Onedotzero is an international film festival celebrating the use of digital technology in film on a global scale. In light of their tenth annniversary, is digital a long overdue innovation?

In an age where the whirring of video can still faintly be heard has the march of digital film progressed at too slow a pace? Onedotzero has long been promoting the use of digital for over ten years, but how does digital film benefit the film industry?

The conversion of film to digital has long been changing the way we use technology. Spanning more than ten years, onedotzero has celebrated and promoted the merging and the use of digital technology and film together by commissioning the creation of new media projects and screening them across the globe.

Onedotzero’s digital film festival is an international affair, with events being organised in numerous locations including Argentina, Croatia and Korea.

It aims to manage and promote projects that encompass a broad range of digital media including short films, interactive media and installations. With onedotzero pioneering the way forward for use of digital film and the creation of projects that use and promote digital media, why has it taken so long to catch on to the digital era?

Digital film is the new sleeker and upgraded version of all the now seemingly slower technologies, its advantages being that it can be copied continuously without any degradation of the original quality of the material and has a significantly lower cost than 35mm film.

It can also be edited on affordable hardware and software such as Apple’s Final Cut Pro, which allows the film editors to edit sound and image on a desktop computer, making digital videos more easy and accessible to everyone and as a result, digital video is overlapping into television, mobile phones and video conferencing.

The BBC reported that YouTube, a site where users contribute and share their videos, claimed that its videos account for 60% of all videos watched online in the US. The popularity of YouTube is huge indicator that the onslaught of digital media is not just a passing phase but a revolution of change in the way we use, interact and share information in our daily lives.

The use of digital film is faster, more efficient and of higher quality and its benefits are abundant.