Sean Atkins joined my Columbia Film School class last week — a group of filmmakers about to graduate into the most disrupted entertainment landscape in decades.
I wanted them to hear from someone who started at ground zero of the creator economy and now sits at the greatest point of convergence between legacy media and digital creators.
Sean’s résumé reads like a timeline of media transformation: Disney in its early cable expansion, MTV during its reinvention era, HBO when “streaming” was a dirty word, and Jellysmack at the height of the creator boom.
