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Transmedia Dockside Chat: Reports from the Avantgarde of Storytelling.
Moderator: Suzanne Stefanac, Transmedia Maverick, Former Director, AFI Digital Content Lab
Flint Dille, Novelist, Screenwriter, Game Creator, Franchise Master, Transmedia Pioneer
Keith Tralins, Creator, MegaGigaOmniCorp, Inc.  http://megagigaomnicorp.com/
Miles Beckett, Co-Founder & CEO, EQAL  http://www.eqal.com/
David Gale, EVP, New Media, MTV Networks http://www.mtv.com/
Sarah Passe, Business Development, CAA  http://www.caa.com/

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Flint Dille, Novelist, Screenwriter, Game Creator, Franchise Master, Transmedia Pioneer



Flint Dille is a living embodiment of Transmedia. His career started by turning toys into TV Shows with G1 Transformers, G.I. Joe, Inhumanoids and Visionaries. He has designed games with Gary Gygax and written movies for Steven Spielberg. Flint has sold game design documents as feature films (Venom: Dimension 2006) and Agent In Place (Lionsgate 2010). He created the ‘Comics Module’ for TSR, a comic book that contained both roleplaying and tabletop gaming content way before Transmedia (soon to be re-

published by Cryptozoic). His Agent 13 novels, are in feature film development. Flint directed the Interactive Movie Terror T.R.A.X., Track of the Vampyre which became a television pilot for Fox as well as Dragonstrike, one of the first hybrid film projects.

Flint has, himself, become a Transmedia character. Frank Miller immortalized him as Dillios (Spartan-ization of Dille), the narrator in 300. Gary Gygax made him a Barbarian named ‘Chert’ (in geology a low grade of flint). And nobody knows whether Flint from G.I. Joe was named for Flint, but Mr. Dille certainly elevated the Warrant Officer’s career.

Flint has twice won 'Game Script of the Year' (Riddick: Escape from Butcher Bay (with JZP) and Dead to Rights and was nominated for Ghostbusters and Dark Athena. He has worked on crown jewel

franchises including James Bond, Mission: Impossible, Tiny Toons, Batman: Rise of Sin Tsu (Guiness Book of Videogame Records for creating the first Batman villain outside of the comics) and also adapted as a novel, Superman, Dungeons & Dragons, Teen Titans and Scooby-Doo.

He has a degree in Ancient History from U.C. Berkeley and an MFA from USC. Currently, Flint is teaching a class on Alternate Reality Games at UCLA. His follow up book to The Ultimate Guide to Video Game Writing and Design is about Transmedia.

Keith Tralins, Creator, MegaGigaOmniCorp, Inc.  http://megagigaomnicorp.com/



MegaGigaOmniCorp, Inc. lives in the gray area where filmed entertainment, gaming and technology intersect. Keith designed the board games for "Lost", "Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland" and the "Twilight" saga, which won the 2010 LIMA Award. Keith has also served as Vice President, Production & Technology at Fox Interactive Media; Executive Producer of Oscar.com; and Senior Producer at ABC.com, where he created the "'Alias' Online Adventure" ARG. Keith got his start in Transmedia at Universal Music Group's eLabs, where he created silly fake infomercials based on albums. Keith is currently working on several Transmedia properties, and MegaGigaOmniCorp's next game will be published this summer.

Miles Beckett, Co-Founder & CEO, EQAL  http://www.eqal.com/

Miles Beckett is the Co-Founder and CEO of the social entertainment company, EQAL, and is the Co-

Creator and Executive Producer of the web series lonelygirl15, KateModern, and Harpers Globe. After

graduating from medical school and entering a plastic surgery residency, Miles came up with the idea

of posting a serialized drama on the internet and along with Mesh Flinders and Greg Goodfried, created

lonelygirl15 in the summer of 2006. Miles and Greg followed this success by launching KateModern in the

summer of 2007 and forming EQAL to build, manage, and monetize communities around premium brands

and individuals. lonelygirl15 and KateModern became pop culture phenomena, and are the most popular

online interactive shows, collectively receiving over 400 million views to date.

Miles holds a B.S. in Neuroscience from the University of California at Berkley and an M.D. from the

University of California at San Diego. He completed an internship year in the Integrated Plastic Surgery

residency program at Loma Linda University Medical Center and one year of tissue engineering research

at the National Institute of Health as a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Research Scholar. He was the

founder and co-editor of "The Pulse," a UCSD Medical School newsletter and "The Inhuman Condition,"

a UCSD Medical School underground comedy newsletter as well as the Design Editor and staff writer

for "The Heuristic Squelch," the UC Berkeley humor magazine. Prior to forming EQAL, Miles was

the Founder and CEO of SHOUTBOY, a comedy video podcast website and the Writer/Director of the

political spoof, "West Wingers."

As an expert on the convergence of entertainment and technology and online video, Miles has been a

speaker on panels throughout Europe, Australia and across the US and Canada, and was a co-host of Mixed

Media, a live streaming web show on NowLive.

David Gale, EVP, New Media, MTV Networks

David Gale is Executive Vice President of New Media at MTV. In this position Gale oversees the development and production of original content for new media platforms. The division is responsible for creating innovative ways to meld new technologies and platforms, storytelling, social networking and traditional media and to incubate talent and ideas for the “next generation” audience.

Prior to starting MTV New Media, Gale launched and was Executive Vice President of MTV Films. For over a decade, Gale oversaw the activities of this movie label, with a slate of films that grossed more than a billion dollars in box office, opened 7 movies to #1 in their opening weekends and had numerous awards (including 5 Academy Award nominations). Films released under the MTV banner (many of which Gale personally produced or executive produced) included Election, Save The Last Dance, Beavis and Butt-Head Do America, Varsity Blues, Blades of Glory, jackass the movie and jackass number 2, The Longest Yard, Coach Carter, Hustle and Flow, Murderball, Tupac: Resurrection and Napoleon Dynamite.

Gale’s also served as President of the production company for Gale Anne Hurd (producer of the Terminator movies, Aliens, The Hulk, and Armageddon), Senior Vice President of Ridley Scott’s feature film company, and as Vice President of Business Affairs at International Creative Management. He started his career as an attorney in New York, first at Shearman and Sterling and then as an entertainment attorney at the boutique entertainment firm of Beldock, Levine and Hoffman. He graduated from Stanford University and received a law degree from NYU.

Gale is founder and chairman of the non-profit organization Hollywood HEART (www.hollywoodheart.org), which runs a camping program for children affected by AIDS and a film workshop program for at risk children. The charity sponsors its programs throughout the United States and internationally.

Sarah Passe, Business Development, CAA  http://www.caa.com/

Sarah Passe is a Business Development Agent at Creative Artists Agency (CAA), the leading entertainment and sports agency.  In this role, Passe works with colleagues across the agency to identify and create opportunities within the emerging digital media marketplace for CAA clients.  Passe has helped establish new revenue models and negotiate cross-platform distribution for digital media projects, in addition to developing opportunities for corporate brands to connect with consumers in new and effective ways through original content.  Passe has created direct relationships for a multitude of Fortune 100 brands, with such high-profile content creators as Zooey Deschanel, Broadway Video, Jonas Brothers and Seth Green, among others.

Prior to joining CAA, Passe was Digital Content Development Manager at Digitas, a digital advertising agency firm based in New York City. 

In his spare time, Passe enjoys exploring her recently adopted home-town of Los Angeles.

Photos from the spring panel

Digital Hollywood Content Summit VII - Wednesday, May 4, 2011 - TRANSMEDIA SUMMIT