AtomFilms Launches 360-Degree Short Film Green-Lit By Atom Community; Atom Teams with Leading Technology Companies Be Here and Intel for 360-Degrees Forward Initiative.Business/High Tech Editors & Entertainment Writers SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 12, 2000 AtomFilms (www.atomfilms.com) premieres Coming of Age by Joe Riley -- the first community-selected 360-degree short film. Atom provided its community of over 1.5 million Insiders (registered users) the opportunity to select the next 360-degree immersive film with its initiative, 360-Degrees Forward, which launched in May 2000 at the Cannes Film Festival Cannes Film Festival Film festival held annually in Cannes, France. First held in 1946 for the recognition of artistic achievement, the festival came to provide a rendezvous for those interested in the art and influence of the movies. . With this initiative, Atom continues to break the barriers of traditional entertainment, enabling audiences to navigate through the film from their PC, viewing something different every time they watch the short. AtomFilms partnered with Be Here in the creation of this short film, through the use of their 360-degree iVideo technology, and with major technology companies, Intel, Real Networks and Sony for sponsorship of the 360-Degrees Forward spotlight channel at AtomFilms: Immersive Film Lab. AtomFilms, Be Here, Intel and award-winning filmmaker Amy Talkington teamed up to create the world's first 360-degree immersive short film, The New Arrival, which debuted at this year's Cannes Film Festival. Coinciding with the premiere, Atom put out a call for submissions, offering registered Insiders an opportunity to submit treatments for the next 360-degree production. Joe Riley's Coming of Age, selected from more than 100 submissions, details the quirky quirk n. 1. A peculiarity of behavior; an idiosyncrasy: "Every man had his own quirks and twists" Harriet Beecher Stowe. 2. story of a 13-year-old-boy on his first airplane flight. The commercial jetliner begins to crash with our young man on board, giving him -- as well as the viewer -- the opportunity to watch how people handle this tense situation. Told from the boy's point of view, the story utilizes Be Here's iVideo 360-degree technology, allowing users to steer their way through the film -- making each viewing experience unique. "This is a compelling event for Be Here as it marks the world's first 360-degree interactive film contest," said Andrew Thau, CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. of Be Here. "The use of our technology in filmmaking redefines the rules of traditional entertainment. As pioneers of the immersive film category with the advent of iVideo, we are pleased to partner with AtomFilms and Intel to increase public awareness of this new form of interactive entertainment." Both Coming of Age and The New Arrival are showcased in the Intel sponsored "Immersive Film Lab" spotlight, designed exclusively for 360-degree immersive film projects. Intel was the original 360-Degrees Forward sponsor as well as technology partner for the production of The New Arrival. "Intel(R) Streaming Web Video software helps deliver a whole new dimension in story-telling. Intel congratulates the early filmmaking pioneers," said Andrea LeGare, Intel Manager of Strategic Marketing. "AtomFilms continues to distinguish itself from other entertainment companies by creating opportunities for its community to experience new technology and help create their own entertainment experiences," said Seth Levenson, vice president of sales at AtomFilms. "I have been waiting for my big break and now my production is the world's third 360-Degree immersive film," adds Joe Riley, winning director of Coming of Age. "Atom created this opportunity, and its community chose me to work with this incredible technology -- it's been a one-of-a-kind experience to be a pioneer in immersive films." About AtomFilms AtomFilms is a leading next generation entertainment company focused on redefining the way entertainment is created, distributed, marketed and consumed. AtomFilms has the largest catalog of award-winning animation and live-action entertainment available. A loyal supporter of independent filmmakers and animators, AtomFilms has built a platform for artists seeking worldwide distribution. AtomFilms markets and distributes high-quality short form entertainment to more than 100 partners and to audiences worldwide, with significant presence on major Internet sites, broadband services, television, airlines, home-entertainment companies, as well as handheld and wireless devices. With a popular Web destination that is ranked among Media Metrix's top twenty entertainment sites, AtomFilms was recently honored with two Webby Awards For the Ducktales character, see . Presented by The International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences, The Webby Awards are a set of awards presented to the "world's best websites". The awards have been given out since 1996. in the Film and Broadband categories. The AtomFilms Web site also was cited as one of the top ten most trafficked movie-related sites by Entertainment Weekly, rated "Best of the Web" for online entertainment by U.S. News & World Report U.S. News & World Report Weekly newsmagazine published in Washington, D.C. U.S. News was founded in 1933 by David Lawrence (1888–1973) to cover important domestic events; he founded World Report in 1945 to treat world news. The two magazines were merged in 1948. and selected as the Forbes Magazine favorite short film destination. An independent company founded in 1998, AtomFilms has offices in Seattle, Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. , New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of and London. More information about AtomFilms can be found on the Internet at http://www.atomfilms.com. About Be Here Be Here Corporation is the only provider of 360-degree live streaming Internet video Video material obtained from the Internet. It may refer to streaming video from real time broadcasts, streaming archival material or downloading video files for watching later, all of which are viewed on the computer. 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. Rather than stitch multiple video images together, Be Here's technology captures the entire 360-degree environment in a single, seamless video image up to 30 frames/sec. By combining the seamless capture with real-time video processing Video processing techniques are used in video codecs, video players and other devices. For example—commonly only design and video processing is different in TV sets of different manufactures. software, Be Here iVideo produces both a higher quality and a richer viewing experience for the consumer for live and on-demand video applications. 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 ESPN Entertainment and Sports Programming Network for the Summer and Winter X Games X Games Sports medicine The official Olympics of 'extreme sports' sponsored by ESPN, held annually during the summer. See Extreme sports. , ESPN for the NFL Draft The NFL Draft (officially the NFL Annual Player Selection Meeting[1]) is an annual sports draft in which National Football League (NFL) teams take turns, through seven rounds[2] , Major League Baseball "MLB" and "Major Leagues" redirect here. For other uses, see MLB (disambiguation) and Major Leagues (disambiguation). Major League Baseball (MLB) is the highest level of play in North American professional baseball. for the All Star Weekend, AtomFilms for "The New Arrival", Z.com for the Ellen Degeneres Ellen Lee DeGeneres (born January 26, 1958) is an American stand-up comedian, actress, and currently the Emmy Award-winning host of the syndicated talk show The Ellen DeGeneres Show. DeGeneres has hosted both the Academy Awards and the Primetime Emmys. Americana Tour, popular reality shows including Big Brother and The Baren, the Democratic National Convention for the Convention Events, BMG BMG Bundesministerium für Gesundheit (Germand: Federal Ministry for Health) BMG Be My Girl BMG Blue Man Group BMG Bertelsmann Music Group BMG Be My Guest BMG Browning Machine Gun BMG Bulk Metallic Glass for the Sundance Film Festival Music Studio and Dave Matthews
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