Stacy Spikes

Entrepreneur, Parent, Social entrepreneur, Startup

BIO Stacy Spikes Stacy Spikes is considered one of the leaders of film entertainment marketing, currently serving as the Co-Founder and CEO of MoviePass Inc a mobile entertainment subscription company. MoviePass was voted one of the Top 20 Start Ups for 2012 by Business Insider Magazine. MoviePass is mobile subscription service for attending movies in theaters. Spikes, is also the Founder and Chairman Emeritus of the Urbanworld Film Festival. Urbanworld has premiered more #1 films than any other North American Film Festival including Sundance and Tribeca. The Urbanworld Film Festival began, as an impassioned idea that Spikes acted on and made a reality when the festival premiered in August 1997 and is now the largest festival of its kind in the world. His career in film at major studios within the industry ultimately evolved into the entrepreneurial venture known as Urbanworld, a nonprofit organization that manages the Urbanworld Film Festival and other annual film platforms such as the Urbanworld College Tour. Spikes also worked with TED on the Pangea Day project to help bring the world together through film in 2007. In addition to other awards Spikes was honored with Sidney Lumet, Matt Damon, John Leguizamo and others with the 2011 "Made In New York" Award for extraordinary achievement to the New York film industry. http://www.nyc.gov/html/film/html/madeinnyawards/madeinnyawards_2011.shtml

Movies and stories that capture the unfailing will of the human spirit in adverse situations.

The power of story telling through cinema and the power movies have to move minds. Positive and negative. Movies are our most influential medium. With cinema moving to mobile devices these stories will reach an even wider world audience. There will be over 1 billion devices in the world capable viewing movies. How do our movies affect us and our behavior positively and negatively. From shifting elections, changing the face of food, bringing injustice to light and inspiring people to do the impossible. What will the future of cinema look like and what will it's impact be on an even wider audience. Is it a dying art form or an exploding giant?

Movies and music, design, stories of human achievement

I was inspired how TED was changing the world. And wrote a letter to Chris (Anderson). He wrote me back the next day and asked if I could meet him at the office. We talked about movies and he said that one of the TED Award winner (Jehane Noujaim) wanted to bring the world together through a day of film. No arm twisting necessary. I was in. It was a pleasure to help get the project underway. I attend TED in conjunction to that launch. It was an honor and one of the great joys that I was able to work on. I am still friendly with Chris to this day.

People don't know that I have a visually photographic memory. That I love stories about man, movies and machines and how they inspire us. I LOVE LISTENING to air traffic control to relax.