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Whatever Happened to Interactive Docs? A Report from Tribeca Film Festival

The TFI Interactive Day has been a highlight of Tribeca Film Festival’s innovaction curriculum. This year, the focus shifted from interactive documentaries to virtual reality, multimedia installations and create-a-thons. 

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VR Everywhere! At Tribeca FilmFest, Headsets Galore

VR was everywhere at the Tribeca FilmFest, where the standouts were animation productions, not video. Expect more, not necessarily better, as headsets spread. 

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“Fair Use Makes Documentaries Possible:” News from Tribeca Film Festival 2016

At the Tribeca Film Festival, many documentaries actively employed fair use—another marker of the fact that fair use has become a basic feature of industry practice. Read more...

How-tos on Making Media Matter, from the Games and Media Summit

At the Tribeca Film Fest-based Games and Media Summit, new research revealed common weaknesses in achieving social impact with Read more...

Night One of Full Frame Documentary Film Festival!


Full Frame LogoA funny thing happened on the way to Full Frame this morning. The man sitting next to me on my flight to Durham turned out to be headed for the film festival, but he was not a filmmaker. He was the subject of a film made some 20 years ago, Taking on the Kennedys. Yes, it was Dr. Kevin Vigilante, the man who dared to run against Patrick Kennedy in the Rhode Island congressional race. It is a brilliant film and provides relevant insights into today’s political campaigning. Filmmaker Josh Seftel and Dr. Vigilante shared their experiences after the screening. It was the first time they’d seen each other in 18 years. 

 

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