Gina Keating returns! She is the author of Netflixed: The Epic Battle for America’s Eyeballs and writer of the Business Wars podcast series Netflix vs Blockbuster.

We cover his company ContrlMovie that creates choose your own adventure feature films and his interactive movie LATE SHIFT.

I talk with Denny Unger about how storytelling and technology is evolving for VR. Recently, his game The Gallery — Episode 1: Call of the Starseed won Best Narrative Experience at the Proto Awards.

I talk to Shaked about the business of indie film.

Laura Bernstein and her company are focused on trying to track TV viewers across multiple platforms.

Annie Lukowski & BJ Schwartz are co-owners of the VR production company Vanishing Point based in LA.

http://www.vanishingpointvr.com/#!about/fwydw

I talk to Stephan Paternot about Slated, his tech startup that is changing the world of film financing.

We discuss how tech companies are getting into the high stakes world of original content.

Links

www.simonowens.net

Music from Le Feline

https://soundcloud.com/la-f-line

Takatsu is an award-winning writer of contemporary literary fiction, featured Wattpad author, and kickstarter of the Literary Fiction Network. He pioneered the Japanese “cell phone novel” phenomenon in the English-speaking world, marking a moment in history of a new online literary movement among thousands of young writers and readers globally. The remarkably unique serialized fusion of simple haiku-like poetic technique, visual text flow, multimedia and micro-prose storytelling has re-envisioned technology, youth culture, community and literature. The published print book of the coming-of-age story, “Secondhand Memories”, was released for fans internationally in 2015.

His more recent work includes “Move”, (2013, CPN, Textnovel) a sentimental journey of a struggling musician, and his flagship landmark novel, “Espresso Love” (2014), a dystopian magical-realistic literary fiction journey of spiritual awakening, which satirizes and examines human nature, subjective perception, socio-political systems, digital landscape, capitalist mechanism and consumer culture. It won the Watty’s Award 2014, reached #1 in Science-Fiction, and surpassed a readership of 800,000 in eight months.

Links

Read Espresso Love

http://www.wattpad.com/story/11748510

Song in episode is Pirouette by Made In Heights

https://soundcloud.com/madeinheights/pirouette

Erkki is an internationally renowned media historian and theorist, and also a specialist in the history and aesthetics of media arts. He is one of the founders of an emerging approach to media studies known as media archaeology.

Links

Buy the book Illusions in Motion Media Archaeology of the Moving Panorama and Related Spectacles

http://amzn.to/1T2c4fv

Erkki's website

http://www.erkkihuhtamo.com/

I heard Erkki speak at the AWESOME Transforming Hollywood event. I recommend you check it out next year.

http://bit.ly/1BQ79ng

Charles Urban

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Urban

Media scholar Raymond Williams

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raymond_Williams

Telematic Dreaming by Paul Sermon

https://vimeo.com/44862244

Cave interface

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cave_automatic_virtual_environment

Song in episode is Pirouette by Made In Heights

https://soundcloud.com/madeinheights/pirouette