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Sheffield Doc/Fest gets interactive
Sheffield Doc/Fest has just released its program, and I am green with envy over the fabulous lineup of interactive sessions.
Quicklink Kylie Boltin 26 Feb 2013
Oscar winner: Searching for Sugar Man
First time feature director, Malik Bendjelloul and producer Simon Chinn of Red Box Films have won Best Documentary Feature at the 85th Academy Awards for the film Searching for Sugar Man.
Quicklink Kylie Boltin 4 Feb 2013
International Documentary Challenge
There’s still time to enter the International Documentary Challenge, a competition where participants across the world work against the clock to produce a 4-7 minute non-fiction film.
Quicklink Kylie Boltin 29 Jan 2013
Zero Dark Thirty stirs debate
Notable thinkers back Alex Gibney's criticism of torture in Zero Dark Thirty.
Quicklink Eddie Cockrell 19 Dec 2012
Screen Australia invests in documentary
Screen Australia recently announced $5 million worth of investment in 13 documentary projects that will trigger nearly three times that amount in production.
Quicklink Julia Scott-Stevenson 7 Dec 2012
Zeega remakes the internet
Zeega is yet another of the recent proliferation of interactive storytelling tools spreading across the net.
Quicklink Eddie Cockrell 3 Dec 2012
Winter Nomads wins major award
Director Manuel von Stürler’s enthralling Winter Nomads (Hiver nomade) has won the European Film Academy Documentary Award at the European Film Awards, which were held on Saturday night in Malta.
Quicklink Kylie Boltin 26 Nov 2012
Berliner wins at IDFA
Alan Berliner has won the VPRO IDFA Award for Best Feature-Length Documentary for First Cousin Once Removed at the 25th edition of the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam.
Quicklink Eddie Cockrell 16 Nov 2012
Hot Docs Forum submissions now open
Toronto’s Hot Docs has announced the opening of submissions for the 2013 Hot Docs Forum, to be held May 1 and 2 during the greater Hot Docs documentary film festival.
Quicklink Julia Scott-Stevenson 15 Nov 2012
Multimedia field guide
Following up on my previous post about the transmedia toolkit, this one goes back a couple of steps. MediaStorm has released its latest field guide as an ibook, and it contains tips for the earlier stages of production in multimedia documentary storytelling – before you get to the transmedia part.
Quicklink Julia Scott-Stevenson 6 Nov 2012
Everything you ever wanted to know about transmedia
Anyone interested in creating interactive or cross-platform work should dive straight into this Transmedia, Multi-Platform and Convergent Resource Kit, recently released online. Put together by Dr Siobhan O’Flynn and Anthea Foyer, it’s aimed at Australian and Canadian producers hoping to venture into the field.
Quicklink Kylie Boltin 2 Nov 2012
Errol Morris weighs in on the vote
Errol Morris’ latest OP-DOC (short, opinionated doc) for the New York Times has been released just in time for the general election on November 6th. Morris' ‘11 Excellent Reasons Not to Vote’ is a short film which explores the roads that lead to the polls in a nation where voting is not compulsory.
Quicklink Kylie Boltin 29 Oct 2012
Exemptions for documentary filmmakers
This statement released by Kartemquin Films (Hoop Dreams, The Interrupters) outlines a recent victory for US documentary filmmakers in the realm of using others’ footage in their films for the purpose of “fair use”.
Quicklink Kylie Boltin 26 Oct 2012
The Smartest Guy in the Room?
Two weeks ago I attended a lecture at the Center for Business and Society, Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College. The speaker was Andrew Fastow, the former chief financial officer of the Enron Corporation, the seventh largest company in America at the time of its collapse. It was a scandal that cost investors and employees over one billion dollars and saw Fastow incarcerated for his crimes.
Quicklink Julia Scott-Stevenson 23 Oct 2012
IDFA session on webdocs
For anyone heading to the International Documentary Festival in Amsterdam this year interested in webdocs, you won’t want to miss the Interactive Documentary Conference. The one-day conference explores the future of documentary storytelling in the digital age. Topics covered include the rise of apps and touch screens, the secrets behind successful projects, turning data into stories and the tools available for interactive storytelling.
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