How to reflect Occupy Wall Street and the actions it’s inspiring across the US? 99 Percent: The Occupy Wall Street Collaborative Film is the response of a group of US documentary film directors, producers,… Continue reading
No time to review this now. But I’m sure you’re interested in seeing it… “The digital revolution of the last decade has unleashed creativity and talent of people in an unprecedented way, unleashing… Continue reading
The people at The Daily Crowdsource – the “#1 site for crowdsourcing, crowdfunding and open innovation news” – have come up with a proposed taxonomy of their field in an info-graphic. David Alan… Continue reading
It’s this year’s Open Video Conference (OVC) in NYC this weekend. “Open video is the movement to promote free expression and innovation in online video.” I was there last year and it was a great… Continue reading
Distrify is a new distribution service that takes advantage of social media to get documentaries out to audiences. As Ben Kempas, co-host of The D-Word documentary community and Distrify partner says, “It combines the… Continue reading
I’ve written about the Interactive Emmy award winning Out my Window project here a couple of times (April 11, Nov 10) so was pleased to get the chance to talk to the project’s… Continue reading
At last Friday’s Post-Digital Encounters Symposium in Bristol we gathered to think about how “media practice sits within the academy in the “post-digital” age”. One starting point for the day was Nicholas Negroponte‘s 1998 prediction in… Continue reading
Today’s Guardian includes a supplement, Documenting Change, in association with Crossover Labs / The Sheffield DocFest which starts this Wednesday. Collaborative and participatory documentary is featured, with more detail on projects I’ve posted about here in… Continue reading
Word just in that the call for applications is open for this year’s UnionDocs Collaborative programme, which starts in September. I’ve posted before about UnionDocs, where I chaired a panel last Autumn, a… Continue reading
