Propellor | Springboard
an ideation workshop for business ideas
for production distribution and experience of films
> documentary and fiction <
hosted by Copenhagen International Documentary Festival
in collaboration with the Rainmaking Loft
Winner of the Mentor Award
Amplifier is a data driven impact broker for documentaries using good data for great causes. Audience data is accumulated during the outreach campaign of a documentary film, fed into a collaborative database, then shared and re-used for other films. Data is used with a maximum efficiency to amplify its impact potential
Team: Ben Kempas (UK), Tricia Finneran (USA)
Winner of the Audience Award
Ego Cinema is an experience hub for collective VR experiences. It combines custom made VR content with performative elements. These exclusive social experiences are presented in permanent flagship location and temporary pop-up venues and include rooms for anticipation, experience and reflection.
Team: Joao Penaguiao (Denmark), Marianne Makela (Finland) , Mads Damsbo (Denmark), Josepha Wessels (Sweden), Hans Christian Sørensen (Denmark) , Alexander Graham (UK)
D.A.B. connects the film & TV industry with digital content creators and their communities of followers. It runs an online directory of media influencers and operates a development and packaging agency for new formats of storytelling targeted at young audiences.
Team: Maximilian Becht (Germany), Lisamaria Laxholm (Denmark), Lutfi Zeneli (Sweden), Anna Malmkjær Willumsen (Denmark), Zire Schucany (Denmark), Marek Witkowski (Denmark)
Doc Boost provides an easy-to use and cost-effective tool-kit to prepare and run automated outreach campaigns for documentaries. It offers do-it-yourself modules for distribution strategies and uses analytics to maximize the exposure of a film.
Team: Jacek Mueller (Poland), Sandrine Vergneau (Germany), Line Halvorsen (Norway), Marcos Mercuri (Spain), Ulrich Tan (France), Maximilian Mayrshofer (Denmark), Mette Reitzel (UK)
Impact Unified is a scalable template combining film and gaming with the aim to create social change. It extends the IP of a story into modules such as a film, an interactive web doc, a board game, a card game, a computer game, a VR experience, a mobile app or a theatre performance.
Team: Neil Bell (Sweden), Adam Hinsch (Sweden), Daisy Kosmider (Sweden), Omar Dogan (Sweden)
Matchlight is the Airbnb of media productions and a state-of the art information platform. It helps content producers to find, book, pay and rate the best freelancers in an efficient and trustworthy way. For freelancers in the film industry it serves as a public display of their portfolio, skills, references and availabilities.
Team: Anna Moll (Germany), Jérôme Plan (France), Charles Roy (Canada)
Why Propellor | Springboard?
The global, multi-billion $ market for film production, distribution and experience is almost untouched by peak technology (AI, block chain and big data) and new forms of social interaction (sharing economy, co-creation, and crowd-sourcing). There are huge business and innovation potentials in the film industry waiting to be unleashed!
Use this weekend as a springboard into the future of the film industry and change the way films are produced, distributed and experienced!
What is it?
A two-days ideation workshop for interdisciplinary participants to develop business models that can propel the film industry into the future.
1. Pitch your killer business idea or get inspired by someone else's idea (pitches are max 3 min) - business ideas can be for non-fiction or fiction, linear or non-linear formats - as long as your idea is about business, not about specific content
2. Form or join a team of like-minded doers and thinkers
3. Network, learn and work 2 full days
4. Get support from inspiring mentors
5. Pitch again at the end (you'll see the difference)
6. Go out, make it real!
Is something about the way films are produced, distributed or experienced keeping you up at night? Have you identified a need or found a solution to a problem? Or do you see an opportunity to transfer a business case from another industry into the film industry?
Then join the Propellor | Springboard!
You will work in a small team applying:
>> the business model canvas
>> best practices of pitching
>> testing and validation techniques
The outcome of your team's work can be a demo, a pitch deck or a prototype - anything that helps you to convey the key aspects of your business model (Why, What, How, for Whom).
Who should attend?
