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First Flights / FF3Web3 Film Development & FinanceFirst Flights exists to harness and support emerging Filmmakers in creating bold and ambitious content for a global audience. Over the last three years, we have established First Flights as an incubator for emerging talent, ideas and IP. We are connected to over 3,600 filmmakers and have created ten short films in eighteen months. We have also provided learning and development events and panels regularly. The next evolution in First Flights sees us harness the power of Web 3.0 using tokens and NFTs through our platform FF3, to continue in our mission to support the best emerging creators and their stories.
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DecryptCryptocurrency PublicationDecrypt was founded in 2018 with a simple mission: to demystify the decentralized web.
We are a site dedicated to helping people understand this brave new world: Whether it's trust-less networks, privacy coins or oracles, we strive to produce original coverage of the biggest stories, insightful profiles on the industry’s movers and shakers as well as engaging educational content to connect the dots. Decrypt is funded by ConsenSys, a NY-based incubator, but we are both editorially independent and technologically agnostic. Our aim is to highlight to our readers what really matters, whilst providing a toolkit to understand the fundamentals. We are a map for the doers of Web3, to help navigate the space and uncover the expertise and resources they need to shape the industry for themselves. |
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Decentralized Pictures - Leo Matchett (CEO & Founder)Decentralized Film ProductionLeo is the CEO and a co-founder of The Decentralized Pictures Foundation, Inc. He is an Emmy Award winner who grew up in Toronto and has lived in Los Angeles for 15 years working in film production. He brings a balance of knowledge in film, technology and crypto assets. Leo has been involved in smartphone application development since 2008, developing Artemis Director’s Viewfinder (2018Engineering Emmy Award Winner), and Tech scout Touch for Android and IOS. As an early adopter of Bitcoin, Leo began conceiving ways to bring blockchain technology to the entertainment industry, and its auditability and efficiencies to the filmmaking process. His primary goal is helping creative thinkers concentrate on what is important—the creative.
Decentralized Pictures (DCP) is a 501c(3) non profit organization based on an idea that artistic talent may be discovered in innovative ways. Through user consensus we have set up a democratic film fund and online community of creatives, film-fans, and industry professionals who will decide which projects audiences most want to see and support. Submit your idea, and if the world is excited about your vision, we’ll help you make it. We’ll help finance it, and introduce you to the people who will help you execute your project in a professional way. We love to discover great talent and curate content. We hope you do too. |
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Camila Russo(Author and Founder) - The Infinite Machine & The DefiantAcclaimed cryptocurrency journalist Cami is the founder and CEO of The Defiant. She is also the author of The Infinite Machine and was previously a Bloomberg News reporter covering markets in New York, Madrid and Buenos Aires.
Her best seller “The Infinite Machine: How an Army of Crypto Hackers is Building the Next Internet with Ethereum,” published by HarperCollins in 2020, has become the go-to reference for anyone wanting to understand the history of Ethereum. The Infinite Machine is now being turned into a movie, funded by the Ethereum community, using Ethereum technology with Scott Free Productions recently boarding the project as producers. Cami has moderated and spoken at some of the most influential cryptocurrency conferences along with multiple TV and radio appearances. |
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Vabble - James O'Connor (CEO)Web3 Distribution and FinanceFormer Sales Manager for Vodafone Ireland with key focus onleading teams in the sale of Vodafone TV products. Prior his position with Vodafone, James worked as an IT Hardware technician with some software development background. Having been involved in blockchain and cryptocurrency from early 2018combined with his experience in the sale of entertainment products allow him to understand exactly what is required to being a WEB3 streaming service into the global streaming market.
