Devin Halden, CEO Animator, Filmmaker. Storyteller.
Founder/CEO of Pixovi, a privately held, diversified media, technology, and entertainment company that designs, develops, produces and distributes content and software applications through its focused divisions and other companies. His primary focus today is as lead writer and animator at Pixovi Animation Studio developing and producing animated films, television and streaming series, and commercials for brands.
Founder/CEO of StoryOsophy, a division of Pixovi that distributes the weekly StoryOsophy Podcast show co-hosted by Devin Halden and Adam Jones. StoryOsophy’s Story BlÅ«print app provides a versatile and customizable tool to help the writer build the road map of their story and the versatility to move non-linearly build their story while Story BlÅ«print stitches their story together in the background.
In 2005, Devin Halden Founded and was Executive Director and Head Programmer of Solstice Film Festival (SFF) in the Twin Cities of Minnesota. Solstice Film Festival successfully became one of the top competitive film festivals in the country. Acclaimed for its programming by industry trade journal Variety, SFF became known for discovering hidden talent and content, with films that celebrated independence from the studio system, and for its daring and sometimes controversial programming. SFF was the first film festival to implement online streaming VOD of its programming. Over the years Devin Halden and SFF worked with Warner Bros., DreamWorks, HBO, Picturehouse, IFC and other major, min-major and independent studios.
In 2010 Halden stepped down as film festival Executive to launch Pixovi and create Pixovi Movie Network (PMN). After the success of implementing VOD into Solstice Film Festival, Pixovi Movie Network was built to be the everyday destination for indie films. PMN disrupted the industry, fostering global connections among indie filmmakers and introducing Social Cinema—an innovation that bridged continents through movies by allowing viewers from anywhere on the globe to watch a movie and chat in a virtual movie theater.Halden has knowledge of both traditional distribution life-cycles and techniques as well as the new distribution plans that utilize new technology and media, and has laid the foundation for a successful independent content release that keeps the control of the IP and accounting in the hands of the producers and maintains transparency throughout the entire lifecycle of the property.
Specialties: Animation, movie and series production, Brand Building, Entrepreneurship, Software Applications, Business Start-ups.s production, Brand Building, Entrepreneurship, Software Applications, Business Start-ups.
