Merry Christmas from i-Docs!

To send you off on your merry xmas way, here’s a few of announcements from i-Docs (and Zeega!): Incase you haven’t seen already, Austin Music Map, a brand new project created in Zeega has launched! ” A participatory documentary project that creates portraits of the venues and spaces where musical communities gather, the Austin Music Map invites you to play the cityand map the …

BBC Fusion Summit: where documentary meets the web

A couple of months ago, Mandy Rose spoke at the BBC Fusion Summit which asked the question, ‘what is the future of factual programming?’ Mandy’s talk offers an overview of what’s happening where documentary meets networked culture, with reflections on co-creation, crowd-funding, open rights frameworks and distribution. Interested? Well here’s the whole talk below:   To find out more about the BBC …

Keep on Steppin’: Submarine’s brand new cross-media project is released!

An exciting announcement for a friday afternoon from Submarine Channel: We’re proud to share with you that we’ve just released Keep on Steppin’, our newest cross-media project comprised of five short poetic films, an interactive website, an iPad documentary app (still being approved by Apple!), the book Koeraaj Koeraaj and a photo exhibition. In Keep on Steppin’, filmmaker Marjoleine Boonstra …

CALL FOR ENTRIES: World Press Photo Multimedia Contest 2013

Alongside their  56th annual photojournalism contest, World Press Photo are holding their multimedia contest for a 3rd time and are looking for entries. World Press Photo have recognised documentary storytellers additions to the field of visual journalism, focusing on innovative and exciting work within three broad categories:  an online short, and online feature and, most importantly for the i-Docs community, an interactive documentary! Their …

Clouds: a documentary about code and culture – An update

UPDATE:  Following the release of their pilot version of the project, the Clouds team now want to produce the documentary in an interactive environment: “The CLOUDS experience is generated from a database of richly tagged interviews. For you, the viewer, the story begins with your curiosity. You input a question or search term as the starting point, setting the initial …

The Zeega revolution: remake the Internet!

It has been difficult to keep track of the authoring tool that have emerged lately: seven new tools (Klynt,  Popcorn Maker, 3WDOC, Conductr, Storyplanet, Galahad and Zeega) in the last two years… enough for all of us to question  how are they different and how can we choose between them when starting a new i-doc. This is why, at last year’s i-Docs  conference, we decided …

Interactive Documentary Conference – Amsterdam – Nov 2012

There was an upbeat mood at last Sunday’s Interactive Documentary Conference, organised by Caspar Sonnen for the fifth anniversary of the IDFA new media programme Doclab. The one-day event was one element in the Expanding Documentary programme which also included a number of exhibitions and live cinema events. “How does the documentary genre connect to visual art, music or the …

Translimitstorytelling: creating stories for the digital age

Translimitstorytelling is a brand new company dedicated to creating stories for the digital age. Headed up by Nina Simoes, who spoke at i-Docs 2011 & 2012, they already have two strong in-house productions, the company is also open to co-productions with creators who are experimenting with groundbreaking technologies and innovative ways to engage with audiences. The team behind Translimitstorytelling is …

Cloud Filmmaking: a post from Mandy Rose

In a recent blog post –  Stop Making Docs –  Brian Newman argued that the era of the short doc has arrived. With the web, shareable media, mobile exhibition, he argues, the longer and feature length documentaires that dominate festivals are no longer where it’s at, if the aim is to reach an audience and make an impact. His alternative, “Make …

i-Docs at Mozfest

i-Docs was lucky to spend the whole weekend at Mozfest, playing with new tools, hearing about exciting projects and beginning the web documentary manifesto – follow the news from day 1 here.

i-Docs goes to #Mozfest

We’re at Mozfest this weekend and in the spirit of the event, will be providing live updates throughout the weekend through the i-Docs Storify, which worked so successfully during our symposium. If you’re not aware of the Mozilla Festival, in the words of Mark Surman (Mozilla’s Executive Director) it’s “about anyone and everyone interested in the possibilities the web has …