ADVISORY/Lights, Camera, Action! First Narrative Movie Created With Be Here iVideo Technology to be Showcased At the Sundance Online Film Festival.News Editors/High-Tech & Motion Picture Writers ADVISORY...for Thursday Thursday: see week. (Jan. 18) --(BUSINESS WIRE)
-- Be Here Breaks Through Traditional Entertainment Barriers To Present A New
Creative Medium For Movie Professionals
-- "The New Arrival" Honored As One Of The Top New Films Selected For The First
Sundance Online Film Festival
Who: Be Here Corporation
Where: The Sundance Online Film Festival/ The 2001 Sundance Film
Festival, in Park City, Utah
When: January 18-28, 2001
What: Be Here Corporation, the only provider of live 360-degree
streaming Internet video technology, announced today that
the world's first immersive film developed with Be Here's
iVideo technology, "The New Arrival," was selected to be
showcased at the inaugural Sundance Online Film Festival
beginning January 18, 2001. New this year, the online film
festival will offer viewers the best in cinema and
retrospective work developed especially for the Web. With
the use of Be Here's technology, Internet viewers around
the globe can personalize their viewing experience by
navigating through a 360-degree scene and thereby defining
their own experience. Be Here's iVideo technology marks
the beginning of a whole new category of filmmaking called
"immersive" movies, which offers industry professionals an
innovative way to deliver content to their audiences. As
the first in a series of immersive movies, "The New
Arrival" sparked industry wide awareness and rapid
adoption of this new entertainment medium.
Attendees will be able to view "The New Arrival," along
with other immersive films utilizing Be Here's iVideo
technology, such as "The Coming of Age" and "Carny Tales"
at the AtomFilms Park City headquarters, "427 Main
Street." Movie fans will be able to relax, sit back and
enjoy a whole new interactive experience when they visit
the 427 Main Street venue in Park City, Utah. All
immersive films will be shown daily throughout the
festival from 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.
Be Here Corporation is the only provider of 360-degree
live streaming Internet video technology used worldwide
by, sports, entertainment and event Webcasters. Be Here
delivers live and recorded streaming 360-degree Internet
video with levels of personalization and involvement that
other mediums or technologies simply cannot achieve. Be
Here-powered Internet programming makes good on the
promise of interactive viewing by enabling viewers to
"look around" at an event at will -- just as if they were
at the event itself. Viewers control personalized
360-degree camera angles independent of other viewers to
gain an impactful, "be here" experience. Be Here's
easy-to-use, open platform solutions have been used by the
National Football League to Webcast the Superbowl XXXIV
activities, ESPN for the Summer and Winter X Games, ESPN
for the NFL Draft, Z.com for the Ellen Degeneres Americana
Tour, popular reality shows including Big Brother and The
Baren, BMG for the Sundance Film Festival Music Studio and
Dave Matthews Band concert. The company is headquartered
in Cupertino, Calif. For more information, visit
www.behere.com.
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