Most of the events in 2012 and 2013 will take
place in Mountain View, Menlo Park, Palo
Alto, and with some events in San Francisco and
San Jose in the year 2014. Some of the
venues included will be the Computer Museum,
Kepler's Book Store, the Guild Theater,
Dragon Theater, Stanford Park Hotel, Zibibbo, and
more to be announced down the road.
Flagship location for the September 1 & 2 event
is the history Kepler's Book Store at 1010
El Camino Real in Menlo Park.
Beyond the actual festival in Silicon Valley, the
Digital Media Festival will be online world
wide segments streaming live, and available virtually live 24/7/365.
If you Bing or Yahoo search Digital Media Festival we are #1.
During the event in Silicon Valley the festival will Skype some of the producers and
guest from other states and countries into the festival audience. The festival will be
programmed on Facebook, Twitter, Youtube, Ustream.tv, and the Festival's HD channel
Openfilm.com/channels/Digital-Media-Festival, in a partnership with James Caan, Robert Duvall,
and Scott Caan via their Independent premium video sharing website.
During the April 2013 Festival and Expo, there
will be simultaneous events in Hong Kong,
France, India, Los Angeles, and from a vineyard Paso Robles, California. DMF will be truly International, Interactive and on
the cutting edge of technology. Festival founder and producer Benford Standley has been
in the entertainment business for 40 plus years, working with the likes of Bob Dylan,
Merle Haggard, Eric Clapton, Les Paul, and many others, and ventured into live streaming
on the Internet in 1995, and with a online concert in 1997 with Willie Nelson. His
first "Digital Film Festival" was in 2008, and was
attended by Clint Eastwood, Kevin Bacon, producer
Sir Nigel Sinclair, Ramblin' Jack
Elliott, Johnny Rivers and many greats in film
and music. Standley is presently relocating
to Silicon Valley and pledges to keep the
festivals changing with the times.
Streaming, Internet TV, VOD,
multimedia, digital media & mobile is no doubt the future of
the entertainment business. With the next year seeing
the release and further development
of
Internet Television, and the huge paradigm shift taking place in the film and television
business, a new evolution of film festivals is now evolving with our
Digital
Media Festival.
The word "film" is becoming obsolete, and "The Times They Are A-Changin'" and
exponentially at that!
We are very excited at the lineup for the September
2012, and the April 2013, festivals.
The feature movies, documentaries, shorts and
sections on photography and music will
take the participants into the future of
entertainment. With the September lineup of films
being programmed with the story line and theme
FROM FILM TO THE DIGITAL AGE,
we'll travel through history with Cass Warner's
"The Brothers Warner" about the history
of Warner Brothers. Chris Felver's "Ferlinghetti,"
about Lawrence Ferlinghetti, who
helped spark the San Francisco literary renaissance
of the 1950s and the subsequent
"Beat" movement. Filmmaker Eric Christensen
will show his documentary on an im-
portant event known as the "Trips Festival 1966",
Erin Murphy, who's dad Dudley
Murphy directed the classic movie "Saint Louis Blues"
with Bessie Smith, will screen
the movie and talk about those early days of film.
Jerry Garcia, Len Dell'Amico, Allison Sullivan and Bob
Weir
from
"Hell in a
Bucket 1987"
The festival will pay special tribute to
producer/director Len Dell'Amico, who is known
as the Grateful Dead's "video guy," and screening his
new feature movie "Welcome To
Dopeland" and his concert documentary on the Jerry Garcia
Band, most of which was
shot at the Shoreline Amphitheater in Silicon Valley. This
all during a special day at the historic Kepler's Book Store in Menlo Park, where he will be
joined by Stanford professor Fred Turner, who authored the book "From CounterCulture to CyberCulture: Stewart Brand, the Whole Earth Network, and the Rise of Digital
Utopianism," Chris Felver,
Eric Christensen, and Nicholas Meriwether,
the Grateful Dead archivist at the
University of Santa Cruz in a panel discussion on the history of
Silicon Valley, the
Grateful Dead and the Digital Age...
Last, but very certainly not least, the festival will
be dedicated to help bring attention to
the historic plight of homeless and runaway children
and youth, in the Silicon Valley,
California and the world. Attending the
festival, where we will be making a challenge to
Silicon Valley programmers, engineers, and technology
companies to design and create
new ideas to help The Bill Wilson Center, that
serves over 10,000 youth and their family
members every year in the Silicon Valley, will be
Sparky Harlan Executive Director of
the Center. Just last month she returned from
Washington DC, where the President
honored Ms. Harlan and fifteen other people in the
Nation as leaders in this effort to help
homeless children in the United States. Sparky
and some of the kids from the Center
will be part of the Festival each year. In
April actress Dyan Cannon will screen her new
documentary on runaways that live in the streets of
Hollywood, California.
