Julia Scott-Stevenson

Julia is a writer and researcher of all things documentary, and even dabbles in making them herself from time to time.

Morgan Spurlock at TED

10 May 2011 | 0:00 - By Julia Scott-Stevenson

If Meg Hewings’ report from Hot Docs has sparked your interest in Morgan Spurlock’s the Greatest Movie Ever Sold, you can watch Spurlock talk about the process at this year’s recent TED. In typical style he’s taken his point to its extreme, and has even sold the naming rights for the TED talk.


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Screen Australia releases all-media fund

09 May 2011 | 0:00 - By Julia Scott-Stevenson

Screen Australia has announced a new All Media Fund, with $3 to 5 million ready to put into interactive or multi-platform content. Some of the funding will be specifically for digital interactive projects, while some has a broader remit and is earmarked for projects more generally pushing boundaries. There’s a bit of painful government-speak in the announcement, like ‘platform agnostic’ and ‘transmedia synergies’, but in this case at least some vagueness probably works in favour of producers with innovative projects that don’t fit in the usual categories.

A still from Beachtown, a project supported under Screen Australia's previous innovation program.

A still from Beachtown, a project supported under Screen Australia's previous innovation program.

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CrowdTV - the first crowd-sourced documentary

04 May 2011 | 23:00 - By Julia Scott-Stevenson

Now that crowd-funding has been around for at least, oh, five minutes or so, it’s become old hat. CrowdTV is steaming ahead with the next iteration of crowd-sourcing, and is asking viewers to collaborate in deciding the direction and content of the documentary. The bare bones topic is there - water issues in Western Sydney. But beyond that, the production team have thrown open the doors to anyone who wants to have a say. It’s a bold move - Kylee Ingram, the project’s producer, says she’s hoping the result will be fun and a little bit gritty, but freely admits she has no idea what the outcome will be. And that’s the point. The production team has little control over the directions the documentary will take; it is all being run through the website, Facebook and Twitter - they’ll be learning along the way.

A storm water drain from the project-related site Water in the Landscape.

A storm water drain from the project-related site Water in the Landscape.

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Julia Scott-Stevenson Julia is a writer and researcher of all things documentary, and even dabbles in making them herself from time to time. She lived in the Pacific Islands of Fiji and Samoa for a few years, where she made a documentary about the inaugural Miss Tokelau beauty pageant and a short documentary about climate change in Samoa, which screened at the inaugural Pacific Climate Change Film Festival. While in the Pacific she was subjected to limited internet connectivity, and was staggered to discover the possibilities in online documentary on her return at the end of 2008. She has since been making up for lost time by undertaking a PhD researching cross-platform documentary, and also working on a database documentary about volunteers. Julia is also on the programming team for Antenna International Documentary Film Festival.

 
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