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Exclusive: WarnerMedia has revamped its content innovation hub WarnerMedia OneFifty, relaunching a redesigned platform focused on highlighting new content and projects from underrepresented creators. The new site features a bulked up content acquisitions and projects slate, including its recent acquisition of Tomer Shushan’s White Eye, which is nominated this year for the Live-Action Short Oscar.

The platform aims to highlight and invest in out-of-the-box ideas from creators with unique voices who will develop content across the spectrum spanning features, series, digital, animation, documentary, interactive, VR/Ar, music, transmedia, experimental, immersive and more.

“WarnerMedia OneFifty discovers nontraditional content sources by leaning into the surrounding cultural landscape and collaborating with a collection of curated storytellers to shape projects highlighting what’s next in creativity and innovation,” said Axel Caballero, head of WarnerMedia OneFifty. “Stories are developed differently by taking smart, daring creative risks and making small, astute investments in original projects...

With all the news of Spike Lee's Kickstarter campaign, which is very important for all filmmakers, let's not forget the smaller yet potentially groundbreaking projects that need our help as well. Avant-garde filmmaker Celia C. Peters is raising post-production funds for ROXE15, a next-generation science fiction short film that gives this genre a new face, a new voice and a new view of technology. They've finished shooting, but for a special-effects laden film they must finish it at a level that "does justice to this groundbreaking project." The plot goes as this: NYC, 2051. The City is a stark, even more stratified place where natural resources are sparse and technology is the...