Streaming Cinema 2.0, the Offline Festival of Online Cinema ... it isn't film anymore.

Streaming Cinema is a traveling festival of net films that celebrates the nerve, vision and artistic audacity of today's pioneering filmmakers.

Last spring Streaming Cinema 1.0 played to sold-out houses in Philadelphia, Seoul and Amsterdam; it drew rave reviews in Wired.com, The Los Angeles Times, the Associated Press and on NPR. This year Streaming Cinema 2.0 previewed in Boston on April 11th, 2001, and kicked off in Philadelphia on May 31st, with planned screenings in New York, Austria, Paris, London and Copenhagen in the summer and fall. The next appearance of Streaming Cinema will be at the Ars Electronica Festival in Linz, Austria this September.

The new Streaming Cinema site, www.streamingcine.com, is up and running, with photos from the Seoul fest. Coming soon: streams from the documentary about last year's festival. The doc, produced by Europe On Line, includes interviews with filmmakers from the fest, panelists and organizers.

Once limited to desk-top dial-ups, the web is morphing into a variety of media, from slow speed wireless to broadcast quality satellite systems. But one thing remains the same: web cinema is not conventional cinema. It is digital, interactive, random, put together by one person with a desktop system, constructed by filmmakers on the net from all over the world. It isn't film anymore...and neither is Streaming Cinema 2.0.

Streaming Cinema 2.0 included a juried competition and audience awards, as well as special screenings of European web film and online children's animation. The following categories are open for competition: fiction; non-linear narrative; documentary; animation; and cell shorts (works made for wireless devices).

In the words of Streaming Cinema founder Nora Barry, "Cinema is an art form rooted in technology - the result of the interplay between technology and art. So films created for the web are fundamentally different than theatrical cinema. These web films are really laying the groundwork for the future of film. They're creating a new language of cinema - a language already evident in films such as Time Code, Run Lola Run and The Pillow Book." Barry has spoken about web cinema and online entertainment at festivals in Germany, France, Holland, Monaco, Canada and Korea.

Streaming Cinema is produced by TheBitScreen.com, now celebrating its 3rd year online.

www.streamingcine.com It isn't film anymore ...