Industry Spotlight: Jon Gosier,

Founder, FilmHedge

Jon Gosier is an executive producer and financier of film and television who develops and co-finances media projects. He is the founder of FilmHedge, a fintech company that provides financing of up to $10 million per film or TV production.

He is the Founder/Owner of Southbox Literary (publishing), Southbox Capital (private equity), and Southbox Entertainment (Film/TV production). Before his work in film, Jon spent ten years in venture capital and tech. His 2014 TED Talk about ethical innovation has been viewed millions of times. Gosier is the founder and former CEO of Audigent, recently named one of the fastest-growing tech companies in the country by INC5000 and Deloitte. He was named one of ‘the new faces of Black Leadership’ by TIME Magazine in 2015. Jon is focused on creating new financial models in the entertainment industry. Audigent provided artists like Camila Cabello, Eminem, Post Malone, Blake Shelton, Bruno Mars, Ed Sheeran, Shakira, Rihanna, Jay-Z, and other entertainers with new ways of understanding audience data. Audigent past and present partners include Raised in Space, Warner Music, Broadscale, Spotify, Tidal, and Nielsen. Before that, he was best known for working in crisis response and counterintelligence in East Africa. While living in Uganda, co-founded various organizations in Africa, including AfriLabs, a network of tech innovation hubs that now reaches 90+ cities, Appfrica, a tech consultancy that serviced Google, Facebook, and Twitter; was a former director at Ushahidi, estimated to have reached more than 25 million people with its open-source software). The White House lauded his work in these areas in 2010, 2012, and 2013. He is an alumnus of Savannah College of Art and Design and the THNK School of Creative Leadership and Innovation. Guest lecturer and presenter at Yale, Harvard, Princeton, MIT, Lund University in Sweden, NYU, Rollins College, Wharton, Temple, Drexel, U Penn, and more. You can read more about his journey in his book Code Switch: A Memoir.

In April 2023, Gosier and his company FilmHedge proudly sponsored the first annual CannesATL/ CannesGA mixer, an event founded to highlight Georgia’s contributions to the international TV/film industry at Festival de Cannes, and the Marché du Film.