Seed’ is a full-length documentary film created in partnership with AngelHack and funded by HPE. in 2016, HPE-sponsored hackathons in 50 cities WW over several months, and commissioned documentary filmmaker Andrew Wonder to follow four teams as they prepare for their final pitch during AngelHack's Global Demo Day.
In partnership with CNBC and Vox Media, HPE premiered the film during SXSW 2017, followed by a streaming launch on Amazon Prime Video in May 2017. I led the team producing the integrated content marketing campaign, including working with our media partners and planning our film premiere event.
Read more about the documentary on IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6594148/
Seed tells the stories of ambitious developers who set out to build world-beating companies with help from HPE. The film points to how HPE supports innovation through technology at all stages, "from seed to scale".
The film follows four start-ups from around the world as they descend on San Francisco for AngelHack’s Silicon Valley Week. For three intense days they’ll hone their pitches, tell their story, and face cold reality at the hands of mentors just to get the chance to present their start-up to a panel of judges who could change their lives… or destroy their dreams.
Seed is based on HPE's partnership with AngelHack, a global hackathon series where some of the smartest and most creative minds in the world compete to build the next big app and become the next big thing.
HPE sponsored hackathons in 50 cities WW over several months.
97,000+ developers, designers and entrepreneurs took part.
Participants received tech and business mentoring from HPE experts.
