Fresh off a $50 million investment from venture capital company Andreessen Horowitz and the creation last August of BuzzFeed Motion Pictures, which he heads up as president, BuzzFeed’s Ze Frank (pictured) will deliver a keynote speech at 2015’s Mip Digital Fronts. He will team with producer Michael Shamberg (“Django Unchained,” “Erin Brokovich”), also a BuzzFeed consultant.
Talking Tuesday April 14, Frank and Shamberg will discuss the future of digital Hollywood, tackling the shifts in production/distribution now challenging traditional film and TV models.
They seem ideally placed to do so. Frank joined BuzzFeed, the social focused Web publisher, as exec VP of video in 2012. The creation of BuzzFeed Motion Pictures signaled BuzzFeed’s strategic focus on video content running anywhere from animated GIFs to short- and longform content, including full-length movies. Frank and Shamberg will deliver their vision of the opportunities for moviemaking in a social-digital era at a time when...
Talking Tuesday April 14, Frank and Shamberg will discuss the future of digital Hollywood, tackling the shifts in production/distribution now challenging traditional film and TV models.
They seem ideally placed to do so. Frank joined BuzzFeed, the social focused Web publisher, as exec VP of video in 2012. The creation of BuzzFeed Motion Pictures signaled BuzzFeed’s strategic focus on video content running anywhere from animated GIFs to short- and longform content, including full-length movies. Frank and Shamberg will deliver their vision of the opportunities for moviemaking in a social-digital era at a time when...
- 3/6/2015
- by John Hopewell
- Variety - Film News
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