Film Producer, Entrepreneur & Entertainment Industry Innovator; Founder & CEO at Seed&Spark; Creator of "Like the Water"
Emily Best Biography
Emily Best is a film producer, entrepreneur, and advocate for equity and inclusion in the entertainment industry. Best is the founder and CEO of Seed&Spark, an entertainment platform focused on building a new studio model with fair and transparent business practices, aiming to provide filmmakers with opportunities to create sustainable careers regardless of location or background. Her entry into the film industry began with the production of her first feature film, "Like the Water," which inspired the creation of Seed&Spark. Prior to her work in film, Best worked as an actor, theater producer, vision and values strategy consultant, restaurant manager, and studied jazz singing in Barcelona.
Seed&Spark's crowdfunding platform and national education program have supported thousands of storytellers in raising significant funding to produce new films and series, fostering a global community of creators. The platform's curated streaming service is supplied by its crowdfunding initiatives, which maintain a high campaign success rate. In addition to crowdfunding, Best leads the enterprise SaaS platform Film Forward, which enables companies to replace traditional corporate training videos with cinematic experiences. Seed&Spark has been recognized by CNBC as one of the top 200 fintech companies worldwide.
As a filmmaker, Best has produced films, VR projects, shorts, and series that have premiered at festivals including Sundance, SXSW, Slamdance, and Tribeca. She co-created and co-directed the web series "F*ck Yes!" and has worked on a feature documentary about the Equal Rights Amendment. Best has raised substantial investment and crowdfunding, and secured major brand partnerships to grow Seed&Spark.
Best has been recognized as an Indiewire Influencer, a New York Business Journal Woman of Influence, an Upstart 100 entrepreneur, and received the Ivy Film Innovator Award. She is a graduate of Techstars Boston and won The New York Observer competition series The Pitch, earning a grant for Seed&Spark. Best frequently speaks at conferences and events on topics such as leveraging entertainment for equity and sustainability, crowdfunding, pitching, and building equitable startups, and serves as an advisor and mentor to early-stage companies. Her talks on these subjects have reached a wide audience online.
Emily Best Speaking Topics
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The Demand for Innovation [Keynote & Workshop]
In the last three years, every single workplace on the planet has been through a re-org 1-7 times. The move to all or partially remote workforce? Suddenly finding you have five generations of people with extremely different working styles and expectations side by side in the same company? Being able to metabolize and respond to major social uprisings? To tackle any of these is to re-organize the operating agreements, values, and behaviors of your organization. What about if you have to tackle all three by Friday, like most people leaders are asked to do?
This Keynote and workshop is about how to recognize the demand for innovation, and how perspective-taking and storytelling can crack open pathways to new ways of working inside organizations at any stage of growth. Emily shares her own experience of how she learned to recognize the demand for innovation, what she discovered interviewing hundreds of people leaders on their biggest challenges, and what she has uncovered about workplace innovation in the last two years of growing her new venture, Film Forward. Film Forward is an experiential learning platform driving workplace performance, engagement, and inclusion with learning journeys built around the world’s best short cinema.
To put the keynote into action, Best will share an award-winning short film and lead the group in a reflection exercise – demonstrating the possibilities of bringing creative solutions if you’re willing to invite in new perspectives.
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Innovation is Not Magic
Innovation is not magic. It's driven by a set of conditions that any organization has the power to create. From years of working across a wide range of corporate clients, Emily and her team have clear examples of how shifting and clarifying simple organizational agreements in small ways and large can create brand new conditions for innovating with inclusion.
Emily Best Videos
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Emily Best is a keynote speaker and industry expert whose speaking topics include Celebrity, Culture, Disruptive Thinking, Diversity & Inclusion, Empowerment, Entertainment, Entrepreneurship, Personal Growth, Social Entrepreneurship, Television & Film, Thought Leadership, Women in Business, Women in Tech, Women's Empowerment -
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Emily Best is a keynote speaker and industry expert who speaks on a wide range of topics such as The Demand for Innovation [Keynote & Workshop], Innovation is Not Magic, Storytelling for Good: Building Real Community, Building Community That Wants You To Grow and Deprogramming Implicit Bias: The Untapped Potential of Film. The estimated speaking fee range to book Emily Best for your event is $10,000 - $20,000. Emily Best generally travels from Atlanta, GA, USA and can be booked for (private) corporate events, personal appearances, keynote speeches, or other performances. Similar motivational celebrity speakers are Kavita Shukla, Shiza Shahid, Yovanka Sánchez, Diane Guerrero and Kristie Kennedy. Contact All American Speakers for ratings, reviews, videos and information on scheduling Emily Best for an upcoming live or virtual event.
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