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i-Docs 2012: afterthoughts
Posted by Sandra in Blog, Uncategorized on April 8th, 2012
Once again, I-Docs 2012 has been a great success! This is obviously a totally biased statement – as I am one of the conveners of the event – but the feed-back we had from most of the participants was really very encouraging. Effectively it is one of the few conferences that is super specialized (i-docs [...]
How can 3D worlds be used in documentaries? A review of One Millionth Tower
Posted by Sandra in Blog, Uncategorized on November 8th, 2011
Kat Cizek, and her NFB team, have just launched Highrise’s latest baby: One Millionth Tower.
This is the fifth experiment in four years of what is now becoming a networked documentary, rather than a simple idoc. When Highrise started at the NFB in 2008 it was described as a “multi-year, multi-media documentary” but I have to [...]
Thoughts on Power to the Pixel 2011
Posted by Sandra in Blog, Uncategorized on October 17th, 2011
Power to the Pixel had its annual conference/festival last week, here in London. I only attended the conference day, just because I was curious to see how the trans-media trend was permeating into the documentary world. It was interesting to notice that in what is effectively THE only trans-media conference/festival in the world only one out [...]
“Being there”versus “clicking there”
Posted by Sandra in Uncategorized on May 31st, 2011
When I was working in television I got very frustrated about traveling documentaries. I would travel to Cuba, meet a thousand fascinating people, but I still had to cut down their richness into 30 second grabs that had to fit into a clear, composed linear story. Was I cutting out people because they were not [...]
i-Docs: a great success!!!
Posted by Sandra in Uncategorized on March 29th, 2011
Ok, I know I should try to be a little objective about i-Docs… but actually I really think it was a fantastic day!!!
The room was full, people seemed to be very happy to be there (numerous people came to us to say how happy they were that such an event could finally happen), we had [...]