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Xcuse my French!: A daily web journal @sxsw Austin, TX

March 2014

Check out www.xcusemyfrench.com from Friday 7th to 11th of March 2014, updated daily at 7pm CST (Austin, TX time!) Xcuse my French is a daily web magazine with an offbeat approach to SXSW’s program. Each edition brings you through a full day of the festival experience, from morning coffee to evening parties. On each day, [...]

Si vieillir m’était conté: released on lefigaro.fr (french version)

April 2012

french version only >>> A VOIR SUR LE FIGARO SANTÉ Synopsis Jadis l’âge inspirait le respect, aujourd’hui il fait peur. Être ou paraître jeune est devenu la quête du Graal de notre société. Ce mot semble être devenu un tabou aujourd’hui. Quelle image la société renvoie-t-elle du vieillissement ? Quelle image a-t-on de notre propre [...]

Discover Klynt 3! Create your own interactive documentaries.

October 2011

Back in 2012, we launched the revamp of Klynt, our in-house prototype editing production tool with the goal to design a versatile, professional & universal application. Since November 2014, Klynt HTML5 new release is now available for NGOs, newsrooms, web agencies & independant filmmakers on http://www.klynt.net. >> Try it now! Klynt is a project by [...]

Celebrating the opening of Klynt.net

June 2011

We are very pleased to launch Klynt.net official news & community website. We thought about it as both a vitrine for the app but most of all, a place to share ideas and feedback on the soon to open Klynt community area. This is also the opportunity for us to unveil Klynt’s new visual identity, [...]

Special Features at Maarifa Conference and IDFA Market This Fall

October 2010

Tunis, Tunisia (Maarifa Conference) October 26th 2010, 14:00pm NEW FORMATS, NEW PLATFORMS, NEW OPPORTUNITIES Canal France International has just launched the Maarifa project (“knowledge” in Arabic), with a presentation for members of the Asian States Broadcasting Union (ASBU) attending their AGM. This ambitious project, which consists in developing educational multimedia programmes with partners from Mediterranean [...]

Interview with Laëtitia Moreau, director of The Challenge (in french)

February 2010

Dans ce bref entretien réalisé pour le dossier de presse du Challenge, Laëtitia Moreau revient sur ces motivations à s’engager dans un projet de web-documentaire, en complément de son documentaire pour la télévision. Pourquoi un web-documentaire ? En tant que réalisatrice de documentaire, l’idée de réaliser un web documentaire m’a tout de suite séduite car [...]

A brief introduction to Klynt (part 1)

January 2010

At Honkytonk, we have always liked to get our hands on new creative and productive tools. For me, it all started a couple years ago with cubase, photoshop, finalcut, Indesign, flash and so on. I also remember a quiet recent time when I would spend hours testing new software / engines for building websites (wordpress, [...]

Official selection in Berlin, Sheffield, Torino, Paris and Amsterdam

October 2009

Doc/Fest 2007- 08 Promo The Big Issue, Samuel Bollendorff’s new web documentary on the obesity epidemic was released this week on French Educational website curiosphere.tv (France 5). Coming up, we will be presenting this new project at the following locations: – in Berlin for PRIX EUROPA, a pan-european competition for emerging media on October 23rd [...]

Productions

Le Grand Incendie

by Samuel Bollendorff & Olivia Colo with France Televisions

Rapporteur de crise

by Samuel Bollendorff & Olivia Colo
with Curiosphere.tv & Liberation.fr

iROCK

by Lionel Brouet
with Orange.fr

Le Challenge

by Laëtitia Moreau
with CANAL+

The Big Issue

by Samuel Bollendorff & Olivia Colo
with france 5

Journey to the End of Coal

by Samuel Bollendorff & Abel Ségrétin
with lemonde.fr