Fast Film Fest 2022 presents I’ll Make Me a World: creating spaces for an underrepresented workforce. This panel gathers animation studios and organizations that have made commitments to encourage and build diversity behind the scenes into the creative teams producing animation. Hear from Steff Farrar representing Exceptional Minds, an academy and studio preparing individuals on the autism spectrum for careers in animation, visual effects, 3D gaming and other related fields in the entertainment industry.

“The Book: Past, Present, and Future” is a virtual lecture series exploring the forms and purposes of books as methods of communication. E-readers, digitization, and the internet are changing the way people access books and content. In this lecture, The Book: The Future, Dr. Sarah Werner, an independent historian, will share how technological advances are allowing historic books to be utilized in new ways. After the talk, participants are invited to discuss the ways in which we use books may be different in the future. This is the first in a series of three events.

“The Book: Past, Present, and Future” is a virtual lecture series exploring the forms and purposes of books as methods of communication. In this lecture, The Book: The Present, join Dr. Jesse Erickson, Coordinator of Special Collections, Assistant Professor of English, and Associate Director of the Interdisciplinary Humanities Research Center at the University of Delaware, to understand how a familiar object- the book- has become an integral part of our lives and how libraries and special collections are navigating the changing world of publishing.