Trailblazing blockchain solutions

If you’re looking to find out more about the benefits of blockchain for the creative industries you won’t go too far wrong by talking to Kim Jackson. Her career includes working with Steven Spielberg (on Munich) and Spike Lee (on Inside Man), founding Streetwise Pictures and being the driving force behind independent films such as Children of God and Gunhill Road.

But Jackson’s focus is now firmly on helping filmmakers (and other creatives) to fundraise, develop and distribute content via the blockchain entertainment studio SingularDTV, which she co-founded.

“Blockchain has become quite a buzzword in the last three years, especially in the technology arenas and it’s starting to spill out into more mainstream media,” says Jackson. “As technology solutions evolve, blockchain has become a popular topic in conversation.

“Our company is combining some of the entertainment industry processes on to blockchain technology,” she continues. “So, whenever there’s that media conversation it seems that somebody from SingularDTV seems to be on hand. We’ve been in this space for about three-and-a-half or four years now and, believe it or not, that’s considered early. It’s still a very young time for this next dimension of web technologies and we’re happy to be one of the leaders in this particular arena right now.”

Over the past couple of years SingularDTV’s team has been building applications that Jackson claims, “aim to address some of the ‘pain points’ that exist in entertainment distribution, finance – basically rights revenue and royalty management.

”It’s early days for this technology so there aren’t a lot of applications, besides currency applications. We’re going in to our beta launch in about four months, so we’ll be one if the first applications to launch…