//// THE CALL FOR PARTICIPATION IS NOW CLOSED. PLEASE EMAIL IDOCS2014@GMAIL.COM IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS ABOUT PARTICIPATING IN I-DOCS 2014//// Following the success of the i-Docs Symposia in 2011 and 2012, we are delighted to invite you to participate in i-Docs 2014, a two-day event dedicated to the rapidly evolving field of interactive documentary. i-Docs is convened by Judith Aston, Sandra …
This Friday and Saturday, Manchester teenagers are set to tell their own real-life stories through live transmissions from the streets of the city. My Neck of the Woods, a collaboration between Manchester’s Royal Exchange Theatre and BAFTA winning interactive artists Blast Theory, is part documentary, part performance, part live-stream online video experience. The online experience will see young people from the Exchange’s Truth About …
More exciting news from the NFB today; on November 25, TOXA and the National Film Board of Canada (NFB), in association with ARTE, will launch Fort McMoney (fortmcmoney.com), a trilingual (English, French and German) interactive documentary game about the issues facing Fort McMurray, Alberta. Created by David Dufresne. an independent journalist and documentarian who was also behind the well-known interactive documentary Prison Valley. Fort McMurray is a …
A while ago I wrote a post about a collection of interactive documentaries encouraging social change and stated that I believe “interactive documentary can be a powerful and effective tool to discuss complex issues and encourage social change.” Luckily I am again able to prove my point with the launch of Broken Hopes, an interactive documentary about life in Palestine …
Do you have a great idea for an interactive webdocumentary? Are you looking for the expertise to develop your project to a successful webdoc? Do you wonder how you can put your project on the market? Are you looking for funding? During WEBDOX – Doc Hothouse you will discover how to successfully blast your interactive documentary idea into the market …
In association with the 57th BFI London Film Festival, Power to the Pixel’s Cross-Media Forum, is taking place this year on the 15–18 October. The event focuses on those working in cross media and features talks from Lance Weiler Co-founder, Reboot Stories, Loc Dao Head of Digital Content & Strategy, NFB and Ingrid Kopp Director of Digital Initiatives, Tribeca Film Institute . These speakers, plus a whole …
The New York Times’s Op-Docs and the National Film Board of Canada (NFB) will debut their new new immersive documentary series as part of the Film Society at Lincoln Center’s New York Film Festival Convergence program – a showcase for storytelling that transcends a single narrative medium – on Monday, Sept. 30, at 7 p.m. ET. Following this, the series will premiere on NYTimes.com in October. “We are greatly honored …
It’s that time of year again where SXSW asks the public to pick the panels they would like to see at the event next March. This year REACT, a Knowledge Exchange Hub for the Creative Economy which is based in Bristol, is hopefully sending a panel to reflect their current Future Documentary Sandbox project. Organised by Matt Davenport, REACT Producer, and …
Snowfall, a New York Times interactive experience which was released in December 2012, brought with it tweets hailing the piece as “the future of journalism”. More recently The Guardian released ‘Firestorm’, which again prompted the same response (from me included…) And the Huffington Post added Elaine Macmillion’s Hollow into the same category stating, ” Anyone who saw promise for the future …
The summer is definitely here and with it comes news of some fantastic events and some unmissable opportunities. Here’s a few that have caught our eye, but have we missed something out? If you think so, please let us know via the comments, Facebook or Twitter – we look forward to hearing from you! The Digital Pitch Got an idea …
KEEP THE DATES FREE FOR i-DOCS 2014 ! We’re thrilled to announce that we’ve set the dates for i-Docs 2014. The Symposium will take place at the Watershed in Bristol, March 20th and 21st hosted by the Digital Cultures Research Centre, University of the West of England. There will be a Call for Papers, Earlybird ticket offers and more info …
Oil Spill. Climate Change. File Sharing. Erectile Dysfunction. Clean Coal. Unspeak is language that deliberately manipulates public opinion and it is also Submarine Channel’s latest interactive documentary. Based on a book of the same name by British journalist Steven Poole’s, the documentary investigates the manipulative power of language. Blending filmmaking, data, technology, and design, the story of Unspeak unfolds across a series …
Interactive documentary crosses over into a number of disciplines and urban ism is no exception. Katerina Cizek’s work with Highrise and McMillion’s recent documentary Hollow both explore people’s relationships to the environments they live in and how they could be improved. Architect and urban designer Daryl Mulvihill is continuing this research through a project entitled Participatory Documentary [and the city]. His company dmau ‘s work …
48 Hour Games, a gamified interactive choose-your-own-way documentary, is the first of its’ kind and it’s getting audiences very excited. Programmed from scratch in Flash by games company Knapnok Games, the documentary was shot during the Nordic Game Jam, an event where 300 game developers from all parts of Scandinavia, meet up and compete to create the most innovative computer …
The TFI new media fund runs every year and grants projects between $50,000 and $100,000 to develop, as well as mentoring and peer support. To qualify, the projects must “present a non-fiction story focused on social issues and include an integrated cross-platform or new media component designed to engage and activate audiences in imaginative ways.” In this video, Elaine Mcmillion …
