StoryCode LA #8: Last Hijack directors Femke Wolting and Tommy Pallotta

StoryCode LA roars back into action on June 24th to bring you an evening with interactive pioneers Tommy Pallotta and Femke Wolting of Submarine Channel. Get an inside look at Tommy and Femke's Emmy- and Prix Europa-winning project Last Hijack, and reconnect with the intelligent, attractive members of LA's growing StoryCode community.

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Last Hijack is a hybrid documentary/interactive film that tells the story of Mohamed, your average middle-aged man trying to make ends meet in his homeland: the failed state Somalia. This gripping tale of piracy and wealth inequality exists in two forms: a linear feature film, and an online experience.

Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y2jtrOTPYWE

Website: http://lasthijack.com

Last Hijack tore through the festival circuit in 2014, making its way from Berlin to SXSW to the New York Film Festival. This is your opportunity to hear directly from the filmmakers about this groundbreaking project.

Oh, and be sure to check out the other work that their company Submarine is responsible for. Mind-bending stuff: http://submarinechannel.nl

As always, entrance is free, and we'll all go out for drinks afterwards.

See you there!

Kel

ABOUT THE PRESENTERS

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Femke Wolting is founder and is managing director, together with Bruno Felix, of Submarine, an independent film and transmedia production company, spanning features, documentaries and animation. Submarine boasts a roster of award-winning productions created in collaboration with an extensive network of international acclaimed directors. Femke has produced, among others, Peter Greenaway’s feature Rembrandt’s J’accuse, award-winning documentaries such as Meet the Fokkens, and Rainmakers; and internationally distributed animation series such as Kika & Bob. Femke has produced groundbreaking transmedia productions such as the Emmy-nominated Collapsus (www.collapsus.com (http://www.collapsus.com/)). Recently she founded, together with Bruno Felix and Tommy Pallotta, a new creative production company in Los Angeles, SubLA. The company develops and produces feature films and interactive experiences that explore new forms of storytelling that encompass traditional and emerging media. Most recently Femke produced Peter Greenaway’s latest film, Eisenstein in Guanajuato, that premiered in International Competition at the Berlinale Film Festival 2015. Last Hijack, a film that Femke Wolting produced and co-directed with Tommy Pallotta, premiered at the Berlinale Film Festival 2014.

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Tommy Pallotta is a visionary storyteller who creatively blends technology with filmmaking, animation and interactivity. Microsoft Research recognized his penchant for innovation where he lead a research team to create and design interactive, animated storytelling experiences. Pallotta also directed the first machinima music video, In the Waiting Line, and the rotoscoped MTV Breakthrough video Destiny, both for the band Zero 7. He has produced several short animated films that garnered numerous awards, including Snack and Drink, which is now part of a permanent collection in the New York Museum of Modern Art. Tommy first connected Richard Linklater with animation when he produced the award-winning feature film Waking Life. He followed up with Philip K. Dick’s A Scanner Darkly, starring Keanu Reeves and Robert Downey Jr. He then directed the Emmy nominated transmedia thriller, Collapsus. Most recently he co-directed the feature documentary/ animation hybrid: Last Hijack. The interactive companion of Last Hijack won an International Digital Emmy Award.