The goal of SubmarineChannel is to create new, interactive, cross media formats that use the qualities of the Internet and that can also migrate to other media, like television, mobile devices and film.

SubmarineChannel is both a distribution and a production platform for filmmakers and interactive artists who are exploring the potential of the web.

SubmarineChannel gathers the most stylish, offbeat, original and arresting artworks for the net into one place. You'll find linear and interactive works, because the bottom line is using new media to create new experience.
What's unique about SubmarineChannel is the range and scope of its activities. From design to Internet, from short digital films to animations and interactive graphic novels, SubmarineChannel provides a showcase for work aimed at a young but critical audience, one with a global perspective on digital culture.

Although based in mainland Europe, SubmarineChannel is global in scope, bringing inspiring and original work from Asia, North America and Europe together under one roof. It uses a range of possibilities for assembling this content, from exclusive licensing to acting as an agent and creating distribution deals with other web sites and media.

SubmarineChannel syndicates work not just to other web portals, but to TV companies, mobile services operators and other media, both traditional and novel. The12-strong company has full, cross-media production capabilities, from print and video to film and TV, and represents a growing stable of creative talent. These resources can also be used to take existing work and re-format and re-edit it, for example making made-for-Net films TV broadcast-ready.

Unlike most existing channels, SubmarineChannel offers a mix of magazine and content delivery. By profiling artists and reporting on digital culture, SubmarineChannel puts works into perspective rather than just streaming as many as possible.


Founders of Submarinechannel
Submarinechannel.com is an initiative of the Amsterdam based production company Submarine. Submarine's founding partners, Bruno Felix and Femke Wolting, are pioneers in the Dutch (new) media world. With Submarine they produced a number of crossmedia productions such as the The End of TV as we know it (a documentary for tv and a website) and 12x12.nl - a highly innovative crossmedia program for teenagers in the Netherlands.

Femke Wolting has produced and directed a number of TV and crossmedia programs for VPRO television and VPRO digital, such as The End of TV As We Know It, and documentaries such as Sneakers and Viktor & Rolf: "Because We are Worth It". She is the initiator of Exploding Cinema, Rotterdam Film Festival's annual look at the future of media, organising exhibitions, conferences and master classes for media makers. Besides managing Submarine and SubmarineChannel, she is working with co-director Jorrien van Nes on a new documentary film about virtual worlds: A Brave New Virtual World (working title).

Bruno Felix is the former director of VPRO Digital, where he developed a number of prototype media formats, such as the popular  online radio station 3voor12, an online movie database and he produced several websites for the VPRO organization. He has been a consultant to the Dutch government on policy issues surrounding media and culture.

For more information regarding Submarine please go to: www.submarine.nl