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.......................................... Welcome to Interactive at Sheffield presented by Crossover Labs! Sheffield Doc/Fest has long featured interactive content as part of its programme and we’re very excited to have become our own festival within the Festival. This is your own special guide to the sessions, films, installations and events we have at Interactive at Sheffield. The Crossover Summit is a day-long series of talks exploring the outer edges of documentary and it returns to Sheffield Doc/ Fest on Sunday 8th June with talks kicking off at 11:30am. We’re honoured to have innovation expert Robert Tercek giving the opening keynote, where he’ll be addressing the impact that surveillance will have on documentary filmmaking in a talk you won’t want to miss.
We’ve got a packed programme of sessions offering advice and insight into the craft of interactive documentary. From the opportunities hackathons offer filmmakers in What the Hack? through to a look back at one of Channel 4’s most ambitious crossplatform projects to date; Live From Space, the interactive sessions are a must for any documentarians looking to learn more about the impact of digital technology on their work. In the Millennium Gallery we also have a series of presentations of some of our favourite interactive projects from the Festival, giving content creators the chance to discuss their work. The Crossover Market is also back for a third year and is the place for digital and interactive funders and mentors to meet the best new projects in development. As well as pitching ideas to cross-platform commissioners and digital gurus, projects can meet with representatives from digital agencies, brands, 3rd sector representatives and other potential supporters from outside of the traditional film and TV industries.
We have 10 fantastic speakers offering insight into the future of documentary, including the amazing Nonny de la Peña explaining the power of immersive journalism and Ian Forrester from BBC R&D discussing the tech that will be driving innovation for years to come. After The Summit, Nathan Penlington brings the brilliant Choose Your Own Documentary to the Crucible Studio; an unmissable story of obsession that you control. The beautiful Millennium Gallery is the new home of interactive content in the brand new Interactive Exhibition, featuring docs that you can play, touch and experience. Floating in space, rioting in the streets and playing with typography are just a few of the things you’ll be able to do. Millennium Gallery also houses our first original artist commission; a piece by South Korea based YOUNG-HAE CHANG HEAVY INDUSTRIES entitled My Life as a Bloody Sheffield Butter Knife. With a title like that you know it’s going to be worth the trip. And if interacting with screens isn’t enough, you can immerse yourself in the world’s biggest news stories with Nonny de la Peña’s VR technology in SIF or alternatively, take a short walk down Sidney Street through the
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THE INTERNET’S OWN BOY - THE STORY OF AARON SWARTZ + Q&A SAT 07 JUNE / 16:30 / LIBRARY THEATRE .......................................................................................
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ROBERT TERCEK - FROM OBSERVER TO ACTIVIST: DOCUMENTARY FILM IN SURVEILLANCE SOCIETY SUN 08 JUN / 11:30 / CITY HALL MEMORIAL HALL .......................................... Willingly or not, we are about to enter an era of near-total transparency. In the very near future, the devices that surround us will constantly monitor our activity. The result will be a nearly comprehensive store of data about human behaviour and it may well yield significant benefits but it may render obsolete the century-old tradition of documentary filmmaking. How will the role of the documentary filmmaker change in a world in which every piece of information is recorded, indexed and stored? In this short presentation, Tercek will share examples from all over the world. In a world saturated with information overload, the documentarian must move beyond mere chronicling of events and the accumulation of detail to something more: creating a platform for social change.
ROSEMARY LERNER - QUIPU PROJECT PRESENTATION
SUN 08 JUN / 12:35 / CITY HALL MEMORIAL HALL .......................................... Nth Screen / Nth Camera is a platform for respectively playing and recording collections of synchronised videos across mobile phones and tablets. Running against the trend for us to communicate remotely, these multi-device, multi-segment, multi-viewpoint films are principally for us to create, enjoy and discuss together in social, co-located groups. Nth Screen encourages experimental films for collective witness, documentary, humour, drama and poetry. In this talk Kindberg will demonstrate taking a ‘groupie’ (selfies were yesterday) and show examples of Nth Screen films, including the song and flight of birds across mobile phones.
INNOVATION
Before the Crossover Summit talks begin you can join us for a morning coffee at 10.30am at City Hall Memorial Hall.
TIM KINDBERG - NTH SCREEN / NTH CAMERA
JENNIFER WILSON - TELLING STORIES THROUGH DIGITAL SUN 08 JUN / 12:50 / CITY HALL MEMORIAL HALL .......................................... This session will focus on how digital can allow richer story elements to be explored than are available through linear forms. Wilson will touch on tools and platforms and look at how the content can be repurposed to deliver a new experience. She will also look at how to involve users in the story, either as activists or as participants. Digital isn’t just about making your content available on interactive devices – it’s working out how to include interactive as a key element of the experience.
SUN 08 JUN / 12:20 / CITY HALL MEMORIAL HALL ..........................................
MARTIN ROSENBAUM - MAKING THE LISZT SONATA WITH STEPHEN HOUGH: IPAD APP SUN 08 JUN / 14:30 / CITY HALL MEMORIAL HALL .......................................... How do you apply the techniques of documentary filmmaking to a state-of-the-art iPad app about an iconic piece of music played by a world-class pianist? In this session, producer Martin Rosenbaum explores in detail the process of turning the art of documentary into the art of the app. Martin worked with distinguished arts documentary director Adam Low and iPad app pioneers TouchPress, creators of Apple’s 2013 iPad App of the Year, to create new forms for the playful crossover of filmmaking and technology.
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Short video presentation of the work in progress the Quipu Project, an interactive documentary that shares first-hand accounts of people affected by Peru’s unconsented sterilisation policy, which targeted over 300,000 indigenous women and men in the late 1990s. Rosemarie Lerner, co-director of the project, will speak about the specific conditions and characteristics of the story, which led to its technical choices and the overall design of the first prototype. The project is currently in development stage.
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SUN 08 JUNE / 10:30 / CITY HALL MEMORIAL HALL ..........................................
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CROSSOVER WELCOME BREAKFAST
INTERACTIVE
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Interactive NOAH ROSENBERG - SINNERS VS SAINTS: HOW SMART, SERIOUS AND SLOW STORYTELLING CAN CONQUER ALL THAT CLICK-BAIT SUN 08 JUN / 15:05 / CITY HALL MEMORIAL HALL .......................................... The internet is a crazy, crowded place — we all know that. New technologies are lowering the bar for digital storytellers and spawning copious click-bait cowboys, copycats and other curiosities. What does it take to rise above the noise and have a shot at storytelling stardom? Narratively founder Noah Rosenberg pops open the hood on his innovative media startup and helps us plot our own entrepreneurial paths through the beguiling world of digital content.
NONNY DE LA PEÑA - EXPERIENCING THE NEWS: IMMERSIVE JOURNALISM SUN 08 JUN / 15:25 / CITY HALL MEMORIAL HALL .......................................... Nonny de la Peña will be discussing her immersive journalism work. Piggybacking on recent advances in gaming technology, de la Peña uses the latest virtual reality goggles coupled with compelling audio to create a first person experience of the events and situations described in news and non-fiction events. Harnessing the sense of presence - of being there - that comes with these 3D technologies, de la Peña’s work allows an audience member to personally engage with a story through unprecedented access to the sights, sounds and even feelings and emotions, which accompany the news.
