Extending the Encounters film festival, The Narrative/Anti-Narrative/Non-Narrative Conference brings experiences from the leading edge of communication, delivered by international experts, including :

Director Ken Loach, whose power with narrative changed the British view of homelessness, and Professor Erik Knudsen, defining how to deliver a cinematic experience on a mobile and

Frank Ash, the BBC’s Creative Consultant, creates a new role for the audience as the starting point for ideas. Multiplatform Executive Julian Phillips creates projects where the public are co-creators with the BBC.

Hugh Hancock invented the term “machinima” – the movie that uses a game engine. Grethe Mitchell charts this collision of gaming and film, and the new experiences it creates. Brita Pollmuller creates a new film language with teenagers in Second Life.

Walking through the narrative, artist Duncan Speakman and drama producer Faith Collingwood explore locative media.

Real – virtual – interactive – Hazel Grian writes for Kate Modern, and creates new dramatic forms in Augmented Reality.

See some new approaches to feature film stories in FAQs about Time Travel with writer Jamie Mathieson and Better Things with producer Samm Haillay.

What are stories for? Are they escapism, or the purest form of knowledge transfer? What are the new experiences we can offer?

Whatever your background – if you are a communicator, this is for YOU.

Bristol : 23rd & 24th November : click here to book