CONFERENCES AND PROFESSIONAL MEETINGS
In accordance with its wish to become a permanent international platform for the exchange of information on the development and effects of audio-visual production, Cinéma Tous Ecrans is presenting a series of encounters, colloquia, and masterclasses. These address professionals as well as active and curious amateurs in the fields of cinema, television and the new media.
Crime every screen - Interactive Storytelling : between video games and web-connected TV - Meetings with Michael Nyman - Meetings with Hendrick Dusollier - Meetings with Dawid Marcinkowski
Conference « Crime Series »
Crime every screen
For the premiere of Season 2 of Braquo and given the high number of crime series in competition, we would like to explore how this genre has persisted in popular culture.
The detective genre, which appeared in England with Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes and in France with Maurice Leblanc’s Arsène Lupin in the 19th century, immediately found an audience, initially among the working class but later attracting both intellectuals and scholars alike. The phenomenon grew in the 20th century with authors such as Agatha Christie and Georges Simenon. Even now, detective novels are bestsellers in bookshops and crime literature has held an undisputed place in culture for around twenty years now.
In movies, the film noir left an undeniable imprint on the golden age of Hollywood (between the 30s and 50s) with masterpieces such as Scarface, The Maltese Falcon and The Big Sleep. In the 70s and 80s, Martin Scorsese, Brian de Palma and Francis Ford Coppola revived the crime genre with key films including Taxi Driver, The Godfather and Goodfellas.
In television, cops and private detectives abound. Often inspired by crime literature classics, these heroes have recently assumed a more cinematographic dimension through more ambitious fiction productions such as The Sopranos by David Chaso on HBO.
In this context, Francois Guérif, founder of the Rivages/Noir collection at the Payot publishing house and a keen film enthusiast, will explore the close links between the crime genre in literature and film.
Abdel Raouf Dafri, creator of the mini-series La Commune, head writer for the second season of Braquo and writer of the screenplays for Mesrine and A Prophet, will discuss the ties between film and TV series.
Pierre Sérisier, former head of a detective novel collection, author and translator of detective novels, and writer of TV series blog Le Monde des Séries, will look at the literary influences on crime series..
Saturday, November 5
3:30 pm, Uptown Geneva
Free of charge
Conference - Day New Screens
Session 1: Fiction and video games (10:00 – 13:00)
How do the techniques used in storytelling translate within different medias? How do they interact with one another? Do they evolve in parallel or are they intrinsically opposed? Does fiction in films influence video games or has it become the other way around?
Participants
Abdel Raouf Dafri Screenwriter for films and television (« Un Prophète », « Mesrine » as well as the television series « Braquo 2 »)
Thierry Hilaire Lexis Numérique, author of the ARG for « Braquo 2 »
Claire Leproust Associate Director of CAPA Productions, in charge of digital developments
Magali Gatel In charge of the ARG for « Braquo 2 », CAPA Productions
Fabienne Fourquet Director of the Nouveaux Contenus (New Contents, CANAL+)
Alexis Blanchet Sorbonne University – Paris 3
Session 2: Transmedia and web-connected TV (14:30 – 18:00)
The opportunities linked to a web-connected television – a new model of receiver – multiplied by the enhanced functionalities of computers, will generate a new typology for audiovisual services in the international terminology: HBB (Hybrid Broadband Broadcasting). How will the rise of a web-connected TV affect the content of television and its use?
Participants
Martin Spycher Product Manager Mobile & New Media, (Swiss TXT)
Stefano Semeria In charge of TV programming TV (SRF)
Guy Dessaux In charge of Multimedia content (RTS)
Marc Eychenne Daily Motion
Leandro Boschelle Director Strategy & Planning (Cablecom)
Jérôme Hellio Director Internet contents and TOU.TV (Radio Canada)
Lorenzo Vilches (UAB, Barcelona University)
Fabienne Fourquet Director of the Nouveaux Contenus (New Contents, CANAL+)
Bénédicte Lesage Mascaret Productions, ADDICTS web series (ARTE)
Alberto Chollet In charge of the Fiction, Entertainment and Youth Department (RTS)
Moderator: Gaetano Stucchi, New Screens consultant and symposium manager for Cinema Tous Ecrans.
Monday, November 7th
Between video games 10h – 13h Uptown Geneva
Web-connected TV 14h30 – 18h Uptown Geneva
Free of charge
register : storytelling@cinema-tous-ecrans.com