Sony’s Glenn Gainor Set as CinefestOZ Keynote Presenter

Glenn Gainor, president of Sony Innovation Studios and head of physical production at Screen Gems, will deliver the keynote speech at the industry program of next month’s CinefestOZ Film Festival.The small but densely packed festival takes place in multiple venues near Busselton and Margaret River in West Australia.

It runs Aug.

28-Sept.

1 and offers A$100,000 to the winning film in its competition section.Gainor, who has credits including “Think Like a Man,” and “Friends with Benefits,” is expected to speak about embracing technology as a tool of empowerment and how filmmakers can have their stories heard by millions through the use of emerging technologies.As part of his address, Gainor will present the “World Premiere of Taste,” a film fronting the global launch of Sony’s new Xperia 1 smartphone technology, Cinema Pro “powered by CineAlta” which offers cinema-quality images from a pocket-sized camera.

He will argue that a

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