The Transmedia Zone (TZ) is a community focused incubator for innovation and creative experimentation in storytelling across entertainment media platforms.
We support storytellers, creators, artists, and innovators with a strong, unique, and authentic point of view, and a clear missions and desire to develop new and exciting media experiences.
At TZ, innovation takes many forms and in our context it can mean:
- Remixing or reimagining traditional storytelling formats
- Reaching new audiences
- Creating new platforms to support storytelling
TZ Summer 2024 (June-July)
This era of the entertainment industry, isn’t easy to navigate and it’s easy to get stuck on how to make your goals a reality.
TZ Summer helps you rethink the entertainment & media industry from the napkin stage, to launch and beyond.
Whether you’re just starting out or rethinking your current strategy, we want to help creatives, storytellers & entrepreneurs grow a new confident creative business mindset - in a way that makes sense to your project and business. For some of you creativity feels hard, for others business can feel like a dirty word. TZ bridges the best of all worlds, and shows you new ways to succeed.
The eight week course, was designed by creative entrepreneurs and storytellers to help you build skillsets, frameworks, and learn about new tools and new ways to goal set built in along the way.
This summer, we are allowing folks to join us for just the bootcamp. For these folks, there will be a charge for the full bootcamp itself - which helps pay for future TZ events to be open to more people!
For those who pitch to join our membership, TZ Summer is included with your monthly member fee of 40 dollars. Discounts are available!
The Transmedia Zone is a community focused incubator for innovation and reative experimentation in storytelling across entertainment media platforms.
The TZ Supports storytellers, creators, artists, and innovators with a strong unique and authentic point of view, and a clear mission and deserie to develop new and exciting media experiences. At TZ, innovation takes many forms and in our context, it can mean:
- Using new platforms
- Remixing or reimagining traditional storytelling formats
- Reaching new audiences
- Creating new platforms to support storytelling
Streamers
Digital Creators / E-Sports (Twitch, YouTube, TikTok, etc.)
Podcasts
Story Centred Tech (apps/platforms/products)
TV/Web Series
Film
Journalism/Live Journalism
Video Games
AR/VR/XR
Interactive Theatre Experiences
Innovation in Music
Something yet to be invented that you're making right now...
Is it moving forward the art of storytelling and entertainment? Then, yes.
TZ is a place for the next wave of entertainment media and storytelling projects. To us, "innovative" doesn't just mean technological advances.
Are you serving an underrepresented community?
Are you taking a new approach?
Are you making it easier to bring new and important stories to the forefront?
And if you're a changemaker in the music industry, you'll be a great fit for our Music Den.
TZ Selects:
- Year round
- Fill out your application and get invited to our bi-monthly pitch day for an interview/presentation
TZ Summer or Winter:
- Our 6 week personalized cohorts bringin the most innovative entertainment projects and founders together
- Winter - February/March
- Summer - July/August
TZ Student League:
- The way TMU storytellers and media changemakers can collaborate and join the TZ, Music Den, and Innovation Studio community
NO.
Our incubator is for all Canadian storytellers. For our bespoke zone learning approach to be the most effective, we need folks from all ages, backgrounds, education levels, and viewpoints.
Downtown Toronto Work & Meeting Space
Mentorship
Community Support
Funding Workshops
Access to Talent
Radio/Podcasting Studios
Market Insight and Research
Entrepreneurship 101 Sessions
Commes & Media Training
Brand Storytelling
Discounted Conferences
Publicity
Also:
Access to HQ, the Innovation Studio's event and performance space
Dedicated Desks, Board Rooms, and a Creative Storytelling Meeting Room
Plus, access to free resources from TMU, such as: Radio Studios, the Equipment Distribution Centre, Adobe Creative Cloud, Autodesk, and more!
Are you a student?
All TMU students can now join our programming and be part of our community of professional media changemakers. Come to events, learn from guest speakers and gain mentorship and industry mapping from the TZ team!
“I just wanted to say how much I've enjoyed the past two years being in the Transmedia Zone. It literally kept me sane during the trash fire of 2020. And I'm really grateful for the thoughtfulness, genius and empathy”
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CONTACT US
General Inquiries: jessie.lee@torontomu.ca
MAILING ADDRESS
Transmedia Zone
110 Bond Street
Toronto, Ontario M5B 1X8
M5B 1X8