Now online with Orange Vidéo Party on www.irock.fr (french version)

iROCK, une expérience interactive dans les coulisses des Eurockéennes
iROCK propose de déambuler dans les coulisses des Eurockéennes de Belfort 2009, un des plus grands festivals électro-rock d’Europe, avec la possibilité de suivre, comme si vous y étiez, une vingtaine de groupes et artistes.
Par où commencer, qui suivre, où aller, avec qui continuer… ?

En totale immersion interactive, que ce soit en loges, pendant les balances, lors d’une impro acoustique et bien sûr, tout au long du marathon promotionnel qui précède la montée sur scène, vous serez en permanence amenés à croiser de nouveaux personnages. Autant d’opportunités pour tenter l’aventure avec un nouvel artiste, d’interpeller un journaliste ou un attaché de presse et de construire ainsi votre propre parcours, avec son lot inévitable d’imprévus.
À vous de jouer !

18 artistes à suivre…
Birdy Nam Nam, Cypress Hill, Peter Doherty, Ghinzu, Gojira, King Khan and the Shrines, Naive New Beaters, Noisettes, Oxmo Puccino, Olivia Ruiz, Peter Bjorn and John, Sliimy,  SlipKnot, Tricky, Les Wampas, Kanye West, Charlie Winston, Yuksek

Contact presse : sarah.trevillard@honkytonk.fr / +33 1 73 71 68 44
> télécharger le dossier de presse
> présentation du logiciel Klynt

Cannes, France (MIP DOC)
SUNDAY 11 APRIL
15.30 – 16.30
Conference Room
INTERACTIVITY AND AUDIENCE ENGAGEMENT*
(Docs Go Digital)
This special showcase will present the most innovative cross-media documentary productions which are
now using the online, mobile and gaming dimensions as live experiences for documentary making.
From viewers’ engagement to interactive participation, this session will discuss how the cross-media is
putting the audience at the core of the narrative of the documentary itself, changing all conventional
models in storytelling.
Experts will close the discussion debating on related innovative business models.

Full program available here

Cairo, Egypt (MAARIFA WORKSHOP)
Monday 20 APRIL
Canal France Internation 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 region, will be deployed over two years, with support from the ASBU and France 5. At least 20 skills transfer workshops, interspersed with plenary meetings, will be organised at the selected TV channels. The next major date for Maarifa : March 2010 for a meeting in Cairo to get an overview of educational TV in Europe and the Mediterranean region.
http://www.maarifa.tv/ (fr)

Lucerne, Swizterland (EBU Eurovision TV Summit)
Friday 23 APRIL
The Eurovision TV Summit has become the world’s leading event for Public Service Media providing unique opportunities for networking and inspiring informative meetings and conferences.
Now in its fourth edition, the Summit is the reference amongst public service broadcasters as the event “not be missed”. The Summit in 2009 proved to be an overwhelming success with attendance figures 25% up on the previous year making a total of nearly 700 decision-makers and contributors to European public service TV present despite the financial downturn.
Spanning the whole week, the Summit features specialized expert and programme meetings and conferences.

http://www.eurovisiontvsummit.com/

Laëtitia Moreau sur le tournage du Challenge en Equateur

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 il y a toujours des parties de l’enquête de préparation du documentaire que l’on doit sacrifier à l’heure d’écrire son synopsis et de tourner pour la télévision. Ce support me permet donc de développer un point important, le scandale de la Texaco, et d’apporter un complément d’information au documentaire qui passera sur Canal+.

Je l’ai pensé comme un documentaire à part entière et non comme une version un peu modifiée du film réalisé pour la télévision. L’écriture du synopsis a été un exercice nouveau et créatif.  Un exercice de mise en scène d’un travail qui normalement ne se voit pas dans les documentaires que je réalise : celui de l’enquête journalistique. Une mise en scène possible par l’utilisation de tous les supports du web (photos, texte, musique, vidéo et lien interactif) mais dans le cadre d’une contrainte forte : le respect de la réalité des faits et des propos.

Qu’est-ce que le web peut apporter au projet ?