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KARA OEHLER - GIFS, MOVIE CLIPS AND THE NEW VISUAL LANGUAGE SUN 08 JUN / 16:50 / CITY HALL MEMORIAL HALL .......................................... The meaning of a GIF, like all visual symbols, is built through common cultural understanding. The reason a GIF of Jack Nicholson knocking on the door in The Shining says so much, so quickly, is because of the shared lexicon of popular culture. GIFs are elemental building blocks of the internet’s language and now we’re using them to communicate emotions and reactions quickly and, at times, with delicious ambiguity. Oehler will talk about the ways people are using GIFs today to tell and remix stories and share opinions with this new emotional shorthand.
IAN FORRESTER - PERCEPTIVE DOCUMENTARIES: HOW CONTEXT CHANGES THE WAY YOU TELL STORIES AGAIN SUN 08 JUN / 17:20 / CITY HALL MEMORIAL HALL .......................................... Forrester’s research is into the area of Future Narrative and Storytelling, Perceptive Media is a new kind method of broadcasting, which pairs the best of broadcast with the best of the internet to create an experience like sitting around a camp fire telling stories. Perceptive Media could allow writers to tailor documentaries to the audiences based on many factors such as learning ability, attention, context and absorbs and makes sense of the internet of things and quantified self.
TOM PHILLIPS - GOING VIRAL, TWITTER STORMS AND DOING IT WRONG
INTERACTIVE AT SHEFFIELD PARTY PRESENTED BY CROSSOVER LABSN
SUN 08 JUN / 16:30 / CITY HALL MEMORIAL HALL ..........................................
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Everybody wants to go viral. But how do you get to go viral - and frankly, are you sure you want to? Using both real-life examples and stuff he just made up, Tom Phillips tackles the big questions - is there a formula to making it big on the internet? (er, sort of but not really); how can you best use viral tricks to your advantage? (hope, pray, cry bitter tears); can you keep control of something once you put it online? (hahaha nope); and is the internet a terrible thing that should be turned off immediately? (yes).
Wind down from the Crossover Summit with a drink in our Interactive exhibition where we’ll be toasting the interactive and arts projects. We’re proud to bring a new work to the Festival from the brilliant South Korea based YOUNG-HAE CHANG HEAVY INDUSTRIES; the wonderfully titled ‘My Life as a Bloody Sheffield Butter Knife’ and Vicki Bennett’s (People Like Us) wondrous ‘Consequences – One Thing Leads to Another’, along with a host of brilliant interactive documentaries that you can watch, play and experience.
THE LAST MAN ON THE MOON + Q&A SUN 08 JUN / 15:15 / PBS AMERICA SHOWROOM 3 ..........................................
CHOOSE YOUR OWN DOCUMENTARY SUN 08 JUN / 20:00 / CRUCIBLE STUDIO ..........................................
THE MEASURE OF ALL THINGS LIVE SUN 08 JUN / 17:00 / PLUG ..........................................
THE MEASURE OF ALL THINGS LIVE
THE INTERNET’S OWN BOY - THE STORY OF AARON SWARTZ + Q&A SUN 08 JUN / 20:30 / ODEON ..........................................
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QUIPU PROJECT: LIVE DEMO MON 09 JUN / 10:30 / MILLENNIUM GALLERY .......................................... The Quipu Project, an interactive documentary that is creating a collective string of oral histories which can be experienced regardless of access to digital connection, will have a live demonstration of its first prototype. Maria Court (Co-Director) and Sebastian Melo (Executive Producer) will present insights from the development process followed by a Q&A. SPEAKERS
Rosemarie Lerner Maria Court Sebastian Melo
MON 09 JUN / 13:15 / MILLENNIUM GALLERY .......................................... With changing expectations from audiences of how they experience entertainment and advancements in the technologies that allow them to take part in stories, entertainment will fundamentally understand who we are, who we’re with and how we feel when experiencing entertainment in the future. This panel looks at how audiences could take part in stories, be it children or adults participating in live events or in cinemas and theatres. It will also discuss available technologies, from looking at the audience’s facial expressions and heart rate, to the use of tablets, and what opportunities that brings for content producers to deliver new types of entertainment. Curious minds are welcome. SESSION PRODUCER SPEAKERS
CAN VIDEO GAMES TELL IT BETTER? MON 09 JUN / 11:45 / CHANNING HALL ..........................................
TOWARDS A MASS MEDIUM OF MULTI-VIEWPOINT VIDEO
Julian McRae Julian McRae Marc Goodchild Sam Smail Gawain Morrison John Sears
LIVE FROM SPACE: AUTOPSY MON 09 JUN / 14:00 / CHANNING HALL ..........................................
MON 09 JUN / 11:45 / MILLENNIUM GALLERY ..........................................
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Tim Kindberg Mandy Rose
WEB JUNKIE + Q&A MON 09 JUN / 12:15 / VIMEO SHOWROOM 2 ..........................................
SUBMARINE CHANNEL PRESENTS MON 09 JUN / 15:30 / MILLENNIUM GALLERY .......................................... Submarine has established itself as an innovative company, mixing traditional and interactive storytelling, all with an international focus on directors who explore the boundaries of the moving image. Submarine co-produces most of its films, animation and transmedia productions in collaboration with broadcasters, distributors and publishers from around Europe and the United States. Come along to learn more about Submarine’s craft of producing engaging interactive content with a focus on the projects they have in the Doc/ Fest programme; Last Hijack, Unspeak, Lagos Wide & Close and Love Radio.
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Tim Kindberg (matter2media.com) and Mandy Rose (UWE) will describe and demonstrate Nth Screen / Nth Camera: a new platform for playing and recording collections of synchronised videos across mobile phones and tablets. We’ll discuss its use for documentary of events and single moments captured simultaneously across the world.
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BREAKING THE FOURTH WALL: AUDIENCE PARTICIPATION IN THE DIGITAL AGE
INTERACTIVE
MON 09 JUN / 09:30 / CHANNING HALL ..........................................
INNOVATION
INTERACTING WITH THE PAST
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THE LAST MAN ON THE MOON + Q&A
CHOOSE YOUR OWN DOCUMENTARY MON 09 JUN / 20:00 / CRUCIBLE STUDIO ..........................................
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TYPE:RIDER - PLAYING WITH THE HISTORY OF TYPOGRAPHY
FEMKE WOLTING - THE POSSIBLITIES ARE ENDLESS
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Type:Rider is a game-documentary created by Cosmografik which aims to revive interest in the history of typography through an interactive and transmedia experience including: a video game, a social game and an Interactive installation. Type:Rider has been nominated for a host of international awards and received rave reviews from both gaming and documentary communities who praised its beautiful design and fiendish platforming. Join us for this demonstration of Type:Rider from creator Théo Le Du Fuentes as he details how Cosmografik and Arte turned the letters of the alphabet in to a fiendish videogame documentary.
