GoldieBlox, the eight-year-old toy company-turned-media powerhouse that looks to get young girls interested in Steam to close the gender gap in these fields, has announced a slew of new hires.
First, Peter Pergola has joined GoldieBlox as an operating partner, assuming a seat on its board of directors. Pergola is also the founder and principal of investment firm Preface Holdings.
At the same time, digital video vet Melissa Schneider has been named GoldieBlox's chief content officer, where she will be tasked with overseeing content development, production, and platform partnerships. Schneider most recently served as EVP at digital studio New Form, where she built its development slate and production teams from the ground up, while also landing linear deals for two of its properties: Final Space (TBS) and I Ship It (The CW). New Form was acquired by Whistle in Jan. 2019.
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First, Peter Pergola has joined GoldieBlox as an operating partner, assuming a seat on its board of directors. Pergola is also the founder and principal of investment firm Preface Holdings.
At the same time, digital video vet Melissa Schneider has been named GoldieBlox's chief content officer, where she will be tasked with overseeing content development, production, and platform partnerships. Schneider most recently served as EVP at digital studio New Form, where she built its development slate and production teams from the ground up, while also landing linear deals for two of its properties: Final Space (TBS) and I Ship It (The CW). New Form was acquired by Whistle in Jan. 2019.
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- 7/29/2020
- by Geoff Weiss
- Tubefilter.com
In the burgeoning world of festivals that honor achievements in web series and video, the Vancouver Web Fest has emerged as one of the leading destinations for quality web content. Now in its fourth year, the Vancouver-based festival takes place in a city often hailed as the “Hollywood of Canada,” and a popular production destination for film, television, and now web series. The festival will take place March 17-19, 2017, with public screenings, panels from leading industry professionals, and “speed-dating” pitch sessions between creators and developers.
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“Vancouver Web Fest creates an experience that brings people together to discover extraordinary digital series and web content from around the world,” writes Executive Director and Founder Suzette Laqua. “It fosters a welcoming environment that encourages exploration into new formats of storytelling.”
Previous panelists have included New Form Digital...
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“Vancouver Web Fest creates an experience that brings people together to discover extraordinary digital series and web content from around the world,” writes Executive Director and Founder Suzette Laqua. “It fosters a welcoming environment that encourages exploration into new formats of storytelling.”
Previous panelists have included New Form Digital...
- 12/12/2016
- by Jude Dry
- Indiewire
TBS has revealed a first peek for “Final Space,” its new animated TBS series from Conan O’Brien’s production company and creator Olan Rogers. Watch below.
Produced by Conan O’Brien’s Conaco and New Form, “Final Space” is a “serialized intergalactic space saga about an astronaut named Gary and his adorable, planet-destroying friend, Mooncake,” per TBS’ synopsis. The show will chronicle their adventures as they go on a quest to unlock the mystery of “Final Space,” the place where the entire universe ends.
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Rogers and creative partner David Sacks will write the episodes, executive-producing them along with O’Brien, David Kissinger, Larry Sullivan and Jeff Ross of Conaco and Kathleen Grace, Melissa Schneider and Matt Hoklotubbe of New Form.
Rogers first created a seven-minute pilot for “Final Space” as part of New Form’s Incubator 3 Series,...
Produced by Conan O’Brien’s Conaco and New Form, “Final Space” is a “serialized intergalactic space saga about an astronaut named Gary and his adorable, planet-destroying friend, Mooncake,” per TBS’ synopsis. The show will chronicle their adventures as they go on a quest to unlock the mystery of “Final Space,” the place where the entire universe ends.
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Rogers and creative partner David Sacks will write the episodes, executive-producing them along with O’Brien, David Kissinger, Larry Sullivan and Jeff Ross of Conaco and Kathleen Grace, Melissa Schneider and Matt Hoklotubbe of New Form.
Rogers first created a seven-minute pilot for “Final Space” as part of New Form’s Incubator 3 Series,...
- 12/4/2016
- by Liz Calvario
- Indiewire
Turner is taking on the final frontier. TBS has ordered the animated Final Space TV show to series. Indie actor, comedian, and film-maker, Olan Rogers, created the "interstellar comedy." Watch preview, after the jump.Rogers and writing partner, David Sacks, will write all of the episodes. The pair will also executive produce with Conan O'Brien, David Kissinger, Larry Sullivan and Jeff Ross of Conaco and Kathleen Grace, Melissa Schneider and Matt Hoklotubbe of New Form.Read More…...
