Pathway has opened applications to Pathway Indie, its $2.5m in-kind media innovation incubator, as well as announcing that its new Virtual Production (VP) studio will be named the Sir Sydney Samuelson Stage.
The Pathway Indie program will offer creative industry entrepreneurs in-kind investment of Virtual Production stage time and Virtual Art Department services to develop media IP based proof of concepts.
For successful applicants, Pathway Indie will also include industry mentorship to help maximise the start-up business potential of new product ideas for cross-media formats that span the convergence of film, television and video games.
Nathan Newman, Pathway co-founder, said: “Pathway Indie is set-up much like a tech start-up incubator for the creative media industry. In recent years, savvy filmmakers have started to think and behave more like tech start-up founders whose entrepreneurial thinking is underpinned by creative ways of achieving break-out success. Our program is designed to support media innovation with virtual production as a route to unlocking creative concepts that are ultimately more investible and commercially scalable.”
The incubator program has been designed by professionals from the media and entertainment industry for creative media founders, who Pathway believes are the next generation of creative leaders whose work will converge through screen and real-time technologies. The program acknowledges the urgent industry need to support creative start-ups into scale-ups.
