Showbiz Data Hosts Convergence Blowout in Park City, Utah During the Sundance Film Festival 2001.Business, Entertainment & Technology Editors [pilcrow (paragraph sign)] LOS ANGELES--(ENTERTAINMENT WIRE)--Dec. 15, 2000 A Prestigious Lineup of Industry Sponsors Includes Yahoo! Movies, SCI FI Channel Sci Fi Channel may refer to:
iBEAM Broadcasting, Cyber3 and Hitachi Leading entertainment business-to-business portal, ShowBIZ Data Inc., plans to recreate its successful, innovative and visually dynamic Interactive Lounge(SM), a cutting-edge location for the independent film community to meet both traditional and high-tech Hollywood, in Park City, Utah Park City is a city located in Summit County, Utah, United States. It is one of two major resort towns in Utah, the other being Moab. It is considered to be part of the Wasatch Back and a part of the Salt Lake City metropolitan area. during the Sundance Film Festival 2001, which will be held Jan. 18-28. The Lounge will be focused on both online and offline services pertinent to filmmakers including distribution, production, marketing and education and will be held at the legendary Harry-O's on Main Street, a 12,000-square-foot centrally located venue. ShowBIZ Data was notably the first company to introduce the Interactive Lounge concept at a film festival. Since its stunningly successful debut during Sundance 2000, it has become part of the company's location-based events initiative that brings a blend of filmmaking and technology to the entertainment community. For 2001, visitors to the Lounge will find a meeting place that offers a variety of activities including the opportunity for filmmakers to submit short films for distribution consideration to The SCI FI Sci fi may refer to:
(operating system) Microsoft Windows - Microsoft's proprietary window system and user interface software released in 1985 to run on top of MS-DOS. Widely criticised for being too slow (hence "Windoze", "Microsloth Windows") on the machines available then. Media(TM) Technologies; iBEAM Broadcasting's streaming media See streaming audio, streaming video and digital media hub. services; Cyber3's ES Series professional editing solutions using Apple's Final Cut Pro; and entertainment industry panels -- all in a coffee house environment. Utilizing the creative skills of renowned film art director, Frank Bollinger ("Stargate," "Independence Day"), the 2001 Lounge will feature kiosks with 50 computer systems provided by Dell Computer Corp. complete with e-mail access and eight state-of-the-art 42-inch High-Definition Plasma Display Also called "gas discharge display," a flat-screen technology that uses tiny cells lined with phosphor that are full of inert ionized gas (typically a mix of xenon and neon). Three cells make up one pixel (one cell has red phosphor, one green, one blue). Monitors provided by Hitachi. Representatives of cannesmarket.com, ShowBIZ Data's partnership with the prestigious Cannes Market, will be on hand to recruit completed independent films for inclusion in its virtual film marketplace. Also on site is AtomFilms, which is hosting its All Access Lounge. ShowBIZ Data's virtual hub, which is heavily frequented by festival guests, filmmakers, entertainment executives, the media and celebrities and which caters to the plethora of attendees at independent film festivals that occur concurrently (Sundance, Slamdance, Slamdunk and No Dance) in Park City, will also provide food service, stress reducing massages, full service herbal elixir elixir /elix·ir/ (e-lik´ser) a clear, sweetened, alcohol-containing, usually hydroalcoholic liquid containing flavoring substances and sometimes active medicinal ingredients. e·lix·ir n. , oxygen bars...and much needed warmth. The Interactive Lounge provided a popular central meeting point at Sundance 2000 by converging the worlds of filmmaking and technology along with such heavy-hitting sponsors as Entertaindom, Yahoo!(R) Movies, Dell Computer Corp., Sun Microsystems Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ: JAVA[3]) is an American vendor of computers, computer components, computer software, and information-technology services, founded on 24 February 1982. , Hitachi, eBay, video gamer Gathering of Developers aka God Games, national retailer Hollywood Video, broadband television distributor AXE Digital Television, and Burly Bear, the nation's largest college cable network and Internet destination. Jamba Juice Jamba Juice is a high-end chain of smoothie restaurants headquartered in Emeryville, California with over 640 locations operating in 21 states, the District of Columbia and the Bahamas. Over 400 locations are company-owned, with the remainder being franchised. and Bad Ass Coffee maintained full service bars and provided food and daily promotions to attendees throughout the festival. Since Sundance 2000, ShowBIZ Data has repeated its successful Interactive Lounge concept for the entertainment community 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. and Market 2000, where it worked in conjunction with such industry partners as Microsoft Corp.; Micron Electronics; HostPro, Micron's Web-hosting subsidiary; and Hitachi, as well as at IFFM IFFM Interlinking Free Format Message , the largest annual independent film market held in 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 in September. Founded by Producer Oliver Eberle ("Stargate," "Universal Soldier") in 1997, ShowBIZ Data's core business is the capture, publication and syndication of both entertainment industry data and consumer content. Its flagship service, ShowBIZData.com, provides entertainment professionals with a convenient one-stop resource for comprehensive information about the film industry. With an all-inclusive, interactive database that grows daily, more than 400,000 entertainment professionals and 45,000 media companies are profiled as well as a detailed financial history of the film business spanning 20 years. The company has developed several specialized online applications that utilize information to improve many of the inefficiencies inherent to the ways that traditional entertainment content is produced, marketed and distributed: ShowBIZData.com(TM) (a comprehensive, interactive, film information database), Cannesmarket.com (an all year-round film market) and The Executive Decision(TM) (feature film world revenue forecasting). ShowBIZ Data is a privately owned corporation funded by Los Angeles-based Zone Ventures, Tim Draper of Draper Fisher Jurvetson Draper Fisher Jurvetson (DFJ) is a venture capital firm based in Menlo Park, California with affiliate offices in more than 30 cities around the world and over $4.5 billion in capital commitments. , German-based media conglomerate, Burda Digital Media and Stern Joint Venture from Chicago. Note to Editors: Yahoo! and the Yahoo! logo are trademarks and/or registered trademarks of Yahoo! Inc. 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