WELCOME TO SCREEN PLAY
Screen Play is the London Games Festival’s conference on the expanding relationship between games and other entertainment industries. We are happy to name its first wave of key international speakers:
- Story Kitchen co-founders Dmitri M Johnson and Mike Goldberg will open the event with a keynote discussion on connecting the worlds of games, film, and television. Story Kitchen is one of the production companies behind the blockbuster adaptation of SEGA’s SONIC THE HEDGEHOG -now a $1bn film franchise- and is also working on bringing forward new adaptations of Square Enix’s JUST CAUSE for Universal, Additionally, Story Kitchen has a Television first-look deal at Amazon MGM Studios as well as an Animated Film first-look deal at DreamWorks Animation. Joining Story Kitchen is Crystal Dynamics. The conversation will be moderated by leading entertainment lawyer Simon Pulman of New York-based Pryor Cashman.
- Amanda Kruse, Head of Business Development at new label Big Fan Games, part of Devolver Digital, will lead a panel that discusses how developers can successfully adapt entertainment IPs into interactive experiences. Other panellists include Cyrille Imbert, CEO of Dotemu, which has worked on a number of acclaimed game revivals including STREETS OF RAGE 4 and TMNT: SHREDDER’S REVENGE.