Femke Wolting is one of Holland’s leading producers and a strong directing talent. She is one of the founders of Submarine, an independent production company for documentaries, games, animation and transmedia, producing documentaries on subjects as diverse as pirates, prostitutes and Second Life. Whether it’s bringing a graphic novel to life on screen, redefining the web documentary format with its MiniMovies project or exploring interactive animation, the possibilities seem endless. In this session, Femke talks to Storyville’s Kate Townsend about her journey from classic documentaries to more hybrid projects. SPEAKERS
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Theo le du Fuentes
TELLING STORIES WITH TWITTER TUE 10 JUN / 12:00 / ITV TOWN HALL RR ..........................................
Kate Townsend Femke Wolting
INTERACTIVE DOCUMENTARIES WHAT ROLE CAN THEY PLAY FOR ACTIVISM? TUE 10 JUN / 14:15 / CHANNING HALL ..........................................
CONSTRUCTING THE DOOR INTO THE DARK TUE 10 JUN / 13:00 / MILLENNIUM GALLERY .......................................... Replacing the visual with the sensual and integrating the latest geo-locative technology into a narrative experience, Door in to the Dark is a blindfolded journey into the psychology of navigation. Anagram’s immersive walk-through documentary guides participants through a threedimensional aural world of real people who have been profoundly lost and, through experiencing the unknown, have been transformed. Touching on the influences, design and intentions of the secrets behind the door, directors May Abdalla and Amy Rose discuss the background of this innovative project and ask how a documentary can be an active physical experience. SPEAKERS
May Abdalla Amy Rose
WEB JUNKIE + Q&A TUE 10 JUN / 12:45 / LIBRARY THEATRE ..........................................
OSCAR RABY - ASSENT PRESENTATION TUE 10 JUN / 15:45 / MILLENNIUM GALLERY .......................................... In 1973, Oscar Raby’s father witnessed the execution of a group of prisoners captured by the military regime in Chile, the army he was a part of. Raby, a multimedia designer and visual artist, turned to the Oculus Rift Virtual Reality headset to tell his father’s story in Assent, an immersive autobiographical documentary game developed using the Unity engine to put the user in his father’s footsteps, as he walks to the place where it happened. Come along for a walkthrough of the project, where Raby discusses the making of the innovative and moving Assent. SPEAKERS
Oscar Raby
SEPIDEH + Q&A TUE 10 JUN / 15:15 / VIMEO SHOWROOM 2 ..........................................
HOW YOU BUILD ENGAGEMENT AROUND AWARD-WINNING DOCUMENTARIES TUE 10 JUN / 16:30 / CHANNING HALL ..........................................
LAST HIJACK + Q&A TUE 10 JUN / 20:45 / VIMEO SHOWROOM 2 ..........................................
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WED 11 JUN / 13:30 / MILLENNIUM GALLERY .......................................... Join Matt Brooks and Dr. Rhia Jones from BBC R&D for a special preview of their scalable documentary. BBC engineers have been at the forefront of developments in broadcast technology since the founding of public service broadcasting in the UK so come along for a preview of their latest innovative technology. SPEAKERS
WED 11 JUN / 16:00 / MILLENNIUM GALLERY .......................................... Samuel Bollendorff and Olivia Colo’s brave and daring interactive documentary Burn Out searches to understand the personal stories behind the wave of self-immolation events that have taken place in France since 2011. Innovatively structured as an evolving ECG scan, Burn Out focuses on the human stories behind the tragedies. The projects producer Arnaud Dressen joins Bollendorff to demo and discuss this incredible example of the interactive documentary form. SPEAKERS
Samuel Bollendorff Arnaud Dressen
Matt Brooks Dr. Rhia Jones
HOW IS DATA USED TO UNDERSTAND DIFFERENT TYPES OF IMPACT?
AGNES GOES LIVE THU 12 JUN / 12:00 / PBS AMERICA SHOWROOM 3 ..........................................
WED 11 JUN / 15:00 / MILLENNIUM GALLERY .......................................... For all the discussion around data and impact, they are both regularly misunderstood concepts. Qualitative versus quantitative? How big is “big data”? How social is “social media”? The Harmony Institute has been studying the impact of media on society since 2008, and this talk will cover their work with EEG brain scans on TV gun violence, emotion sensors to map interactive theater participants, and their upcoming impact exploration platform. These examples will showcase some core principles of data and impact to anchor our knowledge and goals around. SPEAKERS
Clint Beharry
CROSSOVER MARKET
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VARIABLE LENGTH DOCUMENTARY BY BBC R&D PREVIEW
BURN OUT: INTERACTIVE PRESENTATION
INTERACTIVE
WED 11 JUN / 12:00 / MILLENNIUM GALLERY ..........................................
THANKS TO KAMAL ACKARIE
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This year the Crossover Market is bigger and better than ever. It's the Festival’s dedicated marketplace for interactive and digital projects and those that are fundraising and distributing in nontraditional ways using digital technology. Selected from open submissions, projects will meet with interactive and digital funders and experts in matchmade one-to-one meetings. These meetings will take place in the Millennium Gallery on Saturday 7th June 2014. The Crossover Market puts projects that are using digital media in interesting ways, next to one another, whether for creation, funding, distribution, exhibition or marketing. This is a space ripe for creating new connections and relationships so we’ll be bringing together all the people and projects using online resources and digital technology to form new relationships and new creative projects in a brand new marketplace and pitching forum.
Kamal Ackarie is an independent producer and curator with a history in large-scale international touring. As Technical Director and Associate Director of Forma Arts and Media (20022012), he developed long-term working relationships with artists such as Ryoji Ikeda and Lynette Wallworth, actively supporting the evolution and experimentation inherent in the process of these artists’ works. In 2007 he co-curated Becks Fusions, culminating in the commissioning of 10 films by visual artists. In addition, he has facilitated many signature one-off large-scale projects with artists such as Charles Atlas, Antony and the Johnsons, Chris Watson and Diamanda Galas. Kamal sees his work in the realm of technical and curatorial facilitation - enabling artists to move their work forward to its next stage at a critical juncture. In the broadest possible sense, his focus is on supporting the artists he works with in taking bold artistic leaps that often require fearless wrangling of multiple technologies.
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WHAT THE HACK?
Wednesday 11 / Thursday 12 June
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INTERACTIVE EXHIBITION SAT 07 - THU 12 JUN / 10:00-17:00 AND 18:00-22:00 ON SELECT NIGHTS / MILLENNIUM GALLERY
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TYPE:RIDER
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ASSENT A SHORT HISTORY OF THE HIGHRISE BURN OUT THE DEVIL’S TOY REDUX IN FLIGHT IRANORAMA KILLING KENNEDY LAGOS WIDE & CLOSE - WEB LAST HIJACK INTERACTIVE LIVE FROM SPACE LOVE RADIO NETWARS / OUT OF CTRL NSA FILES: DECODED OFFSHORE PAPERS, PLEASE RIOT LISZT SONATA UNSPEAK
Designed by Cosmografik, Type:Rider is the first game from Arte where players immerse themselves in this fascinating and unique experience to uncover the history and secrets of fonts and characters. Play as 2 dots and travel through the ages of typographic styles and techniques from the rock paintings of prehistoric times to Pixel art of the 2000s, solve all the riddles by riding the most popular fonts and characters (Garamond, Helvetica, Times New Roman, Pixel, Comic Sans...) in a captivating musical and visual environment.
