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The Waiting Room

This entry has been suggested and written by Hugo Soskin

Description:
The Waiting Room is a unique blend of locative media, social media and traditional documentary film that reveals a community disconnected from technology, the conversation about health care reform and equal access to care. It allows people passing through the waiting rooms of California’s public hospitals [...]

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Highrise and Out my Window

Description:
When Canadian National Film Board publicised its interactive project Highrise , in 2009, it called it “a multi-year, multi-media, collaborative documentary project about the human experience in global vertical suburbs. We will use the acclaimed interventionist and participatory approaches of the award-winning National Film Board of Canada’s Filmmaker-in-Residence (FIR) project. Our scale will be global, but rooted firmly [...]

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GDP: measuring the human side of the Canadian economic crisis

Description:
GDP is an attempt to react to the global economic crisis that has hit everybody in the last two years. The National Film Board of Canada has a long tradition of social documentary but this time it has launched a very ambitious project: the country’s first bilingual web documentary, a pan-Canadian project that bears [...]

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Collapsus

Description:
Collapsus is a much hyped project which has been described in a variety of ways since it has been released,  in October 2010. It has been called an  interactive docu-fiction hybrid project by its producer/distributor Submarine Channel. Its director, Tommy Pallotta, explains that they “crafted a multitasking and multi-linear experience and blended genres like animation, [...]

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Havana/Miami: times are changing

Description:
Havana/Miami is the follow up (in terms of format) of Gaza/Sderot: life in spite of everything. The production team seems to be the same: Arte Television is hosting the web-documentary conceived by Upian (Alexandre Brachet). The  French producer is Serge Gordey from Alegria who is the Executive Producer and Alex Szalat from ARTE France  is [...]

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