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Creative entrepreneurs bridge the gap between artists and audiences. Ranging from book publishers to music promoters, from film producers to interactive games developers and much in between, all are key in defining what culture we consume and how we do so. In the changing marketplace they play a vital role in developing innovative business models of production and distribution, highlighting the economic, cultural and often social benefits in doing so. The British Council supports creative entrepreneurs through a range of projects, including the global YCE awards and network.

Featured Casestudies

CinemaNautica: An International Film Project (I)

CinemaNautica: An International Film Project (I)

With seed funding from the British Council, Elizabeth Mitchell and Maartje Alders of Tailormade Productions set off on an exciting research and development trip around the Mediterranean for their international film project, CinemaNautica.

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CinemaNautica: An International Film Project (II)

CinemaNautica: An International Film Project (II)

Follow Elizabeth Mitchell and Maartje Alders of Tailormade Productions in Egypt and Israel, as they continue their research and development tour for their international Film Project, CinemaNautica.

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Snapshots of the Future at Unbox Delhi

Snapshots of the Future at Unbox Delhi

Explore Louise Clements' photo-journal from UnBox for a visual tour of her fellowship, detailing the installation of two dynamic exhibitions with photography collective Blindboys.

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Creativity for Cleanliness at UnBox Delhi

Creativity for Cleanliness at UnBox Delhi

Youth Consultant Trevor Blackman travelled to UnBox Delhi to join The Great Wash Yatra Fellowship, helping address issues of hygiene in a creative way for India's Kathpulti Colony.

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Crafting Authenticity at UnBox Delhi

Crafting Authenticity at UnBox Delhi

UnBox Green Room Fellow Tanvi Kant recounts her time in Delhi working with local communities to provide opportunities for upholding their heritage through crafting.

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Start Up to Success Beirut

Start Up to Success Beirut

Sarah Thelwall (MyCake.org) and Percy Emmett (NESTA) deliver a series of enterprise skills workshops for young creative entrepreneurs in Beirut.

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Sustaining Local Fashion at Unbox Delhi

Sustaining Local Fashion at Unbox Delhi

Sustainable fashion consultant and Unbox Fellow Elizabeth Laskar ventured to Delhi, India, partnering with local label Eleven-Eleven to make their designs more eco-conscious.

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Action At The Intersection: Unboxing Creativity

Action At The Intersection: Unboxing Creativity

International YCE Paul Drury reveals all from a festival celebrating inter-disciplinary processes and experiences that shape contemporary thought and action: Unbox in Delhi.

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Digital Sãovation

Digital Sãovation

Games developer Jeremiah Alexander details his time in Brazil exploring its burgeoning interactive entertainment sector and looking at opportunities for international collaboration.

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India's Publishing Houses of the Future

India's Publishing Houses of the Future

Gavin Summers (Digital Services Manager, Hodder Education) delivers the third and final instalment from the Publishing Next conference, spotlighting his findings on the latest opportunities and challenges ahead for India's immerging digital publishing scene.

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It's not easy being an entrepreneur!

It's not easy being an entrepreneur!

2011 International YCE Music Award finalist, Liliana Andrade muses upon the ups and downs of life as a Young Creative Entrepreneur...

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Moscow Design Days

Moscow Design Days

Moscow Design Days saw design experts gathering in the city's streets to participate in the transformational 'Future City Game'.

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Featured people

Elizabeth Laskar

Elizabeth Laskar

Entrepreneurship/Fashion, United Kingdom

Elizabeth Laskar is an ethical fashion consultant with over 10 years of international development experience.

Tanvi Kant

Tanvi Kant

Crafts/Design/Fashion, United Kingdom

Tanvi Kant works with distinctive hand crafted techniques and reclaimed textiles from which she has developed award-winning jewellery collections.

Ryan Bowman

Ryan Bowman

Digital technologies/Interactive, United Kingdom

Ryan Bowman is a director and co-founder of Circle Digital, a digital agency with offices in London and Nairobi.

Trevor Blackman

Trevor Blackman

Education/Performing arts, United Kingdom

Youth Consultant Trevor Blackman is driven by a simple, but powerful philosophy to provide all with the opportunity to be all they can be.

Jeremiah Alexander

Jeremiah Alexander

Digital technologies/Education/Interactive, United Kingdom

Jeremiah is a multi-award winning games design and digital entrepreneur.

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