Interactive Documentary Blog
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January 7th, 2010
Tags: article, BBC, collaborative, open source, RIP
If you have been reading my blog for a wile you probably know that lately I have been concentrating on the notion of “open source documentary”. I knew that film makers such as Brett Gaylor had been promoting RIP: a remix manifesto as an “open source documentary”, but when I read that BBC2 was starting [...]
Documentary Now!
January 5th, 2010
Tags: conference
If you happen to be in London on Friday 15th and Saturday 16th of January you might want to attend the annual Documentary Now! conference at Birbeck College.This is a small but friendly 2 days conference about contemporary documentary issues where some new media projects are discussed. For this year I know that their guest [...]
Cross-Platform documentaries @ Sheffield’s Doc Fest
November 9th, 2009
Tags: cross-platform, Doc Fest, finance
I’m just back from Sheffield’s Doc Fest (4-9th of November).
I did not go there because Doc Fest is UK’s most well known documentary festival, but because they are opening up to a vision of documentary that is much wider than linear documentary. Among all the seminars and sessions that run on the side of [...]
What is an “open source documentary”?
September 23rd, 2009
Tags: collaborative, open source, web project
I have signed up to collaborate to Preempting Dissent (http://www.opensourcecinema.org’s latest collaborative documentary)… For this you need to log in and create your profile, which I did.
The project is a collaboration between researchers and filmmakers at the Infoscape Research Lab at Ryerson University and the Department of Communication, Florida State University.
So far only 10 [...]
Preempting Dissent – a call to action for Open Source Cinema’s new project
September 22nd, 2009
Tags: collaborative, open source
I publish here the call to action that I received for Open Source Cinema’s new project: Preempting Dissent.
Here is an opportunity for us all to get hands on and to be part of an interactive documentary!!
PREEMPTING DISSENT: OPEN SOURCING SECRECY
An Open Source Documentary Film Project
Call for Videos, Testimonials, Photographs, and other Audio Visual Materials
This project [...]
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