The goal of the Cinema Fabriqu� system is to create a software environment, complementary wearable devices, and a usage methodology for producing engaging cinematic experiences in real time for live audiences through natural-language control. Current multimedia performance packages suffer from input bandwith bottlenecks that restrict the scope of user control and audience engagement. Our proposed alternative aims to couple a high degree of user control through gestural and speech input with intelligent software to create rich audiovisual output.