StoryFutures are seeking Mobile AR Producer and Festival Producer.

Future Screens NI’s AHRC cluster partner StoryFutures Academy, Royal Holloway, University of London are recruiting for two posts: a Mobile AR Producer and Festival Producer.

The Mobile AR Producer will deliver an immersive storytelling experience for Festival 2022 that will span the country, bringing together diverse new talent and some of the UK’s leading media names including BFI, BBC, Nexus Studios, ISO Design, Produce UK, Uplands TV, The Reading Agency as well as Niantic, the makers of Pokémon Go.

The role will have a high level of responsibility for delivering different formats of immersive storytelling experiences. A strong understanding of interactive media, excellent communication skills, and great storytelling are a must. You will need to juggle multiple demands and stakeholders, be familiar with compliance and risk assessments, apply and develop a high level of editorial standards in the ethics of place-based and historical storytelling.

Festival 2022 Producer

StoryFutures are seeking a Producer to join a team that will create a magical experience that brings together film, broadcast and augmented reality, public archives, digital access, and immersive storytelling. The post will have a high level of autonomy and responsibility for delivering different formats of immersive storytelling experiences. The post includes working with new creatives and diverse communities and will involve training, mentoring of this cohort.

Closing Date: 1st November 2021

Interview Date: 5th November 2021

For more information on the Mobile AR Producer role visit here.

For more information on the Festival Producer role visit here.

StoryFutures Academy hold Open Call for Virtual Production Lab Producers.

The storytelling-led, immersive technology training programme StoryFutures Academy has an Open Call for Virtual Production Lab Producers. The VP Skills Lab: Producers starts on 24th November 2021 and is a vocation-specific lab tailored to meet sector-specific needs. This lab will be in a small group of 12 and is intended to provide hands-on learning with an LED Wall, granting participants the ability to expand creative thinking in effective and efficient ways. With support from StoryFutures Academy Professor Peter Richardson (VP Lead) and Johnny Johnson (Lead Technician), participants will also have the opportunity to learn about Final Pixel in-camera technology, through the case study and demonstrations of Paul Franklin’s recently completed short film ‘Fireworks’, made by Wilder Films, and shot using a VP volume.

Applications close on Monday 1st November 2021

For More Information and to apply visit here.

Ulster Touring Opera is recruiting an Application Developer.

Ulster Touring Opera (UTO) is currently hiring. The Future Screens NI R&D grant recipient seeking a full-time, fixed term Application Developer (1st November 2021 - 21st March 2022) as part of UTO’s participation in XRX, the new innovative immersive content, products or services programme delivered in partnership by Northern Ireland Screen, Future Screens NI and Digital Catapult NI.

For more information on UTO and the job description visit here.

Beyond Belfast 2021 Conference App Available Here!

Make the most of your time at this years Beyond Belfast 2021 with the dedicated conference app. Highlighting key speakers, showcases and entire schedule, you can also access live showcases including Home of Titanic, a full-scale AR experience. The App also features the best of Belfast, ensuring you enjoy your visit to this great city.  If visiting the App on a mobile device, it will automatically send the user to the appropriate app store, depending on their iOS or Android device.

Get your app through the following link options:

https://www.yellowdesign.tv/beyond/

App for Apple iOS:  shorturl.at/huAKS

App for Android: shorturl.at/demJX

Future Tuesdays present Future Foundation’s Everything You Need for Funding Success 12 October 2021.

On Tuesday 12th of October 2021 Future Screens NI hosted its first hybrid In Person and Streamed event. The monthly innovation showcase event Future Tuesdays featured Future Foundation’s funding success showcase with key speakers from local and national funding bodies. This one-off event will address key aspects in successfully securing funding within the creative industries.

The event featured:

Host Karishma Kusurkar, a designer, podcaster and founder of Belfast Design Week and Karishma's World. Karishma is a thinker, creator, maker and innovate UK grant holder, specialising in entrepreneurship.

 Tom Fiddian, Head of AI & Data Economy Programmes at Innovate UK. Tom is a globally recognised thought leader on technological innovation across multiple sectors. Tom is the lead on artificial intelligence (AI) and the data economy, and plays a lead role in developing and implementing Innovate UK strategy on artificial intelligence (AI) and the data economy. 

Thushara Sabreen, Innovation Lead for the Creative Industries at Innovate UK. Thushara is responsible for creative industries programmes across Innovate UK. Thushara Sabreen is also the founding director of Tinker Design, a wearable technology company.

Nuala Toman, Project Manager of Future Screens NI. Nuala is an expert in funding, innovation and entrepreneurship having personally held £2.5mn in research grants and access funding for a range of emerging charities. Nuala is the former Acting Head of Research Development at Ulster University, Chair of Breastival, Vice Chair of Thrive, Board Member of the NIMC and Council Member of CCMS.

Andrew Reid, Head of Production at Northern Ireland Screen. As Head of Production, Andrew is responsible for the investment of Northern Ireland Screen’s £13m annual development, production and skills funds. He oversees the delivery of: physical production; project development; new and emerging talent and skills development schemes. Andrew is an alumni of Cass Business School’s Inside Pictures; a member of BAFTA and a founding member of the Irish Film and Television Academy.