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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 …
WebDox 2013 has been an amazing conference: held in Leuven, Belgium, and organised by the Media Desk and iDROPS, WebDox has managed to pull together la crème de la crème of interactive documentary… The full programme can be found on Webdox’s website but, just to give you an idea, here was the line up: Jonathan Harris (US) – technological artist and maker …
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, …
The Tribeca Film Institute have announced their newest venture, the TFI Sandbox. The brand new site focuses on all the TFI digital initiatives including Tribeca Hacks and TFI interactive. Through the sandbox, users can get insights into new projects as well as an amazing resources section. Some projects which have already benefited from funding through include Elaine Mcmillion’s Hollow, Jigar …
Anne Guion, a French reporter from La Vie (a print weekly which belongs to Le Monde group) has used Klynt to create an i-Doc in under a week. The narrative follows Farkhonda, a refugee from Afghanistan who has spent the last 12 years living in Australia, as she returns to Kabul. The idea originally came from Viviane Dalles, a French photographer …
i-Docs is proud to announce the i-Docs Lab! As more people were approaching us to disseminate our knowledge about the growing i-docs world, we decided to create a modular Lab format to be offered to both companies and conferences/festivals. The i-Docs Lab is modular workshop where we invite people to expand their understanding of what an i-doc is and use …
The University of the West of England, Bristol, is appointing a new Director of the Digital Cultures Research Centre. Based in the Pervasive Media Studio in Bristol’s Creative Harbour, DCRC is a leading UK Research Centre with an international reputation for research and innovation in the fields of Digital Culture and Pervasive Media. Applicants will have an excellent record of …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
A few weeks ago we told you about the first POV hackathon in this post and some of the amazing prototypes that emerged out of it, as well as the brilliant documentation of the event by Rahul Chadha. And now they’re at it again and looking for participants for the POV Hackathon 2! Ten teams of filmmakers and technologists will converge for a …
Day two at Mozfest – hopefully finalising the web documentary manifesto and having some fun with the brand new Popcorn maker!
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.
