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For Sponsorship of the 2015 Transforming Hollywood Conference, Please Email Sandy Hall at Shall@Tft.Ucla.Edu For sponsorship of the 2015 Transforming Hollywood conference, please email Sandy Hall at [email protected]. If you are interested in speaking opportunities for next year’s conference, please email Ben Harris at [email protected]. Visit us online at: www.transforminghollywood.tft.ucla.edu transhollywood_1i.indd 4 3/26/14 5:05 PM the future of television ConferenCe presented jointly by UClA sChool of theAter, film And television, UsC sChool of CinemAtiC Arts And UsC Annenberg sChool for CommUniCAtion & joUrnAlism PRESENTED BY the AndreW j. KUehn, jr. foUndAtion | APril 4, 2014 transhollywood_1i.indd 1 3/26/14 5:05 PM transhollywood_1i.indd 2 3/26/14 5:05 PM CONFERENCe presented by the AndreW j. KUehn, jr. foUndAtion the future of television fridAy, April 4, 2014 James bridges theAter, UClA sChool of theAter, film And television www.transmedia.tft.ucla.edu transhollywood_1i.indd 1 3/26/14 5:05 PM 9:00–9:10 a.m. Welcome And Opening remArks schedule Denise Mann and Henry Jenkins, co-directors virtuAl entrePreneurs: creAtors Who Are reinventing tv for the digitAl future of events panel 1 Moderator: Denise Mann, co-director, Transforming Hollywood; associate professor, fridAy, APril 4, 2014 9:10 –11:00 a.m. head of the Producers Program, UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television the ProgrAmmers of the future in An erA of cord-cutters And panel 2 cord-nevers 11:10 a.m.–1:00 p.m. Moderator: Andrew Wallenstein, editor-in-chief, Digital, Variety 1:00–2:00 p.m. l unch Dining options available on campus. second screens, connected vieWing, croWdfunding And sociAl mediA: panel 3 reimAgining television consumPtion 2:00–3:50 p.m. Moderator: Henry Jenkins, co-director, Transforming Hollywood; provost’s professor of Communication, Journalism, Cinematic Arts and Education, University of Southern California indie TV: Where creAtors And Fans Pilot neW shoWs panel 4 Moderator: Aymar Jean Christian, assistant professor, School of Communication, 4:00–6:15 p.m. Northwestern University 6:30–7:15 p.m. A conversAtion About fAndom And the future Orlando Jones, star of Fox’s hit series “Sleepy Hollow” 7:15–8:00 p.m. recePtion Lobby, James Bridges Theater 2 Transforming Hollywood transhollywood_1i.indd 2 3/26/14 5:05 PM he future of television is already here: It’s being streamed online by a new generation of A messAge cord-cutters and cord-nevers who are eager to binge and engage with entertainment on their own terms, according to their own schedules. This year, the fifth installment of from the Transmedia, Hollywood has been given a new name, Transforming Hollywood: The Future of Television, to reflect our desire to engage more fully with the radical changes co-directors taking place for creators, distributors and audiences. When future generations of historians write their accounts of the American televi- Tsion industry’s evolution, they will almost certainly point to the 2010s as a moment of dramatic change: We’ve seen the entry of Netflix, Hulu, Amazon and YouTube as major players shaping the production of original programming — gaining critical praise, courting industry awards, and starting to compete, in terms of subscription numbers, with the top cable networks; we’ve seen Kickstarter emerge as an alterna- tive means for funding television content, allowing fans to exert a greater role in shaping the future of their favorite series; and we’ve seen a continued growth in the number of independent producers creating and distributing web content. But we’re also seeing a disturbing trend: A decade after Vimeo, YouTube and other online video platforms first provided amateurs with democratic access to the means of production, the ongoing commer- cialization and conglomeration of the Web may limit access for producers and consumers going forward. DENISE MANN is an associate Are Netflix, Hulu, Microsoft Xbox and other streaming platforms creating a digital revolution by allowing professor and head of the Producers creators to bypass Hollywood gatekeepers? Are the multichannel networks (MCNs) helping their thousands Program at the UCLA School of Theater, of talent partners “go pro,” or are they simply providing marketers with a new means of accessing the wide Film and Television. HENRY JENKINS swath of online users that engage with these channels? These and other thorny questions will be considered is provost’s professor of Communication, as industry leaders, creators and scholars debate what it means to produce and consume television content Journalism, Cinematic Arts and Education, in this connected and yet dispersed marketplace. University of Southern California. This conference brings together key creative and corporate decision-makers who are shaping these changes, and academics who are placing these shifts in their larger historical and cultural contexts. What does all this mean for those of us who are making or watching television? Stay tuned. —denise Mann And henry Jenkins April 4, 2014 3 transhollywood_1i.indd 3 3/26/14 5:05 PM Join Us. Variety.com/Subscribe transhollywood_1i.indd 4 3/26/14 5:05 PM In Fall 