XMediaLab: Global Media Ideas is featured in this months edition of Verve - India's leading fashion and style magazine. The timing is perfect given our hosting of Leena Jaisani, Director of Entertainment of the Federation of Indian Chamber's of Commerce last week. XML bought Leena to Australia to explore Australia being the partner country for ...

by: Keith Barclay Screen Hub, Friday 6 August, 2010 All the international swagger at the Film X-tended session is for big players, right? No, claimed all the imported participants, as recorded by the assiduous Keith Barclay, as he ends his coverage of the event. One of the concerns of inviting international mentors to events such as X Media Lab is the scalability of their experience, ideas and advice. Many of the speakers and...

by: Keith Barclay   Screen Hub, Wednesday 4 August, 2010   After Hoodlum and Christy Dena, Keith Barclay pushed his weary fingers to take copious notes of The Feds Lisa Gray, games developer Morgan Jaffit and Radical Love's Jarod Green.   Jarod Green spoke not about Radical Love, but of his other company Handsomity (the name seemed like a good idea at the time, he admitted). Offering a case study of one project...

World renowned film director, Shekhar Kapur has agreed to be an Ambassador for the bid to have Australia as a Partner Country at FICCI-FRAMES, Indias biggest business of entertainment industry event in 2011. X

by: Keith Barclay Screen Hub, Friday 30 July, 2010 XMediaLab returned to Australia for the second time in a few weeks, this time to Melbourne for Film X-tended, addressing the dos, don'ts and maybes of creating transmedia strategies around linear properties. Ten speakers in three sessions, plus a 90 minute masterclass by Starlight Runner's Jeff Gomez, crammed plenty of information, opinion and perspectives into Wednesday's sold out conference day at ACMI. Many points, offered...

by: Keith Barclay Screen Hub, Monday 2 August, 2010 As transmedia emerges as a key opportunity in the screen production process, some significant Australian players (think Hoodies) reveal an engaging mix of cynicism and energy. Keith Barclay kept track, in a two part series. Hoodlums Nathan Mayfield, The Feds' Lisa Gray, Universe Creation's Christy Dena, games developer Morgan Jaffit and Radical Love's Jarod Green offered differing perspectives, differing experiences...