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WELL CONNECTED Strada’s peer-to- peer collaboration service allows users to access files on a familiar interface
centre that’s being used to train AI, and you physically know where it is,” says Cioni. “For people who want to have sovereignty over their media, this is advantageous because it’s sitting on their drive. They can unplug anytime.” While anyone could use Strada for any type of file sharing, Cioni wants to focus on videos. “I’ve been a filmmaker for 25 years. It’s the world we love. It’s the problem we think is the most painful” – and it is already providing solutions. On one production, the crew was filming in Anchorage, Alaska while the editor was working from London, ‘accessing the footage in real time’.
Strada only costs $8 per month, while the cloud is a trillion-dollar industry, according to Cioni. An early mover in the peer-to-peer space, Strada “can do something that the cloud cannot,” he says. “We unlock creative control.” DZJINIUS | dzjinius.com An all-in-one production management platform, dzjinius – built by the Belgian software company initially known as DzjinTonik – is the only collaboration solution out there that covers “the full pre- to post-production chain on one integrated data model,” according to CEO Christophe Haan, who joined in
2024. “The inspiration was a frustration the founding team knew first-hand: information scattered across dozens of disconnected tools – scripts in one system, schedules in another, budgets in a third – with teams endlessly re- keying data. Errors rippled through all departments. But dzjinius solves that fracturing by bringing the pre- to post- production chain into a single, integrated environment with one data model.” Designed to drive efficiency and ‘simplify production management workflows’ for studios, broadcasters and others working in entertainment, dzjinius offers ‘modules’ for scheduling, scriptwriting, budgeting, casting and more. “What drew me to dzjinius was the combination of a genuinely differentiated product, more than a decade of engineering invested in a structured production-data platform and a market that is clearly under- digitalised,” Haan shares. “It is aimed at production companies of every size, and it is modular. Customers start with the capabilities they need most and expand at their own pace – no big- bang transformation.” The solution’s success also comes down to its open APIs and connecting partners, such as Limecraft and
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