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New ‘media accelerator’ program aims to help Utah film and digital talent grow at home

A new incubator for film and digital talent in Utah is being launched by the Salt Lake Film Society, the arts nonprofit that runs the Broadway Centre Cinemas and Tower Theatre.

The new Media Accelerator Studio, or MAST, will help foster animators, game designers and content creators who have finished college, with the intent of letting them thrive in Utah rather than move to the media centers of Los Angeles, Vancouver and New York, said Miles Romney, the co-founder and director of the new initiative.

Romney, an entertainment and tech entrepreneur (and a nephew of Sen.