Vabble is a WEB3 Streaming Service (Distribution), Decentralized Financing Slate & Film NFT Market place being built by an incredible small team located around the world. We empower Film Makers to retain IP and generate higher sale margins with our innovative payment/reward system. Accredited and retail Investors build diverse film investment portfolios supporting film production. Streaming consumers foster control over how much they spend and what they spend it on in a modern interactive streaming experience. Vabble is being designed to drive WEB3 Film Industry adoption in the mainstream market by automating the use of crypto currency bridging current streaming service experiences with the power of blockchain and cryptocurrency. As a product, it truly harnesses the power to deliver WEB3andFILM3on global scale and become a contender in the global streaming market. |
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MovieCoin - James Mackie (Founder)Web3 Film FinancingJames is founder of cloud computing company Vesk, Actor & Team Lead of MovieCoin.
When you invest into a movie on Moviecoin.com, you receive a portion of its profits forever. You can sell your NFT and therefore sell your share of the profits at any me on the Moviecoin.com Secondary Marketplace. If you sell your NFT, you also sell your future profit share in the movie allowing someone else to capture their missed opportunity. Crowdfund using $MOVIE enabling you to vote for the movies that you want made. Most movies in Hollywood are studio owned, the narrative is controlled. Moviecoin.com empowers you to vote for the films you want funded and to earn a profit from thosemovies.Moviecoin.com is for everyone. Investors no longer need $100,000+ to participate in film funding. By investing with $MOVIE you lower the barrier to entry for an investor in the movie industry by a huge 10,000x. |
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Script.TV - Akeem Ojuko (Co-Founder)Web3 TV and Film DistributionAkeem Ojuko is a serial entrepreneur and co-founder of Script Network, He has built three 7 figure businesses, and has amassed over over ten years of experience within content, commerce, and crypto/blockchain technology. Beyond business enterprise, Akeem is a TEDx head organiser in the heart of London, having ran multiple events across the city to drive and inspire change in local communities. At Script Network, he looks after product, growth and partnerships, with an overall mission to change the shape of how Film and TV is viewed and distributed worldwide.
A watch-to-earn gamified live tv platform, built to reward users whilst they watch, provide multiple video web3 products and redefine advertisement for the crypto industry. Script Network is built on Script Blockchain, a video optimised chain with numerous dApps already built, including a video first NFT marketplace for empowering content creators and fractionalising videos to their followers. |
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Stalker Film - Mark O'Connor (Writer & Director)Web3 Film + NFT CollectionMark is an award-winning Irish writer-director of four feature films, one six-part television drama and sixty short films. A graduate of the New York Film Academy, his films have won festivals across the world from Manchester to Newport Beach in Los Angeles. His films have been released in cinemas with his last film Cardboard Gangsters being the highest Irish grossing film of the year at the box office and subsequently selling to Netflix global. He entered the Web3 Film space in early 2021.
Stalker, is a feature length movie starring Barry Keoghan in his lead role debut. Oliver Nolan, a volatile homeless man, wanders the streets of Dublin City during the Christmas period. After an unusual encounter with an evangelist, Oliver believes he is sent on a mission from God to clean up society. When he saves a disaffected young boy named Tommy from some local bullies an unlikely friendship is formed. Oliver soon learns that Tommy’s mother is an addict, and his uncle Rudyard is a local drug dealer, and takes it upon himself to get even with Rudyard and his gang of petty criminals for taking advantage of his only friend, Tommy. |
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Calladita - Miguel Faus (Writer & Director)Web3 Film + NFT CollectionMiguel Faus is a screenwriter and director from Barcelona. His short films The Death of Don Quixote and Calladita have been awarded and screened at major festivals worldwide. In 2021, Variety named him as one of ten "Spanish talents to watch”. He’s making the first European film to be funded byNFTs, Calladita, and is also an avid NFT collector and enthusiast.
Calladita is the first European movie ever financed by NFTs. Written and directed by Miuel Faus, and based on his short film of the same title, the project has raised over $600.000 via the sale of Non-Fungible Tokens. Filming will take place in Spain in September, and the cast includes names like Emily Mortimer and Antonio de la Torre. |
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Cuneiform Studios - Bron Hager (Co-Founder)Web3 Film + NFT CollectionBron brings a decade plus of start-up experience to the venture alongside his brother Breckyn both lifelong entrepreneurs and ex-American football players.
