IndieFlix is excited to announce an upcoming event from our friend Lance Weiler and the WorkBook Project (WBP). Lance founded the open source WBP a few years ago to support independent creative minds and their projects, and in 2007 he introduced the roving conference series DIY Days to the WBP’s many fans.
Lance Weiler and Slamdance Film Festival founder Dan Mirvish at DIY Days LA (November 2009)
DIY Days asks, “How do we sustain ourselves as storytellers in this day of shifting distribution systems? How do we monetize our work and get the word out?” To answer these questions, transmedia innovators from around the world collect in different cities for free day-long conferences covering topics from developing transmedia storyworlds to creating a mobile application to geolocational storytelling.
On Saturday, April 3, DIY Days goes to New York City, and its speaker list is a veritable roll call of some of the most forward-thinking film and media artists working today. Ted Hope (producer of over 60 films, including 21 Grams and Adventureland) will join Cyndi Stivers (founding editor of Time Out NY, managing editor of EW.com), Brian Newman (former CEO of the Tribeca Film Institute, founder of Springboard Media), WBP and DIY Days’ founder Lance Weiler, groundbreaking audio/video DJs Eclectic Method, and over a dozen other transmedia superstars and artistic entrepreneurs to provide free advice on starting and sustaining an independent media endeavor.
In addition to the usual presentations, panels, and workshops, this DIY Days premieres INCUBATOR, an innovative contest for media startups. Two selected startups will have a session with a think tank of experts (legal, funding, biz dev, branding, design, tech dev) and create a presentation for the day’s end. The company with the better presentation wins a startup package to help get them off the ground.
DIY Days NYC is free, but space is limited, so register now. The program runs from 9:30am to 8pm (including registration and after-party/mixer) at the New School: 66 West 12th Street, Manhattan, New York.
Tags: DIY Days, Workbook Project
