The Transmedia Lab at Silverdocs

2011-06-08

The Tribeca Film Institute is proud to be co-presenting the Silverdocs Transmedia Lab alongside the AFI Discovery Channel Silverdocs Documentary Festival on Friday, June 24th in Silver Spring, Maryland.

The Silverdocs Transmedia Lab is a unique one-day event that will give six filmmaking teams the chance to develop the cross-platform, interactive elements of their projects with experienced mentors.

The morning session will be a private lab for the filmmakers, giving them a chance to work closely with the mentors with a focus on taking their interactive projects to the next level and ready to pitch.

The afternoon session will be open to Silverdocs passholders and will consist of presentations from all the mentors followed by pitches from the filmmakers. The audience and the mentors will choose a winning pitch to be awarded $5,000, courtesy of the Tribeca Film Institute.

The presentations and pitches will also be streamed live at from 2-6pm EST, and the online audience will be included in the vote for the winning pitch.

Filmmaker Participants

Steve James - The Interrupters The heart of The Interrupters web campaign are powerfully moving stories of "violence interrupters" who protect their Chicago communities from violence they themselves once employed. Through interactive web stories and a digital "shrine" visitors grapple with personal, social and economic forces that bear on the violence that plagues our cities.

Marco Williams – The Undocumented Campaign The Undocumented Campaign seeks to enhance the impact of the documentary, spurring education and discussion regarding immigration policy and border issues, most notably the issue of migrant deaths through the creation of an interactive website which will host The Map of the Missing and an online game, The Migrant Trail.

Lee Hirsch – The Bully Project Through development of an online strategy that includes a website, short "webisodes" and use of social media, The Bully Project will build an online community/movement to create awareness of the film and the issue of bullying.

Margaret Brown – The Great Invisible The Great Invisible is an interactive look at the global oil economy through the lens of characters that work in the oil and fishing industries on the Gulf Coast.

Amir Bar-lev - The Tillman Story Interactive Edition The Tillman Story Interactive Edition is a groundbreaking website that allows audiences to actively participate in the acclaimed 2010 documentary The Tillman Story while viewing it.

Michael Collins and Marty Syjuco – Give Up Tomorrow Much more than a film, Give Up Tomorrow is a call to action with the goal of working across multiple platforms to galvanize international support for organizations and communities working to change perceptions and initiate strategic action around the death penalty, wrongful convictions, lack of democratic media and miscarriages of justice wherever they occur. Give Up Tomorrow's comprehensive community engagement campaign will harness the power of this film, building an interactive web presence designed to link online and offline communities.