Earlier this month, our team from Cornell Tech led a Design Thinking workshop in collaboration with the Made In New York Media Center by IFP. We invited members and non-members to join us in learning by doing, by working with a team to solve an actual OpenIDEO challenge. We focused on some of the fundamentals…
Keynotes: Nick Fortugno and Lance Weiler In his opening keynote, digital designer and Playmatics co-founder Nick Fortugno will share a look at the future of impact-focused media. Later in the day, Lance Weiler, a storyteller developing film, TV, and gaming projects, will examine the promise and potential of interactivity. Case Study of The Spiral: Cross-platform…
L for Leisure is an impressionistic, episodic comedy about laziness, wandering and wasting time. Set to the rhythm of the school-year calendar, the film tracks the changes to the collected spirit of a group of graduate students through 1992-93 as they go on various vacations. Sprinkled among activities like coed wrestling, macking on teenagers, and…
10:30-11:15a – Welcome and Wake Up Writing Games Hosted by Brinkman – the writing team for UCB Comedy’s web series. Brinkman makes character-driven web series that explore a universe where the dumb meets the dark. Through a stylized and cinematic presentation, Brinkman goes to places where hope and optimism run into the wall of reality,…
March 11, 2015 (New York, NY) – The Independent Filmmaker Project (IFP) announced today the launch of its innovative Screen Forward Labs, a year-long program and incubator for the creators of serialized projects that push storytelling forward. Eight innovative media creators will be selected each year and provided mentorship, six months free residency at the…
This is a one-day conference focused on financial strategies and opportunities within the television and film business. The New York forum is designed for chief investment officers, private equity and hedge fund managers, angel investors, high net worth individuals, private family office managers, and financial advisers who are interested in learning more about the TV…
In a world of increasing layers between people, intimacy is perhaps the most elusive ingredient of human interaction. A person can either take the plunge and emotionally connect with their OS or, in the case of She’s Lost Control, psychotherapists can refer patients to sex surrogates. Engaging in that line of work, NYC-based Ronah puts…