Client › Canal Plus
Project › Cannes Film Festival 2000
Date › May 2000
Location › Cannes, France
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OUR MISSION
Under assignment of Canal Plus, a French television station, Telemak provided a complete
(camera) lens to (computer) screen solution for the Cannes Film festival. Telemak CEO, Christophe
Lenaerts was hired to be overall technical project manager for the largest streaming project in the
world to date. A total of 18 live simultaneous streams were streamed to the Internet 18 hours a
day for 10 consecutive days accounting for the transfer of 254 Terabyte of data. A team of 200
personnel was employed to execute this production.
The challenge was to launch Canal Plus on to the World Wide Web creating mass awareness and appeal for their new media strategy. A new interactive user experience was created between the organization and its consumer base. The entire event took place on the beach front of Cannes in France. A television studio, VIP room and chat rooms were set up to stream live interviews with the actors and artists to the online public. A live online chat interface developed by Telemak was employed to enable online viewers to interact with the celebrities and ask questions and receive answers in real time, each stream having its own chat room.
Telemak worked with different partners for this immense project. Apple provided the computing and (QuickTime) encoding power, Akamai provided global hosting and distribution of the multiple streams and VCF produced the audiovisual content together with Canal Plus. Telemak provided 10 wireless mobile Netmans to stream live interviews with people moving around within the festival itself.
The show was an enormous success and to this date is unprecedented in size and complexity. We await a second production of this magnitude.
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Cannes2000.pdf (4.1MB)
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