GARY RYDSTROM
Sound Designer, Skywalker Sound, Winner of 7 Academy Awards, BRAVE, WAR HORSE,
MISSION IMPOSSIBLE, TOY STORY, A BUGS LIFE, FINDING NEMO, JURASSIC PARK
Gary Rydstrom has been nominated for 16 Academy Awards™ (7 wins), 12 Golden Reel
Awards (5 wins), 5 C.A.S Awards (2 wins), and 5 BAFTA Awards (2 wins). Gary Rydstrom
can truly be described as one of the inventors of modern cinema sound design. After gaining
invaluable experience as a sound technician on Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom,
he went on to design the sound for the comedy Spaceballs. Rydstrom’s sound design for
Backdraft was the precursor for his design for some of the biggest blockbusters (and most
memorable soundscapes) in modern cinema – here is just a small sampling of the many films
he has helped create: Terminator 2: Judgment Day (which earned Rydstrom two Academy
Awards™- Best Sound and Best Sound Editing), Jurassic Park (the very first motion picture
to be presented in DTS Digital Theater System, which earned him another two Academy
Awards™, again for Best Sound and Best Sound Editing), Titanic (Academy Award™ for Best
Sound), Saving Private Ryan (two Academy Awards™ for Best Sound and Best Editing),
Minority Report and Finding Nemo. He has recently made his directorial debut with the Pixar
animated short, Lifted, for which he received his fourteenth Academy Award™ nomination; for
the same studio he directed and wrote the screenplay for the 2011 animated short Hawaiian
Vacation.
ERIC DARNELL
Director of the MADAGASCAR trilogy. Eric brings to VIEW MADAGASCAR 3: EUROPE’S
MOST WANTED
Eric Darnell is the writer/director of Madagascar (2005), Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa
(2008) and this summer’s major release Madagascar 3: Europe’s Most Wanted. Eric’s feature
directorial debut was as co-director (with VIEW 2010 keynote speaker Tim Johnson) of Antz,
the very first computer animated feature produced by Pacific Data Images/DreamWorks
Animation, in 1998. After graduating with degrees in broadcast journalism from the
University of Colorado and in Experimental Animation from the California Institute of the
Arts, Eric joined Pacific Data Images, where he worked as a character animator on the 1991
Hanna-Barbera Halloween special The Last Halloween, and was the writer/director/lead
animator for the Pacific Data Images short film Gas Planet. In addition to his directing duties,
Eric also wrote the song “Welcome to Duloc” for the 2001 film Shrek, for which he also
worked as story artist.
DAN ATTIAS
Director, Winner of the Directors Guild of America Award, DR. HOUSE, THE SOPRANOS,
LOST, THE WIRE, SIX FEET UNDER
Dan Attias has directed many of the most celebrated American television shows in recent
history, including The Sopranos, The Wire, Deadwood, Lost, Six Feet Under, Homeland,
Damages, Big Love, Dr. House, Alias, Heroes, True Blood, The Killing, Northern Exposure, and
Entourage. He has been nominated for multiple Emmy Awards and has won the Directors
Guild of America Award for Distinguished Directing in Episodic Drama. A gifted storyteller
and teacher, Dan will speak about how he approaches story, both in his preparation for a
project and in the actual production of a television episode.
JOSH HOLMES
Creative Director of HALO. Josh will premiere at VIEW HALO 4
Josh Holmes is an accomplished video-game producer and designer best known for his work
as Executive Producer and then Creative Director for the multi-billion dollar video-game
franchise Halo. Holmes is currently the Franchise Creative Director for 343 Industries, the
Microsoft Game Studios unit formed to to oversee development of Halo, which includes
video games, novels, comics, and other multimedia content. Josh turned to game design after
several years pursuing a career as a film actor, and his early training in drama and storytelling
continues to inform his work as a game designer. Holmes got his start in the video-game
business in 1995 at the Burnaby, Canada campus of gaming giant Electronic Arts. At EA, Josh
created the hit Def Jam series of fighting games, as well as the NBA Street series. In 2005, Josh
cofounded the Vancouver based video-game studio Propaganda Games, which was acquired
by Disney Interactive shortly after it opened. Holmes left Propaganda Games in 2008, moved
to Microsoft where in 2009 he was an Executive Producer on Halo Waypoint and Halo Reach,
and now heads up all creative on what has become one of the biggest gaming franchises of all
time.
New contests!
VIEW SOCIAL CONTEST / a movie, a short, a music video or an advertising using 2D/3D
animation and/or VFX focusing on current social themes / deadline 15 September / First
Prize: 1500€
VIEW AWARD / animated short with 2D/3D animation and VFX / videogames / deadline 15
September / First Prize: 2000€
ITALIANMIX / inspiring works by Italian filmmakers or byforeign filmmakers but having as
their topic Italy or Italian subjects / deadline 15 September
GRIMM ANIMATED / animated short films with a maximum length of 5 minutes that
explore Grimms classics innovatively / deadline 24 August / First Prize: 1500€
PAPERS, WORKSHOPS and ARTWORK / deadline 31 July
VIEW Conference will take place in Turin from 16th to 19th October 2012 while the VIEWFest
will be from the 19th to the 21th.
For more info about the contests and the conference please visit the official website
http://viewconference.it
