We are delighted to invite you to join us for the fifth i-Docs Community Conversation with Kate Nash and Patty Zimmermann – a collaboration with FLEFF (Finger Lakes Environmental Film Festival). This webinar is an online conversation about Kate Nash’s recently published monograph, Interactive Documentary – Theory and Debate. Published in July by Routledge, Interactive Documentary – Theory and Debate explores the …
i-Docs Community Conversation 4: Immersive Audiences
We are delighted to invite you to join us for our fourth i-Docs Community Conversations webinar – Immersive Audiences While the last decade has seen a burgeoning of immersive nonfiction; commissioners, producers and researchers have tended to focus their attention on the poetics of immersive media, leaving exhibition and audience experience under-examined. This event addresses that gap – bringing together …
Community Conversations 3: i-docs and multi-perspectival thinking
UPDATE: The video recording of this webinar is now available! You can view it here. We are delighted to invite you to join us for our third i-Docs Community Conversations webinar – i-docs and multi-perspectival thinking. In this webinar i-Docs Co-director, Judith Aston, and Stefano Odorico, Director of the International Research Centre for Interactive Storytelling (IRIS), will present their ongoing …
i-Docs Community Conversations: Creative Practice & Climate Crisis
We are delighted to invite you to join us for our second i-Docs Community Conversations webinar – Creative Practice and Climate Crisis. UPDATE: The video for this session is now available! You can view it here. One of our themes for the now-postponed i-Docs conference back in March this year was ‘climate and ecological emergency’, and we had a number …
i-Docs Community Conversations: Co-creating in times of corona pandemic
Join us as we launch i-Docs Community Conversations, a new seminar series which enables us to connect remotely with the i-Docs community and beyond. UPDATE: The video recording of this webinar is now available, you can VIEW IT HERE. First up is CO-CREATING IN TIMES OF CORONA PANDEMIC – Thursday 2 July. A conversation between Sandra Gaudenzi (i-Docs), Sandra Tabares …
Final i-Docs 2018 tickets, and ‘Immerse Yourself’: a Showcase
Just over one week to go until i-Docs 2018 kicks of at Watershed, Bristol! The full programme has been released, you can peruse our packed schedule of keynotes, panels, workshops, work-in-progress presentations and more over on the symposium microsite. There are still a handful of tickets left, if you’re quick you can get one here. As part of i-Docs we …
The 4th iteration of !F Lab comes with a complete new methodology: the WHAT IF IT Process
A few personal reflections before hosting a panel on methodologies of production at i-Docs 2018 (21-23 of March, Bristol). Our application to the IF Lab 2018 workshop, a training in interactive storytelling, is opened till mid February. But why should you apply? What is !F Lab, and what are we trying to do? While I am waiting for challenging and inquisitive …
Don’t miss our Immerse takeover: Why do i-docs matter?
Last month the i-Docs team took over Immerse, posing the question, Why do i-docs matter? to practitioners and academics, many of whom contributed chapters to our book i-Docs: The Evolving Practices of Interactive Documentary. An initiative of Tribeca Film Institute, MIT Open DocLab and The Fledgling Fund, Immerse is a monthly online publication providing creative discussion around emerging nonfiction storytelling. Now in …
CLOSING SOON! i-Docs 2018: Call for Participation
SUBMISSIONS CLOSE MONDAY OCTOBER 16, 2017 Following the success of the previous i-Docs Symposia, and the continued dynamic expansion and evolution of the field, we are seeking proposals for papers, case studies and projects to showcase at the fifth edition in 2018. Convened by Judith Aston, Sandra Gaudenzi and Mandy Rose, and hosted by the University of the West of …
Catch up with i-Docs at Visible Evidence 2017
Now in its’ 24th year, the international conference on documentary film and media, Visible Evidence 2017 will convene in Buenos Aires, Argentina, from August 2-5. This year both Mandy Rose and Judith Aston from the i-Docs team will be presenting papers, chairing sessions and participating in workshops. The conference this year also coincides with the 100th anniversary of the Russian Revolution …
VR for News: The New Reality? | Reuters Institute Report
Reuters Institute have released a must-read report by Zillah Watson, who has led the editorial development of VR experimentation at the BBC. VR for News: The New Reality? examines ongoing developments in VR, the major challenges – both in terms of content and application, and technology – and what the future of VR might look like for news organisations around the world. “The …
My day @ Doc/Fest
Every year, Sheffield welcomes la crème de la crème of the documentary world to its Doc/Fest – digital factual included. So for the past ten years, it has been a handy way for me to sense the evolution of the interactive factual market and reflect on where it might go next. This year I could only go for one day and …
Alternate Realities in Latin America & other dispatches from Sheffield Doc/Fest ’17
Announced over the weekend, Sheffield Doc/Fest and the British Council will be taking a selection of work currently being shown in theAlternate Realities exhibition on tour to Latin America. Between July and November, nine projects will be shown at DocMontevideo, Uruguay, DOCSP, Brazil, and Noviembre Electrónico, Argentina. The British Council-supported tour is central to Doc/Fest’s strategy of connecting audiences from across the …
Navigating Alternate Realities at Sheffield Doc/Fest 2017
Starting this Friday and running until 14 June, the Alternate Realities programme at Sheffield Doc/Fest features a great selection of talks and projects from the interactive and immersive documentary field. The majority of the talks this year are part of the Alternate Realities summit which kicks off on Sunday. A day curated by digital creative Dan Tucker and hosted by May Abdalla …
Why do interactive stories matter?
Why do interactive stories matter, especially after the Brexit and Trump vote? This was the springboard for a discussion held earlier this week for the London launch of the recently published i-Docs book. Organised by Sandra Gaudenzi, the event was part of “disLAB presents”, a series of free encounters from the Digital and Interactive Storytelling Lab at Westminster University. Attended by industry folk, …