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I wrote this post for the Open Democracy website. It is one of a number of open letters to the incoming BBC Director General, that have been published within the OurBeeb section of the site. MR You’re a journalist; investigating the working conditions of the miners who are fuelling China’s industrial growth. You follow leads, conduct interviews in the polluted, devastated landscape of Shanxi, …
Last year saw the first ever recipients of the Tribeca Film Institute new media fund. Four to eight non-fiction projects are funded between $50,000 and $100,000 as well as mentoring and peer support for producers. The projects funded were a diverse collection of nonfiction transmedia works, including i-Docs keynote Jigar Mehta and his project 18 Days in Egypt. Eight months later …
According to National Geographic, every two weeks a language dies and before 2100, over half of the world’s 7,000 languages – many of which aren’t recorded – will disappear. This is why projects like the Endangered Language Project now exist, to document the world’s languages, not only as a resource but to share advice and best practices for those working to document …
Inspired by Sasha Boersma‘s earlier tweet, i’ve put together a short list of i-Docs that you may have missed and have been re-brought to my attention recently for whatever reason (reasons in more detail below), so enjoy! So first up is ‘Inside The Haiti Earthquake’, from the tweet that inspired this post.. (Sasha Boersma @sashaboersma How did this project go …
Healing Histories allows you to explore the stories of struggling New Orleans’ residents rebuilding their community post Hurricane Katrina. Built using HTML5, the documentary is split into five broad categories which feature interviews with residents and those affected by the hurricane. As it uses HTML5, the series works across desktop & device. As well as speaking to current residents, the …
Here’s some thoughts from the 2012 Sheffield Doc/Fest. I was there for the first two days – when most of the interactive documentary discussions were taking place. I attended the second half of the Crossover Summit on the Wednesday and had a good look round the Crossover Lounge. I also went to the live cinema performance of From the Sea …
Not everyone (including me) was lucky enough to be at Sheffield Doc Fest this year, but luckily some of the i-Docs team were and I was able to avidly follow their movements via the wonder that is Twitter to bring you, lucky reader, some of the projects that appeared at the renowned documentary festival this year: First up is farewellcomrades.com, …
After almost a year of work, incorporating many returns of use from our beta testers, whom we thank, the newest version of 3WDOC Studio is now available! This application was briefly presented at the last edition of i-docs 2012 Symposium in Bristol. The new version of the 3WDOC Studio application is finally ready. It comes in three languages French, English, …
Guest post from Tomas Rawlings, who chaired a panel at the (very) recent Crossover Summit at Sheffield DocFest – you can read his original article here, along with tons of other great blog posts about games, networked media, technology, evolution & nature. On Wednesday I chaired a session about feedback, games and media at the Crossover Summit at Sheffield Documentary Festival (image) …
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 …
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 …
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 …
Patrick Möller is a Transmedia Storyteller, ARG Developer and Gamer at Imaginary Friends. This presentation is from the first “Transmedia Mobile Gaming” conference in Warsaw, Poland. Patrick was invited by Voodoodance to speak about “Transmedia Storytelling” and to show some cases, these are the slides from his talk: Transmedia Mobile Gaming – Conference | Transmedia Storytellling View more presentations from …
Jonathan Harris, the mind behind We Feel Fine and Cowbird, among others, was in Barcelona to attend the OFFF 2012 Festival. In a packed hall, he talked about his work and his life and how both are connected. I wrote an article for La Vanguardia about it: You could say that Jonathan Harris (Vermont, 1979) is a programmer who tells stories, or …
If you’ve been on Twitter in the last month, there’s a good chance you’ve already heard of ‘Hollow’, an interactive documentary project by Elaine McMillion and backed by the documentary king himself, Morgan Spurlock. Hollow is a hybrid community participatory project and interactive documentary where content is created “for the community, by the community.” Using a combination of documentary video, UGC, …
