'A European single investment strategy for digital storytelling is vital for its survival and maturation.' ‘I wish there was more of it’. If Sir David Attenborough’s wish is to be fulfilled, there are some issues that policy makers and digital storytelling professionals need to address. For example, due to the fact that digital storytelling inherently produces cross-border content that is ‘genre agnostic’, securing public financing has proven to be challenging. Public funds are often tied to specific countries, platforms or genres. European digital storytelling content is also at risk of being crowded out by its US counterpart. A coordinated European strategy for supporting this type of content, either through public funding or a mix between public and private funding, could strengthen European content and its circulation.
public. Whether that public consists of teens using smartphones or tried and tested BBC hosts using VR glasses.
'Digital storytelling breaks barriers and builds bridges. It relies on the free circulation of audiovisual content to find audiences that cut across borders and boundaries.' Dimitri Nieuwenhuizen (LUSTlab - moderator) Alexandre Brachet (Upian) Margaux Missika (Upian) Liz Rosenthal (Power to the Pixel) Remco Vlaanderen (Submarine Channel) Yaniv Wolf (Submarine Channel)
Without addressing such issues, we may very well miss out on a unique opportunity to tell personalized, immersive and engaging stories of great public concern that travel freely across borders to the European
EU2016 - 31 Breakout session: No Boundaries, Storytelling in the Digital Age