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BAFF 2011 will go behind the scenes and explore the tools and technology that have created some of the screen’s most memorable moments in Imagined Worlds: Picturing the Impossible, a program of films and special events looking at the high points and innovation of Visual Effects in film. Legendary Visual Effects guru Douglas Trumbull, the man who created the visual effects of such groundbreaking films as 2001: A Space Odyssey, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, and Blade Runner, will be a very special guest of the Festival. Trumbull will present some of these classic titles and also host a not-to-be-missed three hour masterclass for aspiring filmmakers. South Australian based Rising Sun Pictures, world leaders in VFX, will take audiences from concept to creation of some of the major FX sequences in the latest installment of the Harry Potter saga, where special effects were pivotal in telling the cinematic story in one of the most anticipated films in history.