Shari Frilot is a filmmaker who has produced television for the CBS affiliate in Boston and for WNYC and WNET in New York before creating her own independent award-winning films, including Strange & Charmed, A Cosmic Demonstration of Sexuality, What Is A Line?, and the feature documentary, Black Nations / Queer Nations? She is the recipient of multiple grants, including the Ford Foundation and the Rockefeller Media Arts Foundation. She is presently working on a feature film project about the crisis in water supply with producer Effie Brown's production company, Duly Noted Inc. In tandem with filmmaking, Shari also maintains a career in festival programming, occupying a distinguished position on the curatorial vanguard through her pioneering development of immersive cinematic environments. As the Festival Director of the MIX Festival in New York (1992-1996) she co-founded the first gay Latin American film festivals, MIX BRASIL and MIX MEXICO film festivals. As Co-Director of Programming for OUTFEST (1998-2001), she founded the Platinum section which introduced cinematic performance installation and performance to the festival. She is presently in her 22nd year as a Senior Programmer for the Sundance Film Festival. She is the curator and driving creative force behind New Frontier, an exhibition and commissioning initiative that focuses on cinematic work being created at the intersections of art, film, and new media technology. New Frontier 2022 Projects Discussed:

• “On The Morning You Wake (To The End of The World)” by Dr. Jamaica Heolimeleikalani Osorio, Mike Brett, Steve Jamison, Arnaud Colinart, and Pierre Zandrowicz
• “The State of Global Peace” by Daanish Masood Alavi
• “Gondwana” by Ben Joseph Andrews and Emma Roberts
•  “Suga” by Valencia James
• “The Inside World” by Jennifer and Kevin McCoy
• “Web 3.0 / NFT Meetups” by Amelia Winger-Bearskin and Jesse Damiani
• “32 Sounds” by Sam Green
• “Seven Grams” by Karim Ben Khelifa

Other Topics Discussed:

• Transhumanism
• Identity
• Futurism
• “Notes on Blindness - Into Darkness” @ New Frontier 2016
• The Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum in Hiroshima, Japan
• Projects on climate and social change
• NFTs and Web 3.0
• Handling hardship and pain
• Finding vitality in community
• Finding reasons to be optimistic
• Conscious and positive use cases for technology
• Systemic issues artists face in the US
• Building the immersive experience of Sundance’s spaceship through XR and VR with the creative studio Active Theory

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