Joel Newton has worked in the entertainment industry for over 20 years as a producer, executive, manager, writer, director, and entrepreneur. He co-founded a management/production company that represented hundreds of Hollywood writers, directors, and actors and also produced two award-winning films. He then co-founded a production company with a 2-time Academy Award winner before they launched The Virtual Reality Company (VRC) in 2014. Newton was a 2016 Praxis Fellow as the co-founder of VRC and the company raised over $25M in venture capital to fuel ambitious immersive entertainment projects such as Jurassic World VR, which launched exclusively at Dave & Busters. In 2017, Newton left VRC to launch The Congregation, an entertainment company that cultivates artist careers, entertainment properties, and the capital required to catalyze both. In 2018 The Congregation launched CityLights, an immersive media financing label.
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