Transmedia storytelling: An interview with the makers of Love Radio

Love Radio, a transmedia documentary with interactive elements, explores the process of reconciliation in post-genocide Rwanda in a unique format; a radio soap. I spoke with Anoek Steketee and Eefje Blankevoort, the pair behind the project: What compelled you to make Love Radio?  Travelling and working in Rwanda in 2008 we met the team that created Musekeweya, a popular radio soap that is …

Oil Spill. Climate Change. File Sharing. Erectile Dysfunction. Clean Coal: Unspeak is launched

Oil Spill. Climate Change. File Sharing. Erectile Dysfunction. Clean Coal. Unspeak is language that deliberately manipulates public opinion and it is also Submarine Channel’s latest interactive documentary.  Based on a book of the same name by British journalist Steven Poole’s, the documentary investigates the manipulative power of language. Blending filmmaking, data, technology, and design, the story of Unspeak unfolds across a series …

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 …