Cuneiform empowers audiences to support their favourite creators and earn rewards from their success. Cuneiform revolutionizes the traditional box office ticket system by utilizing NFTs to promote audience engagement and providing more value to tickets as collectibles. Cuneiform, as a platform, aims to empower creators with more control over the value and distribution of their content. We value autonomy for all creators. Cuneiform Studios is in post production on a full-length feature documentary showcasing the spirit of web3Promoting the project at the decrypt and decentralized pictures panel event at Cannes Film Festival in May. We’re working with local governments and lawyers to turn the film into a DAO. |
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Jordan Bayne - The NFT Film Squad (Founder)Web3 Film CommunityJORDAN BAYNE is an award-winning writer, director, actor and NFT film pioneer. Her career began acting with Golden Globe winner Martin Sheen in A STRANGER IN THE KINGDOM and includes Showtime’s Poltergeist The Legacy, Law & Order and more. Bayne’s writing and directorial debut was the short film ARGO, starring Jordana Spiro [Ozark, Good Wife]. Her critically acclaimed film THE SEA IS ALL I KNOW, starring Academy Award winner Melissa Leo won Best Short, Best of Fest, and Best Actress in its festival run earning consideration for an Academy Award. Leo described Bayne as “one of the finest directors I have ever worked with”. Currently she is overseeing development on her American feature THE LAW OF UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCES as well as several US/Spain projects — THE LORCA PROJECT, a digital series, feature film BLACK SORROW and her upcoming NFT funded feature film project, SHADOW.
The NFT Filmmaker Squad was founded in February 2021 by Jordan Bayne. The original NFT film space/room/community in the NFT culture with a slate of visionary objectives: to join forces to empower filmmakers in the NFT community, to build a new production model were the majority of the revenue stream goes to the creators, to level the playing field for underrepresented people, to onboard new filmmakers, to create real impact by trailblazing the Web3 and NFT creator economy by generating incredible new opportunities for filmmakers in this eco system. We are a global community who have worked with icons such as Alejandro G. Iñárritu, Sam Mendes, Matt Damon, Melissa Leo, Léa Seydoux, John Krasinski and JR, as well as with studios like BBC, Channel 4, Showtime and Netflix. In the past year we have brought attention to ground breaking talent in the NFT landscape such as Julie Pacino, Miguel Faus, J Harry Edminston, and David Bianchi. The NFT Film Squad has also spotlighted celebrities such as Christopher Meloni, Rain Phoenix. Innovative, visionary, we have only just begun. This is Film3. |
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Beem - Mihai Crasneanu (Co-Founder)Web 3 Streaming PlatformMihai Crasneanu spent the last 20 years disrupting tech and digital media distribution, with a deep experience in content rights, video platforms and operations of on demand home entertainment services worldwide. He founded 4 companies with 2 exits. He is the CEO of Beem, a web3 decentralized media platform he co-founded in 2019, empowering creators and film/TV professionals with video tools to easily own, build, manage and monetize their content and their community. In 2007, he founded Grey Juice Lab, a worldwide aggregator of premium film and TV content for OTT and streaming VOD services, including 600+ studios and content distributors from all continents and operating 30+ platforms (still operational).
In 2001, Mihai launched and operated Glowria, the largest independent DVD rental and streaming service (similar to Netflix) in continental Europe, sold in 2008. Between 1995 and 2000, he launched and deployed among the first email and internet portals in Latin America. Mihai is a core team member of BlockbusterDAO and an investor in tech, crypto and media companies. He is a Romanian-born French citizen, and currently lives in London, UK. Beem.xyz is the Web3 video toolbox for creators easily create live interactive events & upload your videos to monetize your work with token-gating, ticketing, PPV and NFTs. |
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FemaleFilmmakers.xyz - Josephine Landertinger Forero (Founder)Web 3 Film Collective & NFT CollectionJosephine Landertinger Forero, born in 1983, is a film director and producer, mother of two daughters, passionate about human rights, migration, diversity, gender equality and women’s empowerment, working on these subjects since 2009.
