Australian start-up Lumi.Media has achieved international recognition by winning the award for sustainability and innovation at The Content Innovation Awards held in Cannes, France.
The award was given for Lumi’s SaaS collaborative work management platform that centralises, streamlines, and speeds up the end-end processes of content production. The platform proved to be invaluable during the height of the global pandemic as it helped production teams across the globe continue to create content in a hybrid setup.
It has been deployed on productions around the world including Love Island UK and Australia, 24 Hours in A&E, Luxe Listings Toronto and Sydney, Stars on Mars, Grand Designs, Restoration Australia, Grand Designs Transformations, Lingo, Great Auction Showdown, and Real Housewives.
Karen Dewey, CEO of Lumi.Media, expressed gratitude for the award, saying, “We are thrilled and grateful to receive this prestigious award at Cannes, and excited to spotlight the innovation and sustainability benefits Australian technology is bringing to the world. This is about reducing waste, reducing duplication, and empowering everyone to do their jobs in a way that maximises collaboration. These are creative teams, and we’re so proud to be able to help them maximise not only efficiency, but also the power of all their best minds.”
Dewey, who founded the business in her 60s, conceived Lumi to address a gap in the market for software to empower the TV and entertainment industry after spending years managing production teams in Australia. It is deployed on MS Azure’s 100 per cent carbon neutral cloud infrastructure and removes the need for many other ‘point solution’ software applications while reducing production hours and the overall carbon footprint per show.
The platform gives visibility to everyone involved in a production, whether they are producers, talent or casting personnel, as well as finance, accounting, HR and, management and administration teams. It provides a multidimensional view of information and tracks everything through the entire production lifecycle.
Following the win at Cannes, Lumi.Media plans to continue its global expansion and has recently hired employees in the United Kingdom and European Union as well as appointing business development consultants in North America.
