Public Affairs Convocation Lecture
Media, Technology & Pop Culture
Speaker: Sean McEwen
Date: Tuesday, March 27th
Time: 7:00 p.m
Location: Plaster Student Union Theater
Award-winning director, writer and producer, Sean McEwen (MSU alum), will discuss how the ever changing world of media technology influences pop culture, the arts and general interactivity. Sean will introduce an application created by his company, EnCameo, a smartphone application that allows viewers to identify and purchase the products they see on screen during a movie or television show. He will also show a music video his company has created for the Howard Stern Show/Howard TV, featuring a “power-group” of heavy-metal all-stars. He will discuss the multi-platform approach filmmakers, producers and the record label took to utilize the video to create awareness for the band and its tour… ie, from social media, to internet, to television, satellite radio, network sharing, etc.
Sean McEwen is a graduate (BFA) of Missouri State University where he studied theatre and visual art. He has earned various directing awards, including the AOI International “Best of Fest” award for his film “Happy’s Last Wish” which was the follow up to the DEM Films Production, “For the Love of the Film” – winner of the prestigious George Lucas Selects Award. His feature directorial debut, “Albino Farm”, received both critical and audience acclaim – and has quickly become a cult favorite among horror enthusiasts
Sean is also the co-founder of Encameo, a media technology company based in New York, Los Angeles and Silicon Valley with an eye to launch on primetime television programming in Summer of 2012.
Sean splits time between Los Angeles and Sydney where, when not working on films, he is developing a new comic book series and is writing his first novel.