CTRL+ALT+COMPETE : Film on Startup Culture which Tracks Five Teams of Tech Entrepreneurs

Thursday January 19, 2012 , 2 min Read

CTRL+ALT+COMPETE is a film on startup culture, it tracks five teams of tech entrepreneurs at startup competitions DEMO, GDC, and SXSW ACCELERATOR. It also incorporates advice and anecdotes from successful entrepreneurs and leaders like Nolan Bushnell (founder Atari, creator Pong), Felicia Day (THE GUILD), Tony Hsieh (CEO Zappos), Cliff Bleszinski (Design Director Epic Games, Gears of War), Mike Maples Jr (financier Twitter), Tim O’Reilly (CEO O’Reilly Media, founder Web 2.0 Summit), Veronica Belmont (Revision3 Tekzilla, This Week in Tech), and more.Halo-8 Entertainment has secured worldwide rights to “CTRL+ALT+COMPETE,” the first theatrically-premiered feature-length documentary film conceived intrepreneurially within Microsoft. Halo-8 Entertainment is a film, comics, & transmedia studio that marries art with technology.

CTRL+ALT+COMPETE focuses on young entrepreneurs whose products range from political reform solutions to personal safety apps to indie video games to cloud-computing for families to micro-rentals of empty commercial spaces.

CTRL+ALT+COMPETE starts at DEMO. The film then moves to the Independent Games Festival at the Game Developer’s Conference (GDC), the annual, 23-year old, San Francisco-based event where innovative game designers present their latest efforts. The film’s final destination is SXSW Interactive‘s Accelerator Program, a relatively new segment of the multimedia festival which recently served as the initial launchpad for Twitter and Foursquare. C+A+C follows one entrepreneurial team seeking to use SXSW as a launchpad and another competing in Accelerator, a high-stakes demo competition of ongoing elimination rounds leading to ultimate winners who reap key strategic partnerships, mentorships, and startup cash.

By showcasing these young entrepreneurs’ successes, failures, and resilience alongside the insights and analysis of seasoned, veteran pioneers, CTRL+ALT+COMPETE hopes to reach and inspire the next generation of visionaries who will face tomorrow’s problems and solve them through intelligence, technology, and entrepreneurial perseverance.