FinTech’s Red Carpet Moment: Founder Jon Gosier lands first feature film deal to be shot on innovative SCAD stage
Collateral Data, an upcoming international thriller feature film, is set to bring Georgia’s tech ecosystem to the big screen.
It’s the first original screenplay from Jon Gosier, founder and CEO of the media finance startup FilmHedge, and is loosely adapted from his tech-focused memoir Code Switch. This will be Gosier’s directorial debut.
The film, locked in with a $15 million budget, will be filmed on one of the new SCAD LED XR stages, which uses extended reality (XR) to merge real and virtual worlds together.
“Normally, XR technology is used as a substitute for green screen, to create rich sci-fi or fantasy landscapes like on the Disney TV show, The Mandalorian,” Gosier told Hypepotamus. “For Collateral Data, we want to push the limits of what XR can do in a more subtle way. I intend to use the technology to fill in for shooting on-location in exotic places like the mountains of Japan, the plains of Kenya and the crowded streets of Egypt. The story is a sprawling international thriller and without SCAD, I don’t think I’d be able to do all that. The budget needed to fly our crew around the world like that would be astronomical!”
This will be the first feature film for the SCAD’s newest LED volume stage, something that Maken Payne, executive director of SCAD Partnership, calls “groundbreaking for movies.” See more here.