- 12/3/2016
- by TVSeriesFinale.com
- TVSeriesFinale.com
Grace Connor is the 17-year-old founder of Little G Ice Cream Co. and a culinary sensation in Boston.
The high school senior is churning away at a professional kitchen in Boston in between classes — creating a dozen different varieties of her rich ice cream chock full of unique mix-ins she bakes from scratch.
She started the company in April 2015 and is already in two Boston-area Whole Foods as well as six other groceries in Massachusetts and Connecticut. A contract with Amazon Fresh is in the works and she ships products nationwide from her website littlegicecreamco.com. Her products are flying off freezer shelves.
The high school senior is churning away at a professional kitchen in Boston in between classes — creating a dozen different varieties of her rich ice cream chock full of unique mix-ins she bakes from scratch.
She started the company in April 2015 and is already in two Boston-area Whole Foods as well as six other groceries in Massachusetts and Connecticut. A contract with Amazon Fresh is in the works and she ships products nationwide from her website littlegicecreamco.com. Her products are flying off freezer shelves.
- 10/26/2016
- by erinhilltimeinc
- PEOPLE.com
“We all need to be someone’s Margaret Cho,” said Anna Akana, in a speech she delivered accepting an award celebrating Asians in entertainment.
Akana cited Cho’s career as the inspiration behind her own impressive one as actress, comedian, writer and producer — which all stems from her 1.5 million YouTube subscribers. “It is all thanks to seeing that one face on the screen that looked like mine.”
“The most you can do is try to affect change in the work you create,” Akana told IndieWire at VidCon last month. “We all have to band together and start demanding those changes.”
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Akana is proud to say that “Miss 2059” — the short form web series she developed with New Form Digital for Go90 — features only one white male actor. “Almost every person on screen is a person of color.
Akana cited Cho’s career as the inspiration behind her own impressive one as actress, comedian, writer and producer — which all stems from her 1.5 million YouTube subscribers. “It is all thanks to seeing that one face on the screen that looked like mine.”
“The most you can do is try to affect change in the work you create,” Akana told IndieWire at VidCon last month. “We all have to band together and start demanding those changes.”
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Akana is proud to say that “Miss 2059” — the short form web series she developed with New Form Digital for Go90 — features only one white male actor. “Almost every person on screen is a person of color.
- 7/29/2016
- by Jude Dry
- Indiewire
Yahoo! isn’t the only online video destination building a studio in New York City. The home of original web series hits such as Time Magazine’s favorite You Suck at Photoshop, David Wain’s Wainy Days, A.D. Miles’ Horrible People, Josh Gad’s Gigi, and Mary Lynn Rajskub’s Dicki is constructing digs in which it will film a shiny new slate of online programming. Once complete, the My Damn Channel Studio at the Film Center Building in Manhattan’s Hell’s Kitchen will be home to the upcoming My Damn Channel production of My Damn Channel: Live. The program is one of YouTube’s chosen original channels and will consist of daily 10-minute interactive broadcasts in addition to one full 30-minute installment per week. If that shooting schedule sounds ambitious, that’s because it is. A check from YouTube helps to cover the production costs, but you still...
- 12/12/2011
- by Joshua Cohen
- Tubefilter.com
Music videos are perhaps the pinnacle commercial form of video art - forever testing boundaries and pushing cinematic techniques with always-distinctive styles and often obtuse symbolism. The democratization of the means of video production And now the lines of distribution have opened the gates of music video creation to a whole new class of hyper-creative and highly motivated young creators. But, amidst the deafening noise of prolific internet-age creativity, these works of art often go unnoticed in the ether. So, who better to harness the power of this growing community and give these videos a home than the people who championed the music video in the first place with the original launch of MTV. Enter $99 Music Videos. Next New Networks (a new media founded by MTV’s first ever creative director, Fred Seibert) teamed up with Jack Ferry (creator of viral comedy award-winning short Knock Knock) and Melissa Schneider (producer...
- 2/20/2009
- by Jamison Tilsner
- Tilzy.tv
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