There's an embarrassment of riches at this year's SXSW, especially if, like us, you geek out on anything having to do with interactive filmmaking and immersive storytelling. Given the festival's deep roots in both the film and tech communities, it only makes sense that SXSW would excel when it comes to events that bring film and tech together. The events highlighted below aren't quite tech and they aren't quite film -- they offer an exciting look at the changing narrative forms emerging courtesy of new technologies. Here are 10 you won't want to miss (in chronological order, with edited descriptions courtesy of SXSW): 1. New Narratives: Building an Interactive Storyworld Who: Aina Abiodun, Founder, Storycode; Karim Ahmad, Sr. Digital Content Strategist, Itvs, Mike Knowlton, partner, Murmur, Ted Hope, CEO of Fandor What: Itvs, Murmur, Storycode & Ted Hope will discuss the emerging genre of interactive narrative film, next-gen web series, and how creating.
- 3/6/2014
- by Paula Bernstein
- Indiewire
The Tribeca Film Institute's second annual Tfi New Media Fund is awarding a total of $400,000 in grants to an assortment of interactive, non-fiction, transmedia projects. They range from $50K to $100K apiece, with funding effective immediately. List of recipients below. The selection committee is comprised of notables in the world of technology, film, media and the arts: Frank Rose (author of The Art of Immersion: How the Digital Generation Is Remaking Hollywood, Madison Avenue, and the Way We Tell Stories), Steve Coulson (Creative Director, Campfire), Andrew Devigal (Multimedia Editor, The New York Times), Marc Schiller (Founder of Wooster Collective and CEO of Bond Strategy and Influence), Ian Inaba (Executive Director of Citizen Engagement Lab), Aina Abiodun (Founder and CEO, StoryCode), and Lina Srivastava (Strategist, Activist, Transmedia Designer, Writer). The grant recipients are: Alma, A Tale of Violence Key Participants: Miquel Dewever-Plana, Isabelle...
- 8/22/2012
- by Beth Hanna
- Thompson on Hollywood
(Read parts one and two.)
I’m sitting deep inside the bowels of the Elinor Bunin Monroe Film Center on West 65th Street. The Story Hack got off to a friendly start around 10:00 this morning with an orientation by Aina Abiodun, Mike Knowlton, and Film Society of Lincoln Center Executive Director Rose Kuo. We made sure everyone was on the same page and were told our final wild card, the Emily Dickinson quote “Fortune befriends the bold,” which has to be included in every hack. Aina’s opening thoughts also laid down the gauntlet when she said that our work in these 24 hours would initiate the growth of transmedia as much as anything else happening right now. It’s a bold claim — the hack’s theme is courage, after all — but when you think about it, she’s probably right. Not only is it a fantastic experience for each of the participants,...
I’m sitting deep inside the bowels of the Elinor Bunin Monroe Film Center on West 65th Street. The Story Hack got off to a friendly start around 10:00 this morning with an orientation by Aina Abiodun, Mike Knowlton, and Film Society of Lincoln Center Executive Director Rose Kuo. We made sure everyone was on the same page and were told our final wild card, the Emily Dickinson quote “Fortune befriends the bold,” which has to be included in every hack. Aina’s opening thoughts also laid down the gauntlet when she said that our work in these 24 hours would initiate the growth of transmedia as much as anything else happening right now. It’s a bold claim — the hack’s theme is courage, after all — but when you think about it, she’s probably right. Not only is it a fantastic experience for each of the participants,...
- 4/30/2012
- by Randy Astle
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
Anyone interested in transmedia in New York City needs to know about StoryCode. Mike Knowlton and Aina Abiodun, seen below with their team, originally founded it as a transmedia Meetup group, and then last year transformed it into a nonprofit dedicated to cross-platform storytelling–the first such organization in the world. They continue to sponsor monthly meetings to discuss recent transmedia projects, and now for the first time they’re sponsoring a narrative transmedia hackathon. Hackathons, which come from tech culture, have become a popular venue for transmedia designers to develop their work, but this is the first hackathon to explicitly showcase narrative transmedia–and it’s moving StoryCode past the realm of pure discussion and into action, hopefully pushing the state of the art of transmedia in the process.
It’s being co-sponsored by the Film Society of Lincoln Center, which is hosting the event in its Elinor Bunin Munroe Film Center.
It’s being co-sponsored by the Film Society of Lincoln Center, which is hosting the event in its Elinor Bunin Munroe Film Center.
- 4/23/2012
- by Randy Astle
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
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