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Launched in 2018 as part of a San Sebastián Festival initiative to become a hub for fast-tracking new tech film-tv initiatives, this year’s expanded edition of the Zinemaldia & Technology event, the Zinemaldia Start Up Challenge, awarded three prizes on Thursday for the best Spanish, best entrepreneurial and best European projects after a morning of pitching.
Best Spanish project went to the innovative music app Motmo.pro from Bruno de Zabala and Janire Vázquez. Entrepreneurial Project prize was won by Mine S. from Riccardo Belingheri, and Massimiliano Moioli from Italy. Both projects receive 10,000.
The Spanish brother and sister team, Teresa Benítez Martínez and Francisco Benítez Martínez, took home €3,000 for best European project for kino_greentoken.
“We realized there was nothing showing the carbon footprint on set and developed this project to solve the problem,” Francisco Benitez Martinez told Variety. “We are thrilled to receive this award.”
“We are delighted by winning the Zinemaldia Startup Challenge.
Best Spanish project went to the innovative music app Motmo.pro from Bruno de Zabala and Janire Vázquez. Entrepreneurial Project prize was won by Mine S. from Riccardo Belingheri, and Massimiliano Moioli from Italy. Both projects receive 10,000.
The Spanish brother and sister team, Teresa Benítez Martínez and Francisco Benítez Martínez, took home €3,000 for best European project for kino_greentoken.
“We realized there was nothing showing the carbon footprint on set and developed this project to solve the problem,” Francisco Benitez Martinez told Variety. “We are thrilled to receive this award.”
“We are delighted by winning the Zinemaldia Startup Challenge.
- 9/23/2022
- by Liza Foreman
- Variety Film + TV
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During a packed day of events at the Zinemaldia Startup Challenge in San Sebastián on Thursday, 10 finalists, narrowed down from 55 submissions this year, went head-to-head in live pitching sessions at this competition designed to foster forward-looking initiatives in the tech and film-tv space.
Variety caught up with Daniel Karpantschof from Copenhagen Industries for the project Violette, which is looking to provide a 100 safe alternative for cast and crew to use firearms on sets.
What’s your background?
I’m an artist and entrepreneur and the co-founder and CEO of Copenhagen Industries. I used to do project/script development at Zentropa, and then moved over to production, and left for the U.S., where I, among other things, served on President Obama’s Council of Experts for Entrepreneurship, and The Economist Group Ideas Lab. I moved back to Copenhagen to found Copenhagen Industries with an old friend, who’s done special effects and pyrotechnics for 20 years.
Variety caught up with Daniel Karpantschof from Copenhagen Industries for the project Violette, which is looking to provide a 100 safe alternative for cast and crew to use firearms on sets.
What’s your background?
I’m an artist and entrepreneur and the co-founder and CEO of Copenhagen Industries. I used to do project/script development at Zentropa, and then moved over to production, and left for the U.S., where I, among other things, served on President Obama’s Council of Experts for Entrepreneurship, and The Economist Group Ideas Lab. I moved back to Copenhagen to found Copenhagen Industries with an old friend, who’s done special effects and pyrotechnics for 20 years.
- 9/23/2022
- by Lise Pedersen
- Variety Film + TV
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