6:00 pm - What's the BuZZ?

6:06 pm - Bill Joll - President and CEO, On2 Technologies, Inc.

Bill Joll is president and CEO of On2 Technologies, a developer of video compression technology.  Prior to joining On2, Bill served as vice president of marketing, carrier solutions, at RealNetworks.  He also spent 18 years at Nortel, where he served as president of marketing for Europe, general manager of two different carrier product lines, and head of product management in Asia and Latin America.  In 2000, Bill left Nortel to serve as CEO of two technology start-ups, Maple Optical and Threshold Networks.  Bill Holds a bachelors and masters degree in electrical engineering from the University of Manitoba and is a citizen of the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom.

6:21 pm - Festival BuZZ

Matt Mizell - Director, One Take Film Festival.

6:26 pm - Pick our Brains

Your chance to get your technical and creative questions answered. This week we talked about: Editing 720 50P and 25P from HVX200; Reproducing the RSS driven OS X screen saver in Motion.

6:32 pm - S. E. Kenlon - Producer and Co-Director "Rune"

Rune, co-Directed by S. E. Kenlon and Arayna Thomas, is breaking new ground in distribution by simultaneously releasing the movie for free iPod download the same day as the commercial DVD is released. How can the US$10 DVD compete with free?

We'll find out when we talk with S. E. Kenlon about Rune, and about their distribution plans. Rune, produced by Isis Productions,  starts with the premise of wondering if there was a way to break down language barriers and enable all people to understand each other's words regardless of their native tongue?  This hugely tantalizing prospect is about to cost linguist Anna Russeau all she's worked for and quite possibly her life in this smart, brooding film noir starring newcomer Anna B‰umer.   Russeau navigates a world of high-powered art collectors, thieves and fanatical government agents who will do anything to abolish her incendiary ideas and bury the ancient artifact she used to decode this Ur-language from which all human speech evolved.  Her only chance for success is to team with guileless smuggler Virgil Burroughs (Robert Anthony Rio) and steal and decipher the ancient document.

S.E. Kenlon's Sleeplessness  (about coffee, of course) won an award from Brooklyn College's film school for best Short Screenplay.  His project Beast  (6 randomly selected frames in 6 groups of 6) won an award for editing but was simultaneously confiscated by the judging committee and its whereabouts today are still unknown.  His mathematical docu-drama The Nothing Plane, which he wrote, directed, animated, and edited, caused a spontaneous debate among the audience members of the Tenth Anniversary Palm Springs International Festival of Short Films.

Cornered, a typically avant-garde work which he made with Arayna Thomas, previewed at the 53rd annual Cannes Film Festival and also won First Place at ExpresiÛn en Corto Film Festival.

An avowed independent artist, and a Catholic Christian Scientist Anarchist, S.E. Kenlon is dedicated to unique art.  Before writing the script for Rune, he co-edited a documentary involving a run-away teenaged anarchist. 

6:50 pm - BuZZ in Depth

We'll take the important BuZZ from the week and look at it in depth so you know what's really important now, and what will become important in the future.