IT’S THE SKIN YOU’RE LIVING IN
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Connect your iPhone and join others to experience a multi-screen film installation where you and your fellow iPhone users control the composition of the images. It’s one of the first apps to run as a group rather than an individual experience, and the first multi-user-art-film app.
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MY LIFE AS A BLOODY SHEFFIELD BUTTER KNIFE
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CONSEQUENCES (ONE THING LEADS TO ANOTHER)
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My Life as a Bloody Sheffield Butter Knife presents, against a backdrop of violence, food, sex, emerging countries, E.P.N.S. (Electro Plated Nickel Silver), and immigration, the unvarnished story of a wayward offspring of George Butler & CO. Ltd, Trinity Works, Sheffield. It’s the story of a legacy and a unique glimpse into a butter knife’s trials, tribulations and even improvised tracheotomy. The eponymous hero speaks openly and intimately about his beginnings in Sheffield and his adventures leading to his chance encounter with Young-hae and Marc of YOUNG-HAE CHANG HEAVY INDUSTRIES.
The “original” in relation to the “copy” (coming from the word “copia”, meaning multitude and abundance) interests me as an artist working with collage and appropriation. Nothing created as an object or product can be traced 100% to an origin – everything is relative, literally – it has a mother and father. Much like speed, dimensions, size, the terms of experience are reliant upon conditions, there is NO absolute. This is reflected when similar creative works and inventions occur at the same period. No man is an island, but the island has lots of mirror mazes… in fact some mirrors can be walked through. – Vicki Bennett
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YOUNG-HAE CHANG HEAVY INDUSTRIES presents Dakota, 2001. Dakota is a road movie that starts in South Dakota and ends in South Korea. It is also a close reading of Ezra Pound’s Cantos I and opening of II. Music: “Tobi Ilu,” by James H. Bey, from “The African Beat -- Art Blakey and the Afro-Drum Ensemble,” Blue Note Records.
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Interactive I’D HIDE YOU TUE 10 + WED 11 JUN / 20:00-23:00 / TUDOR SQUARE ..........................................
I’d Hide You is a video streaming game of stealth, cunning and adventure like no other. Jump onboard with your chosen team of illuminated runners live from the streets of Sheffield as they roam the city trying to film each other without being spotted. See the world through their eyes as they stream video: ducking and diving, chatting to passersby, taking you down the alleys to their secret hiding places.Play against your friends online at the same time. Use your wits to choose which runner to ride with. Get a snap of another runner onscreen without getting snapped to win points. Get snapped and you lose points. Play on your Mac or Windows PC at www.idhideyou.com or join us at the Millennium Gallery at Sheffield Doc/ Fest.
DOOR INTO THE DARK SAT 07 - WED 11 JUN / 10:40-20:20 / SIDNEY STREET ..........................................
On a quiet street, just minutes from the Showroom Cinema, a Door Into The Dark has been installed. Behind it lies a concealed corner of the unknown, kept safe for you to sample. There are very few of them left; of the 57.5 million square miles of land on Earth, not 1 quadrant is unmapped. Be led by the hand into a pitchblack world of characters who know the true meaning of being lost and find your way back into the light following clues hidden along the way. The journey is contained within a carefully designed physical space in which the architecture relies on atmosphere, texture, smell and scale. This is documentary as physical experience, using geo-locative technology to facilitate a multi-sensory narrative. You can sign up for Door Into the Dark online at bit.ly/doorintothedarksheffield or at the Delegate Centre. The Door Into the Dark experience takes 35 minutes and spaces are limited.
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PROJECT SYRIA – NONNY DE LA PEÑA IMMERSIVE JOURNALISM SAT 07 - WED 11 JUN / 10:00-17:00 / SIF ..........................................
Nonny de la Peña is pushing technological boundaries for narrative endeavours, including exploring 3D environments for fiction, news and documentary. She has built virtual reality constructs including Hunger in Los Angeles. Nonny brings her harrowing Project Syria to Sheffield Doc/Fest which highlights the plight faced by Syria’s children. Immersive journalism uses new virtual reality technologies to put the audience ‘on scene’ and evoke the feeling of ‘being there’. Utilising the Unity game engine and sense of presence evoked through high resolution virtual reality goggles and compelling audio. Sign up for Project Syria at the Delegate Centre, Millennium Gallery or at SIF. Project Syria takes approximately 10 minutes and spaces are limited.
KLYNT HACK WORKSHOP FRI 06 JUN / 10:00-17:00 / HUBS ..........................................
The Klynt hack workshop at Sheffield Doc/Fest is the first of six hacks across the English regions in 2014-15 led by Sheffield Doc/Fest and Crossover, and supported by Creative England, that explore a range of digital platforms and technologies. The collected findings of the Hackathon will subsequently be made available to all filmmakers wanting to create interactive content. Keep your eye on the Sheffield Doc/Fest website and Twitter feeds for information about when and where the next hack events will be happening and which platforms will be joining us. if you’d like to know more about the potential for making your own work more interactive come along to the What the Hack? Session at 12:00 on Wednesday in Millennium Gallery.
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MON 09 JUN / 14:00 / CHANNING HALL ..........................................
A forgotten diary falls out of an old Choose Your Own Adventure book. What would you do? Join Nathan Penlington and a team of filmmakers (Fernando Gutierrez De Jesus, Sam Smaïl and Nick Watson) as they embark on an epic and emotional quest to find the author of the diary and unravel the mystery of its pages. A true story of obsession, childhood sweethearts, friendship, loss and adventure. But there is a twist. You, the audience, decide Nathan’s fate by using remote controls. With over 1,500 paths and multiple endings, his destiny is in your hands. Choose wisely.
Channel 4 and Arrow Media promised to do Space in a way that no other broadcaster has attempted before. Rather than looking out at the cosmos they wanted to show a warts and all version of Space from the view point of the astronauts on the International Space Station. What does it take to become an astronaut? What dangers do they face? What can they tell us about the state of our planet from 250 miles above us? How do you get access to NASA and how do you make a live, interactive broadcast form Space? In this session we assess how successful this daring campaign was both on air and online.
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SESSION PRODUCER CHAIR SPEAKERS
Nathan Penlington (CYOD Ltd) Sam Smaïl (CYOD Ltd) Fernando Gutierrez De Jesus (CYOD Ltd) Nick Watson (CYOD Ltd)
INTERACTING WITH THE PAST
Liz Weald (Channel 4) Matt Locke (Storythings) David Glover (Channel 4) Tom Brisley (Arrow Media) Annabel McLeod (Freelance) Nick Crossland (Rckt) Sally Dixon (Freelance) Mark Atkin (Crossover)
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David Alamouti (Inovi.org.uk) Adam Gee (Channel 4) Marie James (Channel 4) Elizabeth Klinck (E Klinck Research) Joe Myerscough (Windfall Films)
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SESSION PRODUCER CHAIR SPEAKERS
CHOOSE YOUR OWN DOCUMENTARY
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This session will explore how the “history documentary” genre has been using interactive methodologies to innovate new forms of storytelling and audience engagement. Interactive methodologies have helped to breathe new life into established documentary genres, none more so than the history documentary, which has seen a number of brilliant projects produced recently. With the expertise of the commissioners, producers and practitioners of some of the most innovative projects in this genre, the panel will shed light on how they have made use of new web technologies to help audiences relive history.
