Create & Produce
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Executive Interviews
SMPTE: Transparency and education the keys to managing AI
SMPTE President Renard T. Jenkins calls on artists, lawmakers and the tech community to educate themselves about AI and to do so in sync with each other or fear and misuse will fill the gap.
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Executive Interviews
Euro Meet Olympic qualifiers: upping production standards on a limited budget
Yann Figuet, Partner at FreeLens, explains how the production company deployed the latest tech from Blackmagic Design to up its game in the latest Euro Meet competition.
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Executive Interviews
Q&A: What are the motivations behind AXA IM’s purchase of Elstree studios
AXA IM Alts recently announced it would be making its first investment in the UK’s TV and film studio market with the acquisition of the BBC Elstree Centre in North West London. IBC365 caught up with Stuart Carr-Jones, Head of Transactions for UK at AXA IM Alts, to find out ...
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Executive Interviews
Ross Production Services: innovations in remote production and cloud-based workflows
This year, Ross Video celebrates its 50th anniversary. Not content to rest on its laurels, the company continues to innovate with a set of products and solutions to support the emergence of remote and cloud-based production. IBC365 caught up with CEO David Ross to learn more.
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Executive Interviews
Interview: Eddie Hamilton - Cutting, Cruise and Posting Kit Kats
Every film editor has a different story about how they worked their way up to the cutting room hot seat but all will invariably share a passion for big screen storytelling, a willingness to work very hard for years (often for very little money), a positive enjoyment of working alone ...
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Executive Interviews
Interview: Ralph Lee - Global Storyteller
BBC Studios Productions is the jewel in the crown of the commercial arm of the BBC, making everything from Doctor Who to Dancing With The Stars. Michael Burns speaks to CEO Ralph Lee ahead of his appearance at the IBC2023 Conference.
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Executive Interviews
Interview: Nitin Mittal Talks AI, Content Creation and 5G
Mumbai based ZEE Entertainment Enterprises has grown into a broadcast, digital, movies, and music giant offering its 620 million weekly viewers 48 channels in 11 native languages. George Jarrett spoke to ZEE’s President of Technology Nitin Mittal.
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Executive Interviews
Interview: Ajit Thakur and the Power of ‘Glocal’ Streaming
Ajit Thakur, co-founder of fast-growing Indian OTT service aha, looks forward to an IBC2023 conference session that will explore the company’s future content production and diversification plans.
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Executive Interviews
Interview: Evan Shapiro - Charting Disruption with Graphic Content
Media cartographer, producer, analyst - and iconoclast - Evan Shapiro has been spending the summer in Europe and calls the season “a time of great change”, reports Michael Burns.
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Executive Interviews
From Olympic Rights to 5G and AI, Broadcaster Innovation is Alive and Well
Antonio Arcidiacono, for five years the EBU’s Director of Technology and Innovation, focussed on the massive potential for AI within PSM, new 5G advances, Native IP potency, and the marriage of terrestrial and satellite under a 5G roof, in conversation with George Jarrett.
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Executive Interviews
Tech innovation, people power and the importance of inclusion
On diversity, the root of the issue and how to not stunt its growth, IBC365’s Sheryl Hickey talks to Daniella Weigner, tech company founder and Rise Woman of the Year 2022 for her insights on tech, diversity, inclusion and workforce retention strategies.
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Executive Interviews
Interview: Mohamed Jalal Al Rayssi, Director General, Emirates News Agency
IBC365 speaks with Emirates News Agency (WAM) Director General Mohamed Jalal Al Rayssi on the challenges and future of the media industry ahead of the upcoming Global Media Congress in Abu Dhabi.
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Executive Interviews
On the front line of audio and video storytelling innovation
Self-styled ‘accidental entrepreneur’ Jeff Kofman tells Anne Morris how Trint grew out of the desire to free journalists like himself from mundane tasks such as transcribing interviews, allowing them to focus on the more creative elements of their jobs.
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Executive Interviews
The Rise Up Academy: Helping media technology resolve its skills crisis
As the industry canters towards a rush of new technologies it does so having to resolve a massive shortage of skilled people, plus an embarrassing diversity deficit. The Rise Up Academy is on the front line of these two battles, and it has opened career windows for many primary and ...
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Executive Interviews
Netflix lays off 300 employees after subs drop
Netflix has laid off 300 employees, its second round of job cuts in a matter of weeks.
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Executive Interviews
Euro 2020 interview: Phil Bigwood, BBC
BBC TV Sport executive producer Phil Bigwood tells IBC365 about the “extremely challenging” nature of covering the Euro 2020 tournament.
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Executive Interviews
Interview: Phil Holdgate, ITV Studios
ITV Studios’ recently appointed head of production sustainability Phil Holdgate talks with IBC365 about how the global production giant is seeking to reduce carbon emissions and cut waste on its shows.
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Executive Interviews
Interview: Roy C Anthony, DNEG
With a roving brief to explore the nexus of technology and art, Roy C Anthony is revelling in his new role as global head of research at DNEG.
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Executive Interviews
Interview: Cara Sheppard, Twickenham Studios
After a majorly disrupted 2020, production in the UK looks to be well and truly back on track and Twickenham Studios, led by managing director Cara Sheppard, is keen capitalise.
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Executive Interviews
Interview: Lucy Cooper, Union VFX
IWD: Union VFX managing director and Access VFX and Animated Women board member Lucy Cooper reflects on running a visual effects facility during Covid times, the outlook for VFX, and what more the industry could do to attract and retain diverse talent.