Earl Hong Tai from Telefilm
June 7, 2008 – 8:12 amEarl Hong Tai, Director – Western Region of Telefilm Canada presented in the opening ceremony.
His speech speaks to the film debate and purpose of nextMEDIA.
He asked: why is a film and television cultural funder at nextMEDIA? The lines are being blurred and there is a fundamental shift in storytelling.
“Our screens have no borders”
Earl talks about how telefilm is committed to helping new media people ‘crack the code’, and discover the magic bullet that will revolutionize story telling as much as film and television have. This will include interactive content of some form, and when it happens, it will generate income that far exceeds boxoffice receipts.
Telefilm wants to help Canadian companies to create products with this kind of potential.