Join us for an EPIC session of Coffee & Jam this November! This online session will feature two startups that are innovating the Film Production industry in New Zealand and around the world! If you’re interested in amplifying your startup story using the power of video, you wouldn’t want to miss this.
Meet Your Speakers
Kaushik Kumar
Founder @DarkMatter
Kaushik is the Founder of Dark Matter, a consultancy focused on crafting sales videos and online training programs that sell, influence and engage. He is also the founder of Dark Spaces, a ‘Done By You’ recording studio dedicated to democratising video production for small businesses.
Kaushik also does a fortnightly podcast called Zero to CEO as well as weekly video series called Showing Up with Michael Philpott. He’ll share insights around how Dark Spaces helps small businesses and startups create compelling sales and marketing videos.
Amber Marie Naveira
Co-founder and Co-CEO @The Granary
Amber Marie has extensive experience in Film, across all facets from Early Development, Onset, Post to VFX. Co-founder and Co-CEO alongside husband Victor, The Granary, Aotearoa’s first turnkey Virtual Production Creative-Tech company are developing disruptive production technologies utilising a real-time pipeline.
A 2021 graduate of CreativeHQ’s Lightning Lab Incubator and currently in the Kōkiri 2021 cohort Aotearoa’s dedicated Māori Business Accelerator, Amber is learning to adapt quickly in the world of entrepreneurship and acknowledges that being brave and believing in herself go hand in hand.
Amber Marie will share her journey of leveraging her experience working within the film industry, into building a brand new Creative-Tech startup that disrupts the way that content is created and the challenges she’s faced along the way.