An early advocate and pioneer of interactive and immersive storytelling, new media business models and audience engagement.
Liz is founder & CEO of Power the Pixel, an organisation helping international media businesses and creatives adapt to stay relevant to digital change and changing audiences. Liz advises international media organisations on innovation strategies and helps creators and businesses to ideate, finance and distribute stories that engage connected audiences. She is an expert in devising innovation-centred development labs and programmes around interactive storytelling and VR.
PttP organised the annual Power to the Pixel: The Cross-Media Forum in association with The BFI London Film Festival over 9 years. This leading industry event connected the media industries with key innovators of the digital revolution, pioneering new models of storytelling, finance and distribution, in a conference, a think tank and the first international dedicated interactive and immersive media marketplace, The Pixel Market. PttP’s other main programme The Pixel Lab, is a leading project-focused business course for developing innovative story projects which has developed over 100 projects.
Liz has advised many international media organisations, including national and regional funds, leading international festivals, production companies and commissioners on innovation strategy, funding programmes and project strategy.
She is currently programmer for Venice International Film Festival's VR competition section and Venice Production Bridge Finance Market.
She set up and ran the UK office for Next Wave Films (a Santa Monica based company of the Independent Film Channel US) from 1998 to 2002. Next Wave Films was a pioneer in the production, finance and sales of low budget features and digital filmmaking. The company helped exceptionally talented filmmakers, from the US and abroad, launch their careers. Their award winning films include Christopher Nolan's Following (Winner: Tiger Award, Rotterdam ’99, Silver Hitchcock, Dinard ’99), Joe Carnahan's Blood, Guts, Bullets & Octane, Kate Davis' Southern Comfort (Grand Jury Prize, Sundance ’01), Amir Bar-Lev's Fighter (Best Documentary, Karlovy Vary ’00), Josh Aronson's Sound and Fury (Grand Jury Prize, Sundance ’00, Academy Award nomination ’01).