Il y avait de la part des personnes filmées en Equateur comme une frustration que la diffusion soit uniquement en France. C’est un sujet global qui mérite une diffusion globale ce que nous offre évidemment le web documentaire.

Un vision engagée ?

J’aimerais évidemment qu’il connaisse la diffusion la plus large possible pour faire connaître les enjeux qui traversent l’Amazonie équatorienne. Sur ce sujet spécifique, le web permet à l’internaute de prendre conscience et position sur un sujet qui a priori est éloigné de lui. Cet aspect « citoyen du monde » est aussi très motivant  dans ce projet.

En savoir plus sur le challenge : le procès du pétrole en Amazonie

Voir le webdoc sur canalplus.fr

Lire l’entretien avec Samuel Gontier sur Telerama.fr

Now online on http://lechallenge.canalplus.fr (french version)

Presentation
From the heart of the international campaign, impassioned individuals at the centre of a thrilling political battle for our planet.

The Challenge is an environmental global media adventure. It is combination of two films made for two mediums which complement one another showing different aspects of the same story, while describing the same initiative.

- a web documentary project produced in the style of «choose your own adventure books». Inviting Internet users to take on the role of an independent journalist who sets off for the Amazon in search of information and witnesses on the ecological disaster provoked by the American oil company Texaco.

- a Television documentary (HD, 52’) that follows the struggle of an Ecuadorian manufacturer and a diplomat who are ready to give up the petrol found on their lands, in order to protect biodiversity.
A political thriller, and a film with a simple intrigue : « Will they succeed in convincing rich countries to help them? »
They only have a few months to convince the international community and their governments. Through this story we accompany people facing the difficult choice between preserving the biodiversity and short term petrodollars. How would we react facing such a radical dilemma?

Credits

// FRENCH SYNOPSIS
Le Challenge, Le procès environnemental du siècle
En Equateur, la compagnie pétrolière américaine Texaco fait face depuis les années 90 à un procès sans précédent. Après avoir déversé l’équivalent de 30 pétroliers dans la forêt Amazonienne, ce géant de l’or noir doit répondre aux accusations portées par plusieurs milliers d’indigènes et colons Equatoriens. Ils réclament plus de 16 milliards de dollars de réparation.

Quelles sont leurs chances de gagner ? Le Challenge propose de faire le point sur l’une des plus grandes tragédies écologiques du siècle.

A voir sur  http://lechallenge.canalplus.fr

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, joomla, drupal…), managing and creating communities (myspace, secondlife, facebook, ning, twitter…), hosting videos (daily, youtube, videoegg – remember ?, vimeo…).

Yet nothing about interactive storytelling (I mean using Keynote to build Journey to the End of Coal narrative was fun but, well… not a thrill).

So here we are with Klynt, a software in between Clint Eastwood and Klimt, Final Cut and the world wide web. A flash application we have been dreaming from the start to create interactive storytelling.

Now, we are anxious to tell you more. We certainly will. There is nothing more than telling a long story short they say.

Arnaud
@ArnaudDressen @HonkytonkFilms

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

- at Sheffield Doc/Fest, UK’s cutting edge documentary festival on 4-8 November (official competition for “innovation awards”)

- at European Days, Torino’s based co-production forum on 12 November

- at Parisian new media Festival des 4 Ecrans on 18-20 November (official competition in the “web films” category)

- at The International Documentary Festival Amsterdam (IDFA), on 20th November (Doclab selection)

>> VOIR LE WEBDOC (Version Française)
>> WATCH IT HERE (English Version)

Special screenings, conferences and awards:
> IDFA Doclab, Amsterdam, The Netherlands – November 20, 2009
> Festival des 4 Ecrans, Paris, France – November 20, 2009 (IN COMPETITION for “web films”)
> European Doc Days, Torino, Italy – November 12, 2009
> Sheffield Doc/Fest, Sheffield, UK – November 4, 2009 (SPECIAL MENTION for innovation awards)
> Prix Europa, Berlin, Germany – October, 23 2009 (SPECIAL MENTION in emerging media awards)

In 2015, 2,3 billion human beings will be overweight and 937 million will be obese if nothing is done. The numbers are alarming, and their rise seems unstoppable.

