Sweet HD Festival

26th - 30th August, 2004

The 2004 programme is now online! Click here for all the details.

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In association with High Definition Magazine, we are organising a groundbreaking event for the UK, bringing art and technology together. Kicking off with a party on 25 August, the Festival will run consecutively for 5 days when Edinburgh is bursting to its seams, with both industry personalities and general public, with The TV Festival, The International Theatre Festival, The International Film Festival and The Fringe all running concurrently.

We have devised a programme which can't fail to please, focused not only on educating industry professionals and new talent as to the merits of HD, but also appealing to the general public, in providing them with a variety of screenings of works shot on HD.

There will be a range of panel-led discussions by leading experts in the field, to be chaired by Julian Mitchell of High Definition Magazine. Speakers will lead lively discussions and voice their opinions on HD from their particular expertise, on topics including 'Unravelling HD', 'The View from DoPs, Directors and Producers', 'Possibilities in Post-Production', 'HDTV-A Practical View' and 'An HD Project in Close-Up'.

Screenings of projects shot on HD will be shown, in competition, across a selection of categories, including shorts, documentaries and features. We are also pleased to announce some special screenings, such as 'The Tattoo Experience - Pipes and Drums', 'A Midsummer Night's Dream', 'Dogville', 'Sixteen Years of Alcohol' and 'HD Nibbles' (extracts from the Ed Festivals), all on HD.

Throughout the Festival we will be filming and streaming live and recorded footage of interviews, seminars, etc on the web.