CWL NEWS ARCHVE

This is the CWL News and Funded Project News Archive. It draws an informative picture on which stories relevant to the creative industries were happening during the AHRC-funded period of Creativeworks London between 2012 and 2016.

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Power to the Pixel: The Cross-Media Forum (7th – 8th October 2014)

This October, the world’s top financiers, commissioners, distributors, and entrepreneurs from across the media industry will gather in London for the 8th Power to the Pixel: The Cross-Media Forum.

Take part in this unique 2-day event, jam-packed with invaluable insights from investors and founders of disruptive media ideas, groundbreaking case studies, keynote speeches by leading international financiers and innovators in the entertainment and arts space plus plenty of networking opportunities.

The Conference – 7 October, BFI Southbank

Do you want to learn about new ways of working across industry silos to discover new financing opportunities, find out how to forecast and measure the success and impact of your projects and witness the most successful business models being presented? Then this year’s Conference is for you!

Focusing on key issues challenging the media industries around the development of new entertainment formats and art forms, talks will be presented by leading media professionals.

The Pixel Market Finance Forum – 8 October, BFI Southbank

Watch as eight of the world’s most innovative teams take to the stage to present their up-and-coming cross-media project to a panel of 30 international financiers and commissioners, who will award one of the teams the prestigious ARTE International Prize for The Pixel Market worth a smoking €6,000.

A magnet for the world’s leading funds and commissioners, The Pixel Market Finance Forum is the ultimate place to get the inside word on finance strategy, audience engagement and sustainable business models.

Keynotes presented by Valerie Creighton, President & CEO, Canada Media Fund (CA) and Monique Simard, President & CEO, SODEC (CA) on what they’ve learnt about how innovation and cross-media is being financed.

For more information and to buy tickets click here.

Power to the Pixel: The Cross-Media Forum is held in association with the BFI London Film Festival.

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Queen Mary - University of London
Arts & Humanities Research Council
European Union
London Fusion

Creativeworks London is one of four Knowledge Exchange Hubs for the Creative Economy funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) to develop strategic partnerships with creative businesses and cultural organisations, to strengthen and diversify their collaborative research activities and increase the number of arts and humanities researchers actively engaged in research-based knowledge exchange.