{"id":32189,"date":"2011-06-13T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-06-13T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.yorku.ca\/researchdev\/2011\/06\/13\/toronto-star-covers-inaugural-3d-film-conference-led-by-york-researchers-2\/"},"modified":"2011-06-13T04:00:00","modified_gmt":"2011-06-13T08:00:00","slug":"toronto-star-covers-inaugural-3d-film-conference-led-by-york-researchers-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.yorku.ca\/research\/2011\/06\/13\/toronto-star-covers-inaugural-3d-film-conference-led-by-york-researchers-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Toronto Star covers inaugural 3D film conference led by York researchers"},"content":{"rendered":"
<\/strong><\/p>\n And as the film world continues its rapid transition from traditional 2 D celluloid film to 3 D digital, a weekend conference at the TIFF Bell Lightbox is aimed at boosting the Toronto film community\u2019s chances of capitalizing on the next wave in film \u2013 3-D, wrote the Toronto Star<\/em> June 9<\/a>:<\/p>\n The [Toronto International Stereoscopic 3D<\/a>] conference is co-sponsored by ¿ì²¥ÊÓÆµ\u2019s Faculty of Fine Arts and the 3-D Film Innovation Consortium (3D FLIC), a group of GTA-based film companies.<\/p>\n Ali Kazimi<\/a>, professor in the University\u2019s film department, said the three-day event will bring together an \u201ceclectic mix\u201d of filmmakers, artists, academics and theorists. \u201cIt\u2019s a truly interdisciplinary event. We believe it\u2019s not just a first in Canada, we believe it\u2019s the first time anywhere in the world that these...fairly disparate groups of people have been brought together to discuss the future of 3-D cinema,\u201d Kazimi said.<\/p>\n \u201cI think this is going to be a very special event for the city. Our project has really put Toronto on the map because with this incredible sharing of knowledge,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n Until the debut of Avatar<\/em> in December, 2009, there was little interest in 3-D as a new frontier in film, Kazimi said. \u201cNow everybody is jumping on the bandwagon. As a filmmaker, I feel it\u2019s a very exciting time because when used properly, 3-D offers a whole new language for filmmakers,\u201d Kazimi said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n The conference and 3D FLIC also involve psychology and computer science researchers within the Centre for Vision Research<\/a>. The centre's conference on brain plasticity and neuroscience<\/a> runs June 15-18, allowing researchers to attend both events.<\/p>\n For more background on the Toronto International Stereoscopic 3D Conference, see its website <\/a>or this overview of the program<\/a>.<\/p>\n