With all the flashbulbs, fashion, and starpower on the red carpet, you could be forgiven for not spotting Sean O’Kelly and Sami Arpa at this year’s Venice Festival. But together, the business partners are getting plenty of notice behind the scenes, with an innovative platform designed to simplify how movies and series get made.

O’Kelly is the executive chairman of , a London-based production company and distributor behind such movies as Sangre del Toro , a documentary about the Oscar-winning director Guillermo del Toro, which premiered in Venice this summer. Arpa is a filmmaker-turned-computer scientist and the founder of , which builds software that translates the data-driven language of companies like Netflix and Amazon into tools that independent producers can use to their advantage.

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