Primary Job Title Artistic director Primary Organization Secret Cinema
Location London, England, United Kingdom Regions Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA) Gender Male Also Known As Fab Riggall
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Fabien Riggall created Future Shorts in 2003 as a platform for innovative new filmmakers to preview their work. His passion and vision has driven the festival to become the biggest short-film festival of it’s kind. Recognizing a growing desire from cinemagoers for an experience that reaches beyond that of conveyor-belt multiplexes, Fabien set up
Future Cinema in 2005, which aimed to create ultra-immersive environments where the audience lives and breathes the film in site-specific locations.
These ideas evolved to form Secret Cinema in 2007, which creates immersive experiences around films blurring the relationship between the audience and the performance whilst not revealing the film or the location with over 300,000 having attended since its launch.
Marking the future of Secret Cinema, the Future Cinema strand will now fall under ‘Secret Cinema Presents’ which will present cult classics and new releases, revealing the film prior to the event but keeping the location secret. Secret Cinema Tell No One will continue creating experiences where both the film and the location are kept secret.
The organisation’s most recent production, Back to the Future had 84,000 audience attending creating a record for the biggest live cinema event to date.
Secret Cinema is now working with studios and distributors to create alternative release models for their films.
HONOURS
• The Guardian's Top 100 Influential People In Film • The Hospital Club’s Top 100 Influential People in Creative Industries • Time Out's Rising Talent list for Film • The Evening Standard’s Top 1000 Influential People in London • Courvoisier’s The Future 500 • Honda Dream Factory’s Cultural Engineer
SPEAKER
• Industry Conference at TIFF, 2014 • Remix, NYC 2014 • Architectural Association: ‘Performance & the City’ symposium, London 2014 • Innovation Forum Conference, LA 2013 • The Future of Storytelling, NYC 2013 • The Economist Conference, London 2013 • TEDx Youth, Bath 2012 • Europa Cinemas, Paris
