The call for applications for this Autumn’s UnionDocs Collaborative Studio (CoLAB) is now open. This is a fantastic opportunity for twelve documentarians to develop their practice in the hugely creative environment of UnionDocs, Brooklyn. I’ve curated shows at UnionDocs and run a couple of workshops with the CoLAB, and can highly recommend it. The unique programme was developed by …
Embracing Transmedia: Battle for Jerusalem
Liz Nord is a documentary filmmaker and multi-platform producer who has produced and shown work in Europe, the Middle East and throughout North America. However her current documentary project ‘Battle for Jerusalem’ is taking a less conventional path and being released online first. The film itself follows the struggle of young, fearless City Council member Rachel Azaria, who is fighting …
Power to the Pixel: Cross-media professionals flock to Potsdam
Cross-media professionals from across Europe are travelling to Potsdam this July for Pixel Lab 2012. Of the 35 participants confirmed, 18 are producers who will be bringing a range of exciting projects to the lab, combining film, interactive, live event, mobile, gaming, TV, publishing or online. Now in its third year, The Pixel Lab is Power to the Pixel’s unique …
Here at Home: brand new NFB i-Doc
You cross paths with the homeless each day—but do you really see them? Through five Canadian cities, five filmmakers and some 40 short films posted online between now and summer 2013, Here At Home, the new interactive Web documentary from the National Film Board of Canada (NFB), lets you follow in real time some of the participants in the world’s …
Open Documentary Lab at MIT: Mandy Rose interviewed
Mandy Rose (Senior Research Fellow, DCRC, UWE) and integral part of the i-Docs community has been interviewed by MIT’s Open Documentary Lab on the future of web-based documentaries: To read Mandy’s post on crowd funding, click here. If you haven’t heard of the MIT’s Open Docs Lab, on a basic level it “brings technologists, storytellers, and scholars together to advance the new arts …
Henry Jenkins: Spreadable Media presentation and conversation
POST UPDATE Professor Henry Jenkins is well known for setting the topic “Transmedia Storytelling” some years ago. Now he answers our questions about “Why Transmedia?” Henry Jenkins [T, F, W] is well known to the people working in the field of transmedia storytelling. He is a Provost’s Professor of Communication, Journalism and Cinematic Arts which is a joint professorship at the USC Annenberg School of Communicationand …
Jonathan Harris soon to present in Barcelona
For those who, like me, have a passion for Jonathan Harris‘ work… here is a good news (if you are Europe based): he will be presenting on Saturday 19th of May at the OFFF Barcelona 2012 festival, in Spain. He will have one hour to present so… I hope he will speak about his latest work Cowbird and Modern …
(Almost) Weekly Roundup!
It’s not quite Friday, but here’s a hand crafted round up of what i-Docs has found on the web this week! 1. Another guest post from Jesse Shapins, unfortunately not on the i-Docs site this time, but over at PBS. Jesse discusses ‘How the Indie Audio Community Is Transforming Storytelling’ and packs in plenty of good examples to boot! Have …
The “Boules” of Naousa, a Living Tradition: a presentation from Fotis Begklis
Fotis Begklis is an Academic Developer specialising in Technology Enhanced Learning at Goldsmiths, University of London. He is involved in a variety of staff development activities for teaching and learning with technologies in Higher Education. Below are his slides from i-Docs 2012 where he presented his project which will become an interactive documentary which will be ready before the beginning …
Florian Thalhofer needs your help!
I have just received an e-mail from Florian Thalhofer saying that he will unfortunately not be able to come to i-Docs this year (last year he was one of our keynotes speakers – view the full presentation here) because he is working like mad on a new Korsakow-project “the Greek and the Money” (working title). The originality of this project …
THE PIXEL LAB 2012: Last call for applications!
Don’t miss this fantastic opportunity, apply now for Power to the Pixel’s leading cross-media course – The Pixel Lab – beginning in July, just outside Berlin. The Pixel Lab is a unique, project-focused business development course open to European media professionals, with teaching from the top international practitioners and innovators working in the cross-media space. Learn how to create, finance …
What will be discussed in the Taxonomies Lab
The Taxomonies Lab will be held on Friday 23rd at 3 PM, in Watershed 2. In order to stimulate discussion before, during, and possibly after the event, I would like to share with you the questions that will be discussed during such Lab. If you are interested in those issues you should join us on Friday… but also, remember that …
Interactive & Immersive Journalism: curated Scoop.it
Our very own Eva Dominguez is currently curating a Scoop.it page about interactive and immersive journalism. Recent scoops feature i-Docs keynote Jigar Mehta whose #18DaysinEgypt project is an ongoing crowd-sourced about the revolution in Egypt and 3 Generations, who create and curate compelling video stories to effect social change. If you’re interested in these new and ever changing forms of journalism, this resource …
Webdocs – A Survival Guide for Online Filmmakers: free download
It’s very likely that you’ve come across Webdocs – A Survival Guide… before, but they’ve released a brand new update about webdoc software which you can download for the small price of a Tweet! This chapter includes the 3WDOC and Klynt software which you can learn how to use at our workshops in March – taught to you by the …
When the documentary is not a film: Tales from launching a web-native collaborative project
Guest post by Jigar Mehta, i-Docs 2012 keynote speaker on Thursday 22 March. On January 25th 2012, the one-year anniversary of the start of the Egyptian revolution, we launched 18DaysinEgypt.com. No red carpet, no world premiere. It was a moment that we had spent many months building towards, but the site was not our final product. The launch was the …