Vancouver ACM SIGGRAPH is proud to announce its first presentation on motion graphics with Mike Goedecke, writer and director of the short film UNTITLED:003-EMBRYO, and founder of Belief Inc – a full service broadcast design and live action studio based in Santa Monica, California.
"Why Belief?", you ask... well, we also wanted to tackle creativity head on: how to discover it, understand it, energize it, nurture it so we can depend on it. When we saw the POLLINATE SESSIONS circulating about the web, we immediately knew Mike was our man.
Out of a technical challenge, UNTITLED:003-EMBRYO was born. This experimental 27-minute short is Belief's first foray in the world of high definition. It has since circulated around the film festival circuit, collecting awards and furthering Belief's reputation as a highly innovative studio where inspiration and creativity not only reside in the few lines of a mission statement, but are found and nurtured throughout the studio's daily activities.
Following the Vancouver premiere of EMBRYO (in 35mm & digital sound), Mike will talk about the creative process, vital to such undertakings, including the origins of inspiration and its valuable outcomes (good team spirit, creative environment and happy clients = good times).
Please, join us on January 18 at 7:30 pm at the beautiful Vancouver International Film Centre. Advanced reservations will be available on our website shortly. Prices are $7.50 until Jan 17, $10 at the door. Pssst! Space is limited. Tickets for Vancouver ACM SIGGRAPH members are always free. For membership information, please visit our membership information page.
Mike Goedecke: Principal / Executive Creative Director
The essence of Belief's "passion to create" is an embodiment of the energy, vision and creative spirit of its founder, Mike Goedecke.
Mike Goedecke graduated with honors from USC's Graduate Cinema and Television Program, earning him an MFA. "Rhythm," Mike's master's thesis, was the culmination of his passion for what was then an emerging new medium: motion graphics. "Rhythm" earned him both national awards and festival recognition. Due to his extensive use of digital animation in the project, Mike was awarded a grant from the Annenberg Foundation to pursue digital filmmaking. This grant precipitated the birth of Belief, a company launched by Mike in 1994 to produce his experimental film, "Convergence."
Using low-cost desktop computers as a digital platform, Mike brought his passion to broadcast design, creating dynamic motion graphics for ABC, Activision, Chevron, The Discovery Channel and NBC, to name a few. Never one for complacency, Mike's experience and success in graphic design motivated him to enthusiastically pursue Live Action: a forum that allowed him to express his creativity not only as a designer, but as a director & cinematographer on show opens such as "David Blaine-Street Magic" and "When Cars Attack."
As his reputation for innovation and forward thinking grew, Mike was contracted by NBC 2000 to create graphic promos for the launch of the Jay Leno version of "The Tonight Show." The Network took noticed and Mike was asked to spearhead the Special Project Design Division at NBC... an offer he had to refuse.
In 1997, Mike Goedecke decided to focus his energy and passion on the growth of his design studio, Belief. But even as the studio expanded, Mike's mission remained unchanged: to create an inspirational space in the vein of a traditional artist's studio where creatively gifted and passionate people with different talents, strengths and visions could come together with clients to collaborate on projects. The results have been extraordinary, earning critical praise, an impressive client list and the highest industry awards including: Platinum, Gold, & Silver BDAs, Tellys, AD&D and an Emmy.
Belief continues this passion with each new project it takes on. More importantly, it remains energized by Mike Goedecke's drive to constantly push at the boundaries where technology meets art. Belief Experimental was formed as a digital workshop for the benefit of the studio's clients. Producing short films, like the recently completed award winning high-def "Embryo", Mike infuses the studio with a progressive process that stretches the talents and yields innovative techniques and extraordinary results for all of Belief clients.
Mike Goedecke: Principal / Executive Creative Director