CAN VIDEO GAMES TELL IT BETTER? MON 09 JUN / 11:45 / CHANNING HALL ..........................................
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Syria, immigration, asylum and sweatshops with that list you might think we’d be talking about Dispatches or Cutting Edge but actually we’re talking video games. Game developers and journalists discuss how independent companies in the gaming industry are changing the nature of documentary storytelling. Real and current events are being turned into immersive, scary and emotional games that make players experience them in ways no television doc could do. What could an online game add to a traditional television documentary? And can a game ever be cool and educational? SESSION PRODUCER CHAIR SPEAKERS
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LIVE FROM SPACE: AUTOPSY
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CHOOSE YOUR OWN DOCUMENTARY
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Zoe Jewell (Freelance) Ste Curran (Freelance) Lucy Morris (IndieStatik) Edward Stern (Splash Damage) Leigh Alexander (Gamasutra) Darren Garrett (Popogami/Littleloud)
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Interactive TELLING STORIES WITH TWITTER TUE 10 JUN / 12:00 / ITV TOWN HALL RR .......................................... Twitter is the pulse of the planet: it’s where the news breaks, where moments are shared and where audiences go to talk about TV. How do creators of factual programming harness the power of Twitter’s real time, public platform to tell compelling stories and reach the connected audience? Twitter UK’s Head of Broadcast Partnerships, Dan Biddle, shares the best practices and examples of finding and telling stories with Twitter. SPEAKER
Dan Biddle (Twitter UK)
INTERACTIVE DOCUMENTARIES WHAT ROLE CAN THEY PLAY FOR ACTIVISM? TUE 10 JUN / 14:15 / CHANNING HALL .......................................... Charities, NGOs and activist groups are looking for ways to recruit new supporters, engage their existing supporters, tell their stories to reach a wider audience and encourage people to donate or take part in their campaigns. What role can interactive documentaries play for charities to help them achieve their goals? SESSION PRODUCER CHAIR SPEAKERS
Glyn Thomas (WDM) Glyn Thomas (WDM) Mandy Rose (UWE Digital Culture Centre) Mary Mitchell (White Fuse Media) Laurence Topham (The Guardian) Arnaud Dressen (Honkytonk Films)
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HOW YOU BUILD ENGAGEMENT AROUND AWARD-WINNING DOCUMENTARIES TUE 10 JUN / 16:30 / CHANNING HALL .......................................... What is real Engagement and how it is made: CASE Docventures. Docventures is a transmedia project introducing feature documentaries to the big audience. The series is broadcasted by YLE and hosted by the talents of Madventures (National Geographic, Travel Channel). The concept combines feature documentaries, live radio show, live television, social media engagement and live events. Executive Producer Elise Pietarila from Not Guyilty Ltd. introduces how to create a giant movie club, why 30,000 people started to reduce their meat consumption and what it takes to create real engagement with 65,000 Facebook friends. SESSION PRODUCER CHAIR SPEAKERS
Ritva Leino (YLE, Finnish Broadcasting Company) Ritva Leino (YLE, Finnish Broadcasting Company) Ari Ylä-Anttila (YLE, Finnish Broadcasting Company) Elise Pietarila (Not Guilty Oy Ltd)
WHAT THE HACK? WED 11 JUN / 12:00 / MILLENNIUM GALLERY .......................................... What the hack? Why the hack? Who the hack? Hack jams offer filmmakers an opportunity to experiment with the possibilities of translating their storytelling skills from linear to interactive whilst providing a space to collaborate with coders and technologists to share knowledge and skills. Chaired by Tribeca Interactive’s Ingrid Kopp What the Hack? is a one stop shop for anyone looking to take their first steps in creating interactive stories and want to learn more about the important role hacks have to play in encouraging and cementing multidisciplinary collaboration between the world of documentary and digital. CHAIR SPEAKERS
Ingrid Kopp (Tribeca Film Institute) Glyn Thomas (More Onion) Philo van Kemanade (Popathon) Gilles Pradeau (Popathon) Jon Dovey (UWE)
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Sh e f f ie ld I n n ovatio n Award
SHEFFIELD INNOVATION AWARD
KAMAL ACKARIE
KIM STREETS
DAISY ASQUITH
LAURENCE TOPHAM
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CHRISTILLA HUILLARD-KHAN
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JURORS Kamal Ackarie
Forma Arts and Media / Germany Filmmaker / UK Radio France / France The Guardian / UK Museums Sheffield / UK
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Daisy Asquith Christilla Huillard-Kann Laurence Topham Kim Streets
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An international jury of film and interactive media industry experts award this prize to the project that exhibits originality in its approach to form, storytelling and delivery. One of a few such awards in the documentary world, this is the home of the cutting edge of documentary.
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BURN OUT CHOOSE YOUR OWN DOCUMENTARY IRANORAMA KILLING KENNEDY LAST HIJACK INTERACTIVE THE MEASURE OF ALL THINGS OFFSHORE A SHORT HISTORY OF THE HIGHRISE
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BURN OUT SAT 07 JUN - THU 12 JUN, 10:00 - 17:00, 18:00 - 23:00, MILLENNIUM GALLERY
Since 2011, in France, one person self-immolates in public every two weeks. Despite the relative indifference the self-immolations have been met with, Burn Out recounts these acts of extreme protest and challenges the official stories by way of personal testimonies.
This film’s presence at the Festival has been generously supported by the French Institute.
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DIRECTOR Samuel Bollendorff Olivia Colo PRODUCER Arnaud Dressen
YEAR 2013 DURATION 38 mins FORMAT Digital
COUNTRY France
SALES CONTACT Arnaud Dressen Honkytonk Films +33 183645520 arnaud.dressen@honkytonk.fr WEBSITE www.burnout.honkytonk.fr
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CHOOSE YOUR OWN DOCUMENTARY SUN 08 JUN, 20:00, CRUCIBLE STUDIO / MON 09 JUN, 20:00, CRUCIBLE STUDIO
YEAR 2013
PRODUCER Nick Watson Sam Smaïl Fernando Guttierez De Jesus Nathan Penlington
FORMAT Digital
CROSS-PLATFORM
DIRECTOR Fernando Guttierez De Jesus Nick Watson Sam Smaïl
DURATION 90 mins
COUNTRY United Kingdom
CYBER CINEMA
A forgotten diary falls out of an old Choose Your Own Adventure book. What would you do? Join Nathan Penlington and a team of filmmakers (Fernando Gutierrez De Jesus, Sam Smaïl and Nick Watson) as they embark on an epic and emotional quest to find the author of the diary and unravel the mystery of its pages. A true story of obsession, childhood sweethearts, friendship, loss and adventure. But there is a twist. You, the audience, decide Nathan’s fate by using remote controls. With over 1,500 paths and multiple endings, his destiny is in your hands. Choose wisely.
