Team

Matt Hanson // Director
Film futurist, digital film pioneer, writer. An award-winning filmmaker, he created the onedotzero digital film festival & organisation, and is the author of a series of books on digital film, including The End of Celluloid: film futures in the digital age. He has made a multitude of successful and innovative short films (including the award-winning Salaryman 6, with Jake Knight, and City of Hollow Mountains with The Light Surgeons), television series for Channel 4 (UK), and is considered an expert in moving image trends. Screen International have already labelled him an “International film visionary”.

Cory Doctorow // Advisor
Writer, activist, blogger, technology advocate. Co-editor of Boing Boing and acclaimed SF author of Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town, Eastern Standard Tribe, and Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom. Cory Doctorow, as a leading copyfighter and advocate of digital freedoms, sits on the board or advises organisations that include the Participatory Culture Foundation, the Open Rights Group, the MetaBrainz Foundation, and Technorati, Inc. He brings his expertise in the areas of ‘open content’ and Creative Commons to the project.

Warren Ellis // Advisor
Cult comic book writer and graphic novelist, Warren Ellis is a leading advocate of creator-led, and -owned content. Entertainment Weekly included him in their list of 100 Most Creative People, and he also made Rolling Stone’s Hot issue. A prolific author, he has over 35 graphic novels published, including the multi-award-winning Transmetropolitan. His Global Frequency series was turned into a pilot for Warner Brothers, and, when it wasn’t picked up, the leaked pilot promptly became one of the hottest downloads on the Internet.

Tommy Pallotta // Advisor
Digital film pioneer, producer. Tommy Pallotta is currently producing A Scanner Darkly, a sci-fi animated feature starring Keanu Reeves, and directed by Richard Linklater (for which he also produced the earlier Waking Life). These films utilise an innovative ‘rotoscoping’ animation technique he perfected with Bob Sabiston in their films Snack & Drink, and Roadhead. Pallotta interest in innovative filmmaking also extends to new disciplines such as machinima, which he utilised for In the Waiting Line, a video he directed for Zero 7.

Grant Gee // Director of Photography
Filmmaker, music video director, documentarist. Gee mixes experimental and innovative personal filmmaking with commercial work that includes The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy documentary of the movie, music videos for Radiohead, Badly Drawn Boy, and countless others, and the upcoming Scott Walker documentary. He’s most widely known for his Grammy award-nominated music documentary, Meeting People is Easy, a seminal music documentary on Radiohead which is a tour de force of digital filmmaking.

The Kleptones // Soundtrack producers
With half a million albums downloaded, lawsuits, and a 2005 Webby Award (the ‘Internet Oscars’) for Artists Of The Year (from IADAS), The Kleptones represent the vanguard of sampling. Since 2004’s Yoshimi Battles The Hip-Hop Robots, and the landmark A Night At The Hip-Hopera (hip-hop vocals fused with Queen), the band have been at the cutting-edge of remix culture. Their latest release, the 24 Hours double album (downloaded over 30,000 times in it’s first week) see’s them progressing to new creative heights as producers and laptop DJs deluxe.

Guy Featherstone // Identity creation
Graphic designer, art director, graffiti artist. Guy Featherstone combines award-winning work for Weiden Kennedy London, with independent graphic activities through his studio, Miscellaneous Stimulus.

William Rowe [Protein°] // Media Partner
Following an illustrious few years helping set-up Indigo, Ireland’s first ISP in 1995, William moved back to London to found Protein° as a creative agency based in Shoreditch working for clients such as: Cartoon Network, Diesel, European Space Agency, K7!, Ninja Tune, Nokia, Olympus, Radio 1 and Sony PSP. Since mid-2003, William has returned Protein° to it’s roots and is now focusing on developing a range of own-branded products, a mobile design boutique, and expanding it’s online community, Protein° OS.

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