Power to the Pixel supports the film and media industries in their transition to a digital age. The company’s London team has a wealth of experience and expertise across film and cross-media, and is linked to a unique network of the leading thinkers, practitioners and innovators who are developing new business and creative opportunities around the world.
Specialising in new ways for content creators and businesses to create and finance stories and engage with audiences across multiple platforms, Power to the Pixel’s core activities are:
- Providing consultancy to international media organisations, content creators and companies
- Designing innovative in-house company training programmes and bespoke initiatives
- Producing international forums, events and labs centred around cross-media IP and business
- Facilitating the exchange of ideas and the building of international partnerships between media professionals and between industries
This understanding of the challenges and opportunities of digital change means Power to the Pixel is an essential bridge between the visionary, the pioneering and the practical.
The company’s clients and partners include: ARTE; BAFTA; BBH; Berlin Film Festival; BFI; Cannes Film Festival (Marché du Film); EAVE; Edinburgh Film Festival; Nordisk Film & TV Fond; Rotterdam Film Festival; UK Film Council.
LIZ ROSENTHAL
FOUNDER & DIRECTOR
An early advocate and pioneer of digital distribution and filmmaking, Liz is a digital film and media expert. She advises international media companies, film financing organisations, filmmakers and film festivals about using cutting-edge distribution and production techniques and new film business models. Liz has recently been appointed as the Digital Distribution Strategy Advisor to the UK Film Council.
Liz was the Programme Director of Digimart’s Global Digital Distribution Summit, a ground-breaking event that brought together, for the first time ever, leading filmmakers, innovators and digital pioneers from around the world who are building new film distribution models.
She is regularly invited to speak at international conferences, film festivals and leading film schools including Berlin, Cannes, Rotterdam, London and Edinburgh Film Festivals, Screen International Conferences and lectured at EAVE, The Media Business School in Ronda, BAFTA, The National Film and Television School, for Skillset, The ICA and The National Film Theatre in London.
She is also the founder of Earthly Delights Films, a production company that develops independent media projects. She was one of the producers of feature film The Trouble With Men and Women which was released in the US last summer through The Independent Film Channel and is currently launching an online animation project and series, Marsipan.
Liz set up and ran the UK office for Next Wave Films (a Santa Monica-based company of the Independent Film Channel US) from 1998 to 2002. Next Wave Films was a pioneer in the production, finance and sales of ultra low budget features and digital filmmaking. The company helped exceptionally talented filmmakers, from the US and abroad, launch their careers. Their award-winning films include Christopher Nolan’s Following (Winner: Tiger Award, Rotterdam ’99, Silver Hitchcock, Dinard ’99), Joe Carnahan’s Blood, Guts, Bullets & Octane, Kate Davis’ Southern Comfort (Grand Jury Prize, Sundance ’01), David and Laurie Shapiro’s Keep The River On Your Right: A Modern Cannibal Tale (Special Jury Award, Amsterdam ’00), Amir Bar-Lev’s Fighter (Best Documentary, Karlovy Vary ’00), Josh Aronson’s Sound and Fury (Grand Jury Prize, Sundance ’00, Academy Award nomination ’01).
TISHNA MOLLA
PRODUCER
Tishna has been the Producer for Power to the Pixel since its first London Forum in 2007. She has worked across film, tv, publishing and advertising.
She was a Director’s Rep at leading commercials production company Home Corp where she represented UK and international directors’ work to advertising agencies, bringing in national and multi-national campaigns for brands including Glaxo Smith Kline and The Times.
She is producing Dummy Jim with BAFTA Scotland award-winning filmmaker Matt Hulse through her production company, Bandit HQ. The website was commended by the Helen Keller Award, a multi-media art competition which challenges perceptions of deaf blindness through the arts. Other film projects include BAFTA-winner Mark Walker begin_of_the_skype_highlighting end_of_the_skype_highlighting’s first feature Sherwood Caskets, developed through the Cinéfondation, la Résidence in association with the Cannes Film Festival.
From 2006 – 2008 Tishna was a Visiting Tutor on the University of Westminster’s MA Screenwriting & Producing. Between 2002 – 2006 she worked as Development Producer at award-winning independent production company Tall Stories. She was sponsored by UK Film Council to work with Gary Winick’s ground-breaking US production company InDigEnt on Michael Lehmann’s Flakes starring Aaron Stanford & Zooey Deschanel.
Her feature film production credits include Nicolas Roeg’s Puffball (2007); Ntshavheni Wa Luruli’s The Wooden Camera (Winner of the Crystal Bear, Berlin 2004); Christian Taylor/Lindy Heymann’s Showboy (Winner of The Douglas Hickox Award, BIFA 2002).
She was previously a Partner at the film and literary agency Michelle Kass Associates where she established a new client base of directors and writer/directors including Emily Young (Kiss of Life, Veronika Decides to Die) and Stefan Gates (Cooking in the Danger Zone).
Tishna has also worked as a script and manuscript reader for companies including Working Title; Focus Features; Kuhn & Co. (now Qwerty Films) and the BBC. Tishna’s post-production credits as an assistant film and dubbing editor include Jane Campion’s The Portrait of a Lady and BBC Drama Over Here written by John Sullivan.