I am pleased to announce the acquisition of Colony Ltd by Fantastec Sports Technology Ltd (Fantastec). This is the first acquisition by Fantastec, a new sports technology innovator. Fantastec utilise new and emerging technologies such as VR/AR, wearable tech, AI, ...
Today, at the American Pavilion, a panel including representatives of Creative Future, Elevated Film Sales, Saban Films and Alamo Drafthouse discussed the state of digital piracy on the independent film sector, and how new models of hybrid digital distribution can respond. First up was Ruth Vitale, Executive Director of Creative Future: an organisation which seeks to ...
Delighted to announce We Are Colony is partnering with Film London for ‘Build Your Audience‘: an innovative audience gathering and distribution training programme for UK feature filmmakers. Addressing the rapidly changing face of feature film distribution across the globe, Build Your Audience provides participants with the skills, knowledge and networks to face the challenge of ...
After been selected to SeedCamp London 2014, We Are Colony becomes one of 8 startups offered investment by Europe’s leading micro-seed programme. SeedCamp is “the most connected international seed investor in the world and is Europe’s leading micro-seed investment and mentoring program“. Since launching in 2007, SeedCamp has reviewed 5,000 applications and funded 80 (just over 1%) of these ...
Announcing the launch of MIRA: an innovative and sustainable digital solution for the repatriation of indigenous creative and cultural content, and the largest digital repository of its kind in the world. FORM is an independent, non-profit cultural organisation established in 1968 that develops creativity and artistic practice in Western Australia. I was based at FORM last year, as a Fellow ...
Today, the UK’s Technology Strategy Board launched a new strategy for Creative Industries innovation and committed in excess of £30m investment to this sector over 2013-16. Having been funded by the Technology Strategy Board (TSB) in two of my businesses – feasibility funding for Clarity Productions and a current SMART Award for ZoneFutures – I ...
SXSW Inspiration – Airbnb: CEO Brian Chesky talking candidly about the challenges of growing and scaling a truly disruptive business model… SXSW Inspiration – FourSquare: CEO Dennis Crowley on the challenges of growing the business and the opportunity to design the future of maps… SXSW Inspiration – Swiss Miss: Designer Tina Roth Eisenberg on following your passions, and ...
As SXSW Interactive draws to a close, one of the stand-out highlights of the festival was an inspirational keynote from Tina Roth Eisenberg. The creator of design blog SwissMiss, Tattly, Creative Mornings and Studio Mates inspired the SXSW crowd to follow their passions and pay attention to their “side projects”… Full talk available here. Tina’s 11 Rules To Live (& Work) ...
In today’s SXSW session, BuzzFeed’s Founder and CEO Jonah Peretti discussed how to create and distribute content in a world where ‘share’ is the key to success… BuzzFeed features “the hottest, most social content on the web” and now boasts 40 million unique views per month. Peretti highlights that we are in the midst of a big shift in ...
In yesterday’s SXSW session, Scott Belsky put forward his thoughts on connecting the creative world and empowering creative people to make ideas happen.. Scott Belsky is Adobe’s Vice President of Community and Head of Behance, the “leading online platform for creatives to showcase and discover creative work”. His SXSW talk acknowledged that new technologies and online platforms empower creatives ...
This afternoon’s SXSW session saw game industry veteran Julie Uhrman, now founder and CEO of OUYA, discuss the future of an open gaming ecosystem. Aiming to “crack open the last closed gaming platform – the TV”, OUYA is a “beautiful affordable console built on Android”, developed via a $8.6m Kickstarter campaign. The OUYA is essentially ...
