IDFA has wrapped for another year, and the DocLab Award for Digital Storytelling went to interactive project Insitu, directed by Antoine Viviani. A French production, Insitu is neatly described by the judges as “a city poem that you can move through and explore, interrogating efforts to breath life back into our cities and shared public spaces.”

I hit a goldmine of transmedia discussion recently when I came across the TEDx Transmedia site. A whole TEDx conference dedicated solely to talks on transmedia, and all the videos from the latest conference held in Rome in September are online.

Metro Screen has just launched its Multiplatform Screen Producer Scholarship - a training opportunity for budding producers with a passion for multiplatform content.

For some in-depth nuggets of wisdom from Australian documentary makers, head to Australian Screen Online. They’ve begun posting transcripts of interviews with a range of industry members, which were undertaken for a book on Aussie doco launched earlier this year - Australian Documentary: History, Practices and Genres.

What happens to our data when we die? Occasionally a news report will mention that a Facebook tribute page has been set up in the event of an unexpected death, but what about the deceased’s original Facebook page? Does it sit there forever, frozen at the last status update or photo post?

F4, the First Factual Films Festival that runs with the Australian International Documentary Conference in Adelaide in March, has extended its submission date until the end of November. F4 screens films from Australian documentary filmmakers at the start of their careers, and one will be selected for the F4 Award for Outstanding New Documentary Talent. All filmmakers selected for F4 are flown to Adelaide for the festival and also receive free registration to AIDC as well as a program of professional development opportunities. Submissions close on the 30th of November, details here.

One Millionth Tower, the next instalment in the ambitious NFB project Highrise, has just launched. Continuing on the central theme of highrise living, One Millionth Tower shifts focus from the global spread of the previous Highrise release Out My Window, and goes hyper-local, to a highrise housing block on the outskirts of Toronto. Subject to the same decay as many similar tower blocks around the world, the Toronto tower is windswept and unwelcoming. The filmmakers brought together residents, architects and animators to discuss their hopes for the precinct, and then to visualise these ideas.

For a bit of doco-making insight from some big-hitters in the business, check out this video of a panel on ‘The Rise of Non-Fiction Film’. There are a few tidbits to chew on, such as a discussion on what screen size does to a production (i.e., making something for cinema or mobile). Also each panellist gets to muse on what their dream projects would be - a doco on democracy from Davis Guggenheim is something I’d like to see. You can also read a rundown of the highlights at IndieWIRE.