Future of Film Podcast · S03 E11 Telling Stories Across Film and Games

"As much as it is a labour of love ... we are creating minimum viable products through a prototyping process that we take to market and sell." Naysun Alae-Carew

Naysun Alae-Carew is a storyteller and Managing Director of Blazing Griffin, the pioneering Glasgow-based entertainment company which uses a format-agnostic approach to tell stories across film, games and TV. 

Speaking at the 2020 Glasgow Film Festival (just before the whole world changed), Naysun shares his insights on telling stories as both films and games and the commercial and creative process that Blazing Griffin use to achieve this. He also shares the powerful personal story behind the making of the zombie-musical-comedy, Anna and the Apocalypse and provides unique insight on building an entertainment company ground up for today’s multi-platform digital age.

Many thanks to Glasgow Film Festival for making this episode possible.

About Naysun Alae Carew

Naysun Alae-Carew is the Managing Director of Blazing Griffin, a BAFTA-winning Glasgow-based digital entertainment company which specialises in telling stories across a wide range of platforms and mediums with a specific focus on video game development, film and TV development and production and post production services.

Naysun oversees business development, operations and strategy as well as heading up the company’s film and TV division. Naysun produced the feature film Anna and The Apocalypse (Orion/MGM), premiered at the Fantastic Fest it won the Best Midnight X-treme film in 2017 and received a 2019 Saturn Award nomination.

Blazing Griffin’s BAFTA award winning Games division develops top quality video games. Their newest game Murder Mystery Machine was launched on Apple Arcade in September 2019. Other games developed and published by Blazing Griffin include Murderous Pursuits, The Ship: Murder Party and Distant Star.

Blazing Griffin Post Production offers end to end post-production services and staff from their state-of-the-art 4K HDR post production facility in Glasgow’s digital media quarter - the first of its kind in Scotland. Providing services to some of the largest productions in Scotland, recent credits include editorial service on Outlander (Starz/Sony TV), strong factual output for episodes of specialist documentaries including; Dispatches (C4), Imagine (BBC) and Murder Case (BBC) and full picture post on the highly acclaimed BBC drama ‘Guilt’.

Naysun was previously a junior producer with Black Camel Pictures, where he developed and helped deliver Outpost 2 and 3 and the Sunshine on Leith. In 2011 he won a New Talent BAFTA for Best Producer for the short Zombie Musical, which was also nominated for Best Director and Best Original Music.

Naysun is a graduate of the University of St Andrews with a first-class MA(Hons) in Economics and International Relations. He won the William Blair Memorial Prize for best academic performance in Economics because he loves spreadsheets so much.