[NEW YORK, NY, March 2019—] Breaker and Screen International have announced their joint venture conference series SCREENBREAKER, a worldwide series of conferences in NYC, London, Toronto, Los Angeles and Hong Kong. Screenbreaker brings the blockchain and entertainment worlds together to discover the new prospects of blockchain in entertainment.

The conference will explore the entertainment industries that are being disrupted by this new technology including music, film, media and gaming.

The first event, Screenbreaker NYC, is happening on April 26th-27th at The Mezzanine (55 Broadway, New York, NY 10006). Event attendees can expect to meet with over 300 plus likeminded individuals and exhibitors in a series of networking opportunities. Screenbreaker NYC offers you the opportunity to engage with prominent speakers and thought leaders in Q&A sessions after each panel. These panels, fireside chats, keynotes will explore subjects such as:

- Jobs of the Future
- Decentralization & Tokenization Models
- Significance of Festivals and Awards Ceremonies in a Rapidly Evolving World
- Blockchain and The Law
- Rights, Royalties and Revenues on the Blockchain
- Whitepapers and DIY Marketing
- Innovation in the Arts
- Who to Trust: Media and Influencers?
- Transparency for the Music Industry
- New Dawn for Artists, Creators and Fans
- Gaming on the Blockchain
- Blockchain Changing the World
- Keynotes by Breaker Co-Founders, Kim Jackson and Zach LeBeau

Confirmed speakers include: Journalist Paul Vigna of Wall Street Journal; producer Geoff Clark from Futurism; producer and Breaker’s President of Entertainment Kim Jackson; Founder Aaron Stuart from jobs.com; director of ANTARCTICA Keith Bearden; director of DETAINED Khushnuda Shurukowa; Creative Crypto’s Director of Operations Michael Lee of Creative Crypto; Breakermag’s Editor-in-Chief Ben Schiller; Screen International’s America’s editor Jeremy Kay; Co-Founder of Snark Art Fanny Lakoubay of Snark Art and Breaker’s CEO Zach LeBeau. Additional speakers will be announced through social media on a bi-weekly basis, up to the launch of the event.

The conference will also showcase films by Alex Winter (TRUST MACHINE), Eddie Alcazar (PERFEPCT), Khushnuda Shurukowa (DETAINED) and Zeek Earl and Chris Caldwell  (PROSPECT). Musical performers for both nights will be announced early April 2019.

Screenbreaker will launch a channel on Breaker’s innovative blockchain-powered VOD platform, showcasing artist and filmmakers from the Screenbreaker event series
Tickets available at: www.screenbreaker.io. 

Screenbreaker will also take place in London on June 12th-13th 2019, Toronto in September 2019, Los Angeles in November 2019 and Hong Kong in March of 2020.

About Screenbreaker:
The first-ever festival for blockchain entertainment by blockchain entertainment, Screenbreaker is where the bravest ideas and innovations are front and center; where the way we create, distribute and share content is being redefined. An international festival series with activations in New York, London, Toronto, Los Angeles and Hong Kong where pioneers will gather to collaborate, create solutions and shape the entertainment industry for the future. Brought to you by Breaker in partnership with Screen International.

About Breaker:
Founded in 2016 as SingularDTV, Breaker launched its artist-driven blockchain-powered entertainment DApp in January 2019. Built with the creator in mind, Breaker empowers artists with a blockchain rights management system and peer-to-peer distribution platform. Audiences from all over the world can find bold independent content on Breaker, including the company’s own original productions. Download the DApp at www.breaker.io.

About Screen International:
Screen International is the global film industry’s leading B2B publication. Now in its fourth decade of operation, Screen International covers the extensive network of individuals, companies, events, and relationships that make up the film industry. Screen International reports on everything from small, independent productions to the biggest Hollywood blockbusters. Screen International is a member of the Media Business Insight group which owns Broadcast (covering the TV industry), KFTV & The Knowledge (databases of the global production community for film, TV, and commercials), and ALF (a premium database for major advertising, media agencies, and consumer brands). Screen International’s powerful network of worldwide correspondents allows them to organize events that send reverberations throughout the entertainment industry.

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