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SALES CONTACT Sam Smaïl CYOD Ltd sam@cyod.co.uk
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IRANORAMA SAT 07 JUN - THU 12 JUN, 10:00 - 17:00, 18:00 - 23:00, MILLENNIUM GALLERY
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Iranorama is the first-ever interactive comic book documentary in which you are the hero of the story. Over the course of five days you’ll step into the shoes of an investigative journalist sent to Iran as the country prepares for presidential elections.
This film’s presence at the Festival has been generously supported by the French Institute.
DIRECTOR Yann Buxeda Ulysse Gry PRODUCER Yann Buxeda
YEAR 2013 FORMAT Digital
COUNTRY France
SALES CONTACT Yann Buxeda France 24 / Webdoc.fr +33 601505565 buxeda@gmail.com WEBSITE www.iranorama.net
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KILLING KENNEDY SAT 07 JUN - THU 12 JUN, 10:00 - 17:00, 18:00 - 23:00, MILLENNIUM GALLERY
YEAR 2013
PRODUCER Ridley Scott David W. Zucker Mary Lisio Bill O’Rilley
DURATION 92 mins
CROSS-PLATFORM
DIRECTOR Matthew Zymet
FORMAT Digital
COUNTRY United States
CYBER CINEMA
NGC’s Killing Kennedy website offers a fully interactive companion documentary that followed the film’s compelling narrative of Kennedy and Oswald on a collision course. Using 2.5D Parallax technology, nearly 400 immersive scenes were painstakingly constructed from archival photos to create a compelling and emotional experience for viewers.
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SALES CONTACT Germaine Deagan-Sweet National Geographic Channel GSweet@natgeotv.com WEBSITE www.kennedyandoswald.com
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Sh e f f ie ld I n n ovatio n Award
LAST HIJACK INTERACTIVE SAT 07 JUN - THU 12 JUN, 10:00 - 17:00, 18:00 - 23:00, MILLENNIUM GALLERY
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Last Hijack Interactive is an online transmedia experience that explores the hijacking of a ship in Somalia, showing both sides of the story. It’s the counterpart to a feature film directed by Femke Wolting and Tommy Pallotta.
DIRECTOR Femke Wolting Mirka Duijn PRODUCER Bruno Felix Femke Wolting
YEAR 2014 DURATION 70 mins FORMAT Digital
COUNTRY Germany Netherlands
SALES CONTACT Yaniv Wolf Submarine +1 31641849614 yaniv@submarine.nl
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THE MEASURE OF ALL THINGS SUN 08 JUN, 17:00, PLUG / SUN 08 JUN, 20:15, PLUG
Shari Frilot
PRODUCER ArKtype Inc. C41 Media
CROSS-PLATFORM
Green interprets our collective fascination with the book of world records as a profound need to try and make some sense of who we are by calibrating human experience and marvelling at its outer contours. Green himself travels to various reaches of the Earth to collect original footage of record-holding people, places and things — the tallest man, the woman with the longest name, the oldest living thing on the planet. He weaves into these original portraits a rich assembly of archival footage, his own live narration and an evocative live soundtrack from the chamber group yMusic to create an indelible rumination on fate, human endeavour and the nature of our existence on Earth.
DIRECTOR Sam Green
YEAR 2014 DURATION 60 mins FORMAT Digital
COUNTRY United States
DIRECTOR’S FILMOGRAPHY 2012 The Love Song of R. Buckminster Fuller 2010 Utopia in Four Movements 2004 The Weather Underground
CYBER CINEMA
Acclaimed documentarian Sam Green began experimenting with ‘live documentary’ storytelling at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival with Utopia in Four Movements. Green returns to Sundance to develop the form with The Measure of All Things, a playful and beautifully poetic meditation on humanity, loosely inspired by the Guinness World Records book series.
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SALES CONTACT Sam Green The Free History Project noemailaddress@noemailaddress.com WEBSITE www.measureofthings.com
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OFFSHORE SAT 07 JUN - THU 12 JUN, 10:00 - 17:00, 18:00 - 23:00, MILLENNIUM GALLERY
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Offshore explores the consequences of the next chapter of oil exploration. Told via a first person journey through a deserted and damaged oil rig, Offshore provides a rich interactive environment that operates as both labyrinthine puzzle and investigative documentary.
DIRECTOR Brenda Longfellow Glen Richards Helios Design Lab
YEAR 2013
PRODUCER Brenda Longfellow
FORMAT Digital
DURATION 70 mins
COUNTRY Canada DIRECTOR’S FILMOGRAPHY 2013 Dead Ducks 2012 Carpe Diem 2010 Weather Report 2003 Tina in Mexico 1998 Shadowmaker
SALES CONTACT Brenda Longfellow Gerda Film Productions +1 4164665494 b.longfellow@bell.net WEBSITE www.offshore-interactive.com
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A SHORT HISTORY OF THE HIGHRISE SAT 07 JUN - THU 12 JUN, 10:00 - 17:00, 18:00 - 23:00, MILLENNIUM GALLERY
PRODUCER Gerry Flahive
CROSS-PLATFORM
DIRECTOR Katerina Cizek
YEAR 2013 DURATION 17 mins FORMAT Digital
COUNTRY Canada United States
CYBER CINEMA
Produced by the National Film Board of Canada and The New York Times, A Short History of the Highrise is an interactive documentary that explores the 2,500-year global history of vertical living and the issue of social equality in an increasingly urbanized world.
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SALES CONTACT Elise Labbe National Film Board of Canada +1 5144964134 festivals@nfb.ca WEBSITE www.nfb.ca/highrise
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ASSENT SAT 07 JUN - THU 12 JUN, 10:00 - 17:00, 18:00 - 23:00, MILLENNIUM GALLERY ...............................
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In 1973 my father witnessed the execution of a group of prisoners captured by the military regime in Chile, the Army that he was part of. Assent puts the user in my father’s boots as we walk to the place where that happened.
DIRECTOR / PRODUCER Oscar Raby COUNTRY Australia DIRECTOR’S FILMOGRAPHY 2006 Rehearsal
YEAR 2013 DURATION 10 mins FORMAT Oculus Rift Virtual Reality Headset
SALES CONTACT Oscar Raby +61 435846646 oscar.raby@gmail.com WEBSITE www.oscarraby.net/assent
THE DEVIL’S TOY REDUX SAT 07 JUN - THU 12 JUN, 10:00 - 17:00, 18:00 - 23:00, MILLENNIUM GALLERY ...............................
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The Devil’s Toy Redux is a railslide that starts with Claude Jutra’s 1966 original film and ends in your browser window. Audiences can jump from country to country, theme to theme and era to era through 11 productions, weaving a powerful tale of societal intolerance and the refusal to obey social mores.
