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The DUMBO Innovators Meet-Up is a monthly series highlighting innovative companies in DUMBO, Brooklyn. At this lively mixer event, meet your neighbors & experience the vibrancy this community has to offer first-hand.
Free beer will be provided courtesy of Sixpoint Brewery.
Free tacos (first come, first served!) will be provided by:
DUMBO has long been home to individuals & companies with equal parts creativity & business acumen. Each month, we'll be shining a spotlight on the vanguard, cutting edge companies & people who call DUMBO their home. During a brief moderated discussion, industry leaders in storytelling, media, & tech will share their philosophy around innovation: what it means for their company, & how to approach innovation in business as well as in life.
6:30 PM - 7:00 PM: Networking / Free Beer + Tacos!
7:00 PM - 7:30 PM: Q&A discussion with iNK Stories' partners/creators Andres Perez-Duarte & Sam Butin.
7:30 PM - 8:30 PM: Networking / Free Beer + Tacos!
We create exceptional stories across platforms. With a distinctive & award winning pedigree in games, film & immersive, iNK Stories is creating & collaborating in the new wave of original storytelling from traditional to cutting edge formats.
Lauded by Fast Company as Innovation Agents iNK Stories groundbreaking original titles inspire audiences while earning critical success from institutions such as BAFTA, United Nations, Sundance Film Festival, Academy of Interactive Sciences, DICE, GDC, IGF, FoST, SXSW, New York Film Festival, The Game Awards & have been awarded Facebook's Game of the Year, AIS Lumiere Award, Tribeca Film Festival Storyscapes Award, International Mobile Game Awards Winner, IndieCade Jury Prize, IGN's Best of E3, PAX 10 & more.
Originally from Mexico & based in New York City, Andre Perez-Duarte is a partner & creator at iNK Stories, a studio at the intersection of storytelling & film, games, XR. Most recently, iNK Stories received the AIS Lumiere Award & the Storyscapes Jury Award from Tribeca Film Festival 18 for HERO; a location based multi-sensory VR experience that challenges the perception on migration & world's refugees. At the same time, iNK stories has accoladed several awards for the Interactive VR Series; Fire Escape, which is a neo-Hitchcock thriller revolving around the lives of eight New Yorkers & a murder, in gentrified downtown Brooklyn. Andres was a finalist of the first AT&T Untold Stories Initiative in partnership with Tribeca Film Festival, which led to a major Studio optioning his feature film script to be turned into an episodic series. Andres is active in the LGBTQ film community & often speaks on the new frontier of narrative experiences & technology.
Sam Butin is a partner/creator at iNK Stories - a New York City studio that embraces innovation within storytelling. His past work includes the highly acclaimed 1979 Revolution: Black Friday (BAFTA nominee, Facebook's Game of the Year, Sundance, Indiecade), Hero (Winner of Lumiere Award '19, Sundance '18, Winner of Tribeca Film Festival Storyscapes Award '18), & Fire Escape: An Interactive VR Series (Tribeca '18, NYFF, Indiecade, NYC Game Critics Finalist). He contributes to the landscape of technology, story & social impact--with workshops/engagements at institutions including Columbia University, NYU, MIT, & Scholastic.
The DUMBO Improvement District is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization dedicated to enhancing & promoting DUMBO, Brooklyn. The Improvement District showcases DUMBO as a world-class destination, advocating on behalf of DUMBO's businesses, property owners & residents. The organization provides supplemental sanitation services, marketing, economic development, neighborhood programming & long-term planning.
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