Comics vs. Games Jam Video Now Online

The latest video from Endlss Films sums up the adventures and exploits of the TIFF Nexus Comics vs. Games jam. Click to watch.

The RENGA Reaction

The 100-player laser co-op experience RENGA was presented by TIFF Nexus during the 2012 Toronto International Film Festival, click here to learn what the audience had to say about it!

Comics Vs. Games TCAF Panel Now Online!

The Comics Vs. Games Jam panel that took place at this year's Toronto Comic Arts Festival, which saw jam leader and Black Church Brigadange game developer, Miguel Sternberg, moderate select comic artists and game developers from the project, is finally online! Check out this hour of mirth and insight now!

Dr. Nichole Pinkard's Keynote presentation from New Media Literacies conference

Click the adjacant image to see Dr. Pinkard's talk on the success of the Digital Youth Network program at the TIFF Nexus New Media Literacies Conference on April 20th. Her presentation is followed by an onstage conversation with Debbie Gordon, the director of the kidsmediacentre at Centennial College.

See the Youth New Media Literacy Jammers in Action

Click the adjacant image to watch a short documentary produced by Endless Films outlining the Youth New Media Literacy jam and the fantastic projects that came out of it!

Keynote: Leigh Alexander

Gaming culture is beginning to embrace the idea that it needs more diverse perspectives both on the player side as well as in game development, and there are many positive examples - yet it still has further to go. Find out the where and how by watching Leigh Alexander's keynote presentation from the TIFF Nexus Women in Film, Games and New Media conference that took place on Dec. 9th, 2011 in partnership with WIFT-T. Click to watch.

TIFF Nexus Locative Media Day keynote presentation

Design guru and author of Sketching User Experiences: Getting the Design Right and the Right Design, Bill Buxton discusses how the three rules of digital are more-or-less the same as those for real-estate: location, location, location. Click the adjacent image to watch his entire presentation on Whereable Media now!

News

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Jan

TIFF Higher Learning Presents: The Making of Halo 4: Forward Unto Dawn

By: PeterK

On Jan. 25th, TIFF’s Higher Learning programme is hosting an exciting lunch-time public presentation with Arc Productions Visual Effects Supervisor Terry Bradley, exploring the behind-the-scenes creation of Forward Unto Dawn,
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Sep

TIFF Nexus’ Top Five TIFF 2012 Picks

By: PeterK

Another year, another TIFF, and another list of the festival’s Top 5 TIFF Nexus-y films from yours truly. Here are five films playing the 2012 festival, that whether you’re an
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Jun

ACMI Presses Start on Game Masters Exhibition Today!

By: PeterK

The Australian Centre for the Moving Image (ACMI) kicks off its ambitious Game Masters exhibition today in Melbourne, Australia, where the young, but already prestigious institution will be celebrating the
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May

Indie Game: The Movie Opens May 25th @ the TIFF Bell Lightbox

By: PeterK

Fall in TIFF Nexus brothers and sisters, gaming aficionados, documentary-fans and all those in the mood for the new and the now, for the runaway documentary hit from Sundance and
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Mar

Packaged Goods keeps delivering the goods with “Gaming the System”

By: PeterK

Just when you thought TIFF’s fantastic Packaged Goods series couldn’t get any more Nexus-y following February’s “Engaging with Interactivity“program, Rae Ann Fera curates “Gaming the System“: an entire line-up of
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Feb

Interactivity rules at TIFF’s February edition of Packaged Goods

By: PeterK

TIFF’s fantastic Packaged Goods series continues its stellar programming of the latest and greatest music videos, commercials and short-form cinema with an evening on February 15th that is so positively
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Sep

Jack In to the TIFF Nexus Neuromancer Panel

By: PeterK

Two weeks ago, during the Toronto International Film Festival, a room full of Industry Delegates met with an audience of Gaming and New Media experts and aficionados to listen in
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Sep

TIFF Nexus’ Top Five TIFF Picks

By: PeterK

The Toronto International Film Festival is in full swing and while TIFF Nexus’ presence skews towards the Industry side of things during the festival with a panel on the film
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