Throughout an investigation that unfolds from one side of the Atlantic to the other, The Big Issue invites the internet user to confront the multiple factors of the obesity epidemic, to question our modern lifestyles, and to inquire into the responsibility of the agri-business industry and the public powers.

Ultimately, this unique journey will draw critical skills of the internet user by inviting him to take on the role of a journalist. It will encourage him or her to come to his or her own opinion about obesity, about the fatality of this illness as well as on the actions that must be taken in order to bring this international epidemic to a halt as quickly as possible.

Directed by award-winning photographer and videographer Samuel Bollendorff and Olivia Colo, The Big Issue is a documentary project dedicated to an internet audience. It is based on the original web documentary format created for Journey to the End of Coal.

>> DOWNLOAD PRESS KIT (FRENCH)

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En 2015, nous serons 2,3 milliards en surpoids et 937 millions obèses.

Dans un monde où l’Homme prend du poids, beaucoup trop, beaucoup trop vite, « L’obésité est-elle une fatalité ? » souhaite expliquer sans manichéisme les origines de ce véritable fléau de nos sociétés modernes.

Au gré d’un parcours ludique et interactif à travers les Etats-Unis et le Canada, Le Parlement Européen et le Nord de la France, l’internaute fera appel à son sens critique pour se forger une opinion sur l’obésité, et sur les comportements à adopter avant que la planète ne devienne une planète XXL.

A voir en exclusivité sur curiosphere.tv – www.thebigissue.fr

>> TELECHARGER LE DOSSIER DE PRESSE

Credits

Presentation
As the global urban population expands at a rate of 3 million people per week, we have reached a critical moment in human history when, for the first time, more than half the world’s population live in cities.

Boomtown Babylon is a 5 part interactive documentary series that offers an immersive journey through the most acute extremes of the global urbanization phenomenon, inviting the viewer to embark on a compelling ride from the slums and pavements of the poorest neighbourhoods, to the private mansions of the very wealthy, in five of the world’s most divided cities. The segments will be produced by a collective of local film-makers in each city and enriched by the video testimonies shot by the inhabitants, who will collaborate via an online platform during the 6-month production phase.

About the creative team
Lotje Sodderland, associate producer
Director and documentary producer, Lotje has previously worked on environmental documentaries in association with BBC World and Channel 4, and alongside UK-based director Robert Lamb.

She currently works as web editor for Dutch online broadcaster SubmarineChannel and has commissioned contemporary art exhibitions in Amsterdam, Barcelona and New York for Maxalot Gallery, which she co-founded in 2003. www.minilot.tv / Twitter

Mathieu Saura (aka Vincent Moon), creative director
Co-creator of the Take Away shows (Les concerts à emporter), Vincent Moon is well-known for exploring new documentary formats. He directed a movie-essay on New York band The National, ‘A skin, A night’, released in May 2008, toured with The Arcade Fire and worked closely with Michael Stipe and REM on several video and web projects related to their 2008 album : the 48minutes essay ‘SIX DAYS’, experimental documentary on the recording of ‘Accelerate’, the experimental ninety-days-long web project ‘90nights’, and the web music video ‘Supernatural Superserious’. www.vincentmoon.com/ / Twitter

Credits

Latest news: pilote shot in Phnom Penh this March. Read the shooting diary on www.boomtownbabylon.com

This week, we will be presenting two projects at Sunny Side of the Doc, the documentary market which is held in La Rochelle.

First of, we will be presenting a first rough cut of THE BIG ISSUE, our new web documentary on the obesity epidemic including :

- a special photo exhibition in front of the conference venue
- a presentation on Wednesday 24 June 2009 at 10:30 am and 6:30 am in Agora

Then, our new project on the Yasuni initiative, which is still in development for Canal +, will be pitched at Sunny Side BIPS environmental session on Wednesday at 11:30 am.

more information on the agenda here.

We are delighted to announce Journey to the End of Coal just received an award for best interactive program by the French Author Guild (la Scam).

More information here on the full list of projects and winners.