Unstoppables co-founder out to debunk the “myth” of startups being too risky

CLIENT: UNSTOPPABLES
OUTLET: SMART COMPANY

With startups and innovation policy currently at the forefront of Australian politics, it’s important investors and traditional industries are also brought into the conversation, Unstoppables co-founder Julio De Laffitte says.What De Laffitte calls …

With startups and innovation policy currently at the forefront of Australian politics, it’s important investors and traditional industries are also brought into the conversation, Unstoppables co-founder Julio De Laffitte says.

What De Laffitte calls “the Malcolm Turnbull effect”, is very positive for the country, he says, but the government needs to ensure collaboration going into the future.

“This is only one side of the coin,” De Laffitte says.

Empty cinemas no more

CLIENT: TUGG
OUTLET: THE WEST AUSTRALIAN

Most of us have been there. You walk into an empty cinema and it’s just you and the sticky floor.But if David Doepel has anything to do with it, solitary viewing will be a thing of the past.As the rights holder to Tugg Australia, Perth-based Mr Doep…

Most of us have been there. You walk into an empty cinema and it’s just you and the sticky floor.

But if David Doepel has anything to do with it, solitary viewing will be a thing of the past.

As the rights holder to Tugg Australia, Perth-based Mr Doepel wants to put the cinema into the hands of the audience.

In what he describes as the Airbnb for cinema, Tugg enables an everyday person to become a film’s promoter, with punters essentially hiring a cinema and selling it through their personal networks via the Tugg online platform.

Agyness Deyn ditches catwalk for gritty role in indie film Electricity

CLIENT: TUGG
OUTLET: THE SUNDAY TELEGRAPH

With her unassuming brown hair and quiet sensibility it’s hard to recognise Agyness Deyn these days.She looks nothing like the platinum pixie-haired punk who perennially graced high fashion tomes and the runways of New York and London for the best p…

With her unassuming brown hair and quiet sensibility it’s hard to recognise Agyness Deyn these days.

She looks nothing like the platinum pixie-haired punk who perennially graced high fashion tomes and the runways of New York and London for the best part of the last decade.

Now 32, she has hung up her modelling portfolio and thrown herself into acting.

And the industry seems more than happy to embrace her, with a slew of indie and Hollywood films set for release in the next two years.

Deyn’s latest project, a film called Electricity, sees her play a woman with epilepsy, something which she found both eye-opening and confronting.

Classic Australian films coming back to the big screen as part of new on-demand platform Tugg

CLIENT: TUGG
OUTLET: THE SUNDAY TELEGRAPH

THEY are the movies that shaped a nation but now, sit, largely forgotten in discount bins and consigned to late-night re-runs.

But some of Australia’s hidden film gems are set to be dusted off as part of a new on-demand platform designed to reintroduce classic movies to the big screen.

In collaboration with Roadshow Films and Leap Frog Films, the web-based initiative named Tugg gives regular movie goers the opportunity to screen famous Australian flicks in cinemas for private friend parties or charity events.

Whizz raises $2m for its on-demand home cleaning start-up

CLIENT: WHIZZ
OUTLET: THE AUSTRALIAN

A group of five wealthy Australian investors have thrown their support behind on-demand cleaning start-up Whizz, which has closed a $2 million Series B raising with support from the likes of Goldman Sachs Australia boss Simon Rothery, Collingwood FC vice-president Alex Waislitz, Godfreys chief executive Tom Krulis and property investor Allen Linz.