About
Brian Chirls is a filmmaker, technologist and founder of Three Eyed Labs, a research and development lab based in New York, developing original cross-media content, new tools and innovative business models for media artists. Most recently, Brian launched Crowd Controls, a web service for filmmakers and musicians to track audience demand around the world to drive distribution. He has worked on the film Four Eyed Monsters as Manager of Distribution and Marketing and consulted on the distribution of John Sayles’s latest film, Honeydripper. Brian continues to share ways for independent artists to create and distribute their work as a writer on his blog and as a speaker and film festivals around the world. Brian has also produced and directed a number of short films, video blogs and a bit of machinima.
Before becoming a media innovator, Brian built financial software and worked in construction management on subway stations and highways. He is a graduate of the Jerome Fisher Program in Management and Technology at the University of Pennsylvania.
