Calling all cross-media professionals – The Pixel Market is now open for applications! The Pixel Market will take place on the 16 & 17 October, at the centre of the annual Cross-Media Forum (15 – 18 October), held in association with the 57th BFI London Film Festival. 30 international projects will be selected, with 8 teams chosen to present their …
Shot during a panal discussion at InterDocs Barcelona at the end of May. The panal includes Sandra Gaudenzi (UK), Arnaud Dressen (FR), Alexandre Brachet (FR) and Ricardo Villa (SP) talking about new models/logics of production, distribution and exhibition. DOCSBARCELONA INTERDOCS Business models New models/logics of production, distribution and exhibition from Learning to count on Vimeo.
This is a guest blog post from Paulina Tervo. I was invited by i-Docs to write an update to our interactive project, The Awra Amba Experience. Much has already been written about the project and is circulating on the internet, so I decided focus this blog post on elaborating on our plans for outreach solutions. I live around half a …
I firmly believe that the interactive documentary can be a powerful and effective tool to discuss complex issues and encourage social change. I have looked at five recent and upcoming releases which cover a wide range of topics, but utilise the platform for a similar goal. The Invisible Picture Show This documentary uses phone interviews from children who are detained …
Like any good conference, twitter is providing a brilliant account of what’s going on, key topics and memorable quotes. I’ll be updating this throughout the rest of Sheffield Doc Fest, so check back for updates. [View the story “i-Docs at the xo summit & sessions” on Storify]
Open City Docs Fest is almost here and here at i-Docs we are pleased to announce we are running a lab on Saturday 22 June! The i-Docs Lab is a session dedicated to the interactive documentary form. How can the web be used to offer new opportunities to speak about the real? How can documentary use digital interactivity to transform …
As new technologies increasingly shrink the physical distances between us, allowing us to connect with anyone, anywhere. Is there a gap in the market for technology that brings us together in the real world? Developed by Tim Kindberg and Charlotte Crofts, with ‘pump priming’ funding from REACT, the Nth screen works by turning a group of phones and tablets into …
Exciting news from overseas! The National Film Board of Canada (NFB) documentarian Katerina Cizek will be working with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) OpenDocLab , the first-ever collaboration between two pioneering interactive media organisations. The scope of the project is to develop the next production in the NFB’s multi-award-winning HIGHRISE documentary project – a multi-year, multimedia, collaborative documentary experiment that explores …
Creative technologist Philo van Kemenade and documentary filmmaker Gilles Pradeau have joined forces in bringing together filmmakers and web developers to collaborate on interactive web-based stories. With the web showing more and more opportunities as a medium for interactive storytelling, collaboration beween software and story becomes a key asset in the production of new media narratives. In collaboration with the Mozilla Foundation, …
Great news from the NFB yesterday as they announce their new documentary initiative! The new multi-platform and eventually multi-lingual destination will house some of the world’s best documentaries and interactive experiences. Government Film Commissioner and Chairperson of the NFB, Tom Perlmutter commented: “As one of the most important world centres for documentary, we have a responsibility to audiences here and around the world, …
UWEs Digital Cultures Research Centre and The Pervasive Media Studio present a very special, one-off lunchtime talk with Ken Eklund. From World Without Oil to Ed Zed Omega and Evoke (and Future Coast, upcoming), much of Ken’s work enlists the hypothetical context of Alternate Reality Gaming (ARG) to pose questions about social change and societal challenges. He’ll discuss “authentic fiction,” the art of designing for mass participation, and the potential of play …
Jonathan Harris, the creator of Cowbird, is known for his love of stories and his latest interactive documentary presents a story you don’t often get access to. “I Love Your Work is an interactive documentary about the private lives of nine women who make lesbian porn.It consists of 2,202 10-second video clips, taken at five-minute intervals over 10 consecutive days.The full …
The world of interactive documentary is an exciting place to be at the moment. Zeega’s web doc manifesto went live during Tribeca’s film festival and the NFB’s Insomnia project received some well-deserved recognition. Here’s a few more things that are going on… The Webdox conference starts in just under two weeks. If you’ve yet to hear about it, have a read of our …
Another amazing resource on the horizon: POV have launched a new feature on their site dedicated to providing filmmakers with a directory of resources pertaining to film funding, new media and transmedia funding, public broadcasting, engagement strategists, and a comprehensive list of film festivals which feature documentaries. Also, if they’ve missed anything out, you’re able to contact them at filmmakers[at]pov.org and watch …
“Everything will be online.” Create interactive and engaging webdocumentaries at Webdox 2013: iDROPS Doc Jam, Dox & Tech LAB and Doc Hothouse How does user behaviour change once tablets are involved? How can data be collected and retrieved in a creative way? Which software do you use to make an interactive webdocumentary? What are good open source platforms? Documentaries and …
