Aussies and 'all-star' cast launch storytelling platform Alexander

Nov 24, 2020 at 06:50 pm by Staff


Alexander, a new digital storytelling platform launching today with an 'all-star cast' is the creation of Australian-born film producer Cameron Lamb.

The app-based platform has attracted top writing and acting talent including Academy-Award nominees Helena Bonham Carter and Richard E. Grant, BAFTA and Golden Globe winner Bill Nighy, BAFTA winners Vanessa Kirby and David Tennant, and National Book Award winner Colum McCann.

All have recorded audio performances of original non-fiction stories commissioned from a list of international writers with, unusually, each story presented in the written word, performed audio and also visually enhanced through a 'super short' film.

One of the initial short films stars Emma Corrin, who is currently debuting as Princess Diana in Netflix's The Crown. Feature stories are also commissioned from global authors and journalists, and give access to fascinating places, cultures and people. Features in the Alexander mobile app include the ability to switch between formats, from a teaser film to the full story, to read or listen using proprietary text-to-audio functionality.

Lamb, the grandson of an Australian broadcast pioneer, who was born in Sydney and went to school in Adelaide before heading to Hollywood to pursue a career in film.

"Alexander is for a global audience starved of those intimate, transporting stories that give real access to international and unexplored subjects and places," he says. "I wanted to create something different.

"To bring together three familiar mediums, entwined, working cohesively together, to deliver an immersive world."

The app launches on iOS on the App Store - or visit www.alxr.com - and will be available for Android early next year.


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