RESFest
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RESFest was founded in 1996, and has become the most prominent digital film festival in North America. It is a leading global showcase of new digital filmmakers alongside England's onedotzero festival. The festival now tours the world and in 2005 travelled to 35 cities in the USA, Canada, UK, Japan, Australia, Brazil and in various cities in Europe, Asia and Africa. A large part of the festivals current content focuses on cutting edge music videos and short films and directors like Michel Gondry, Spike Jonze, Chris Cunningham and Jonathan Glazer have all had their catalogs of work showcased at RESFEST over the years.
RESFest was founded by Jonathan Wells after the dissolution of the Low Res digital film festival which he created the year before with co-creator Bart Cheever. Cheever went on to create the DFilm digital film festival and online movie maker.
RESfest has been successful in commercializing itself, and was incorporated into the Palm Pictures group of mixed entertainment companies. These are owned by entrepreneur Chris Blackwell.
RESFest has also spawned the digital film lifestyle magazine, RES, and is affiliated with the online media site, Sputnik 7.