She is a member of the Colombian Academy of Motion Pictures (ACACC) in the specialty of Directing, member of Dones Visuals Catalonia, European Women’s Audiovisual Network, CIMA Spain and Girls Club Women & Hollywood. Founder of Global Eyes Production and creator of the online directory of organizations that work on gender equality in Ibero-American cinema accionmujeres.com. Founder of the first online academy for Spanish speaking female filmmakers, Just Love Film Academy. Her film “Home – the country of illusion” was nominated for Best Colombian Documentary by the ACACC in 2017, a reflection on identity and the sense of belonging. It can be seen on various platforms such as Filmin, Mowies, Amazon Prime or Flixolé. As an NFT and film pioneer, her second feature film “I’m Cris from Tierra Bomba” will have a collection of NFTs powered by NFT platform “Mogul Productions”. Josephine studied Film and Communication at the Freie Universität Berlin, Germany. She specialized in German post-war cinema, Italian Neorealism, documentary cinema and journalism in armed conflicts. |
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NextHollywood - DC Cassidy (Writer & Producer)Web3 TV Series & NFT CollectionDAVE "D.C." CASSIDY Writer/producer and founder of animation and production company Diamond Entertainment. Military and start-up veteran, he received a direct presidential nomination to West Point while active duty in the U.S. Army. D.C. has launched ventures in both Hollywood and Silicon Valley.
NextHollywood, a fan-led movement into the $1 Trillion American Film & TV market, is a platform to enable creators to build community with their fans through the sale of digital collectibles with a long term vision of creating a decentralized Netflix. Their first project, the animated tv series ‘Timewrecked’, sees a modern family stuck in the time of Henry VIII, they must do whatever it takes to survive, including trading their knowledge of the future in exchange for not getting murdered. |
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Stephen Graves - UK Managing Decrypt Editor, Writer & DirectorCryptocurrency PublicationStephen has written, directed and produced short films that have screened at Raindance, the East End Film Festival and the London Independent Film Festival. His short film "A Stitch In Time" has amassed over 190,000 views on the DUST YouTube channel. "The Dead of Winter" was a finalist in the Spring 2021 Screencraft Short Film Fund. He is the UK Managing Editor for crypto publication Decrypt and has written extensively about how the film industry is adopting the emerging technologies of cryptocurrency, blockchain and NFTs.
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Warrior Love Productions - Melissa Rowley (Founder)Web3 International StoriesMelissa Jun Rowley is the founder and CEO of Warrior Love Productions, a web3 production studio and communications agency, building projects and protocols to foster a more equitable future. She and the international Warrior Love team of journalists, filmmakers, developers, marketing creatives and web3 advisors believe in the power of community, technology, and storytelling to drive social change. The company is currently working with NEAR Protocol to provide a film3 incubator program for social impact filmmakers around the world. They're also creating a first-of-its kind charity protocol and NFT collection with the international nonprofit, CARE.org, to provide web3 education to women everywhere.