DIRECTOR Collective Work PRODUCER Dominique Willieme Dana Dansereau COUNTRY Canada France
YEAR 2014 DURATION 90 mins FORMAT Digital
SALES CONTACT Lorne Price National Film Board of Canada distribution@nfb.ca
IN FLIGHT SAT 07 JUN - THU 12 JUN, 10:00 - 17:00, 18:00 - 23:00, MILLENNIUM GALLERY ...............................
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In Flight is a live data-driven interactive documentary created by Kiln for the Guardian to mark the centenary of commercial aviation. It combines a real-time map of global air traffic with an exploration of aviation’s past and future.
DIRECTOR / PRODUCER Duncan Clark Robin Houston COUNTRY United Kingdom
YEAR 2014 DURATION 8 mins FORMAT Digital
SALES CONTACT Duncan Clark Kiln +44 07779400282 duncan@kiln.it WEBSITE www.aviation.live.kiln.it
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LAGOS WIDE & CLOSE - WEB SAT 07 JUN - THU 12 JUN, 10:00 - 17:00, 18:00 - 23:00, MILLENNIUM GALLERY
PRODUCER Femke Wolting Bruno Felix
YEAR 2014 DURATION 60 mins FORMAT Digital
SALES CONTACT Yaniv Wolf Submarine +31 203301226 yaniv@submarine.nl
THE LISZT SONATA SAT 07 JUN - THU 12 JUN, 10:00 - 17:00, 18:00 - 23:00, MILLENNIUM GALLERY ...............................
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Liszt’s Piano Sonata in B Minor is the great masterpiece of Nineteeth century Romantic music. Stephen Hough is one of the Twenty-First century’s finest pianists. Hough’s virtuoso performance has been exquisitely captured on multiple cameras, allowing the music to be experienced from any perspective.
DIRECTOR Adam Low PRODUCER Fiona Barclay Martin Rosenbaum Max Whitby COUNTRY United Kingdom YEAR 2013 FORMAT Digital
SALES CONTACT Martin Rosenbaum Lone Star Productions +44 07831647253 martin@lonestarproductions. co.uk WEBSITE www.touchpress.com/titles/ lisztsonata
LIVE FROM SPACE SAT 07 JUN - THU 12 JUN, 10:00 - 17:00, 18:00 - 23:00, MILLENNIUM GALLERY ...............................
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An interactive documentary about a space-walk gone wrong, a microgravity game, an astronaut test, an application tracking where above Earth the International Space Station is and a wealth of exclusive videos about life in space: all part of Channel 4’s Live From Space experience.
DIRECTOR / PRODUCER Tom Brisley COUNTRY United Kingdom
YEAR 2014 FORMAT Digital
SALES CONTACT Tom Brisley Arrow Media +44 02074896300 Tom.Brisley@arrowmedia.com
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COUNTRY Netherlands
CROSS-PLATFORM
In 2004 renowned architect Rem Koolhaas and award-winning director Bregtje van der Haak visited Lagos, one of the fastest growing cities in Africa. This website represents a unique engagement with a hardly documented city, capturing multiple perspectives of a volatile moment in its evolution.
DIRECTOR Bregtje van der Haak
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WEBSITE www.space.channel4.com
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LOVE RADIO SAT 07 JUN - THU 12 JUN, 10:00 - 17:00, 18:00 - 23:00, MILLENNIUM GALLERY ...............................
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Love Radio is a transmedia documentary about the process of reconciliation in post-genocide Rwanda. It tells the story of the popular radio soap Musekeweya, ‘New Dawn’, which tries to prevent new outbursts of violence, during 100 days - the period in which the genocide took place 20 years ago.
DIRECTOR Anoek Steketee Eefje Blankevoort PRODUCER Sara Kolster COUNTRY Netherlands
YEAR 2014 DURATION 8 mins FORMAT Digital
SALES CONTACT Yaniv Wolf Submarine +31 31203301226 yaniv@submarine.nl
NETWARS / OUT OF CTRL SAT 07 JUN - THU 12 JUN, 10:00 - 17:00, 18:00 - 23:00, MILLENNIUM GALLERY ...............................
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Netwars / Out of CTRL is a fact-based Cross-Platform experience with a TV documentary, interactive web documentary, TV series, graphic novel app, audio and E-book series which explore the impending threat of cyberwarfare.
DIRECTOR Lena Thiele PRODUCER Michael Grotenhoff Filmtank GmbH COUNTRY Germany
YEAR 2014 DURATION 30 mins FORMAT Digital
SALES CONTACT Saskia Kress Filmtank GmbH +49 3075631479 berlin@filmtank.de WEBSITE www.netwars-project.com
NSA FILES: DECODED SAT 07 JUN - THU 12 JUN, 10:00 - 17:00, 18:00 - 23:00, MILLENNIUM GALLERY ...............................
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NSA Files: Decoded distills and weaves together complex political, legal and technological issues raised by the Guardian’s reporting on NSA surveillance. Employing all of the internet’s storytelling tools, the web-native feature guides readers through the revelations in an accessible, relatable and visual way.
DIRECTOR / PRODUCER Gabriel Dance Ewen MacAskill PRODUCER Gabriel Dance COUNTRY United States
YEAR 2013 DURATION 15 mins FORMAT Digital
SALES CONTACT Fielding Cage The Guardian, US +1 9375887 feilding.cage@theguardian.com
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PAPERS, PLEASE SAT 07 JUN - THU 12 JUN, 10:00 - 17:00, 18:00 - 23:00, MILLENNIUM GALLERY
COUNTRY Japan
INTERACTIVE
Congratulations. The October labor lottery is complete. Your name was pulled. For immediate placement, report to the The Ministry of Admission at Grestin Border Checkpoint. An apartment will be provided for you and your family in East Grestin.
DIRECTOR / PRODUCER Lucas Pope
YEAR 2013 FORMAT Digital
SALES CONTACT Lucas Pope 3909 LLC +81 8041969204 lucas@3909.co WEBSITE www.papersplea.se
RIOT SAT 07 JUN - THU 12 JUN, 10:00 - 17:00, 18:00 - 23:00, MILLENNIUM GALLERY
DIRECTOR / PRODUCER Leonard Menchiari COUNTRY Italy
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YEAR 2014 FORMAT Digital
Riot is an authentic riot simulator for PC, Mac, Android and iPhone. The NPCs, AI, levels and campaigns are based on real life events all around the world. Riot features up to 32 levels- a level editor will be released with the game so players can recreate real life global riots using the game engine.
SALES CONTACT Simon Michel Menchiari LLC +49 981767220 simonmichel@gmx.net WEBSITE www.riotsimulator.org
UNSPEAK SAT 07 JUN - THU 12 JUN, 10:00 - 17:00, 18:00 - 23:00, MILLENNIUM GALLERY
DIRECTOR Jennifer Abbott PRODUCER Bruno Felix Femke Wolting COUNTRY Netherlands
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Unspeak is an interactive documentary investigating the manipulative power of language. Blending filmmaking, data, technology and design, the story of Unspeak unfolds across a series of short films, data visualizations and a participatory dictionary.
