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What We Do

Founded in 2004, The Hollywood Hill provides its entertainment industry members with both speaker-driven educational events and tools that support them in the production of social issue media content.

Our primary focus is supporting innovators in science and technology. We're entering a new century defined by rapid and exponential breakthroughs in science and technology that are handing the human race an unprecedented capability to shape the future of the world. The Hollywood Hill tracks the innovators behind these breakthroughs, invites them to present their work to Hollywood, and then provides tools for the entertainment industry to help develop and deploy their projects into the global marketplace, thus maximizing their impact.

Hollywood has a role to play in supporting these innovators. Not only do we have the largest creative community in the entire world, but a world-class business community capable of providing business strategy, legal, marketing, and financial assistance. Hollywood's thousands of top attorneys, agents, managers, and producers, combined with our diverse and ecletic film, television, and music creative talent are a virtual army of social change agents with a global reach.

Our Digital + Green Command Center, The Catalyst Center (in development), will be The Hollywood Hill's hi-tech command center for speaker-presentations and project activities. The 6,000 sq. ft. building will become a showcase for state-of-the-art digital and green technologies.

Our Events & Conferences keep our entertainment industry members informed on key breakthroughs and marketplace trends. In 2008 we expanded into quarterly conferences, with Wired Magazine becoming our Presenting Sponsor and Yahoo our Lead Sponsor. From there our momentum continued leading us into the launch of our projects division. In addition to science and technology, we host entertainment industry workshops discussing trends within the industry, with particular focus on the impact of technology innovations. And we also publish a Daily Intelligence Report by email keeping members up-to-speed on marketplace innovations on a daily basis.

Our Projects are being developed in partnership with Armchair Revolutionary, a new website start-up focused on engaging the public in innovative social projects supporting science and technology innovators that can shape a positive future. The Hollywood Hill will be providing short-form media support for Armchair's non-media projects as well as project management of Armchair's documentary and games-for-change projects. Our credentialed members will have a chance to volunteer for these assignments and our junior members will have a chance to shadow these experts in our mentorship program.

To assist our members and our organization in packaging all social issue media projects, we are launching SeedGrid.com, a new website that brings the entertainment community together for attaching business and creative talent to social issue media projects.


Advisors

FOUNDING ADVISORS

Lawrence Bender, Producer/Partner, A Band Apart
Mark Canton, Chairman/CEO, Atmosphere Entertainment
Victoria Hopper, Political Consultant
Arianna Huffington, Editor-In-Chief, The Huffington Post
Mike Medavoy, Chairman/CEO, Phoenix Pictures
Larry Winokur, Co-Founder/CEO, BWR Public Relations

STRATEGIC ADVISORS

Callie Khouri, Director/Writer
Scott Ross, Digital Entertainment Pioneer; Founder & Former Chairman/CEO, Digital Domain

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY ADVISORS

Frances Arnold, Founder, Gevo; Dickinson Professor of Chemical Engineering and Biochemistry, CALTECH
Philip Coyle, Senior Advisor, Center for Defense Information
David Howe, Managing Director & COO, Civitas Group
Babak Razi, Founder/Partner, Third Wave Ventures
Alex Steffen, Co-Founder, WorldChanging.com
Jonathan Zittrain, Co-Founder, Berkman Center for Internet & Society, Harvard; Chair, Internet Governance, Oxford
Ethan Zuckerman, Fellow, Berkman Center, Harvard

DOCUMENTARY PROJECT ADVISORS

Lawrence Bender, Film Producer
Scott Z. Burns, Film Writer / Director / Producer
Nadia Conners, Film Writer / Director

GAMES-FOR-CHANGE PROJECT ADVISORS

Susan Bonds, President & CEO, 42 Entertainment
Doug Church, Independent Game Producer
Mark DeLoura, Independent Game Producer
Dave Durnil, Director of Engineering, Software Strategy and Multimedia Ecosystem Group, Qualcomm Inc.
Robin Hunicke, Producer, thatgamecompany
Stone Librande, Creative Director, Maxis (EA); Lead Designer, Spore
Adam Sussman, VP Worldwide Publishing, EA Mobile