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This Friday and Saturday, Manchester teenagers are set to tell their own real-life stories through live transmissions from the streets of the city. My Neck of the Woods, a collaboration between Manchester’s Royal Exchange Theatre and BAFTA winning interactive artists Blast Theory, is part documentary, part performance, part live-stream online video experience. The online experience will see young people from the Exchange’s Truth About …
Crossover has been the first UK conference/summit/showcase to position i-docs at the same level as linear documentaries. When Crossover started in 2009 (only 4 years ago) the message was very clear: there are cross-overs between the documentary world and the digital one. i-docs are more than promotional websites for films, they are a new form, and Sheffield Doc/Fest is …
Like any good conference, twitter is providing a brilliant account of what’s going on, key topics and memorable quotes. I’ll be updating this throughout the rest of Sheffield Doc Fest, so check back for updates. [View the story “i-Docs at the xo summit & sessions” on Storify]
POST UPDATE: So this event’s been and gone now, but you can read a great review of it: A highlight of the festival was Blast Theory’s contribution, I’d Hide You, a live-action game based in the streets of Manchester’s Northern Quarter. As Blast Theory’s runners, each dressed in a distinctive uniform and equipped with a video camera, ducked and dived …
