Exciting news from Tribeca last week as they announce their selections for the upcoming festival. Five projects made it into the interactive Storyscapes section, including Choose Your Own Documentary – a show which is part of i-Docs 2014! Tribeca Film Festival’s Storyscapes, created in collaboration with BOMBAY SAPPHIRE Gin, is a juried section at the Festival to showcase innovative and interactive …
We are pleased to announce that i-Docs 2014 delegates have the chance to experience ‘Door Into The Dark’, a work-in-progress from current Pervasive Media Studio residents, Anagram: Just a block down from the busy conference, a door into the dark has been installed. Be led by the hand into a world of characters who know the true meaning of being lost …
The following is a guest post from Mary Mitchell with her thoughts on the Guardian’s interactive documentary, Firestorm. The Guardian’s second foray into interactive documentary, ‘Firestorm’, is a beautifully crafted piece of immersive storytelling. Centered on photographs taken by The Holmes Family family fleeing a Tasmanian bushfire, the project crafts interviews, photographs, text and a breathtaking soundtrack into a linear structure. …
This post originally appeared on the Helios blog and has been reposted with permission so members of the i-Docs community can learn about this ambitious and visually captivating project. Wednesday, Jan 22 marks the world premiere of OFFSHORE as an interactive, immersive live-space installation in the 2014 edition of SmartFIP@ in Biarritz, France. Later that week OFFSHORE premieres here in Canada as part …
Although the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam (IDFA) finished on Monday, there’s still tons of things to explore from the event. I’m still on the look out for any slides that get posted up or reviews of the festival, so this list may get modified, but for now here’s a a few of the big things that happened there: Jonathan …
I’ve finally managed to experience National Geographic’s latest interactive offering ‘Killing Kennedy’ and I’m so glad I took the time to do it. The documentary is brilliantly finished and presents a seamless experience which I enjoyed beginning to end. The dual narrative between Kennedy and Oswald was central to the piece and keeping up with both sides of the story …
Our call for participation now has an extended deadline of Monday 25 November. We’re really looking forward to hearing your ideas and remember, alternative formats are very welcome! If you have any questions, email us at idocs2014@gmail.com and if you haven’t already, download the full details for the call here. i-Docs is convened by Judith Aston, Sandra Gaudenzi and Mandy Rose, and hosted by the Digital Cultures …
Based on British journalist Steven Poole´s intriguing book of the same name, Submarine Channel presents Unspeak, an interactive documentary investigating the manipulative power of language. Blending filmmaking, data, technology, and design, the story of Unspeak unfolds across a series of short films, data visualizations, and a participatory dictionary in an interface designed for the web and tablet. I spoke to …
Audible (2013) is a 15-minute long Finnish web documentary by Yle Documentaries. It tells the story of a girl, who was born deaf, but can now hear with the help of cochlear implants. The story is visualized with watercolour backgrounds and hand drawn illustrations, giving the experience an artistic edge. I was contacted by Katri Kovula, who made the documentary and …
With nearly 800 film & video projects currently looking for funding on Kickstarter, getting yours noticed can be tough. However this interactive documentary by Avni Nijhawan really caught my eye. Focusing on daily sexual harassment in India, Fearless looks to go beyond the headlines to really show what it’s like to be a young women in urban India. The idea for …
Mozfest 2013 took place over the weekend and the web still seems to be buzzing with excitement over the event. Sandra Gaudenzi will be reflecting on the sessions she attending in an upcoming blog post, but for now i’ve pulled out a few bits that really hooked me. Redesigning Popcorn Maker for Journalists Innovation without permission looks like this http://t.co/Qz7L8EXQSK …
An extended interview by Adam Westbrook with Guy Gunaratne from Storygami republished with permission on i-Docs. I’ve known Adam Westbrook for a good while now, we share a journalism alumnus and he has since become a great source of conversation for me. You could call him a collector of stories of a sort as he has spent more time than …
Just off the highway in the Similkameen Valley in British Columbia, there’s an idyllic white church that most travellers barely notice. But this little chapel is an integral part of the history and identity of the Similkameen people―as well as a symbol of the conflicted position of the Church on First Nations communities in Canada. For Métis artist Tyler Hagan, …
We have some exciting news to share with you today! Not only do we have some fantastic keynotes already confirmed for i-Docs 2014, we can now also announce an exciting ‘Choose your own Documentary’ performance. Inspired by the Choose Your Own Adventure phenomenon of the 1980’s – Choose Your Own Documentary tells the true story of the discovery by Nathan Penlington of a diary and his …
The New York Times’s Op-Docs and the National Film Board of Canada (NFB) have debuted their immersive, interactive multimedia series, A Short History of the Highrise yesterday. Optimised for tablet and comprised of videos on urban highrise living, the series had its world premiere at the New York Film Festival and launched yesterday on NYTimes.com. Incase you weren’t aware already, the series …
