BEER, ALIENS, AND BLOCKCHAIN is a talk by film producer Maurice Schutte that goes beyond the film production of the wacky space adventure called Space Beers. Get a unique glimpse at the development cycle, the design process, the aliens (!) and find out how Blockchain technology and brewing beer is empowering the Amsterdam based production team in creating their own science fiction universe. This talk is given in Dutch or English and comes in three variations.

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ABOUT MAURICE SCHUTTE

Based in Amsterdam, Maurice has been active as a producer and director for over a decade in television and live broadcasts. His lifelong passion for film finally got the better of him and he decided to switch things up in 2016. The festival favorite short The Invisible Man, the animated prologue for Space Beers and the refugee-documentary Home in Between followed soon after and set the pace for things to come. He has several other movies on his slate; the next being the horror-comedy Kill Me First! and the the psychological thriller The Occupant. Fun fact: Maurice is (jokingly) known for demanding budget for a helicopter because, to quote him: "helicopters make everything better". Sometimes gets his wish.

SOME PREVIOUS EVENTS THIS YEAR

KEYNOTE Maurice joined the IBC 2018 Conference stage as one of the speakers during the Blockchain: Empowering content creators - keynote and gave an insight how tokenizing the Space Beers brand helped the startup creation of the brand and film universe of Space Beers.

UNIVERSITY Maurice was invited to give a talk at the University of Amsterdam (UvA) for the students of Entrepreneurship & Management in the Creative Industries. The talk was centered about creating a brand (Space Beers) and included an interactive element where the students learned how to read a script and what choices need to be made along the way. To change things up, the lecture room was exchanged for the board room at Two Chefs Brewing, overlooking the brewery.

ABROAD Maurice was one of the speakers at Buzz Sessions: Volume 2, organized by SingularDTV in Zurich, Switzerland. During a 20-minute talk the audience was taken along for the ride where the idea of Space Beers all started and how the production ended up embracing Blockchain technology and brewing their own beer; the Rye Pale Ale Space Monkey. The event ended with food and drinks, inluding freshly imported Space Monkeys.

THEMATIC Maurice joined the Out of this world - evening in Pakhuis de Zwijger (Amsterdam) and spoke about creating beer and using Blockchain technology to build a universe filled with colorful aliens and new worlds.