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A Filmmaker’s Embrace of Nonlinear Storytelling
By Musa Syeed
Filmmaker, 30 Mosques
Musa Syeed is one of the hottest up and coming filmmaking talents in the U.S. His work includes documentaries such as A Son’s Sacrifice, Bronx Princess, and a narrative feature, Valley of Saints — which is currently on the festival circuit. He has also been experimenting with new, interactive forms of storytelling, and we asked him to write about his experiences for BTB.
For most of my life, I’ve been something of a technophobe. Maybe it was that I watched The Terminator at too young an age or perhaps it was my father’s insistence on the superiority of the microwave, but either way, an epic struggle with artificial intelligence and subsequent robot armageddon has long seemed to me not only possible but imminent.
And I felt that as a filmmaker, I had reason to fear technological advancements in the field. New media/interactive/transmedia was making a medium I revered as a child seemingly obsolete, banishing motion pictures from the majestic big screen to pathetic, paltry iPhones.
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IL Presents a Social Screening of You’re Looking at Me Like I Live Here and I Don’t
The event will take place online this Sunday, April 1 at 10AM PT / 1PM ET.
Join a social screening of You’re Looking At Me Like I Live Here And I Don’t, with a panel of Alzheimer’s experts and share your own stories about how you have been impacted by the disease.
The event, which takes place exclusively online, will feature special guests Scott Kirschenbaum, director/producer of the film; Dr. David Oliver, co-author of The Human Factor in Nursing Home Care; Dr. Steven Zweig, community medicine and hospice expert; and David Shenk, author of the seminal Alzheimer’s book, The Forgetting.
Participants can join for free by signing in with Facebook or directly on the site, interacting with other viewers and panelists in real-time, while watching the film.
Viewers can comment, ask questions, take polls, and even express their feelings about what they’re watching through a variety of tools on the site. This is an entirely new way of experiencing documentary films and it is inherently social.
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New Partnership Reimagines Documentary Storytelling on the Web
By: Jonathan Archer
ITVS has partnered with Mozilla, the Tribeca Film Institute, BAVC, and the Center for Social Media to create the Living Docs Project — a new film community inspired by our original collaboration with Mozilla last October.
Launching Monday, the Living Docs Project brings together documentary filmmakers, developers, funders, and the audience to make the case for a new kind of storytelling on the web.
The web has given documentary filmmakers a powerful mechanism to distribute their films, but we have only scratched the surface of how it can change storytelling. The Living Docs Project sees the web as a canvas on which new types of documentaries can be told.
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A FUTURESTATES Wish For The Future
By Jonathan Archer
It’s time for SXSW and the buzz-heavy festival is ramping up this weekend with thousands attendees, and hundreds of panels, meet ups, screenings, and more. FUTURESTATES is hosting a panel called Prototyping the Future, where we’ll be announcing an exciting new project.
FUTURESTATES is co-producing a new participatory storytelling project from transmedia producer Lance Weiler (founder of Workbook Project and DIY DAYS). Wish For The Future mixes participatory storytelling and design science to envision a better world, seeking to answer the question posed by R. Buckminster Fuller, “How do we make the world work for 100 percent of humanity?” As you can tell, we like to set small goals at FUTURESTATES… › Continue reading
A Storified Account of Women and Girls Lead in Action
ITVS and CARE presented a powerful screening of Pray the Devil Back to Hell on Wednesday night in Washington D.C. and via Livestream. ITVS’s Rebecca Huval combed through the tweets and online chatter to provide this storified account, which you can find after the jump.
A shot from Wednesday's Livestream of the documentary Pray the Devil Back to Hell
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FUTURESTATES Returns! Seven Visions of the Future from Seven Cutting-Edge Indie Filmmakers
If you were given a glimpse into the future, would it change the way you live today? Returning for a third season, the FUTURESTATES series offers a new collection of seven fictional shorts that explore possible future scenarios through the lens of today’s global realities.
Produced by ITVS and created by such established filmmakers as Patrick Stettner, Jennifer Phang, and Tina Mabry — as well as emerging talents — FUTURESTATES films launch April 3, 2012, and will be available to stream for free at futurestates.tv and simultaneously on pbs.org.
Find more information about FUTURESTATES
CARE & ITVS Present: Pray the Devil Back to Hell
Women and Girls Lead and CARE are partnering for a special live online screening of the PBS documentary Pray the Devil Back to Hell (part of the recent Women War & Peace series), followed by a live panel discussion with Executive Producer Abigail Disney, PBS CEO Paula Kerger, and CARE President Helene Gayle. The event will take place on the eve of International Women’s Day from Washington, D.C. March 7 at 7:30PM ET on CARE’s website.
Pray the Devil Back to Hell is the astonishing story of the Liberian women – including Nobel Peace Prize winner Leymah Gbowee – who took on the warlords and regime of dictator Charles Taylor in the midst of a brutal civil war, and won a once unimaginable peace for their shattered country in 2003.
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Women & Girls Lead Us Into Women’s History Month
Women and Girls Lead kicks off Women’s History Month with a new website, an online film festival, and three high-profile events honoring International Women’s Day.
The Women and Girls Lead public media initiative is celebrating Women’s History Month and International Women’s Day in style with a whole new set of activities to engage audiences on multiple platforms. Today, Women and Girls Lead unveiled their new dynamic campaign website. Featuring an interactive video mosaic, the website offers an array of short video content including profiles of women in leadership roles in communities nationwide, and interviews with luminaries and leading scholars.
“Women’s History Month is an important time for public media to call attention to the important work of women and girl leaders worldwide,” said Patricia Harrison, President and CEO of CPB and Advisory Board Chair of Women and Girls Lead. “It is also a time for us to rise to the challenge to ensure that these stories reach audiences every day of the year. Women and Girls Lead offers an important model for public media to serve its mission in the 21st century.”
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NCME’s Expert Speak Webinar with Shane Guiter
The National Center for Media Engagement (NCME) is thrilled to introduce the Expert Speak webinar series, bringing you some of public media’s most innovative thinkers and new ideas.
From more ways to share content to tighter budgets, there’s no doubt the public media landscape is evolving. So, how can stations take advantage of new opportunities? Shane Guiter invites your station to start thinking like a start-up.
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Do You Feel the Need for Speed?
Racing Dreams premieres tonight on POV, but until then, you can share the tween karting experience in our online strategy game.
Select your driver, build your kart, then take your racing team through the elite national Division of Karting (DOK) season. Win races, earn sponsors, keep your kart tuned up, and don’t forget to make time for homework! Play POV Kart Racer.
Racing Dreams is the chronicle of two boys and a girl who do something extraordinary: They fearlessly race extreme go-karts at speeds of up to 70 miles per hour in pursuit of trophies and, just maybe, careers as NASCAR drivers. And as the youngsters compete on the track, they also navigate the treacherous road from childhood to young adulthood. › Continue reading
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