Core Storytelling Excellence

Outstanding Experience Award Celebrates groundbreaking storytelling achievements through cutting-edge technology

Outstanding Gaming Award Recognizes exceptional achievements within gaming environments

Outstanding Virtual Production Award Honors groundbreaking work in virtual productions

Outstanding New Media Art Award Celebrates excellence in visual arts through new media technologies or transformative artistic experien

Industry Impact & Recognition

Rob Legato Next Gen Award Acknowledges exceptional contributions of students and teachers in fostering creativity, innovation, and excellence in film, television, and digital media

2025 Festival Award Community-driven award celebrating the project that most resonates with Infinity Festival audiences

Monolith Lifetime Achievement Award Highest honor of the Infinity Festival Recognizes individual achievement as the pinnacle of creative and technical excellence

Monolith Visionary Award Celebrates creators who use narrative innovation to inspire, connect, and advance culture

Jeroen Hallaert

Co-Executive Producer, 2025 Monolith Awards | Executive Producer, Infinity Festival

Jeroen Hallaert serves as Co-Executive Producer for the 2025 Monolith Awards and Executive Producer of the Infinity Festival, bringing extensive experience in live events production and cutting-edge entertainment technology. His production credits include major tours for U2 and Metallica, as well as work with Cirque Du Soleil and Celine Fashion.

As Vice President of Production Services at PRG (Production Resource Group), Hallaert has been instrumental in advancing virtual production and extended reality (xR) technologies.

He led the development of innovative solutions for U2’s eXPERIENCE + iNNOCENCE Tour, including the patent-pending Pure10 transparent LED screen technology. Under his leadership, PRG expanded its Virtual Production Studio capabilities, creating state-of-the-art facilities that have facilitated productions ranging from xR performances and 3D interactive environments to broadcast TV shows, commercials, and product launches.

Regarding the festival’s approach, Hallaert emphasizes that the best events should be treated as highly sophisticated televised productions with great content, high-quality production resources, and innovation powering deep engagement.

For the 2025 Monolith Awards, he notes that the theme “Innovators in the Age of Change” celebrates technologists and creators who blend bold imagination with cutting-edge innovation, from AI to immersive media, leading a new cultural and creative frontier.

Andrea Bari

Co-Executive Producer, 2025 Monolith Awards | Head of XR

Andrea “Andy” Bari spent over 20 years negotiating, drafting, and administrating entertainment contracts as an entrepreneur, producer or manager, representing, among many, record labels such as Kiefer Sutherland’s Ironworks, and Matthew McConaughey’s JK Livin’. At the beginning of his career, he carried two entertainment startups from funding to exit, he worked behind the camera in major motion pictures, as a consultant for independent films, and in-house with production companies such as De Line Pictures at Warner Bros and Tom Hanks’ Playtone Productions. As a key expert witness in intellectual property controversies, Andy mediates creative endeavors and aids judges’ rulings with regards to entertainment-related issues or controversies. His legal research expands from the original intent and history of intellectual property to the most modern subjects between creativity and tech, such as generative artificial intelligence. For two years he was also the chief legal researcher for the United Nations special rapporteur of cultural rights, under the High Commissioner for human rights. Since January 2019, Andy has been a part-time entertainment law and business professor at UCLA, Dodge (Chapman film school), at the law school of the University of La Verne, and at the Musicians Institute. Currently, he is the producing partner of author Dan Brown and the leading director of the large-projection immersive experience medium, Max Siccardi. Among many other production and management endeavors, he helps as the head of XR and co-producer of the Monolith Awards for the Infinity Festival, the leading festival merging storytelling and new media technology.

Marc Sternberg

Co-Producer, 2025 Monolith Awards

Marc Sternberg serves as Co-Producer of the 2025 Monolith Awards at the Infinity Festival, bringing a distinctive blend of entertainment production expertise and business innovation to the role. An accomplished marketing and e-commerce executive with over 20 years of experience, he has driven growth for multi-million dollar consumer products and brands while pioneering new ventures at the intersection of technology and media. Sternberg is the founder of TruthB!rds, an AI technology company positioned to transform the online review marketplace.

His academic credentials include two master’s degrees—an MBA from the University of Arizona and an MA from Northern Arizona University—complemented by advanced creative writing studies at the University of Oxford, where he specialized in screenwriting. As a producer, writer, and director, Sternberg’s diverse portfolio includes “The Glitch,” “Unknown Country,” “Why We Mow,” “Cowgirls: Women of Western Art,” and “Out of the Box with Thomas Blackshear,” among other projects.

Through his production company, Son of a Botanist Productions, Sternberg has created more than 200 short films and commercials over the past 12 years, developing branded content that merges commercial objectives with artistic vision. He has spearheaded digital transformation initiatives across multiple organizations and serves as an active member of the Fulbright Specialist Program. Sternberg’s unique value lies in his ability to bridge marketing strategy with cinematic storytelling, creating content that resonates both as compelling narrative and effective brand communication.

Josh Arensberg – Verizon

Jordan Bartow – Google Cloud

John Canning – AMD

Rick Champagne – NVIDIA

Patrick Costello – Qualcomm

Paul Debevec – Netflix

John Gauntt – The Augmented City

Lisa Gerber – Amazon Web Services

Dan Gregoire – Nep Virtual Studios

Annie Hanlon – Netflix

Marc Johnson – Live Planet, Inc.

Phil Lelyveld – ETC @ USC

Mark Lieber – Infinity Festival

Penny Malsch – Intel

Barbara Marshall – Z by Hp

Will McDonald – Unity

Danilo Moura – Simulated Reality

John Rubey – Rubey Entertainment

Anshel Sag – Moor Insights and Strategy

Lori H. Schwartz – StoryTech

Seth Shapiro – Alpha Transform Holdings

Brad Spahr – Sony Music

Christina Lee Storm – Netflix

Sebastian Sylwan – Netflix

Alice Taylor – Disney StudioLab

Todd Terrazas – JoinAI

Chris Vienneau – Movielabs

Erik Weaver – ETC @USC

Ken Williams – ETC @ USC

Michael Zink – WarnerMedia

Mariana Acuna Acosta – Technicolor

Daniel Barak – R/GA

Vicki Dobbs Beck – ILMxLAB

Elijah Allan-Blitz – Director

Ana Brzezinska – Tribeca

Raegan Brown – Intel

Rick Champagne – NVIDIA

Christian Cloud – Intel

Simon Crownshaw – Microsoft

Noam Dromi – Reboot Studios

Addy Ghani – Disguise

Carolyn Giardina – Variety

Alton Glass – GRX Immersive

Annie Hanlon – Netflix

Alexx Henry – BlueVishnu

Marc Johnson – Digital Media Executive

Blake Kammerdiener – SXSW

Bill Kendal – Story World

Kevin Lau – mOcean

John MacInnes – MacInnes Studios

Daniel Mallek – Yu Studio

Barbara Marshall – Z by HP

Ron Martin – Unity

Adam Newman – Infinity Festival

Amanda Orr – Toonstar

Joanna Popper – Independent

Morgan Prygrocki – Adobe

Jackson Rogow – Infinity Festival

Lori H. Schwartz – StoryTech

A.J. Sciutto – Magnopus

Eric Shamlin – Media Monks

Christina Lee Storm – Independent

Alice Taylor – Disney Studio Lab

Ste Thompson – Powster

Justin Winters – Verified Labs

Boo Wong – Independent

Iris Wu – Ambidio