frame:work is a community forum for video professionals working in live events and virtual production.
They have hosted two events in 2020 sharing insights from leaders in the field of video content creation, video & media server engineering, screens producing, real-time generative content, media server programming, and the evolving worlds of virtual production and mixed reality. On December 4/5 & 11/12, frame:work is presenting a slate of over 30 artists and engineers working in these fields. This four-day festival is designed to celebrate the incredible work of an often hidden community of talented professionals.
"The festival is designed to celebrate the range of work our community touches," says organizer Laura Frank, an award-winning screens producer. "The artists who make content or engineers who deliver it to screen often work offsite or backstage and are not integrated into our production community. Our production partners don't always see the amount of work that goes into what we do. And many in our community did not 'grow up' in live events. We don't always know the value of collaboration that comes from a theater or touring background. The frame:work platform serves to build up the video production community in all it's practices, and the festival allows us to reach out to our production partners and each other, to share our work and its possibilities."
The festival takes place over four days with six, half hour sessions a day. The conference platform will host the sessions as well as attendee video chat.
The full festival speaker lineup is now available at the frame:work website
At frame:work, the believe is that the way to improve our standard of work is through good communication and engagement with each other, no matter the discipline. Theater, film, television broadcast, rock tours, conferences, installations, online events—the more we learn from each other about process, the more we improve our relationships to our larger production communities. frame:work is a volunteer effort, founded on community supporting principles.
frame:work has published a Diversity Initiative, Code of Conduct and a People Powered statement on their website. frame:work events are free to all students and anyone facing economic hardships. Read more here.