• Source: RYOT

RYOT (or, riot) is an American immersive media company founded in 2012 by Bryn Mooser, David Darg, Molly DeWolf Swenson and Martha Rogers, based in Los Angeles. It specializes in documentary film production, commercial production, virtual reality and augmented reality.
In April 2016, RYOT was acquired by HuffPost. In May 2021, RYOT was acquired by Apollo Global Management alongside other Verizon Media properties for $5 billion. The transaction was closed on September 1, 2021.




History






= Founding and early years

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Bryn Mooser and David Darg met in Haiti during the weeks after the earthquake of January 2010. Both were in the country doing humanitarian work, Mooser with Artists for Peace and Justice, to build a school, and Darg with Operation Blessing, to build water and sanitation systems. After working alongside each other and becoming friends, Mooser and Darg had the idea to create a baseball league for the young boys of the Tabarre neighborhood of Port-au-Prince.
Soon after, Mooser and Darg returned home to America, brought on Molly DeWolf Swenson as COO, and launched RYOT News as “the first news site linking news to action.”
Founding investors are Canadians Martha Rogers and Gareth Seltzer, and other notable funders include Todd Wagner and Jason Calacanis.
Celebrity activists Olivia Wilde, Ian Somerhalder, Ben Stiller and Sophia Bush were early supporters of RYOT. Olivia Wilde and Elon Musk have been Executive Producers on multiple RYOT Films.
Founding Directors of the company alongside Mooser and Darg were Stash Slionski and Stacey Leasca while the first reporters included Benjamin Roffee, Vanessa Black, Stefan Todorovic, Tyson Sadler and Christian Stephen.
Mooser and Darg documented their work with the young boys in Haiti in their Tribeca award-winning film Baseball in the Time of Cholera, which follows the rise of the Tabarre Tigers and the concurrent outbreak of cholera in Haiti. The film played at film festivals and finished with a Congressional screening in Washington, D.C. A year later, Mooser and Darg, debuted their third film at the 2013 Tribeca Film Festival, a documentary short titled The Rider and The Storm, which chronicles a New York surfer who lost everything in the Breezy Point fires during Hurricane Sandy.




= 2015-present: VR and later productions

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Executive-produced by Olivia Wilde and Paul Allen, Body Team 12 profiles a young Liberian health worker who collects the bodies of the dead in Monrovia at the height of the Ebola outbreak in 2014. It debuted on HBO in February 2016. On Her Shoulders, a documentary about Nadia Murad's fight against ISIS, debuted in competition at Sundance Film Festival in January 2018, where it won a Directing award for a U.S. Documentary.
The Painter of Jalouzi was the first documentary to be shot entirely on an iPhone 6S Plus.
RYOT began producing 360/VR videos for other media organizations, advertisers and nonprofits in 2015. In their first produced 360/VR films for partners such as The New York Times, NPR, The Associated Press, Huffington Post and Sierra Club.
RYOT is credited as the first company to capture in 360 video,1. An active war zone (Syria), a disaster zone (Nepal), underwater with wild dolphins (Bahamas), and is the first company to produce VR news and comedy series on a major network (Hulu).




Divisions


RYOT Studio is Verizon Media's in-house branded content agency.
RYOT Films creates content in traditional & immersive formats across film, TV, digital, and VR, producing content for clients.
RYOT Lab is Verizon Media's technology and innovation hub for emerging technologies, in partnership with Verizon Lab.




Awards and nominations


RYOT Films was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary (Short Subject) for Body Team 12 in January 2016. Body Team 12 was also honored at the Tribeca Film Festival, the Mountainfilm Festival, the Palm Springs International Film Festival, and the Austin Film Festival for Best Documentary Short.




Filmography






= Virtual reality filmography

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References

• Source: Ryot

Ryot (alternatives: raiyat, rait or ravat) was a general economic term used throughout India for peasant cultivators but with variations in different provinces. While zamindars were landlords, raiyats were tenants and cultivators, and served as hired labour.
A raiyat was defined as someone who has acquired a right to hold land for the purpose of cultivating it, whether alone or by members of his family, hired servants, or partners. It also referred to succession rights.




Etymology


Ryot originates from the Hindi-Urdu word ra`īyat and the Arabic word ra`īyah, translated as "flock" or "peasants", in turn originating from the word ra`ā, meaning "pasture".




Classifications


Under the Mughal system of land control there were two types of raiyats: khudkasta and paikasta. The khudkasta raiyats were permanent resident cultivators of the village. Their rights in land were heritable according to Muslim and Hindu laws of succession. The other type of raiyats were called paikasta. They did not cultivate land on a permanent basis in any particular mauza (lowest revenue plus village settlement unit), but instead moved from mauza to mauza and engaged themselves for a crop season. In terms of revenue, the paikasta raiyats were generally paid a much lower rate of rent than the khudkashta raiyats. The dividend to the khudkasta, who thus became an absentee owner, came from hard bargaining. Pahikasht raiyats were a subgroup of peasants who cultivated the land away from the area where they resided.
Another subgroup included under-raiyats who were entitled to various rights of occupancy and transferable interests. An under-raiyat was referred to as a korfa, though an under-raiyat paying rent in kind was referred to as a bargait.
In March 1859, during the period of Company rule, thousands of ryots in Bengal refused to grow Indigo.
The Bengal Tenancy Act of 1885 was developed to regulate the rent of under-raiyats. One of the causes of the Bengal Tenancy Act of 1885 was the Bihar Rent Committee report of 1879 which sought rights for the raiyat to resist illegal restraint and illegal enhancement, and allowing him to prove and maintain his occupancy rights.




Ryotwari system



There were two economic systems prevalent in India during the British rule: the ryotwari system and the mahalwari system. The ryotwari system was known as "severality villages" and based on the system of peasant proprietorship. The ryotwari (or ryotwary) tenure related to land revenue imposed on an individual or community owning an estate and occupied a position analogous to that of a landlord. The assessment was known as "zamindari".
The land revenue was imposed on individuals who are the actual occupants, and the assessment was known as "ryotwari". Under zamindari tenure, the land was held as independent property, and under ryotwari tenure, it was held of the crown in a right of occupancy, which under British rule was both heritable and transferable by the ryots. The former system prevailed in northern and central India and the latter in Bombay, Madras, Assam and Burma. The Ryot's association was formed by N. G. Ranga.




References

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• Bryn Mooser
• On Her Shoulders
• David Darg
• Zamindar
• Body Team 12
• Earth (lagu)
• Mogul Mowgli
• Lifeboat (film 2018)
• Olivia Wilde
• Flee (film)
• RYOT
• Ryot
• Zamin Ryot
• Suprabhatam (1998 film)
• Brahmanandam
• Hands Up (2000 film)
• Ryotwari
• Preminche Manasu
• Bryn Mooser
• R. Tamil Selvan