June 11 to 17, 2012 | Various venues | NXNE.com
650 BANDS – 7 DAYS – 40 FILMS
Now in its 18th year, North by Northeast (NXNE) has become the Canadian festival destination for emerging artists and major-label headliners, for music filmmakers, and for digital interactive innovators bridging the gap between technology and the arts. Seen as the most anticipated summer music event in Canada, NXNE Music, NXNE Film, and NXNE Interactive are an essential gathering for artists, industry, and fans.
For five days and nights, NXNE Music offers the hottest music and the freshest music-related ideas—all within a few km of each other. NXNE 2011 presented over 625 international, national and local acts at 50 official festival stages in downtown Toronto’s famous club district.
NXNE Film screens 40+ of the year’s best music-themed features, documentaries, shorts, and experimental films from around the world. Directors ( like (Don Letts, Guy Maddin), producers, actors and musicians attend many of the screenings – many of which are world or Canadian premieres. NXNE 2011 showed 69 of the most interesting music-related films you’ll find anywhere.
NXNE Interactive (NXNEi) is a digital interactive media conference like no other. It brings together content-creating artists, tech entrepreneurs, digital marketing gurus, web business experts, and social media aficionados for four days of workshops, presentations, and panels that explore the newest ideas in bridging the gap between creativity and the interactive world.
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