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YEAR 2013 DURATION 90 mins FORMAT Digital
SALES CONTACT Yaniv Wolf Submarine +31 203301226 Yaniv@submarine.nl
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HAPPINESS SAT 07 JUNE, 11:30, PEACE GARDENS / SAT 07 JUN, 21:30, THE CAVE - THE DEVIL’S ARSE / MON 09 JUN, 15:30, LIBRARY THEATRE
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Eight-year-old Peyangki’s widowed mother is unable to afford to enrol him in school so she sends him to the local monastery instead. He quickly has to adapt to life away from home, with only a single fellow student and the Lama for company. But big changes are on the horizon: a decade after their ruler opened up Bhutan to television and the internet, Peyangki’s tiny village is finally getting electricity. When his first television falls off his horse during transit, Peyangki’s uncle decides to return to the capital for another set and invites Peyangki along for the three-day journey. But will television bring happiness? As always, acclaimed filmmaker Thomas Balmes proves adept in transporting us to a remote corner of the world poised on the verge of great change, through astounding cinematography richly deserving of its Sundance award. Carol Nahra
DIRECTOR Thomas Balmes
YEAR 2013
PRODUCER Patrick Winocour Juliette Guigon Kaarle Aho Thomas Balmes
DURATION 76 mins
COUNTRY France Finland
PREMIERE UK
FORMAT DCP
DIRECTOR’S FILMOGRAPHY 2010 Babies 2007 Damages 1998 Maharajah Burger 1996 Bosnia Hotel
SALES CONTACT Thomas Balmes Chiaroscuro Pictures +33 144543950 thomasbalmes@gmail.com
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THE INTERNET’S OWN BOY: THE STORY OF AARON SWARTZ SAT 07 JUN, 16:30, LIBRARY THEATRE / SUN 08 JUN, 20:30, ODEON
Carol Nahra
COUNTRY United States
CROSS-PLATFORM
DIRECTOR / PRODUCER Brian Knappenberger
YEAR 2014 DURATION 105 mins FORMAT DCP PREMIERE EU
DIRECTOR’S FILMOGRAPHY 2012 We Are Legion: The Story of the Hacktivists 2003 Life After War 2001 Into the Body
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What’s most inspiring about Aaron Swartz is not that he could read by the age of three, or was one of the internet’s most gifted pioneers as a young teenager, helping to steer the Creative Commons philosophy, RSS technology and countless other endeavours. No, what’s most inspiring about Swartz is that when so many internet entrepreneurs were trying to get rich quick, he was absolutely determined to use his intellect to make the world a better place, by increasing access to knowledge. As Swartz’s immediate family and friends Cory Doctorow, Tim Berners-Lee and other e-legends testify in Brian Knappenburger’s gripping documentary, Swartz was a connector whose prescient vision was at fatal odds with a U.S. legal system still operating in the dinosaur age. A year on from Swartz’s suicide, the world is still coming to terms with the devastating loss of a digital giant.
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SALES CONTACT Annie Roney Ro*co Films +1 4153326471 annie@rocofilms.com
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THE LAST MAN ON THE MOON SUN 08 JUN, 15:15, PBS AMERICA SHOWROOM 3 / MON 09 JUN, 15:45, PBS AMERICA SHOWROOM 3
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The 1960s was an extraordinary time for the United States. Unburdened by post-war reparations, Americans were preoccupied with other developments like NASA, the game-changing space programme that put Neil Armstrong on the Moon. Yet it was astronauts like Eugene Cernan who paved the uneven, perilous path to lunar exploration. A test pilot who lived to court danger, he was recruited along with 14 other men in a secretive process that saw them become the closest of friends and adversaries. In this intensely competitive environment, Cernan was sent into space twice, with his second trip being his first — and NASA’s last — mission to the Moon. As he looks back at what he loved and lost during the eight years in Houston, an incomparably eventful life emerges into view. Director Mark Craig crafts a quietly epic biography that combines the rare insight of the surviving former astronauts with archival footage and otherworldly moonscapes. Sunshine Wong
DIRECTOR Mark Craig PRODUCER Patrick Mark Sara Giles Gareth Dodds Mark Stewart COUNTRY United Kingdom
YEAR 2014 DURATION 99 mins FORMAT DCP PREMIERE World
DIRECTOR’S FILMOGRAPHY 2011 Ball & Chain 2009 Jim Clark - The Quiet Champion 2006 Junk Mail Britain 2007 Graham Hill Driven 2006 Talk to Me
SALES CONTACT Gareth Dodds MSP +44 07810805080 gareth@ms-productions.com WEBSITE www.thelastmanonthemoon.com
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SEPIDEH TUE 10 JUN, 15:15, VIMEO SHOWROOM 2
Carol Nahra
PRODUCER Stefan Frost Henrik Underbjerg
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DIRECTOR Berit Madsen
YEAR 2013 DURATION 88 mins FORMAT DCP
COUNTRY Denmark
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In rural Iran, Sepideh has the strong emotions of any teenager. But rather than focusing on boys and pop stars, she is obsessed with stars of a different sort. Her interest in astronomy has given her a focus since the death of her father six years ago. She is happiest when stargazing with the telescope she bought with her inheritance and keeping a journal addressed to Albert Einstein. She is an active member of the local astronomy club, where her teacher Mr Kabiri holds her up as an example – and hopes that she will succeed where he himself has failed. Sepideh’s mother shifts between wanting Sepideh to live her dream of studying astronomy at university, and worrying that her daughter is headed down the wrong life path. Berit Madsen’s intimate observation of Sepideh’s world plays out like a drama as we follow her tenaciously pursue her dreams.
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SALES CONTACT Tine Klint Level K +45 4520108580 tine.klint@levelk.dk
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WEB JUNKIE MON 09 JUN, 12:15, VIMEO SHOWROOM 2 / TUE 10 JUN, 12:45, LIBRARY THEATRE
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China is the first country to recognise internet addiction as a clinical disorder. Chiefly afflicting the teenage population, many parents have entered their children into rehab by resorting to some rather extreme measures. The bootcamp environment aims to reinstate a sense of order and discipline into their lives. Forced out of bed at dawn and subjected to lectures that start with prescriptive definitions of what a computer is, the boys predictably lash out in frustration. Still, camaraderie and playful bravado can both flourish in this setting: “15 days? I once played for two months straight,” one of them boasts. Within this microscopic examination is a web of complex relations that reveal the impact of technology on the individual, the family and a rapidly changing society. Acclaimed directors Shosh Shlam and Hilla Medalia’s intimate study of a phenomenon situated in the Chinese context resonates on a global level, in particular with industrialising countries in Asia and the global South. Sunshine Wong
DIRECTOR Hilla Medalia Shosh Shlam PRODUCER Neta Zwebner-Zaibert Shosh Shlam Hilla Medalia COUNTRY Israel United States
YEAR 2014 DURATION 74 mins FORMAT DCP PREMIERE UK
SALES CONTACT Ana Vicente Dogwoof +44 02078317252 ana@dogwoof.com WEBSITE www.webjunkiemovie.com
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