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The Urbanworld Film Festival, founded in 1997 by Stacy Spikes, is the largest internationally competitive festival of its kind.The five-day festival includes narrative features, documentaries, short films, spotlight screenings and events, live staged screenplay readings, the Urbanworld Digital track focused on digital and social media panels and workshops, and Urbanworld Music, which highlights emerging talent in live performances during after party events. Over the last 18 years, Hollywood studios, indie film distributors, and established and emerging filmmakers have consistently chosen Urbanworld® to premiere box office and award-winning hits. Urbanworld has also provided a platform for some of today`s leading brands seeking to reach key influencers across the industry and within the consumer marketplace. The Urbanworld Film Festival is an initiative of the Urbanworld Foundation Inc., a nonprofit organization that endeavors to consistently manifest its mission of redefining and advancing the presence and impact of the multicultural community in cinema and cross-platform media. By implementing initiatives that actively support and develop content creators of color, Urbanworld significantly contributes to the evolution of the media and entertainment landscape and the diversity that it reflects. Gabrielle Glore serves as Festival Director & Head of Programming for Urbanworld.
CPU: Computer Power User is a Lincoln, NE-based company in the Media and Entertainment sector.
Heyzap is changing the way we discover apps. We`re closing the doors to yesterday`s mobile ad experience and introducing the world to our machine-learning algorithms and elegant design. We work with thousands of mobile game studios, from well-established producers (King, Kabam, Spotify, PocketGems, TinyCo) to indie devs, mobile developers around the world use Heyzap Ads to grow and monetize their apps. Our office, in San Francisco`s Financial District, is in the middle of a new mobile gaming epicenter. We are backed by Union Square Ventures, Chris Dixon, Naval Ravikant and Qualcomm Ventures.
Wheat City Journal is a Brandon, MB-based company in the Media & Entertainment sector.
New England Cable News (NECN) is the largest 24-hour regional news network in the country, specializing in long-form journalism and serving more than 3.6 million subscribers in more than 1,050 cities and towns in all six New England states. Launched on March 2, 1992, NECN is owned by Comcast Corporation. NECN is available exclusively to New England cable subscribers, providing 24-hour access to breaking news, sports, weather, and traffic. NECN serves all six New England states including Rhode Island where it is available on the Verizon FiOS network. The network broadcasts from its studios in Newton, Massachusetts and maintains bureaus in Manchester, New Hampshire; Hartford, Connecticut; Worcester, Massachusetts; Portland, Maine; and Burlington, Vermont. NECN is distinguished as a leader in the industry, having received several awards for broadcast journalism excellence. NECN is the only cable television news station to earn a George Foster Peabody Award and the Alfred I. duPont - Columbia University Broadcast Journalism Award. The news channel was twice named News Station of the Year by the Associated Press, and was named Television Station of the Year by the Gabriel Awards three times, twice consecutively. Other honors include a Scripps Howard National Journalism Award, and most recently, a National Edward R. Murrow Award for the station's documentary work.