Death of the Death of Film: Reengineering the Digiphilic Media Narrative

Panel #8: New Influences on Film Studies and Teaching

Moderator: Kathleen Karlyn, University of Oregon

• Sarah Projansky, University of Illinois, What Is Film Studies?: Administrative, Faculty, and Student Perspectives

• Brenna Wardell, University of Oregon, That Something Extra: The Economic and Cultural Impact of Extras

• Jeff Scheible, UCSB, Film without Film: Film Theory, Special Features, and Video Stores

Panel #9: Film Production & Technology Issues

Moderator: Michael Aronson, University of Oregon

• Amanda Kirchner, University of Iowa, Composite Performances: Recognizing the Human Elements in Computer-Generated Characters

• Deborah Tudor, Southern Illinois University, Light Bouncing: Digital Processes Illuminate the Cultural Past

• Charles Acland, Concordia University, Patience and Patents:  The Quiet Years of James Cameron

12 - 1 pm     Lunch

1 - 3 pm

Panel #10: Bollywood and the World

Moderator: Daisuke Miyao, University of Oregon

• Lyle Pearson, Can Bollywood Survive in a Globalized World? Slumdog Millionaire as Test Case

• Azmat Rasul, Florida State University, Tallahassee, Bollywood Mania: Why Hollywood Majors are Producing Bollywood Movies

• Blair Orfall, University of Oregon, Hollywood After Slumdog Millionaire

Panel #11: Cultures of the American Video Store

Moderator: Harsha Gangadharbatla, University of Oregon

• Dan Herbert, University of Michigan, City of Quirk: Eclecticism in Boutique Video Rental Stores in the Los Angeles Area 

• Peter Alilunas, University of Michigan, Mediating the “Back Room”: Early Video Stores and Adult Video News

• David Lerner, University of Southern California, In Search of an Author: Video Stores and the Evolving Cult of the Auteur  

   

Panel #12: Hollywood in the 21st Century

Moderator: Eileen Meehan, Southern Illinois University

• Kimberly Owczarski, University of Arizona, The Dark Knight: The Franchise as Convergence

• Erin Hanna, University of Michigan, Rebooting Hollywood and Re-Imagining the Blockbuster

• Jason Kelly Roberts, Northwestern University, The Digital Authentic: Film Critics and Home Video Technologies

• Keith M. Johnston, University of East Anglia, ‘The coolest way to watch movie trailers in the world’ (Steve Jobs): Digital Technologies in Film Promotion

3:15 - 4:30 pm    

Panel #13: Corporate Hollywood

Moderator: Bryan Sebok, Lewis and Clark College

• Eileen R. Meehan, Southern Illinois University, National Amusements, Viacom, and CBS:  A New Organizational Model?

• Alisa Perren, Georgia State University, Business as Unusual: Conglomerate-Sized Challenges for Film and Television in the Digital Arena

• Jennifer Holt, UC Santa Barbara, It’s Not Film, It’s TV: An Industrial Identity Crisis

• Eric Hoyt, University of Southern California, The Future of Selling the Past: Studio Libraries in the 21st Century

Panel #14: Audiences and Fans in a Digital World

Moderator: Julianne Newton, University of Oregon

• Elissa Nelson, University of Texas, The Internet Movie Database: At the Crossroads between Production and Consumption

• Rachel Thibault, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, The Auteurs: Taste, Gender, and Cinephilia

• Chuck Tryon, Fayetteville State University, Channeling Cinephilia: Digital Delivery, Social Networking, and Online Movie Cultures

Panel #15: Film Texts and Filmmakers

Moderator: Bish Sen, University of Oregon

• Stephen Rust, University of Oregon, Global Warming, Risk, and the Melodramatic Imagination: 'The Day After Tomorrow' (2004) and 'An Inconvenient Truth' (2006)

• Carter Soles, University of Oregon, Kevin Smith as “Straight Queer” Industrial Auteur

• Zak Roman, Penn State University, Red Eye: Technology’s Role in Controlling a Digitized Gaze in 'Disturbia'

• Ryan Lizardi, Penn State University, Employing Documentary Conventions and Desire in the Narrative Film

4:45 - 6 pm

Panel #16: Independent Film in the Digital Age, Part 2

Moderator: Michael Huntsberger, Linfield College 

• Paul Torre,  Southern Illinois University Carbondale, No More ‘Stupid Money’?: Independent Film and the Crisis of Financing

• Yannis Tzioumakis, University of Liverpool, After the “Independent”, the “Indie” and “Indiewood”: The Ever-changing Discourse(s) of Contemporary American Independent Cinema

• Mary Erickson, University of Oregon, At the Edge: Independent Filmmakers Working at Outpost Locations

• Thomas Schatz, University of Texas, Conglomerate Hollywood and the Fate of American Independent Film

Panel #17:  Changes in Film Distribution and Exhibition

Moderator: Kevin Hagopian, Penn State University

• Randall Livingstone, University of Oregon, Sales vs. Rentals: A Renewed Film Conflict in the Digital World

• Govind Shanadi, Mount Union College, 3D Technology: Artistic Creativity or Studio Marketing Ploy?

• Stuart Hanson, De Montfort University, and Paul McDonald, University of Portsmouth, D-cinema in Britain: The UK Film Council and the Digital Screen Network

• Brenna Wolf and Alina Padilla-Miller, University of Oregon, Documenting Uprisings: Distribution Choices of Social Movement Documentary Filmmakers in the Digital Age

   

Panel #18: Globalization and Film

Moderator: Gerry Sussman, Portland State University 

• Nezih Orhon, Anadolu University, Eskisehir-Turkey, and Dimitra Dimitrakopoulou, Aristoteles University of Thessaloniki-Greece, Challenging Hollywood Hegemony: The Rise of Turkish Films

• Jon Silver and John McDonnell, Queensland University of Technology, Hollywood Dominance: Will It Continue?

• Doris Baltruschat, Carleton University, Global Media Ecologies and Film Production

6 - 7 pm     Keynote Presentation: Will Vinton "It's the Art, Not the Tools"

7 pm     Closing Reception

In celebration of the new Cinema Studies major at the University of Oregon