Amazing news from POV yesterday with the announcement that they are further embracing interactive storytelling by launching six new projects on their site! American television’s longest-running showcase for independent nonfiction films, is taking a bold leap into new forms of storytelling with the launch of these interactive shorts at pbs.org/pov/digital. Delving into topics about contemporary social issues, these web-native documentaries allow …
This article has been republished with permission from PttP, the original post appeared here. In the lead up to the Pixel Market Finance Forum (8 Oct) – the PttP team are conducting a series of interviews with their panelists. Funding and finance is a key topic for our i-Docs community, so here’s their second interview with Lucia Haslauer, Commissioning Editor for German public …
Points of View, the interactive documentary produced by Zohar Kfir, gives the viewer an incredible insight into the daily lives of Palestinians living in the Occupied Territories. The basis for project is video footage from B’Tselem, The Israeli Information Center for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories. In 2007, B’Tselem began giving Palestinians living in the West Bank and Gaza …
This post by Alison Norrington, originally appeared on here Story Central. The brainchild of Creative Director and PhD researcher, Nina Simoes, Meet Lucy is an innovative and interactive story that highlights the reality of housing issues in London and runs parallel to Learn Do Share. Nina brought together a smart trio to work together to produce and deliver the story …
INSIDE THE DISTANCE: an interactive web documentary on restorative justice by Sharon Daniel is now online, following its gallery installation last year. A touchscreen installation version of INSIDE THE DISTANCE premiered in the exhibition CONVICTIONS at STUK Kunstencentrum in September 2013. i-Docs interviewed artist, Sharon Daniel in November about the solo exhibition, which included four of her documentary works on criminal justice, (“i-Docs in Public …
Four interactive storytelling hacks on different sides of the world are looking for participants – this is an exciting opportunity to get a project idea of the ground, with hacks giving the space for new ideas, collaboration and perhaps most importantly, the chance to create a working prototype. Feast your eyes on these four upcoming hacks: First up and here in …
Guest post from Joe Smith, Kim Hammond and George Revill , The Open University The Earth in Vision project is exploring the potential and significance of digital broadcast archives (DBAs), looking at environment related media as a case study. We are working specifically with fifty hours of BBC broadcast archive of environmental programmes from the late 1950s onwards. In addition to …
10th September 2014 – 11th September 2014 | Watershed, Bristol Making the City Playable – Convened by Watershed, the Festival of Ideas and UWE Bristol’s Digital Cultures Research Centre and featuring Google Creative Lab’s Tom Uglow, DCRC’s Tine Bech and Seth Giddings, architect Usman Haque, artist Luke Jerram, and Ogilvy’s Tara Austin this two-day international conference will explore the theme of the ‘Playable City’, asking what it might mean for citizens, …
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There have been a few opportunities for interactive documentary makers over the last month, so incase you missed them, here’s a quick rundown. Most of the calls have already been posted on either our Facebook group or through Twitter – so make sure you’re following us! Future of Storytelling prize: The FoST Prize will be awarded to the most exceptional …