2011, Google announced plans to invest $100 million to build original content partnerships with a number of talented YouTube creators in order to enhance the production value of their work and their value to brands. This panel gives voice to two new types of virtual entrepreneur: Individual PAnel 1 web creators who are reinventing entertainment for the digital age, and the CEO of a new type of virtuAl entrePreneurs: web-based multi-channel network (MCN), which is forging deals with individual web-creators in exchange for providing them with infrastructural support in the form of sound stages, green screens, creAtors Who Are higher quality cameras and editing equipment, enhanced social media marketing tools and brand alliances. Early entrepreneurs in this newly commercial, digital economy include Felicia Day and reinventing TV for the Sheri Bryant (Geek & Sundry), Freddie Wong (“Video Game High School”) and Dane Boetlinger (“Annoying Orange”), each of whom has catapulted themselves into the top tier of web celebs with digitAl future huge fan followings. Many of these entrepreneurial web creators have sought out deals with MCNs such as Fullscreen, Maker Studios and Machinima in order to expand their budding entertainment enterprises. However, other creators are chafing inside long-term contracts with MCNs, frustrated by what they see as onerous terms — the split of advertising revenues and intellectual property rights. Today’s panel debates the viability of these new creative and business models, asking whether they represent a radical rethinking of entertainment that puts power back into the hands of creators or if they are transitional systems that will eventually be absorbed by Hollywood’s big media groups. moderAtor PAnelists Denise Mann Sheri Bryant producer and co-founder, Geek & Sundry co-director, Transforming Hollywood; Allen DeBevoise co-founder, chairman and CEO, Machinima, Inc. associate professor, head of the Producers Program, Amanda Lotz associate professor, Communication Studies, University of Michigan UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television George Strompolos founder and CEO, Fullscreen, Inc. transhollywood_1i.indd 5 3/26/14 5:05 PM denise mAnn (Moderator) is an associate pro- sheri bryAnt (Panelist) is an award-winning fessor at the UCLA School of Theater, Film, and producer and is the co-founder of the popular Television and head of the School’s Producers entertainment network Geek & Sundry, recog- Program (1996-present). Mann is the editor of nized for bringing the Internet’s best in geek “Wired TV: Laboring Over an Interactive Future” culture to audiences across the globe. In this (2014); the author of “Hollywood Independents: capacity, Bryant has been responsible for over- The Postwar Talent Takeover” (2008); and co-editor of “Private Screenings: seeing the company’s financial growth, strategic brand partnerships, distribu- Television and the Female Consumer” (1992). She served as an associate tion channels, talent acquisition and programming. editor on “Camera Obscura: A Journal of Feminism and Film Theory” (1986- Prior to Geek & Sundry, Bryant founded Intelligent Life Media (ILM), a 1992). With Professor Henry Jenkins, Mann co-chairs the annual Transforming full-service motion picture and digital production company that develops, Hollywood conference (2010-present), which brings together scholars, industry finances and produces programming across the full range of distribution professionals and creators to debate the future of entertainment. channels. ILM recently produced “Rock Jocks” starring Felicia Day, and Mann has contributed to several book-length anthologies and several previously produced “How to Make Love to a Woman” starring Krysten Ritter academic journals (Camera Obscura, Quarterly Review of Film and Video, and Ian Somerhalder, as well as the award-winning “Labou,” distributed by Journal of Popular Film and Television and Flow). She serves as a consultant MGM. Bryant began her career working for The Walt Disney Company as to UNIJAPAN (a non-profit trade organization commissioned by Japanese a financial analyst of investments and funding, before joining Hollywood government), Creek and River Co., a media management firm in Tokyo, and Pictures’ film division as an entertainment executive. She also served as serves on the board of the Association Internationale des Medias (AIM) in director of development and production for the distribution company Image Paris. Mann is routinely invited to deliver talks at scholarly conferences and Organization, where she helped shepherd multiple films for CBS, HBO, delivers industry talks at international film festivals and conferences such as Lifetime and Artisan. Currently, Bryant serves on the board of directors for the Tokyo International Film Festival and Shanghai International Film Festival the non–profit organization CAPE promoting diversity in entertainment, is a and at major universities in Asia and Europe: Beijing Broadcasting Institute, member of Stanford in Entertainment, and also serves as a Trustee for the Shanghai University, Paris 1 Pantheon Sorbonne and Institut National de charitable Feigenbaum–Nii Foundation.
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