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M.Strange - "Professional Weirdo" at We are the Strange.

M dot Strange is a mixed media animator under the influence of anime, 8bit video games, the Brothers Quay, and lots of Coffee. His animated feature film We are the Strange is freaking people out all over the globe with its Str8nime style and should be terrorizing the festival circuit in 2007.

He maintains a blog and his professional website is We are the Strange.

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Francesco Schiavon - Director of Media Deployment Rouxbe.com

Francesco is Director of Media Deployment. He is responsible for Rouxbe’s interactivity programming, media encoding, compression, authoring and deployment. He is a leading expert on digital media deployment specializing in the delivery of digital video over the Internet.

After earning his MBA in 1996 at City University in London, Francesco launched his career in the emerging multi-media arena with the introduction of high speed Internet connectivity. Since then Francesco has more than 70 work projects to his credit involving leading edge digital media authoring, compression, encoding, interactive learning applications and deployment projects. He has had numerous speaking engagements throughout North America on the subject of multi-media deployment and has written several books and articles on the subject.

For the past 8 years, Francesco has also been a multi-media instructor at various prestigious technical schools including most recently the Art Institute of Vancouver and the Vancouver Film School. He has also taught courses for industry professionals at various locations including New York, Los Angeles, Vancouver and Stanford University.

Francesco holds a BS in Industrial and Systems Engineering and is a certified Apple Final Cut Pro and DVD Studio Pro Trainer.

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