Press Release - W1 Platform Chairman Accepting to Speak at AFM Blockchain Conference
Hollywood, California, USA, October 9, 2018
W1 Platform – The Hollywood Blockchain
October. 9, 2018, Dr. Steven Nia, the Chairman of W1 Platform and Wardour Studios, the founder of Hollywood’s first and leading entertainment blockchain ecosystem, was invited to speak at the American Film Market (AFM) Blockchain Conference, which is hosted by The Independent Film & Television Alliance (IFTA). This blockchain conference is the most authoritative non-commercial blockchain conference in the entertainment industry worldwide, and will be held on November 3rd, 2018 in Santa Monica, California, USA.
Dr. Steven Nia, the chairman of W1 Platform - The Hollywood Blockchain, and the chairman of Wardour Studios is invited to speak at AFM Blockchain Conference.
The AFM Blockchain Conference is the most important element at The American Film Market (AFM), the world’s largest motion picture business event, which is organized by the Independent Film & Television Alliance (IFTA). The AFM for 2018 will be held in Santa Monica, USA in November. Nearly 8,000 industry leaders converge in Santa Monica for eight days of deal-making, screenings, conferences, networking and parties. Participants come from more than 80 countries and include acquisition and development executives, agents, attorneys, directors, distributors, festival directors, financiers, film commissioners, producers, writers, the world’s press and all those who provide services to the motion picture industry.
Unlike a film festival, the AFM is a marketplace — with over 200,000 square feet of exhibition and office space — where production and distribution deals are closed. More than US$1 billion in deals will be sealed — on both completed films and those in every stage of development and production.
The forum will focus on the blockchain of the entertainment industry. Dr. Steven Nia, a senior Hollywood filmmaker and blockchain industry expert, will share the characteristics and challenges of the blockchain in the entertainment industry through this forum. He will also explain how producers could use blockchain technology to remove intermediaries, improve film net profit, etc., and other blockchain technologies that are closely related to Hollywood films, TV, VR, AR, Games, Music and other entertainment contents.
(AFM Conference in 2017）
As introduced by the vice president of AFM, the Independent Film & Television Alliance (IFTA) is the global trade association for the independent motion picture and television industry, and the voice and advocate for independents worldwide. IFTA's mission is to provide the independent film and television industry with high-quality market-oriented services and worldwide representation of industry interests.
IFTA is a non-profit organization that represents more than 140 Members from 21 countries consisting of independent production and distribution companies, sales agents, television companies, studio-affiliated companies and institutions engaged in film finance.
Headquartered in Los Angeles, IFTA is dedicated to protecting and strengthening its Members’ ability to finance, produce, market and distribute independent films and television programs in an ever-changing and challenging global marketplace.
For more than 30 years, IFTA Members have produced, distributed and financed many of the world's most prominent films, 22 of which have won an Academy Award for "Best Picture". They have included in recent years, "Spotlight", "12 Years a Slave", "The Artist", "The King's Speech", "The Hurt Locker" and "Slumdog Millionaire".
About W1 Platform™ - The Hollywood Blockchain™
W1 Platform™ - The Hollywood Blockchain™, is an entertainment ecosystem based on the advanced blockchain technology, and Smart Web 3.0 infrastructure. W1 Platform™ is designed to be an ultrafast performance blockchain platform and offers a highly sophisticated decentralized blockchain network for secure and accountable financing, production, and global exploitation of Hollywood films, TV, VR, AR, Games, Music and other entertainment contents.
W1 Platform™ defines a new paradigm in the entertainment industry, enabling a decentralized Hollywood business model with Digital Rights Management (DRM). W1 Platform provides Digital IDs to allow users such as producers, filmmakers, composers, and etc. to secure their property rights and to monetize their contents in the form of Digital Assets. W1 Platform empowers users with peer-to-peer (P2P) connectivity, enabling them to conduct desired transactions based on their designated set of rules, all encoded in smart contracts.
The architecture, design, and business model for W1 Platform™ originated from Hollywood based Wardour Studios. The innovations of W1 Platform and its ultra high speed blockchain network culminate into an ultimate entertainment ecosystem, through which hundreds of millions users may enjoy and monetize movies, 4K content creation and distribution, live streaming of TV, concerts, sports, events, catch-up TV, network recording, viewing, gaming, and VR/AR experience of entertainment contents.
About Wardour Studios
Wardour Studios™ is a state of the art, next generation, film studio, with solid artistic and advanced technology foundation. Wardour Studios is the ultimate digital studio, with expertise in the production and distribution of feature films, TV, visual effects, VR - virtual reality, AR - augmented reality, which is addressing and exploiting the emerging challenges in the global, and specifically in the Hollywood and China entertainment landscape. Wardour Studios continues to grow into a vertically integrated global content platform of increasing diversity, reach and scale. The Company’s portfolio of assets include film and television libraries, a world-class film business and an expanding global distribution footprint.
Wardour Studios™’ management has the mission of creating and evolving a truly next generation film studio, which is emerging as a leading global entertainment company, with a fast growing and diversified presence in the motion picture production and distribution, television programming and syndication, home entertainment, family entertainment, digital online distribution, new channel platforms and international distribution and sales.
About The Independent Film & Television Alliance (IFTA)
The Independent Film & Television Alliance (IFTA) is the global trade association for the independent motion picture and television industry, and the voice and advocate for independents worldwide. IFTA's mission is to provide the independent film and television industry with high-quality market-oriented services and worldwide representation of industry interests.
IFTA is a non-profit organization that represents more than 140 Members from 21 countries consisting of independent production and distribution companies, sales agents, television companies, studio-affiliated companies and institutions engaged in film finance.
Headquartered in Los Angeles, IFTA is dedicated to protecting and strengthening its Members’ ability to finance, produce, market and distribute independent films and television programs in an ever-changing and challenging global marketplace.
For more than 30 years, IFTA Members have produced, distributed and financed many of the world's most prominent films, 22 of which have won an Academy Award for "Best Picture". They have included in recent years, "Spotlight", "12 Years a Slave", "The Artist", "The King's Speech", "The Hurt Locker" and "Slumdog Millionaire".