Asian Financier Media Capital Launches North America Division Led By Industry Vet Ben Waisbren

Special: Singapore-based Indian financier Vistas Media Capital has established a North American division led by film industry vet Ben Weisbren.

Under the leadership of US President Weisbren, who has produced dozens of studio films, the department aims to generate and pay for entertainment and intellectual property investments. The Smurfs: The Lost Village, emoji movie, 300, EqualizerY 22 Jump Street.

Waisbren specializes in managing and structuring investments in studio co-financing partnerships, independent production and distribution deals, and private equity exits. He was a long-time member of the Wild Bunch board of directors.

A former Winston & Strawn attorney previously served on the board of Vistas Media Acquisition Company, a newly merged SPAC (de-SPAC) on the Nasdaq listing, a leading music streaming platform in the Middle East region and North Africa (MENA). . . , Anghami, resulted in the first Arab tech company to enter the Nasdaq.

Vistas is looking for a foreign language IP that can be converted to English content and vice versa.

Vistas Media Capital, led by Indian CEO Abhayanand Singh, previously provided venture capital for content development and production to Golden Ratio Films, a US feature film division partnered with Appian.reborn) co-production and co-production EnergyBiographical feature film about the legendary boxer Willie Pep. The company had previously invested in a horror movie on the road. Son Starring Andy Matichak and Emile Hirsch.

The company has primarily worked in film production, distribution and financing in India, where Golden Ratio Films has produced and released dozens of Indian films in formats and languages ​​over the past four years. Many releases are planned for 2022.

In Singapore, Vistas produces and hosts a nine-day film festival showing South Asian films (Singapore International South Asian Film Festival) in conjunction with the Film Market (South Asian Film Market). Vistas Media plans to launch the first of the Media and Technology Convergence Festival in the United Arab Emirates in November 2022.

CEO Singh, with a background in banking and finance, said today: “We are delighted to launch our North American expansion initiative with Ben, an industry veteran and finance pioneer specializing in the production and distribution of entertainment projection. With our growing presence in India and now Abu Dhabi, we want to use our North American presence to create a continuous corridor of content development, investment and production between these locations to create world-class content for a global audience.

“Given our close relationship with the Vista Media team over the past two years, I am excited to responsibly lead Vistas Media’s expansion in North America in addition to our joint work in international markets. Manufacturers are now present in key areas such as India and the MENA region,” said Waisbren. Dramatic changes in the way screen entertainment spreads around the world are creating opportunities to invest in content development and production that didn’t exist until recently.