Shifter(s) Series. Where the people shaping what comes next meet in real life.
Built around the people, stories, and ideas shaping what comes next.
Where entertainment, media, technology, and culture meet in real life.
Seen and Heard
Where the work travels
- Variety
- Deadline
- The Hollywood Reporter
- Fast Company
- Forbes
- Cannes Lions Daily
The Series
Section 02 · Manifesto
We do not just fill rooms.
We make them matter.
Shifter(s) creates moments where the right people can meet at the right time, around the right idea.
Every gathering begins with a clear purpose. Every detail is designed to create momentum. The goal is simple. Make the conversations that happen in the room matter after everyone leaves it.
Origin
A convergence
of two
companies.
One shared
belief.
Shifter(s) Series is a partnership between The Shift Studios and Winston Baker. Two companies with different vantage points on the same industry, brought together around a single idea.
For nearly two decades, Winston Baker has built some of the most important convenings in global entertainment finance. Their work has brought together the people financing, producing, buying, and distributing the stories that reach the world.
The Shift Studios brings a different lens. Story, taste, relationships, and an understanding of where entertainment and culture are actually moving.
The Series is the convergence of those strengths. A platform built for the conversations that usually happen behind closed doors, but deserve to move the industry forward.
"Shifter(s) was built on a simple belief. The right conversation can change the direction of a project, a career, or an entire company."
A partnership between
The Shift Studiosand
The Series, by the numbers
May 2025 to present
7
Activations produced
2,500+
People brought into the Series
40,000+
Entertainment and media decision makers in the extended network
19
Cities reached through the Winston Baker network
16
Years of the International Film Finance Forum
900
Guests at AFM × Rhythm Garden
150
Guests yachtside with will.i.am
1M+
Social impressions across coverage
Figures reflect Shifter(s) programming and the broader Winston Baker network.
Partner with us
Build the next
room with us.
Shifter(s) works with brands, studios, platforms, investors, and partners who understand that the right gathering can create more than attention.
It can create opportunity.
Section 03
Programming
Every gathering we have built, in order. Cannes, Sundance, AFM, and what is coming next.
Section 04
Speakers
The voices in the room, from will.i.am to Omar Benson Miller to the next names you will hear.
Section 06
Press
1M+ impressions and the room in their own words.
Section 07
Partner
Partnership, press, programming, or a Shifter(s) gathering in your city. Every note read personally.
