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Singapore Digital Media Festival (DMfest) Opening - 30 October 2008

Posted November 3rd, 2008 by admin

Date: Thursday, 30 October 2008
Venue: Gallery Theatre, National Museum
Time: 5.30pm - 10.30pm

The SiTF’s Digital Media Chapter marked new milestone with the opening of its inaugural Singapore Digital Media Festival on Thursday, 30th October 2008. This two-day event will be held from 30-31 October 2008.

Opening Screening of Films & Videos at the Gallery Theatre, National Museum

(L) Meeting with the day 2 conference speakers. (R) GOH RADM(NS) Ronnie Tay (CEO of IDA), Ms Tan Yen Yen (Chairman of SiTF) and Mr Ng Chong Khim (Chairman of SiTF Digital Media Chapter).

The Opening Night Film and Video Screening kicked off with GOH RADM(NS) Ronnie Tay, CEO of iDA, Ms Tan Yen Yen (SiTF Chairman) and Mr Ng Chong Khim (Chairman of Digital Media Chapter) officiated the opening of the festival.

Ms Tan Yen Yen followed with a welcomed address to the audience and thanks to partners such as NETe2 Asia Pte Ltd, MediaCorp, Singaren and SingTel for making the live transmission possible. She also extended her appreciation to all the sponsors, exhibitors, IDA, IE Singapore and MDA for their support and contributions to making the event a great success.

Gold sponsors: IBM, Singtel and ST Electronics
Silver sponsors: HP, Mediacorp and Siemens
Bronze sponsors: Barco, British Council, Cisco, ECS Holdings and Sony Ericsson
Item Sponsor: Motorola

Our guests were treated to a rich programme line-up made-for-internet films and videos such as the Metropolitan Opera Live in HD; Star Wreck, the most popular Internet movie ever; and other ground-breaking machinima and open source movies.

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(L) Screening of Big Buck Bunny. (R) MC Genevieve Woo (presenter & producer with CNA) interview with Mark Schubin of Metropolitan Opera via live link up.