POWER TO THE PIXEL is a not for profit company that provides the independent film community with the latest in depth information and knowledge about new opportunities available in the transforming digital media landscape.

Power to the Pixel runs cutting-edge forums and educational events with leading international experts, and provides a unique consultancy service to film and media companies, filmmakers and organisations from around the world about the new opportunities available to independents with the digitisation of media.

On the site we’ll going to writing about how new technologies are transforming the way that films are reaching audiences and the way that filmmakers are making new work. We’ll mostly focus on new opportunities for the independent and specialist film community.

The site will include :

• the latest news and stories from around the world about emerging resources and platforms that could benefit the independent film and video community
• cutting edge business models for independent films
• new ideas on finance, promotion and distribution
• case studies about new distribution stories
• innovative film and video projects and new forms of storytelling
• how to achieve sustainability in the new digital era
• links to key visionaries from around the world
• videos of Power to the Pixel events and related events

LIZ ROSENTHAL

FOUNDER & DIRECTOR

An early advocate and pioneer of digital filmmaking and distribution, Liz advises international media companies, film financing organisations, filmmakers and film festivals about using cutting edge distribution techniques and new business models for independent film. She has recently become the digital distirbution advisor to the UK Film Council.

She is the Founder and Director of Power the Pixel an organisation that provides the film community with in the latest in depth knowledge about the changes that are transforming the film business; it informs about new distribution and finance models, creative innovations, digital tools and resources. PTP organises The Digital Distribution and Film Innovation Forum during London Film Festival, connecting the UK film industry with key innovators of the digital revolution, pioneering new distribution and finance models.

Liz was the Programme Director of Digimart’s Global Digital Distribution Summit in Montréal a highly acclaimed 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 invited regularly 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, 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 is 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, 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)