FilmDoo CEO Weerada Sucharitkul speaking at Venice Film Festival on VOD Market Day 2020 (Venice Production Bridge) - Filmed 4th September 2020

Premium VOD isn’t exactly new (remember Tower Heist in 2011?) but this year’s lockdown may have accelerated a growing trend amongst film studios and content owners to test simultaneous cinema / OTT release or even go VOD-first. NBCUniversal’s Trolls World Tour, for example, has reportedly generated D2C sales of over $100m; AMC – the owner of Odeon Cinemas in the UK – has agreed that Universal films can stream on digital services after just 17 days of viewing in theatres and just last week, Disney announced that its Mulan remake would go straight to Disney+ in some markets for a rental price of $29.99. During this week’s episode of OTT Question Time (Thursday 13 August, 4pm UK) we talked all things PVOD and asked: -- If this is just the latest round of experimentation by the major studios, driven by circumstance and necessity, or whether a new premium OTT tier is here to stay -- How big of a bite D2C could take from box office revenues -- The strategic considerations behind going direct-to-consumer -- Whether this is the end of traditional pay windows -- And the knock-on effects PVOD has, if any, to gaining awards like the Oscars Joining us on the panel for OTTQT were Kerensa Samanidis, founder of M&E Digital Consulting and formerly a senior exec at Warner, Acorn TV and the British Film Institute, Weerada Sucharitkul, CEO and co-founder of Filmdoo, the independent VOD service, and Alan Wolk, Lead Analyst at TVREV.

For the third episode of ▶▶Fast Forward, we are joined by Weerada Sucharitkul, an international entrepreneur building new, democratic models for film distribution and education. Weerada is the CEO of FilmDoo, a platform using innovative technologies to bridge film content with edtech. Having lived in eleven countries across five continents, Weerada launched FilmDoo to bring together the three things she’s most passionate about: cinema, travelling and entrepreneurship. Today, FilmDoo is a global media company helping people to discover and watch great films, including hard to find award-winning shorts and documentaries. With a catalogue of over 2,700 films from over 80 countries, FilmDoo is a global leader in promoting diversity and helping under-represented stories around the world to get seen and heard. The talk will be followed by a Q&A moderated by AC Coppens, CEO/Founder of The Catalysts. See notes and further resources here: https://www.catalysts.agency/webcast/weerada-sucharitkul

FilmDoo is helping people to discover and watch great films, including hard to find award-winning shorts and documentaries. The company promotes a variety of cultures and languages and is today one of the world's leading platforms on Diversity films, helping under-represented stories around the world to get seen and heard. Most recently, FilmDoo launched an edutainment platform helping people to learn languages and explore cultures through films. Learn more about our journey and exciting plans for the future from our CEO and co-founder, Weerada Sucharitkul's speech at the MediaTech Hub Conference 2019. www.filmdoo.com Full talks and panel here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nsozHgMe2B4

Weerada Sucharitkul is the cofounder of FilmDoo. Having lived in eleven countries across five continents, Weerada launched FilmDoo to reflect the three things she’s most passionate about: films, travelling and entrepreneurship. She has over years of experience across digital strategy and innovation. Weerada has spoken extensively on digital distribution at international film festivals including Cannes, Edinburgh and Thessaloniki. Weerada previously studied at Judge Business School, University of Cambridge. FilmDoo is a global media company helping people to discover and watch great films from around the world, through both their own FilmDoo.com platform and their aggregate programme supplying films to third-party platforms and telcos. FilmDoo is also launching an exciting new online edutainment platform to help people learn languages and explore cultures through film, building on their large and rapidly growing film library of over 2,500 films from around the world. More at ouistartmedia.com

Mercredi 7 février 2018 à 13h30. Intervenant : William Page, codirecteur et cofondateur (Royaume-Uni). Une vidéo réalisée par les élèves de l'ARFIS École de Villeurbanne. Wednesday 7th of February 2018 at 1.30pm. Speaker: William Page, co-CEO and co-founder (United Kingdom). A video directed by the students of the ARFIS École from Villeurbanne (France).

Watching a good film is one of life’s most uncomplicated pleasures. Turn on, tune in. But, in the same pursuit, failing to find something you actually want to watch can be a serious frustration. What’s worse is when you know there are options out there to suit your taste, but you just can’t find or access them. These are the problems that our latest Trailblazer, Weerada Sucharitkul of video-on-demand streaming service FilmDoo, is aiming to solve. (https://www.filmdoo.com/)