Bryn Mooser is taking a new run at the documentary space with Xtr, a nonfiction film and TV studio backed by Hollywood and business figures including David Arquette and Christina McLarty Arquette, Lyn and Norman Lear, and former AOL CEO Tim Armstrong.
Mooser is the co-founder and former CEO of Ryot, the immersive-entertainment studio acquired in 2016 by Huffington Post, which is now part of Verizon Media (through the telco’s acquisition of AOL). He exited Ryot at the end of 2018 to work on forming Xtr.
“There’s this incredible moment in documentary films – you have an explosion of platforms, and audiences are responding to this kind of content,” he said. Ten years ago, if you wanted to watch a documentary film “you’d have to be in a big city… or maybe there was one row in Blockbuster.”
Mooser said Xtr has raised “mid-seven figures” in seed funding. Other investors...
Mooser is the co-founder and former CEO of Ryot, the immersive-entertainment studio acquired in 2016 by Huffington Post, which is now part of Verizon Media (through the telco’s acquisition of AOL). He exited Ryot at the end of 2018 to work on forming Xtr.
“There’s this incredible moment in documentary films – you have an explosion of platforms, and audiences are responding to this kind of content,” he said. Ten years ago, if you wanted to watch a documentary film “you’d have to be in a big city… or maybe there was one row in Blockbuster.”
Mooser said Xtr has raised “mid-seven figures” in seed funding. Other investors...
- 9/12/2019
- by Todd Spangler
- Variety Film + TV
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