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Power to the Pixel launches its exciting new cross-media course for European media professionals, The Pixel Lab, in Berlin on 14 February. The six-day residential course will explore new ways of creating, financing and distributing cross-media stories – stories that can span film, tv, online, mobile, gaming. Read More

Liz Rosenthal is delighted to have been invited to moderate sessions about cross-media storytelling, production and finance, hosted by the eighth Berlinale Talent Campus, a six-day creative summit for international filmmakers which runs from 13 – 18th February.

Read on for session dates and times. Read More

Ted Hope, who delivered the keynote for the 2009 Cross-Media Film Forum, provides a thorough list of ‘brave’ thinkers who are paving the future of Independent Film, redefining the way films are funded, created, discovered, promoted, distributed, participated, curated and appreciated. Power to the Pixel and director Liz Rosenthal are very happy and honoured to be amongst such a brilliant group. Read More

Michael Gubbins’ final report from Power to the Pixel’s Think Tank is now available to download for free. The Think Tank was the culmination of this year’s Cross-Media Film Forum, bringing together Power to the Pixel’s participating experts for a day of discussion and debate with a view to defining practical steps in developing cross-media film practices in the film industry. Read More

Veteran film producer and PttP 2009’s keynote speaker, Ted Hope is prepping a new film with the shortest amount of time he’s ever had to prep a movie. In Ted’s words: “It is also one of the more ambitious projects I have been involved in. There is so much to do I can’t afford to squander any time (luckily I have been prepping some blog posts in advance, so this doesn’t take time — it expands time!). The short prep is also unfortunate because now is a time that the producer has to do even more than ever before.” Read More

Power to the Pixel Think Tank: PART THREE

In the final part of a short series reviewing the Power to the Pixel Think Tank in London, Michael Gubbins looks at how the panel believed value and business models could be derived from cross-media work. Read More

Power to the Pixel Think Tank: PART TWO

The first part of the report from the Power to the Pixel Think Tank in London centred on the engaged audience as the driving force of a cross-media movement.

The theme for the second report is empowerment of the film-maker, content creator or storyteller. As Michael Gubbins reports, engagement and empowerment and creator and audience were inextricably linked for the Power to the Pixel Think Tank, which met at the RSA in London. Read More

Power to the Pixel Think Tank: PART ONE

The potential for a  participatory, collaborative cross-media movement that can renew creative industry models or strike out into new territory was the key theme of the 2009 Power to the Pixel Think Tank in London. Michael Gubbins reports.

The Think Tank was made up of a range of leading thinkers and practitioners in the cross-media field from around the world.

The tone of the discussion had clearly moved on from previous years – driven by a sense that the business models for existing media were already failing both audiences and content creators and could not grasp the opportunities of a changed world. Read More

In the second article looking back at Power to the Pixel’s London Forum, Michael Gubbins asks about the next steps for those wishing to embrace cross-media change.

A survey commissioned for next week’s Screenwriters Festival in Cheltenham revealed that more than 70% of writers questioned worked more than 10 hours per week on their feature film idea and nearly 40% more than 20 hours.

And the fruits of this extraordinary labour for nearly 70% of those correspondents?  Nothing, not a penny.  Just over 4% were making what might be called a decent wage.

It begs the question ‘why?’ – a question that could be asked of many of those working in the current system of finance, production and distribution. Read More