Elliot V Kotek

Elliot V. Kotek is an Australian award-winning producer, filmmaker, photographer and the co-founder and former content chief of Not Impossible Now, and former executive director of The Not Impossible Foundation.^[1] He is also the founder and editor-in-chief of Beyond Cinema magazine.

Project Daniel

In 2013, Kotek and founder of Not Impossible, Mick Ebeling, launched "Project Daniel." The mission established the first 3D printing prosthetic lab in the Nuba Mountains ^[2] and successfully built a prosthetic arm for Daniel, a Sudanese boy who lost his limb in the war. "Project Daniel" debuted at CES 2014 in Las Vegas alongside Intel.^[3] Of the project, TIME's tech journalist Harry McCracken wrote, "it’s hard to imagine any other device here doing more to make the world a better place.”^[4]

Project Daniel has been featured in TIME,^[5] WIRED,^[6] Business Insider,^[7] BBC^[8] The Guardian,^[9] Globo,^[10] The Independent^[11] and CNET.^[12]

Other Not Impossible projects Kotek has produced include Don's Voice, The Brainwriter and The Robot Walker.

Career

A former M&A/Biotech lawyer in Australia and New York, Kotek has a Law Degree and a BS in Pharmacology & Toxicology, both from Monash University.^[13] After moving to the U.S. in 2000, he studied at The Lee Strasberg Theatre Institute in New York and completed UCLA’s Professional Program in Screenwriting. Kotek is the founder and editor-in-chief of Beyond Cinema magazine, the former editor-in-chief of both Moving Pictures and Celebs.com, and has written for publications including The Hollywood Reporter, GQ and Details magazine's Style.com, Flaunt, MovieMaker, Movies.com, Gotham, Los Angeles Confidential, C and Inked. He has interviewed over a thousand people, including Elon Musk, Nobel Peace Prize winner Dr Muhammad Yunus, Jennifer Lawrence and Elmo.

Film and documentary

Kotek co-produced the feature documentary “140", the first ever user-generated film made utilizing social-media. In 2015, Kotek produced the documentary “Queen Mimi," about an 89-year-old homeless woman, her 20+ years of living in a laundromat and her unlikely friendship with "The Hangover's" Zach Galifianakis. Current documentary work includes “The People Sign,” which highlights the work of music interpreters for the hearing impaired. Wrote and directed short film "Little Larry," which was a 2011 Director's Guild of Canada nominee for Best Short Film.^[14]

Has served on the juries of the Palm Springs International Film Festival, Middle East International Film Festival, Bahamas International Film Festival, Sonoma International Film Festival, HATCHfest, BendFilm, Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival as well as the Cinequest Screenwriting Competition and Newport Beach Film Festival's Volcom Award.

Art

A published poet and exhibited photographer, Kotek has had solo exhibitions at the Helen Gory Gallery in Melbourne,^[15] and group shows at the Copro Gallery at Bergamot Station and the Hibbleton Gallery in Fullerton alongside work by Ed Ruscha, Shepard Fairey, Don Bachardy and other LA-resident luminaries at the Venice Art Walk. Elliot's polaroid photography is also reproduced in the book "Still Developing: A Story of Instant Gratification," published by ISM and edited by Kevin Staniec.

Awards and appearances

• Cannes Lions (2014) Titanium Lion for Project Daniel sponsored by Precipart and Intel^[16]
• Cannes Lions (2014) Gold Lion in the Product Design category for Project Daniel sponsored by Precipart and Intel^[16]
• Cannes Lions (2014) Bronze Lion in the Cyber category for Intel’s “Look Inside™” campaign^[16]
• Cannes Lions (2014) Bronze Lion in the Film category for Intel’s “Look Inside™” campaign^[16]
• Cannes Lions (2014) Bronze Lion in the Branded Content & Entertainment category for Project Daniel, sponsored by Intel and Precipart^[16]
• One Show (2015) Design Merit Award for Don's Voice ^[17]
• The One Show (2015) Interactive Silver Pencil for Don's Voice ^[17]
• The One Show (2015) Branded Entertainment Bronze Pencil for Don's Voice ^[17]
• The One Show (2014) Design Gold Pencil for Project Daniel ^[18]
• The One Show (2014) Intellectual Property Gold Pencil ^[18]
• Clio Award (2014) Branded Entertainment for Project Daniel ^[19]
• Telly Award (2014) Silver Award for Social Responsibility for Project Daniel^[20]
• Telly Award (2014) Bronze Award for Documentary for Project Daniel^[20]
• AICP Award (2014) Next Cause Marketing Award for Project Daniel ^[21]
• SXSW Interactive (2015) Innovation Award for Project Daniel^[22]
• Nominet Trust 100 (2014) for Project Daniel^[23]
• NYU/Tisch Craft Award (2004)^[24]
• WPA Maggie Award (2007) Moving Pictures Magazine^[25]
• WPA Maggie Award (2009) Moving Pictures Magazine ^[26]
• TEDMED The Hive (2014) Innovative Startup: Not Impossible ^[27]
• Manhattan Film Festival (2015), "Best Documentary" for Queen Mimi^[28]
• St. Tropez International Film Festival, "Best Director" for Queen Mimi^[29]

Appearances

• Nexus Global Youth Summit (2015) at the United Nations, Featured Speaker ^[30]
• Doha GOALS Forum (2015) Los Angeles, Speaker^[31]
• Sports and Entertainment Philanthropy Summit (2015) Los Angeles, Featured Speaker^[32]
• NxNE Interactive Toronto (2014), Opening Speaker^[33]
• SIGGRAPH (2014) Vancouver, Opening Speaker ^[34]
• SXSW Interactive (2015) Austin, Keynote Speaker ^[35]
• Maker Faire (2015) San Francisco, Featured Speaker ^[36]
• Social Innovation Summit (2015) Washington, D.C., Featured Speaker ^[37]
• SXSW V2V (2015) Las Vegas, Featured Speaker ^[38]
• Techweek LA (2014) Los Angeles, Featured Speaker ^[39]
• The UP Experience / UP Abilities (2015) Houston, Featured Speaker ^[40]
• Monash University Global Challenges (2014) Melbourne AUS, Commencement Day Speaker ^[41]
• Dell Entrepreneur Network Summit (2015) Berlin, GER, Featured Speaker ^[42]
• UCLA Anderson School of Business Social Innovation Week (2015) Los Angeles, Featured Speaker ^[43]

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3. "How 3D Printers Are Transforming Lives in Sudan... And It's Only the Beginning - Intel iQ". Intel iQ.
4. "How a TIME Article Led to the Invention of a $100 3D-Printed Artificial Limb". TIME.com. 2014-01-07.
5. "How a TIME Article Led to the Invention of a $100 3D-Printed Artificial Limb". TIME.com. 2014-01-07.
6. "Sudanese volunteers are printing £60 limbs in six hours for local amputees". Wired UK.
7. Julie Bort. "How A $US100 3D-Printed Arm Is Saving The Children Of Sudan". Business Insider Australia. Retrieved 2015-07-23.
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9. Emma Bryce. "How a 3D printer gave a teenage bomb victim a new arm – and a reason to live". the Guardian. Retrieved 2015-07-23.
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41. "Venice Beach Elliot Kotek – alumnus with big vision & big heart" (PDF). Monash.edu. Retrieved 2015-07-23.
42. "Dell Women's Entrepreneur Summit (DWEN) Kicks Off Dedicated Youth Track". En.community.dell.com. Retrieved 2015-07-23.
43. "2015 Social Innovation Week | UCLA Anderson School of Management". Anderson.ucla.edu. Retrieved 2015-07-23.