DOC's ReBoot week focusing on cross platform documentaries runs from Wednesday, February 16 to Friday, February 19. Register now online at http://reboot.eventbrite.com to a secure a seat at the ReBoot wrap-up event taking place at the National Film Board (NFB) Mediatheque on February 19.
The event runs from 3 PM - 7 PM and costs $20 at the door (free for DOC members). Space is limited and pre-registration is strongly advised. The NFB's Mediatheque is located at 150 John Street, Toronto. For daily updates and insights into the Reboot Lab follow the week long conference on twitter at @rebootdoc and on DOC's Facebook page at www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=2453682442.
Event agenda:
* Selected ReBoot project participants present the results of their mentoring sessions with world class new media creators
* Stéphane Cardin -Vice President, Policy & Stakeholder Relations for the Canada Media Fund- and representatives from DOC chapters across Canada will hold a national dialogue
* Keynote presentation followed by a Q+A from veteran documentary filmmaker and digital distribution pioneer Robert Greenwald
* Post wrap-up drinks and conversation
Participants:
* Robert Greenwald (OutFoxed, Iraq For Sale, Walmart: The High Cost of Low Price) is an American producer, director and political activist. Greenwald is the founder and president of Brave New Films (www.bravenewfilms.org), a new media company that uses moving images to educate, influence, and empower viewers to take action around issues that matter.
* Daniel Cross is a multi-disciplined award winning documentary filmmaker and founder of EyeSteelFilm (www.eyesteelfilm.com). Cross has made his mark with films concerning the issues of homelessness in Canada (THE STREET: a film with the homeless and S.P.I.T: Squegee Punks In Traffic and the groundbreaking website www.homelessnation.org.
* Loc Dao is co-founder of Randomlink (www.randomlink.com) with Lara Kroeker. They joined their skills in design, photograpy, programming and web hosting to deliver on projects for PBS, Group Telecom (now Bell), Douglas Coupland, University of British Columia, End the Arm Race, Warner Bros and the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, among others.
* Christy Dena is a cross-media specialist who works as a narrative and game design consultant, strategist, educator and developer (www.christydena.com). Christy has given keynotes at Power to the Pixel, London Film Festival and the First International Conference on Cross-Media Interaction Design in Sweden.
* Brett Gaylor is the creator of Open Source Cinema (www.opensourcecinema.org) and a filmmaker who has dedicated his career to social documentary and new media. He is the web producer of www.homelessnation.org and wrote and directed the feature documentary Rip! A Remix Manifesto (2009).
* Scott Kirsner (www.scottkirsner.com) is a journalist who writes about innovation, with a special focus on the ways that new technologies are changing the entertainment industry. His latest book, Fans, Friends and Followers addresses how artists are meeting the chaotic new marketplace. S
*Rob McLaughlin is one of Canada’s leading innovators in the field of interactive storytelling. Currently spearheading digital production and planning for the NFB, Rob was also Executive Producer and co-creator of the CBC’s acclaimed online magazine and internet radio service, CBC Radio 3.
More information about ReBoot:
ReBoot aims to help Canadian documentary filmmakers create and produce for the digital environment. ReBoot will guide three producers through the development of cross-platform projects over the course of three web-based sessions with selected mentors, each a leading practitioner in cross-platform production. The selected projects will be mentored over the course of the week with the objective of expanding the project's digital capacity. The results will be presented in the live pitch session taking place at the NFB Cinematheque on Friday, February 19.
The winning pitch will receive targeted mentorship from industry professionals in all aspects of cross-media production. Mentors for the ReBoot lab are Lance Weiler, critically acclaimed writer/director and pioneer in film distribution (www.lanceweiler.com), Kat Cizek, NFB Filmmaker in residence (www.nfb.ca/filmmakerinresidence) and interactive content leader Evan Jones of Stitch Media (www.stitchmedia.ca).
To foster an audience for the work and build their project via collaborative social media, the winning production will also receive a custom branded site on EyeSteelFilm's award-winning www.opensourcecinema.org platform and three months of mentorship from the Montreal-based production house. In addition, winning projects will be matched with new media practicioners in specialized areas of design and production in order to further develop their projects.
In addition to this lab, ReBoot will produce a series of case studies and presentations by industry professionals, designed to enhance DOC members' skills and knowledge in digital production and distribution. These presentations will be posted on the soon-to-launched ReBoot section on www.docspace.ca. This will be a curated resource hub for discussing cross-platform documentaries, featuring videos, slideshows, links and resource documents.
ReBoot is made possible through support from the Ontario Media Development Corporation and the Bell Broadcast and New Media Fund. For more details visit www.docorg.ca/en/reboot-project-description.
