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Mad Systems launches new tech to transform immersive experiences

28th May 202321st May 2023 blooloop

Alice utilises AI to create personalised, diverse and varied content. Mad Systems Inc., the award-winning audiovisual and interactive system designer and integrator, has launched Alice™, a patent-pending AI technology that is designed to transform immersive experiences. The team has built upon its successful AV++ solutions to create Alice, a solution that utilises artificial intelligence (AI) to create personalised, diverse and varied content for exhibitions, shows, presentations and everyday life. …visit blooloop to read full story Image Credit: blooloop

‘May December’: Cannes Review

28th May 202321st May 2023 Screen Daily

Julianne Moore and Natalie Portman have an intriguing synergy – and symmetry – in Todd Haynes’ Competition drama Todd Haynes may no longer be making the kind of conceptually audacious films as the experimental days of Velvet Goldmine and I’m Not There but, now that he has entered his mature phase as an American classicist, he’s still adept at introducing conceptual play into ostensibly mainstream material. As a practitioner of contemporary melodrama – with Far From Heaven and Carol showing how perfectly he had mastered the teachings of Douglas Sirk…

Global Screen boards Emily Atef’s Kenya-set AIDS drama ‘Mercy’ (exclusive)

27th May 202321st May 2023 Screen Daily

Germany-based sales firm Global Screen has boarded world sales on Mercy, the new film from More Than Ever director Emily Atef. French-Iranian director Atef is in Cannes sourcing partners for the film, which will be her English-language film debut and is aiming for a 2024 shoot entirely in Kenya. Atef has written the adaptation of Lara Santoro’s novel of the same name, about a friendship between a US correspondent in Kenya and a local woman from the slums, who pair up to combat the AIDS crisis in the country in…