University, etc.) as well as an interesting circuit
(Audiovisual Innovation Lab) is unique in the world,
of events and festivals that foster the creation
created by the RTVE (Lab RTVE)61 Interactive Media
and funding of interactive documentaries: Sheffield
Department, which is a small, highly-qualified team
Doc/Fest, Mozilla Festival, etc.
dedicated to constant experimentation with new narrative
Although England’s production has not stood
languages. The RTVE Lab started with a high level of
out in the field, we do find good examples of the
activity in its first years, and eventually focused on
intersection between journalism and documentaries
co-producing webdocs via the Factoría de webdocs, and
in The Guardian, and in the following projects:
more recently, creating content for Playz, the RTVE.
Global Guide to the First World War (Francesca
ES platform for exclusively digital content.
Panetta, Lindsay Poulton and Iain Chambers, The
Guardian, Kiln.it, 2014)
The second important factor in Spain is
and The Shirt on your
the DocsBarcelona62 festival that since 2013 has
Back (Lindsay Poulton, The Guardian, WorldView,
promoted its interactive and transmedia section
2014) . We also highlight Anyone’s Child Mexico:
interDocs Barcelona, which includes conferences,
families for safer drug control (Matthew Brown,
interactive web browsing, case studies, exhi-
Ewan Cass-Kavanagh, Mary Ryder and Jane Slater,
bition, hackathons, and an interactive pitch.
University of Bristol, 2017) .
The festival has grown especially over the past
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five years, and currently aims to promote the documentary medium worldwide, comprising three
3.4 SPAIN
festivals in three countries: Barcelona (Spain), Medellín (Colombia) and Valparaíso (Chile). The
Spain offers a wide range of interactive nonfic-
project also includes a school (DocsSchool) and
tion projects, but most of them are low-budget
one of the most wide-ranging distribution systems
productions. Although Spain has created a certain
for documentary films, the DocsBarcelona del Mes,
level of interest and expectation through good
which has 95 screening rooms in Spain and various
training and an efficient system of distribution
Latin American countries. Finally, there are also a
and screenings via well-established festivals
number of Spanish production companies, among them
(DocsBarcelona, Documenta Madrid, Medimed, etc.),
we would like to highlight Barret Films63, based in
there has been virtually no funding available.
the city of Valencia, specialized in interactive
This has limited the growth of these works, while
and transmedia documentaries committed to social
at the same time it is a clear sign that it is
and activist themes.
possible to produce with few resources, a lot
We would like to mention the following works for
of creativity, and alternative funding sources.
their impact and narrative innovation: Montelab (Lab
We must first mention Spain’s most important
RTVE, Documentos TV, 2014)64; 0 responsables (Barret
broadcasting company: Radio Televisión Española.
Films, 2015)65; Las Sinsombrero (Tània Balló, Manuel
Spain’s Laboratorio de Innovación Audiovisual
Jiménez and Serrana Torres, Intropía Media, Yo la
58 https://www.theguardian.com/world/ng-interactive/2014/jul/23/a-global-guide-to-the-first-world-war-interactive-
61 http://www.rtve.es/lab/
documentary
62 http://www.docsbarcelona.com/
59 https://www.theguardian.com/world/ng-interactive/2014/apr/
63 https://barret.coop/
bangladesh-shirt-on-your-back
64 http://lab.rtve.es/montelab/
60 http://mexico.anyoneschild.org/
65 http://www.0responsables.com/?l=ca
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