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BlogsIn Depth Julia Scott-Stevenson 4 Mar 2013
AIDC: A sign off from Pennebaker and Hegedus
The final day of the Australian International Documentary Conference (AIDC) began with the intricacies of filmmaking and ended with reminiscences from a pair of master filmmakers.
In Depth Julia Scott-Stevenson 1 Mar 2013
AIDC: Television, but not as we know it
Industry heavyweights deliberate the future of factual television at the Australian International Documentary Conference in Adelaide.
In Depth Julia Scott-Stevenson 28 Feb 2013
AIDC: Themes emerge
What's new in factual filmmaking? Our correspondent reports from Adelaide, where documentary key players converged this week for AIDC.
In Depth Kylie Boltin 27 Feb 2013
Michael Moore and the Oscars
The Academy Awards have produced some memorable acceptance speeches, the documentary category included.
In Depth Julia Scott-Stevenson 22 Nov 2012
Everything old is innovative
Interactive documentary gets meta with newest contribution to the form Moments of Innovation. An interactive documentary work about, well, interactive documentary, it concisely covers everything that’s exciting right now about non-fiction on the web. The boffins at MIT’s Open Documentary Lab have partnered with IDFA DocLab to create the project, which is also currently in installation form at IDFA in Amsterdam.
In Depth Kylie Boltin 14 Nov 2012
Book Club: Damien Echols' Life After Death
Until now, the West Memphis Three — Damien Echols, Jason Baldwin and Jessie Misskelley, Jr. — have largely been defined by Joe Berlinger and Bruce Sinofsky’s documentary trilogy, Paradise Lost.
In Depth Julia Scott-Stevenson 31 Oct 2012
Mobile-mentaries across the ditch
Mobile filmmaking is taking off in a big way around the world, with more and more showcase events, festivals and groups emerging that are dedicated to the humble phone camera. One group gaining momentum is MINA, the Mobile Innovation Network Aotearoa. Founded in New Zealand, MINA is a global network set up to explore the emerging possibilities in mobile media and filmmaking.
In Depth Julia Scott-Stevenson 27 Sep 2012
The Facebook documentary
One of the big laments of placing content online is the difficulty of getting an audience to find it. With almost infinite online space yet limited time and attention of viewers, great material can sink without a trace in an ocean of middling websites and videos.
In Depth Julia Scott-Stevenson 24 Aug 2012
Welcome the touch doc
Rape in Congo: Peace Violated is the first of a new breed: the touch doc.
In Depth Kylie Boltin 27 Jul 2012
Yogawoman
The Australian production,Yogawoman focuses on the explosion of yoga in the west – specifically the United States. The documentary, which begins as a gentle exploration of the genesis of yoga as an activity for men, celebrates the shift towards a women-centric activity that embraces community in such diverse spaces as hospitals and prisons, contributing to health rehabilitation and pre-natal care and as a coping mechanism for daily stress.
In Depth Julia Scott-Stevenson 25 Jul 2012
StoryPlanet: the next interactive storytelling cab off the rank
The flood gates have opened and it seems everyone is getting in on the action of creating tools for online interactive media. Popcorn, Klynt and 3WDoc and Zeega now have another competitor, StoryPlanet.
In Depth Julia Scott-Stevenson 28 Jun 2012
The beauty of brown snow
Early last year I wrote a blog about a short online surfing film, Dark Side of the Lens that had managed to break most of the usual surfing film cliches. Well I’ve now discovered the skiing version. Having declared I was done with all skiing films forever, I nearly refused to watch when my skiing-mad better half presented this video to me on a laptop.
In Depth Julia Scott-Stevenson 25 Jun 2012
Here at Home
Here at Home is an ambitious new webdoc from the Canadian National Film Board. Piggy-backing on a major Canadian research project on homelessness, it shows what the future of socially engaged webdocs might look like. It also showcases some of the unique features of a webdoc: ability to add more content over time as the project itself does, and ability to represent and navigate the content spatially.
In Depth Julia Scott-Stevenson 23 May 2012
Tackling Kony 2012
So, Kony. I might be a little late to this party in blogging terms but since the video’s launch I’ve been chewing over the whole thing - the video, the backlash, the broader campaign. For anyone who’s been in solitary isolation for the past few months, a quick recap. On March 5th, the video Kony 2012 was launched online by US-based non-government organisation Invisible Children. The stated aim was to reveal to the world the crimes of Ugandan militant Joseph Kony in recruiting child soldiers, and thus create such international attention and pressure that efforts to catch him would be increased. Or, in the words of the video, to ‘make Kony famous’.
In Depth Julia Scott-Stevenson 15 May 2012
Input #3 The future is on the web
A number of sessions at Input looked at the use of the web and mobile possibilities for public broadcasters.
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