THE EUROPEAN CREATOR‘S LAB and Stereopsia EUROPE join forces again to collaboratively present THE BOOSTER.
WHAT IT IS
THE BOOSTER is an intensive training led by international experts to improve pitch and presentation, get the latest insights & trends for the XR contents, industry, and market, be at the forefront of the XR technologies, and learn how to develop and finance an XR project. Training leads are Sylvain Grain (Stereopsia EUROPE) and Astrid Kahmke (European Creators’ Lab).
THE BOOSTER will consist of online masterclasses with expert mentors (10-14.10.2022) and participation in Stereopsia EUROPE in Brussels (17-19.10.2022), including B2B meetings and pitch presentation of the projects to a jury of potential partners, co-producers, distributors, and film funds. Participants will get the opportunity to create new business networks by participating in networking meetings, and compete for the Booster Award, which will be given to the winner during the Awards Ceremony of Stereopsia EUROPE, held on 19 October 2022.
FOR WHOM
THE BOOSTER is made for XR producers and their immersive, narrative projects in development, and with a significant international potential, ready to search for creative and financing partners. For each project, a maximum of 3 team members (producer mandatory, plus creative lead) can participate.
DATES
Call open: | 12 April to 15 August 2022→ application form↗ |
Acceptance confirmation: | 9 September 2022 |
Online masterclasses: | 10 - 14 October 2022 |
Stereopsia EUROPE: | 17 - 19 October 2022 (in Brussels) |
FEES
Participation Fee: 300 € (+VAT) per participant
Included: Online Masterclasses, Stereopsia Full Pass, Awards Gala, Pitch presentation at Stereopsia, and networking meetings at the event.
ALLOWANCE FOR ACCOMODATION
THE EUROPEAN CREATORS' LAB offers support for accommodation costs for the stay in Brussels. Up to 300 € allowance per participant can be granted, upon specific request.
SCHOLARSHIPS
The EUROPEAN CREATORS' LAB provides a very small number of scholarships – following the regularities of Creative Europe Media – for citizens with the nationality of: Albania, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Estonia, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Montenegro, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia.
The scholarships are selected by a jury. Scholarship holders are exempt from the participation fee and receive an allowance for travel and accomodation costs. There is no legal claim to a scholarship.
Please do not apply for a scholarship if you are not eligible for it.
MENTORS & EXPERTS
Astrid Kahmke
Head of the European Creators' Lab & Training Lead
Astrid works as consultant and curator for immersive arts. With a background as producer for international feature films and more than one decade of experience in training and talent coaching, her live revolves around storytelling and the future of narration. Astrid is a passionate networker and supporter of the European XR community. She started the European Creators' Lab in 2017 and since then is its head and training lead.
Sylvain Grain
Training Lead (Stereopsia)
French producer, consultant and trainer based in Chile with 15+ years of experience in the media and entertainment industry. His special skills and interest in stereoscopic-3D, CG animation and immersion led him to participate in innovative film projects for museums, theme parks, television, advertising and cinema, exploring a large variety of formats and technologies such as glasses-free 3D, IMAX 3D and eXtended Reality. As a co-founder of Chilean production company Raki Films and Head of Stereopsia Latam, he aims at building bridges between Latin America and Europe in media, animation and immersive technologies.
We are proud to welcome and work with:
Damián Turkieh
Pioneer 360° videomaker, spatial sound and volumetric video in Latin America. He has directed more than 50 immersive experiences since 2014, is a researcher and professor at different universities and institutions, and is the founder and director of Realidad 360 ° Argentina, a leading producer of XR content. His last jobs were virtual reality director and co-producer of the multi award-winning fiction series “4 Feet High” (Metro Veinte), technical creative in “Virtual Crossings BA” (performance with motion capture and volumetric video in real time) , audiovisual director of the 360 interactive web of National Parks (Argentina), director of the VR and AR experiences of the exhibition "Dalí 2.1" by Salvador Dalí, production of the 360° visualizers of Bad Bunny's latest album "Un Verano Sin Ti" (the 23 most viewed 360° videos in the world in 2022) and has created the first volumetric video studio in Argentina where he did work for the USA, France and Ecuador. He is currently creating content for a major immersive room with 3D animation and experimenting with different workflows for virtual production and metaverses.
Eloi Gerard
Eloi is a serial Media & Advertising Entrepreneur, Producer, and Augmented and Virtual Reality influencer. He is currently the CEO/Founder of E.N.D. Entertainment, an XR Publishing Company based in Los Angeles.
