BSAC Film, TV and Games Conference 2016

The BSAC Film, TV and Games Conference, sponsored by Time Warner, took place on 19 April 2016.

Sessions over the day included:

• Keynotes: Ben McOwen Wilson (YouTube); and Amanda Nevill (BFI)
• Sessions on: Virtual Reality, Dave Ranyard in conversation with Jo Twist; The Man in the High Castle, with Steward MacKinnon (Headline Pictures); and Total War, with Tim Heaton (Creative Assembly)
• Panels: on the UK Audiovisual Industries’ Competitiveness, featuring Martin Baker (Channel 4), Noirin Carmody (Revolution Games), Allan Niblo (Vertigo Films) and Sir William Sargent (Framestore); examining the potential of The Blockchain, with Cliff Fluet (Lewis Silkin), Oliver N Oram (Chainvine) and Benji Rogers (PledgeMusic); and about The Pursuit of Youth, introduced by Gill Hind (Enders Analysis) and featuring Dan’l Hewitt (Maker Studios), Stuart Saw (Twitch), Claire Tavernier and Mimi Turner (LADbible group)
• The publication of the annual BSAC UK Movie Market Update, accompanied by a complementary presentation from IHS.

Copies of the Agenda (link) and Speaker Biographies (link) have been published on the BSAC website.

The BSAC UK Movie Market Update can be downloaded here.

Following this event, a Business Briefing on the Blockchain was produced and can be downloaded here.

Thanks to the support of Time Warner, this was a free event for BSAC’s Membership and an invited audience.