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BlogsFactual News Julia Scott-Stevenson 29 Nov 2012
Big screen dreams – Simon Chinn
For anyone harbouring a desire to create a feature documentary for the cinema, tomorrow’s Think Big Documentary Masterclass hosted by Screen Australia is a must.
Factual News Eddie Cockrell 27 Nov 2012
Generation Next returns to Melbourne
The Generation Next Factual and Documentary Conference will be returning to Melbourne for its second year across December 6 and 7, at the Cinema Novo on Lygon Street.
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.
Q&A Kylie Boltin 23 Nov 2012
Q&A: Why Poverty? Brian Hill
Welcome to the World is acclaimed documentary filmmaker Brian Hill’s contribution to Why Poverty? an international project that asks the question: Why do a billion people still live in poverty worldwide, and what can be done to change this?
Festival Reports Sandy George 23 Nov 2012
Queen of Versailles wins BIFFDOCS
Director Lauren Greenfield’s US film The Queen of Versailles has won BIFFDOCS, the documentary competition run as part of the Brisbane International Film Festival (BIFF), which is due to wrap this Sunday.
Factual News Eddie Cockrell 22 Nov 2012
The Healing of Bali now available
Ronin Films has announced the availability of filmmaker John Darling’s 2003 documentary The Healing of Bali on DVD to schools, libraries and universities.
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.
Inside SBS Melanie Garrick 16 Nov 2012
Making Convenient Education: Interactive design
When Convenient Education was first commissioned by SBS, its young directors were somewhat unfamiliar with the term ‘interactive documentary.’ In order to re-invent their story for the web, they partnered with transmedia production company Chocolate Liberation Front (CLF) who developed the project’s interactive strategy.
Inside SBS Melanie Garrick 16 Nov 2012
Making Convenient Education: Direction
The co-directors of SBS’s latest web documentary first stumbled upon the concept for Convenient Education while still at university, waiting tables at restaurants to cover rent.
Q&A Kylie Boltin 16 Nov 2012
Q&A: Helen Gaynor, The First Fagin
The First Fagin is an Australian docu-drama set for theatrical release on November 15. It is the story of Ikey Solomon, a Jewish Englishman, the most famous criminal of his time, who made his way to Australia under extraordinary circumstances in the 19th century. Solomon is widely believed to be the inspiration behind the character, Fagin in Charles Dickens’ Oliver Twist.
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.
Factual News Kylie Boltin 14 Nov 2012
Photojournalists in the spotlight
HBO’s latest documentary series Witness looks at contemporary war photographers working in conflict zones across the globe.
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.
Factual News Eddie Cockrell 13 Nov 2012
The First Fagin to screen nationally
Ronin Films' docu-drama release The First Fagin, which tells of the real-life London criminal who inspired Charles Dickens' legendary Oliver Twist character before becoming a cog in Australia’s convict system, will be released commercially throughout the country on November 15.
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Giving His Best, Cadel Evans (Book)
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