Hollywood 2.0

Gina Keating returns! She is the author of Netflixed: The Epic Battle for America’s Eyeballs and writer of the Business Wars podcast series Netflix vs Blockbuster.

We cover his company ContrlMovie that creates choose your own adventure feature films and his interactive movie LATE SHIFT.

I talk with Denny Unger about how storytelling and technology is evolving for VR. Recently, his game The Gallery — Episode 1: Call of the Starseed won Best Narrative Experience at the Proto Awards.

I talk to Shaked about the business of indie film.

Laura Bernstein and her company are focused on trying to track TV viewers across multiple platforms.

Annie Lukowski & BJ Schwartz are co-owners of the VR production company Vanishing Point based in LA. http://www.vanishingpointvr.com/#!about/fwydw

I talk to Stephan Paternot about Slated, his tech startup that is changing the world of film financing.

We discuss how tech companies are getting into the high stakes world of original content. Links www.simonowens.net Music from Le Feline https://soundcloud.com/la-f-line

Takatsu is an award-winning writer of contemporary literary fiction, featured Wattpad author, and kickstarter of the Literary Fiction Network. He pioneered the Japanese “cell phone novel” phenomenon in the English-speaking world, marking a moment in history of a new online literary movement among thousands of young writers and readers globally. The remarkably unique serialized fusion of simple haiku-like poetic technique, visual text flow, multimedia and micro-prose storytelling has re-envisioned technology, youth culture, community and literature. The published print book of the coming-of-age story, “Secondhand Memories”, was released for fans internationally in 2015. His more recent work includes “Move”, (2013, CPN, Textnovel) a sentimental journey of a struggling musician, and his flagship landmark novel, “Espresso Love” (2014), a dystopian magical-realistic literary fiction journey of spiritual awakening, which satirizes and examines human nature, subjective perception, socio-political systems, digital l

Erkki is an internationally renowned media historian and theorist, and also a specialist in the history and aesthetics of media arts. He is one of the founders of an emerging approach to media studies known as media archaeology. Links Buy the book Illusions in Motion Media Archaeology of the Moving Panorama and Related Spectacles http://amzn.to/1T2c4fv Erkki's website http://www.erkkihuhtamo.com/ I heard Erkki speak at the AWESOME Transforming Hollywood event. I recommend you check it out next year. http://bit.ly/1BQ79ng Charles Urban http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Urban Media scholar Raymond Williams http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raymond_Williams Telematic Dreaming by Paul Sermon https://vimeo.com/44862244 Cave interface http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cave_automatic_virtual_environment Song in episode is Pirouette by Made In Heights https://soundcloud.com/madeinheights/pirouette

Kamal Sinclair serves as the Co-Director of the Sundance Institute's New Frontier Story Lab, offering interdisciplinary support to artists working at the convergence of film, art, and new media technologies. Kamal on Twitter https://twitter.com/kamalsinclair Sundance New Frontier Lab http://www.sundance.org/programs/new-frontier Song in episode is Pirouette by Made In Heights https://soundcloud.com/madeinheights/pirouette I heard Kamal speak at the AWESOME Transforming Hollywood event. I recommend you check it out next year. http://www.transforminghollywood.tft.ucla.edu/conference/th6-world-building-immersive-entertainment-2015/

I talked to the top experts on fair use Michael Donaldson and Lisa Calif, partners at the law firm Donaldson and Calif, and authors of Clearance & Copyright, 4th Edition: Everything You Need to Know for Film and Television. Links Buy the book http://amzn.to/1Io09Sb Donaldson + Callif law firm http://bit.ly/1F450Fl Watch the epic Power Rangers fan film http://bit.ly/18hBrYa Songs from episode: Ghost by Poter Elvinger http://bit.ly/1Io0HaD Soch by Prabh Jazz http://bit.ly/1NKdEzc

We discuss the interesting world of fan fiction. Links Buy the book: http://amzn.to/1BpxawB Black Girl Nerds podcast: http://apple.co/1NHyi3K Opening song: It's Choade My Dear by Connan Mockasin: http://bit.ly/1nsB6ro

We discuss the importance of curation online. Links Buy Curation is Creation http://colin.io/portfolio/curation-is-creation/ Song at the opening: Shame on Blue is from Cecil Otter and Swiss Andy's mashup album Wugazi. https://soundcloud.com/wugazi/06-shame-on-blue

We discuss how content creators can use social media to build their buisness and tell stories across multiple platforms.

Evette Vargas is the writer/creator of DARK PROPHET, an epic science fiction story that lives on multiple platforms. You can find more information at http://www.digital-reign.net/

‎Zach Dugow, founder & CEO of Insticator, talks about how his tech startup is gamifying the TV experience.

James De Julio, co-founder and Chief Product Officer at Tongal, talks about his experiences leaving the Hollywood system to build a platform that creates opportunities for content creators from around the world.

I interview Jamie Wilkinson, co-founder and CEO of VHX, a direct-to-fan video distribution platform.

Cynthia Meyers, associate professor of communication at College of Mount Saint Vincent and author of the book A Word from our Sponsor about how ad agencies helped invent broadcast entertainment in the 1930s and 1940s. We discuss the past, present, and future of branded entertainment.