>> Seasoned professionals
>> Rookies
>> Students
from within or outside the film industry
Whether your big love is big data, artificial intelligence or the blockchain, whether new forms of social interaction such as co-creation, crowd-sourcing or the sharing economy make your heart beat faster, whether you want to disrupt cinema as a collective experience or have a killer idea of how filmmakers can communicate directly with their audiences: the sky is the limit as long as you have a vision, passion and determination.
>> Come with or without an idea and develop solutions for a specific problem, need or business opportunity you have identified.
>> Get your hands dirty, get inspired - and contribute to propelling the film industry into the future!
Why should I join?
>> Apply successful startup tools to the development of your idea
>> Meet like-minded doers, creatives & thinkers
>> Get inspired, get new insights
>> Receive feedback from experts and validation from potential users
>> Tap into Propellor’s international network in film & tech
What do I get?
>> Get a CPH:DOX surprise bag
>> Enjoy great hospitality (meals and drinks provided throughout the event)
>> Spend 2 days with inspiring people in an inspiring location
>> Become part of a community of innovators
>> Catch one of the two cool awards: Peer Award and Mentor Award (accreditations to CPH:DOX, books, vouchers and much more; details coming soon)
Schedule
What are you waiting for?
Facilitators
Daniel Johnsen
Catalyst for change and innovation | Technology advocate
Our amazing facilitator Daniel Johnson will drive the atmosphere to brim with energy. From now on, you'll wish every weekend was a Propellor | Sprinboard weekend.
Mentoring
Highly skilled and experienced mentors with diverse backgrounds in film and tech will help you sharpen and improve your product and your pitch. They will help you move your idea forwards. Benefit of their wisdom!
Dorthea Staun Haldrup Nielsen
Go Grow Startup Accelerator | Programm Manager; Entrepreneur, Advisor, Mentor, Author
Andy Sontag
Experience Designer and Consultant
Tina Ryoon Andersen
IDA, Danish Engineering Association | Development of cross-organizational projects
Johan Vardrup
Journalist & Head Of Communications at Rainmaking Loft CPH
Jana Wolff
European Film Market of the Berlinale | Strategic Initiatives & Partnerships
Klaus Sommer Paulsen
AdventureLAB Strategic Experience Design Studio | CEO Creative Director & Founder
Ane Mandrup
Danish Film Institute | Head of Documentaries
Ben Johnson
Gruvi | Ceo
Niels Hangaard
heapsapp.com | CEO and Co-Founder
Sigrid Dyekjær
Danish Documentary Production | Producer
Mathias Holzmann
UnCommon Carriers and OpenFoodLabs | Co-Founder
Lora Jakobsen
Bixby Peller | Founder and Ceo
Team
Copyright
Since this is a collaborative, co-creative event, the ideas pitched on Sunday night will most likely be very different from the initial pitches on Friday night. The end result will reflect an entire team's creative effort and each team working on an idea will decide together how they treat the topic of ownership. If you are concerned about this, or have questions, please get in touch with us.
But remember: "To me, ideas are worth nothing unless executed. They are just a multiplier. Execution is worth millions." -- Steve Jobs
Details
>> Tickets
In order to attend the Porpellor | Springboard you need to register:
Early Bird Tickets
available at a service charge of 150 DKK / 21 EUR (incl. VAT + fee)
until Sun. 12 Feb 2017
Regular Tickets
available at a service charge of 250 / 33 EUR (incl. VAT + fee)
>> Location
The Propellor Springboard will be hosted by our generous friends at:
The Rainmaking Loft Copenhagen
Danneskiold-Samsøes Allé 41
1434 København K
Denmark
>> Business idea vs. Content idea
During the Propellor | Springboard weekend you will collaboratively develop a business idea for production, distribution or experience of films. This weekend is not dedicated to content, stories, scripts, individual feature films or documentaries.
Resources
Want to know more about the Business Model Canvas?
Questions?
Get in touch if you have any questions related to the event or the Propellor Film Tech Hub. We look forward to hearing from you!
hello@propellorfilmtech.com
Partners
The Propellor | Springboard Copenhagen is brought to you in collaboration with our trailblazing partners:
Would you like to become a partner? Please get in touch.