People + Questions


Sam Gregory
Witness.org
sam@witness.org
Has a new report -- "Cameras Everywhere" (which I have requested) -- for recommendations on what we can all be doing to make the use of video for human rights safer and more effective.

Damien Sueur
HonkyTonk Films (Paris) Klynt interactive online editing platform
damien.sueur@enst.fr

Casper Sonnen
Amsterdam Documentary Lab
pers5@idfa.nl
Who is interesting, who is coming, whom should we grab to interview

Glorianna Davenport

Nitin?


Questions for interviews


  • Overview + specifics about their own project
  • What are the most exciting developments in the past year, in terms of technologies or platforms
  • How they see the relationship between professional and nonprofessional (DIY/prosumer/citizen journalist) filmmakers, in terms of crowdsourcing producing
  • How has their process changed with the advent of new technologies and practices/tools and platforms
  • Making the transition between more tradition media production to collaborative filmmaking or whatever (how did process change?)
  • Where do you look for best practices or what do you think the best new projects/platforms are
  • Resources for learning about new platforms/tools
  • Biggest challenges and limits to this kind of (new) production/media-making (legal, permissions, production, distribution/licensing, collaboration, ownership
  • Codesign/participatory design practices
  • Seen the emergence of any new genres?