Jellysmack‘s latest contribution to the creator economy will uplift individuals from underrepresented backgrounds. The self-proclaimed “global creator company” has teamed up with Culture Genesis for a $25 million initiative that will benefit a diverse group of recipients.
The partnership will bring Jellysmack’s catalog licensing deals to the Bipoc artists, podcasters, musicians, and videomakers who work with Culture Genesis. The five-year-old studio is the current owner of the Black-led content brand All Def, which Culture Genesis acquired in a 2019 deal. Other creators on Culture Genesis’ roster of more than 120 partners include rapper Patrick Cloud and comedian Steve Harvey.
In a statement, Culture Genesis Co-Founder Shaun Newsum said that his company’s mission is to “improve the monetization of YouTube content for diverse creators.” In particular, the Jellysmack/Culture Genesis team-up is looking to reverse the influencer pay gap that continues to affect creators of color. A recent study from Group Black...
The partnership will bring Jellysmack’s catalog licensing deals to the Bipoc artists, podcasters, musicians, and videomakers who work with Culture Genesis. The five-year-old studio is the current owner of the Black-led content brand All Def, which Culture Genesis acquired in a 2019 deal. Other creators on Culture Genesis’ roster of more than 120 partners include rapper Patrick Cloud and comedian Steve Harvey.
In a statement, Culture Genesis Co-Founder Shaun Newsum said that his company’s mission is to “improve the monetization of YouTube content for diverse creators.” In particular, the Jellysmack/Culture Genesis team-up is looking to reverse the influencer pay gap that continues to affect creators of color. A recent study from Group Black...
- 6/20/2023
- by Sam Gutelle
- Tubefilter.com
Plus: Los Cabos, Tfi, Gabriel Figueroa, Labodigital renew association; D Films picks up Canadian rights to Oasis doc; and more…
June Pictures will produce and finance The Florida Project from Sean Baker, the writer-director of last year’s acclaimed Indie Spirit best feature nominee (pictured).
The Florida Project centres on a precocious seven-year-old and her friends who enjoy a summer filled with adventure while the adults around them struggle with hard times.
Baker reteams with Chris Bergoch on the screenplay but will not repeat another element of Tangerine and will shoot on 35mm rather than the iPhone.
Production will commence in Florida this summer on the June Pictures, Cre Films, and Freestyle Picture Company project. ICM Partners represents Us rights and cast will be announced shortly.
The Los Cabos Film Festival has renewed its association with the Tribeca Film Institute and Gabriel Figueroa Film Fund and announced on Tuesday that Gaz Alazraki’s Cabos Discovery 2015 project Casi El...
June Pictures will produce and finance The Florida Project from Sean Baker, the writer-director of last year’s acclaimed Indie Spirit best feature nominee (pictured).
The Florida Project centres on a precocious seven-year-old and her friends who enjoy a summer filled with adventure while the adults around them struggle with hard times.
Baker reteams with Chris Bergoch on the screenplay but will not repeat another element of Tangerine and will shoot on 35mm rather than the iPhone.
Production will commence in Florida this summer on the June Pictures, Cre Films, and Freestyle Picture Company project. ICM Partners represents Us rights and cast will be announced shortly.
The Los Cabos Film Festival has renewed its association with the Tribeca Film Institute and Gabriel Figueroa Film Fund and announced on Tuesday that Gaz Alazraki’s Cabos Discovery 2015 project Casi El...
- 4/19/2016
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
Travis Barker is getting extremely candid about that fateful plane crash in his new tell-all book. In a new pre-taped interview with "Good Morning America," Barker reveals how his children, Landon and Alabama, helped him cope with the tragic event. The Blink-182 rocker has been promoting his new memoir, "Can I Say: Living Large, Cheating Death, and Drums, Drums, Drums" all month long, which details Barker's first hand account of what happened during and after the September 19, 2008 plane crash that claimed the lives of both pilots, Travis' security guard and assistant. The drummer spent four months in a burn center after the crash. He was so depressed, that Barker says he tried to pay his friends $1 million to take his life. "I mean, [medical officials] had to take my phone out of my room because I was making these phone calls," the 39-year-old remembered. "I would call friends of mine and go,...
- 10/20/2015
- by tooFab Staff
- TooFab
Read More: Meet the 2015 Tribeca Film Festival Filmmakers Adam Goldstein made a name for himself, most notably as DJ Am but not least for his celebrity connections. He was the first million-dollar deejay in the United States, but his incredibly complex personal life included a long battle with drug addiction. Director Kevin Kerslake tackles Goldstein's story in documentary "As I Am: the Life And Times of DJ Am." What's your film about in 140 characters or less? "As I Am: the Life and Times of DJ Am" covers the mash-up pioneer's meteoric rise to superstardom, a long-running struggle with drug addiction, titanic efforts to help others in recovery, and miraculously surviving a fiery plane crash a little less than a year before his controversial and untimely death in 2009. Now what's it Really about? Portrait of an artist and all his many dark and luminous complexities. Tell us briefly about yourself. I...
- 4/9/2015
- by Elizabeth Logan
- Indiewire
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