Speakers
Zeke Zelker
Zeke Zelker, is a critically acclaimed, award winning filmmaker/entrepreneur with a number of projects to his credit. Zeke recently opened iDreamMachine’s Ideation Studio, a place where he and his peers create cine-experiences, immersive entertainment, and interactive advertising campaigns integrating EAT (Entertainment, Art & Technology). He is developing a feature film project, Billboard an Uncommon Contest for Common People! and teaches Creative Entrepreneurism and transmedia classes at Lehigh University.
What Zeke will be doing at DIY DAYS
Blending & Bending; Throwing the Movie Making Playbook out the Window
With more energy than two electrons colliding, the fiercely independent producers Effie “Hollywood: Brown and Zeke “DIY” Zelker team up to discuss, debate, listen and learn on their two very different approaches to creating cinema. In today’s creative environment producers need to adapt their approach to tell compelling stories that do much more than jump off the screen. Effie and Zeke are in the midst of producing a multi faceted, multi phase project blending and bending the rules between truth and fiction to create in today’s interactive world.
DIY DAYS asks Zeke
What are you currently working on that you’re excited about?
My latest cine-experience, Billboard an Uncommon Contest for Common People! where we’ve been able to devise a way for brands to be integrated into the project every step of the way.
What are some of your favorite sites and / or mobile apps and brief why?
I seem to be using my QR code reader a lot as well as accu weather. As for site, techcrunch.com and venturebeat.com
What are you currently watching, reading or playing?
Reading the bio of Henreitta Lacks and can’t help to think about our digital legacy. Listening to a mixture of classical music, something I’m trying to learn more about, and bands on WTYT960, found some real gems!
For More on Zeke and his work visit
Sites:
http://www.wtyt960.com
http://www.facebook.com/zekezelker
http://www.twitter.com/zekezelker
http://www.zekezelker.com
About Us
DIY DAYS is a roving gathering for those who create. Past stops have included Los Angeles, San Francisco, Boston and Philadelphia. FREE to participants and organized by volunteers – DIY DAYS is about the accessibility of ideas, resources and networking that can enable creators to fund, create, distribute and sustain.
Currently DIY DAYS is held twice a year
Spring - NYC
Fall - LA
Looking for Partners
In 2012 we are looking for partners to bring DIY DAYS to other countries. If you're interested drop us a line.
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