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Sheffield DocFest · 2013

Sheffield DocFest 2013

Cross Platform

Digital media meets documentary.

Programme

11 films

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17,000 Islands

In Jakarta, there is a mini-Indonesia park complete with an idealised image of the country’s 17.000 islands. Directors Thomas Østbye and Edwin invite you to rip apart the movie and remake it yourself.

(Country: Norway, Denmark, Indonesia; Year: 2013; Director: Thomas Østbye, Edwin)

Alma, a Tale of Violence (Alma, une enfant de la violence)

Desperate to belong, Alma did what she had to do to join a Guatemalan gang: she killed someone. She was 15. This is her devastating confession, navigated via iPad.

(Country: France; Year: 2012; Director: Miquel Dewever-Plana, Isabelle Fougère)

Big River Rising

How Filipino slum-dwellers embrace scientific solutions to fight flooding.

(Country: United Kingdom; Year: 2012; Director: Matthew Gonzalez Noda, Emma Wigley)

Coral: Rekindling Venus

Immersive experience sends you deep underwater on an extraordinary journey into a mysterious realm of fluorescent coral reefs.

(Country: Australia; Year: 2012; Director: Lynette Wallworth)

Dadaab Stories

Dadaab is the world’s largest refugee camp, home to half a million people. FilmAid is helping the refugees tell their stories through video, photography, poetry, music and journalism.

(Country: United States, Kenya; Year: 2013; Director: K.Ryan Jones)

The Defector: Escape from North Korea

Experience the harrowing journey that North Korea defectors must make in this PoV interactive web documentary.

(Country: Canada; Year: 2012; Director: Ann Shin; Writer: Manfred Becker, Ann Shin)

GELD.GR - Money and the Greeks (Das Geld und die Griechen)

You control the pace and direction of the narrative in this cross-platform doc. What is life like for the Greek people? How are they dealing with the financial crisis – and who do they think is to blame?

(Country: Germany, Greece; Year: 2013; Director: Florian Thalhofer)

Highrise

A multi-year, multi-media, collaborative documentary experiment about the human experience in global vertical suburbs.

(Country: Canada; Year: 2009; Director: Katerina Cizek)

Invisible Picture Show

Transmedia exploration through voice recordings of children and young people currently detained in immigration facilities around the world.

(Country: United Kingdom; Year: 2013; Director: Tim Travers Hawkins)

I Love Your Work

This interactive documentary takes you behind the scenes of the New York City lesbian porn industry.

(Country: United States; Year: 2013; Director: Jonathan Harris)

A Journal of Insomnia

A collaborative experiment where the public is invited to mortgage part of their night to experience insomnia.

(Country: Canada; Year: 2013; Director: Guillaume Braun)