Previously in Shanghai China, he founded CrowsNest XR, the International leader of XR for Marketing in China. He has produced the first-ever VR campaigns for major international brands such as Logitech, Hyatt, Peugeot, Club Med, Thomas Cook, Metro Cash & Carry, and Miele.
During his time in China, he founded the largest English-speaking community of XR Professionals in China: XR-Story. The mission of the community is to connect XR Chinese companies/studios with the rest of the world. Some major Chinese actors are Pico, DPVR, Tencent, Bytedance, Alibaba, Shadow Creator, nreal, Lenovo, Xiaomi, Madgaze, TCL, Insta360, etc… The international actors are Google, HTC, HP, Microsoft, Meta, Apple, Qualcomm, Unity, Samsung, etc…
Previously in his home country Belgium, Eloi produced the feature film “Cannibal” which premiered at Raindance in London and received many accolades.
During his career, his cinematic and commercial productions have been showcased at the likes of SXSW, IDFA, IFA Berlin, the Montreal World Film Festival, the Milan International Filmmaker Festival, and the Festival of International Virtual And Augmented Reality Stories (FIVARS), and they have won honors from Beijing’s Golden Duo Awards, the Awareness Film Festival, the Indie Gathering International Film Festival, and Razorreel.
At the same time, Eloi has earned invitations to speak as an expert at numerous industry events, including the Sandbox Immersive Festival, TechCrunch Disrupt, IT&CM China and CTW China, and 4th VRCORE Developer Conference.
He has been interviewed by Reuters, CGTN, The Global Times, eMarketer, The Ghost Howls.
Celine Tricart
Celine Tricart is an acclaimed storyteller who has developed a unique style involving highly emotional stories and strong visual artistry. Her work has been showcased at numerous top-tier festivals including Sundance, Venice, Tribeca, SXSW, and HotDocs. She has received the Lion for Best Immersive Work at the Venice Film Festival (2019), the Storyscapes Award at Tribeca (2019), two Lumiere Awards from the Advanced Imaging Society, two Telly Awards, an Auggie and a Platinum Aurora Award, amongst many other accolades. Celine served as the president of the international Jury of the Venice Virtual Reality section at the Biennale Cinema 2020.
Celine co-directed and produced Maria Bello’s “Sun Ladies” VR experience about the women Yazidi fighting ISIS in Iraq which was selected in over 70 international festivals. For this, she had to travel through ISIS-held territory to meet the women soldiers at the border between Iraq and Syria and record their stories. In 2019, Celine released “The Key”, an interactive experience which garnered critical acclaim. Celine’s company, Lucid Dreams Productions, specializes in utilizing new technologies to further bold, unapologetic storytelling, and in empowering female voices in the filmmaking process. She is now working on an ambitious transmedia project about women’s self-defense called FIGHT BACK, as well as her first video game for PC and consoles.
In 2021 Celine was awarded France’s prestigious insignia of Chevalier De l’Ordre Des Arts et Des Lettres (Knight of the Order of Arts and Letters) by the Ministry of Culture of France.
www.celine-tricart.com
www.luciddreamsprod.com
Chloé Jarry
Chloé Jarry is the executive producer of The Enemy, a virtual and augmented reality project directed by Karim Ben Khelifa, unveiled in May 2017 at the Arab World Institute in Paris and presented in more than four countries (MIT Boston, GIFF Geneva, Tel Aviv Student Film Festival, Center Phi Montreal).
In July 2018, she co-founded with the CLPB Media group, the production and distribution company Lucid Realities, entirely dedicated to immersive and interactive storytelling. In its catalog of projects, we find Claude Monet – The Waterlilies Obsession, co-produced with Arte and the Musée de l'Orangerie and winner of the Viveport Developer Award, 1, 2, 3 Bruegel and Replay Memories by the duo Gordon and Andrès Jarach, Endodrome, artwork by Dominique Gonzales-Foerster presented at the Venice Art Biennale in 2019.
In 2021, the company has also released three new projects: Seven Grams by Karim Ben Khelifa (official selection at Sundance, Prix Nouvelles Ecritures at Fipadoc), The Little Dancer, by Gordon (Grand Prix augmented reality application Stereopsia 2021), The Starry Sand Beach by Nina Barbier and Huang Hsin-Chien (Official Selection Venice Film Festival 2021, Cannes XR 2022, Pixii 2022).
Chloé is also co-President of PXN - the Digital Experiences Producers Association.
