Webdocs
A Survival Guide for Online Filmmakers
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This "survival guide" was designed to provide filmmakers, producers and journalists with some tools required to develop their own web-documentaries. How to include interactivity in your projects? How to reach a bigger audience? How to develop a creative funding strategy? How does the web affect storytelling? How to pitch or crowdsource your webdocs? To answer all these questions, this unique book brings together interviews with 30 world-known cross-media experts, producers or authors.
(Book Sample / Echantillon)
BOOK PARTICIPANTS:
Alexandre Brachet (Upian) ; Alexander Knetig (ARTE); Alexis Sarini & Louis Villers (Webdocu.fr) ; Andrew Devigal (The New-York Times); Anne Vierhout (ex-IDFA) ; Arik Bernstein (Alma-Films) ; Brian Storm (Mediastorm) ; Caitlin Burns (Starlight Runner) ; Danae Ringelmann (IndieGoGo); Elizabeth Radshaw (Hotdocs) ; Femke Wolting (Submarine) ; Heather Croall (Sheffield Doc Fest); Hugues Sweeney (ONF/NFB) ; James McQuivey (Forrester Research) ; Jon Reiss (Think Outside the Box Office); Katerina Cizek (NFB) ; Laurence Bagot (narrative) ; Marc Meurisse (Belle); Mark Atkin (Doc-Campus/Crossover) ; Mathieu Détaint & Nicolas Sauret (Inflammable); Nicolas Saint-Cyr (Nikosanto) ; Paul Pauwels (ETMA) ; Peter Wintonick (DocAgora/Eyesteelfilm) ; Rob Ford (FWA); Sheri Candler (Social media consultant) ; Stefano Strocchi (Move production) ; Tamara Krinsky (IDA) ; Tom Koch (PBS).
OFFICIAL PARTNERS:
IDFA DocLab; Sunny Side of the Doc; BritDoc, European Documentary Network, Power to the Pixel, Reelisor, Documentary Campus, European Television & Media Management Academy; Dok Leipzig, Sheffield Doc Fest; MediaStorm, ESoDoc; Zelig; Webdocu; with the support of Belgium's French Community for the french translation.
THEY SAY ABOUT THE BOOK:
"We are living through a communications revolution in which storytellers can give their subjects a voice and reach an audience on a variety of platforms. A book about the fundamentals is a great place to get started."
Brian Storm - CEO @ Mediastorm
"Webdocs are currently the most challenging and experimental field of visual story telling. No filmmaker can ignore this book. It gives you the tools to get started!"
Heidi Gronauer - Director @ ZeLIG/ESoDoc