Film Futurist

I just got back from LA (which is where I both attended film school and spent the majority of my professional life until about a year ago) and something struck me this time that had never occurred to me before: there is no model for innovation in Hollywood. Most of the younger folks in the [...]

Back. Finally. After few weeks of reading and/or fishing…then preparation for the Power to the Pixel – IFP Cross Media Forum which took place last week at the Walter Reade Theater in Lincoln Center, I am back. For those of you unfamiliar with the event, it was a collaboration between the very forward thinking Power [...]

The rumblings are out there: 2011 is the year of TV Everywhere. We’re cutting the cord, watching movies on Netflix, rejecting pre-packaged entertainment deals – therefore, the future, at least for us web content advocates, is here. Yet every time I hear the “TV Everywhere” chorus, I wonder who made this “the moment”. Because it [...]

In the world of visual media, entertainment is ubiquitous and philosophy a tad less so. As someone interested as much (if not more) in ideas than solely in form, I was delighted to discover this cleverly illustrated  video of a talk about 21st century Enlightenment. Before I saw the video below, I had never heard [...]

Over the last couple of weeks, the murmur of a strong movement in interactive media properties aimed squarely at the target of social change seemed louder than usual. Perhaps it was my discovery of Impact Games’ Peacemaker Game which though over two years old, existed entirely outside my radar until I heard the creator and [...]