Advisory board - Liz Rosenthal
Liz is the Founder and Director of Power to the Pixel, a not for profit company that provides the independent film community with the latest in depth information and knowledge about new opportunities available in the transforming digital media landscape. Power to the Pixel organises The Digital Distribution Forum for Independents during London Film Festival, connecting the film industry with key innovators of the digital revolution, pioneering new distribution and finance models.
Liz is an early advocate and pioneer of digital filmmaking and distribution, Liz consults for media companies, film financing organisations, filmmakers and film festivals about new production, financing and distribution strategies for independent film.
Liz was the Programme Director of Digimart's Global Digital Distribution Summit, in Montréal, an event that brought together for the first time ever leading filmmakers, innovators and digital pioneers from around the world, who are building new distribution models.
She is a regular speaker at international conferences, film festivals and film training events such as Berlin, Cannes, Rotterdam, Edinburgh, Screen International, EAVE, The Media Business School in Ronda and BAFTA.
She is also the founder of Earthly Delights Films, a production company that develops independent media projects. She is one of the producers of feature film The Trouble With Men and Women which was released in the US last summer through The Independent Film Channel and is currently launching an online animation project, Marsipan.
Liz set up and ran the UK office from 1998 to 2002, of Next Wave Films, a Santa Monica based company of the Independent Film Channel US. Next Wave Films was a pioneer in the production, finance and sales of ultra low budget features and digital films. The company helped launch the careers of filmmakers such as Christopher Nolan and financed digital features through its production arm Agenda 2000.