DEADLINE: Cannes Market’s New Innovation Village with Orbital Studios
Breaking in DEADLINE: Orbital Studios is Cannes-bound for the debut of Innovation Village at Cannes Next, driving the conversation on virtual production and the future of film.
“…Respeecher CEO and co-founder Alex Serdiuk will be at the Cannes Marché du Film for a panel entitled ‘AI Voices for Hollywood and Beyond’, which will touch on the company’s involvement in The Brutalist as well as Jacques Audiard’s 2024 Cannes Jury Prize and Oscar winner Emilia Pérez.
The event is among a raft of technology and innovation-focused talks, panels and demonstrations scheduled to take place at the market’s new Village Innovation, a 1,000 meter-square space in the Pantiero area overlooking the old port.
The village, which incorporates part of the market’s long running Cannes Next program, has a focus on AI, virtual production and immersive content but touches on all aspects of technology that intersect with cinema.
“The village is part of our larger ambition to make Cannes a key innovation event, at the intersection of technology and the film industry,” says Cannes Market head Guillaume Esmiol. “We’re not looking to compete with tech events like CES or IBC. Our aim is rather to discuss how technology innovation can be at the service of creativity.”
…program highlights include an AI project pitching session overseen by the Sylvester Stallone-backed analytics platform Largo.ai; a workshop by A.J. Wedding and Brian Nitzkin at L.A-based virtual production specialist Orbital Studios (Snowfall, History’s Greatest Heists) exploring Nvidia’s Omniverse platform…”
