During Social Media Week in New York in February, Red on Black Productions will showcase the stories of New Yorkers’ experiences during Hurricane Sandy through the mobile storytelling platform, Moveable Feast.
Read MoreSleeping in the Slaughterhouse: 12 lessons in Microbudget Filmmaking
One of my favourite talks at London Screenwriters Festival had to be Signe Olynyk & Bob Schultz giving their first hand experience in producing their first feature, Below Zero. Signe locked herself into the slaughterhouse in Edson, Alberta and made the film right where she wrote it.
Read MoreChannel 4 Fuel4: Director Asif Kapadia on Senna
Channel 4 held it’s forth Fuel conference, a day for multiplatform creators, producers and technology partners, at the end of October, 2012. We had the pleasure of hearing Asif Kapadia speak about his work directing Senna and how he made the extraordinary documentary about Formula 1 driver, Ayrton Senna.
Read MoreWriting Transmedia
The Writer’s Guild of America East put on the great panel Writing Transmedia during the New York Film Festival Convergence weekend. The panel featured George Strayton (Wrote for Xena! and produced Transmedia content for Transformers 1 & 2, Stardust, Star Trek), John Esposito (Walking Dead, Teen Titans), Nick Bernardone (30 rock webisodes).
Read MoreConvergence Festival: Be honest, open, and upfront
This morning’s Convergence weekend as part of the New York Film Festival has been driving the point home that people want to see good, relevant content, and most of all people want to work with honest, open and upfront people. Who wouldn’t really?
Read MoreWhat I’m going to see at the London Screenwriter’s Festival
So I’m going to London on Saturday night for 9 days and I’m so excited. Not only do I get to see all of my amazing friends, read through Raptured with the cast, and go to a Woman of the Year luncheon for my work with the riot cleanup in Clapham Junction, but I also get to be part of this year’s London Screenwriters Festival.
Read MoreI’m speaking at Transmedia London 5 in May!
I’m really excited. I have to fly through London on the way to China for our half marathon. When I’m on the way back I get to speak at Transmedia London 5 on 29 May, 2012 at BAFTA. I’ll be talking about my web series Raptured, what I learned from making the first series and what I’m going to do with the second series (eek!). I really want to put more of a transmedia element to it to tell the story of the new Raptured world.
Read MoreSounds of Us: Museum of Broken Relationship commission now live
Last summer Michelle Tsen and I made a film for the Museum of Broken Relationships. We crowd sourced “relationship” sounds from Twitter and Facebook and made a stop motion video of one of the objects donated to the Museum of Broken relationships.
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