Migrating Media

This workshop brings together some of the most renowned and accomplished international researchers in the field of media globalization. Building upon research conducted in Canada, the United States, Australia, and New Zealand, the workshop will develop an international agenda and cluster of research on the theme of 'migrating media', film and TV productions that have historically been produced in southern California. The researchers will come together for two days in Toronto during the Toronto International Film Festival to present past and possible future research on the local impact of relocated media productions. Researchers will discuss topics such as the changing global labour landscape in the film and TV industries, the aesthetic challenges of making American productions in foreign locations around the world, and the development and spread of tax incentives and other support mechanisms designed to support relocated and indigenous productions. Workshop participants will also tour and debate the cultural and economic implications of new cinemtatic and televisual spaces in Toronto such as new waterfront film studios and a single screen community cinema reborn as multi-use digital post-production and screening space.

More detailed information about the migrating media project workshop is available at: http://www.infoscapelab.ca/migratingmedia/projectoverview

Toronto Steering Committee:

Events

The Migrating Media Workshop will be held in Toronto on September 14-15, 2007, at the Rogers Communications Centre, Ryerson University. We will be posting more workshop details in the coming months.

A tentative workshop program is available at: http://www.infoscapelab.ca/migratingmedia/program

Funding Acknowledgements:


Migrating Media Workshop Program - Toronto, September 14-15, 2007

Symposium program

Thursday September 13

6-8pm, Opening Reception, Oakham House (corner of Gould and Church streets), Ryerson University


FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 14

9:30AM -(Oakham House, Thomas Lounge, RYERSON UNIVERSITY)
Welcome and Opening Remarks: David Tucker (School of Radio, TV Arts, Ryerson U.), Anastasios Venetsanopoulos (V.P. Research, Ryerson University), Greg Elmer, Ryerson U.

10:00-11:30 AM - PANEL 1

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Locating Migrating Media: A Project Overview

"Runaway productions", the American term for film and TV productions that have historically been developed, financed and produced in and around Los Angeles county, have over the past fifteen years undergone a slow process of migration to other production sites around the world. This research project brings together an accomplished group of international scholars that have largely studied the most recent wave of this phenomenon (1990-2002) - productions that have in large part migrated to Australia, New Zealand, and in the largest numbers to Canada. Our research collaborators are all internationally known scholars who have over the past two to three years published books and articles specifically on the political, cultural and economic impact of the globalization, migration, and relocation of American film and television programming. Much of this research has focused on the waning power — or desire — of the state, particularly federal or national governments, to exert control over the flow of global televisual and cinematic products. In other words, research on media globalization has sought to explain the particular tensions created by integrating cultural goods into bilateral and international trading agreements.


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