Producers' Guild of America, ToH wins excellence award, ReelSurfer

It's again been a little while since I blogged, so I wanted to share a few updates:

Producers Guild of America: Just this week I got an email inviting me to join the Producers' Guild of America. After a vetting process that took roughly three months, I learned that I am accepted to join the New Media Council. If their first monthly meeting is any indication, it's one of the most intimate and best organized gatherings I've been to. Excited about contributing to and being a part of this amazing group!


ReelSurfer: I also recently accepted an offer to join the ReelSurfer board as independent director. ReelSurfer takes user interaction with media to the next level, and combines speech to text with information from subtitles or closed captioning to provide a truly unique video search experience. USC Film School has been an early adopter, and it's an honor to work with the founders Neil Joglekar and Christian Yang as it is to leverage advisors like Bill Fay of Legendary Pictures and Carl Rosendahl of PDI/Dreamworks to build the company and its products. Read a recent conversation Mike Bonifer and I had as part of the ReelSurfer newsletter regarding current and future trends in media discovery and consumption.

ToH wins at Honolulu International Festival: Tapestries of Hope won its first award - an 'excellence in filmmaking' award at the 2009 Honolulu International Film Festival. The documentary is currently in post-production. Follow the project through its Facebook fan page. Also, a big round of applause to the Stanford Global Entrepreneurial Marketing class team who volunteered to spruce up our web presence this quarter. Thanks guys!

Love to hear what you're upto and look forward to sharing more news in the coming weeks and months. Oh, and if you'd like to stay on top of these projects, follow Michaelene Risley (ToH's director) and ReelSurfer on Twitter.