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SIX NEW DOCUMENTARY TEAMS TO PARTICIPATE IN
BAY AREA VIDEO COALITION'S
2012 PRODUCERS INSTITUTE FOR NEW MEDIA TECHNOLOGIES
Internationally recognized public media lab in San Francisco helps award-winning documentary producers create interactive social justice projects.
San Francisco, CA. Six social issue documentary teams have been selected to develop interactive Web, mobile, multimedia, and game projects at the Producers Institute for New Media Technologies at the Bay Area Video Coalition (BAVC) in San Francisco from October 12 - 19, 2012. The Producers Institute for New Media Technologies is a week-long social impact laboratory that connects the world’s best social issue documentary filmmakers and partner nonprofit organizations with leading technologists and mentors to develop transmedia tools and story assets to make social change happen on the ground.
Projects selected for 2012 include stories from local, national, and international producers on a wide range of social justice topics including homelessness, immigration, economic justice, educational opportunity, democracy and human rights.
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America Revisited
Team: Loira Limbal and Stanley Nelson of Firelight Media; Katie Marsh, Kounterattack Design
Nonprofit Partner: Youth Speaks; Campus Progress / Center for American Progress – The Black Youth Project
Documentary Film: Black Panthers: Seize the Time, part of America Revisited, a PBS trilogy on the African-American experience
Transmedia Project: America Revisited, The Black Panthers transmedia project, will create an opportunity for the public to contribute personal archival material and home videos related to the African-American experience to this unprecedented public media project. The project will leverage a centralized media uploader to enable maximum flexibility for uploading various forms of content. Users will upload video, audio, images, and documents to the website, or share content to their social networks, enabling word-of-mouth marketing that will help populate the transmedia platform with creative content and become a repository of archival material from viewer’s personal collections that can be incorporated into the production of the feature documentary film.
Link: http://www.firelightmedia.tv
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Wonder City
Team: Kristy Guevara-Flanagan, Vaquera Productions, Naomi Clark, Dead Pixel Co
Nonprofit Partner(s): Games for Change
Documentary Film: Wonder Women! The Untold Story of American Superheroines looks at how popular representations of powerful women often reflect society’s anxieties about women’s liberation. Discovering our own inner action heroes -- inspiring women and girls to study the example set by heroic women and to recognize, develop, identify and harness their own innate strengths and powers.
Transmedia Project: Wonder City is a game designed to appeal to a broad audience, and will be suitable for tweens, teens and adults. Although the main character whose choices you guide will always be a superheroine, producers anticipate that male players will find it just as engaging.
Link: http://www.wonderwomendoc.com
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Land of Opportunity
Team: Luisa Dantas, Doug Miller
Nonprofit Partner(s): Greater New Orleans Fair Housing Action Center, National Housing Institute/Shelterforce
Documentary Film: Land of Opportunity, a feature length documentary, tracks the reconstruction of New Orleans post-Katrina and a diverse set of people: “What do we want our cities to look like, and what can we do to make that vision a reality?”
Transmedia Project: The Land of Opportunity Interactive Video Experience will use content from the Land of Opportunity documentary as a prototype for using interactive video to engage a variety of constituencies: urban equity advocates, educators, and community groups. The tool will integrate video with related multimedia content curated by strategic partners, that users can navigate, contribute, share and tailor in myriad ways.
Link: http://www.landofopportunitymovie.com
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@home/C.I.V.I.T.A.S
Team: Danny Alpert, Kindling Group; Heidi Boivert, FuturePerfect Lab; Michael Hoffman, See3Communications
Nonprofit Partner: 100,000 Homes
Documentary Film: @home is a journey into “new” American homelessness through the eyes of Mark Horvath. Once a homeless addict, and now devoted crusader for this cause, Mark uses raw interviews with the homeless and social media to raise awareness and smash stereotypes on invisiblepeople.tv. Mark also struggles to keep himself from sinking back into homelessness as he battles to pull America back from the cataclysmic spread of homelessness on our horizon. By giving voice to the “invisible people,” Mark has touched millions and by exposing what the failure of our common safety net means for us all he dares us to care.
Transmedia Project: C.I.V.I.T.A.S. is a social media and community engagement initiative exploring home through the collecting and sharing of digital content, developing large-scale mixed reality scavenger hunt game.
Link: http://www.kindlinggroup.org/films?film_id=9
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The Responsive Government Project
Team: Jason Cohn and Camille Servan-Schreiber, Bread and Butter Films
Nonprofit Partner: Roosevelt Institute
Documentary Film: Mad!: Howard Jarvis and the Birth of the Tax Revolt
Jason Cohn is the Peabody-Award-winning director and producer of Eames: The Architect and the Painter. He follows up with a California-based story about bottom up government. The documentary unfolds as a tightly-drawn campaign narrative featuring a small cast of colorful characters, including the profane septuagenarian, Jarvis, and the young bachelor governor, Jerry Brown, who faced off in the most significant issue campaign in American direct democracy.
Transmedia Project: The Responsive Government Project (working title) is a platform that combines social media, gaming and behavioral economics to allow people to connect over problems they want government to help solve. It also facilitates a virtual market where citizen inputs determine acceptable “ tax price tags” for specific services.
Link: http://www.breadandbutterfilms.com
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Immigrant Nation
Team: Theo Rigby, Kate McLean
Nonprofit Partner(s): National Domestic Workers Alliance
Documentary Film: At the heart of Immigrant Nation is a simple premise: nearly every person in the U.S. has an immigration journey, be it their own or the voyage of a relative in the past. As the hot-button topic of immigration divides communities across the country, our shared history has the potential to create commonality between recent immigrants and those whose families have lived in the U.S. for generations.
Transmedia Project: Through the intersection of documentary film, user-generated storytelling, and data visualization, Immigrant Nation uses personal narratives to humanize divisive immigration issues in the U.S. Short doc series broadcast on POV; this project will develop a tool for anyone to share immigrant story and connect to "waves" of immigration data.
Link: http://www.theorigby.com
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The public is invited to the Public Conference day is October 13th in San Francisco. For more information on the Producer’s Insitute please see: http://www.bavc.org/producersinstitute
Producers Institute 2012 is presented in partnership with ITVS and Mozilla. Additional support is generously provided by the Adobe Foundation, The Nathan Cummings Foundation, The Fledgling Fund, The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation and The Wyncote Foundation.
The Producers Institute for New Media Technologies was launched in 2007 with funding from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, and connects independent producers and their socially relevant content to emerging models of storytelling and distribution. Through the Institute, documentary production teams from across the US, Europe, and South America have come to BAVC to work with technologists, designers, storytellers, and programmers to develop new models of participatory media.
Past mentors from leading technology companies, including Adobe, Apple, Google, Mobile Active, Phantom Compass, Pentura, Map Office and others, have worked in teams to design and develop working prototypes, which are presented to international funding and review panels at the end of the Institute.
Projects from past Institutes include: The Waiting Room - a multiplatform community engagement project uncovering the needs of underserved patients in the health care system; The Way We Get By - a politics-free web resource connecting US troops in need of support with families and civilians; and Question Bridge - a web portal and an interactive museum installation designed to facilitate a collaborative dialogue about racial identity.
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