Humpday Highlights - Collaborations in Film: Writers & Producers

Producer Sarah Green (right) headed up a fascinating panel at SXSW 2012, featuring Brunson Green (producer, The Help), and Austin filmmaker Jeff Nichols, whose latest, Mud, won critical acclaim at the Cannes Film Festival.

Sarah Green is an industry veteran with longstanding relationships with filmmakers like John Sayles, David Mamet, and, more recently Terrence Malick and Nichols.

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Why Happiness Is the New Currency: with Path, Formspring and KIIP

Moments of joy...moments of happiness...moments of gratitude. These are all moments that describe our lives. It is very easy to mistake these as only moments that happen in real life. In this digital era, there's a field of science that has been largely underutilized until now: affective science.

In this session you'll hear Ade Olonoh (CEO of Formspring), Brian Wong (founder of KIIP) and Dave Morin (CEO and co-founder of Path) in the mobile and web space that have harnessed not only emotional power - but pressure - to drive their business models all using the currency of happiness. Not only have they accidentally created models that capture this emotion beautifully, but some of them have now learned how to sustain it. Find out how they did it.

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