In another life, Melissa covered award shows and movie premieres for CNN and Associated Press Television News. She also produced business news from the New York Stock Exchange. A self-proclaimed compulsive traveler, Melissa has a passion for spotlighting entrepreneurs in developing countries, who are taking on the world's toughest problems and uplifting their communities. Her written work has appeared in BBC News, Forbes, Rolling Stone, Fast Company, The Guardian, and several other media outlets. |
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Goldfinch - Phil McKenzie (COO) FF3 (Co-Founder)Film Financing and ProductionPhil McKenzie is COO and Co-Owner of Goldfinch, a UK group of indie entertainment companies spanning finance, production, and ventures. His strength lies in strategising, negotiating and constructing deals at both a corporate (Epic Games, Talent House, Creative England, Sky, ITV, BBC) and a production level (credited on 50+ titles). He has a network that spreads across all levels and areas globally of the creative industries; talent, agencies, broadcasters, sales agents, distributors, and funders. Prior to Goldfinch, Phil completed a Masters in Politics from Edinburgh University and worked in marketing, strategy and operations across a variety of sectors, including hospitality, food and drink, professional services and entertainment. Fast forward to now and Goldfinch have raised and deployed over $200m in 8 years and been involved in over 300+ productions across film, tv and video games. In 2022 Goldfinch have launched ‘The No.44’, a genre production label and horror podcast series.
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FF3 - Nick Sadler (Co-Founder)Web3 Film Development & FinanceNick has worked on bringing independent feature films to UK theatres such as Pandorica, Redwood, Dark Beacon and Iron Sky : Coming Race. Every film that has been released has been written, produced, edited and bought to the big screen in under 12 months. The films have been selected for and won awards at festivals such as Frightfest, American Horror Film Festival and New York Film Festival.
He is also Executive Producer across all films produced through the First Flights Short Film Fund. Through this Fund he has helped executive produce over 9 short films in 18 months, including the award winning ‘The Impatient Man’ and BFI shortlisted ‘An Irish Goodbye’ More recently Nick and Phil launched FF3 – a decentralized crowd-raising platform for film makers in Web3 - and they successfully raised the budget in crypto for Stephen Graves film ‘The Dead of Winter. |
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Crypto Mondays - Lou Kerner (Founder and CEO)Cryptocurrency Thought LeaderLou Kerner is a Partner at Blockchain Coinvestors, a crypto fund-of-fund invested in 30+ of the leading crypto VCs around the world. Lou is also the CEO of Blockchain Coinvestors Acquisition Corp. 1, a publicly traded SPAC.
Lou is also the Head Crypto Analyst at Quantum Economics, a crypto advisory firm. Lou has been a crypto enthusiast, investor, and thought leader since 2013, when the Wall Street Journal called Lou "Wall Street’s Bitcoin Expert''. Lou is ranked among the most influential crypto bloggers on Medium, regularly keynotes major crypto industry events, and often appears on TV or in print talking about crypto. Lou also regularly hosts conference calls with crypto industry innovators attended by hundreds of crypto enthusiasts and investors. Previously, Lou was a Founding Partner of CryptoOracle, a VC focused on building, growing, and engaging decentralized communities. At CryptoOracle, Lou started CryptoMondays, the largest crypto meetup group in the world, with chapters in 70+ cities around the world. Prior to CryptoOracle, Lou was a Partner at the decentralized VC, Flight, where he managed The Israeli Founders Syndicate. Prior to Flight, Lou was the Managing Partner of The Social Internet Fund (SIF), which invested in shares of rapidly growing tech companies. Prior to SIF, Lou was an angel investor, best known for investing in Facebook and writing the first Wall Street style research report on the company in 2010. Before angel investing, Lou ran two digital companies, Bolt (the largest social network before MySpace), and .tv (which commercialized the top-level domain .tv licensed from the tiny island nation of Tuvalu). .tv was acquired by Verisign. Prior to .tv, Lou had a distinguished career as an equity analyst following media and tech companies for Goldman Sachs and Merrill Lynch. Lou has a B.A. from U.C.L.A. and an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business. |
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Film3.EventsFilm3 Events OrganizerBlockchain, NFTs, and crypto are coming to Film in 2022.
We invite you to meet the financiers, creators & distributors making it happen. Our first Film3 event will be on May 20th @ Cannes Film Festival. Following this we will continue to present the thought leaders and companies at the forefront of web3 filmmaking and innovation at all the main global content festivals. |