Friday May 3 | Making Media Now 2013
Making Media Now is a fantastic annual Boston-based conference organized by Filmmakers Collaborative and hosted by the Massachusetts College of Art and Design. I attended last year and was blown away by the rich programming–the conference features everything from pitch sessions to a variety of panels focusing on topics like industry trends, digital storytelling and...
Wednesday May 1 | Boston Globe and the 68 Blocks Project
The Neighborhood Story: How Boston Globe Journalists Listened to One City Neighborhood Wednesday, May 1 6:00-8:00 pm MIT Media Lab, E14-525 The MIT Community Innovator’s Lab (CoLab) is sponsoring an event with the team behind the Boston Globe’s multimedia project, 68 Blocks, focused on Boston’s Bowdoin-Geneva neighborhood. According to CoLab, In 2012, the Boston Globe...
Tuesday April 9 | Ricky on Leacock
Glorianna Davenport in conversation with filmmaker Jane Weiner Tuesday, April 9, 2013, 12-1:30 pm MIT Media Lab, E14-240 Please join Glorianna Davenport for a conversation with Jane Weiner about Jane’s new film Ricky on Leacock. Ricky Leacock, a father of the Cinema Verite movement, directed MIT’s illustrious Film Section and Film/Video Section from 1969-1987. Jane...
Wednesday April 24 | Localore @ MIT
Localore @ MIT Wednesday, April 24 12-1:30 pm at the MIT Open Documentary Lab MIT Building E15-331 Join us for a presentation and discussion with transmedia producers Todd Melby, Julia Kumari-Drapkin, and Ken Eklund, 3 of the 12 producers who led AIR’s nation-wide Localore initiative. They will discuss their projects and experiences using social media,...
OpenDocLab at SXSW
The OpenDocLab team will be presenting at the 2013 South by Southwest Film Festival. If you’re in Austin next Saturday, come check us out. You can also follow along on Twitter with the hashtag #OpenDoc, and keep your eyes on this website for updates and recaps. The MIT Open Documentary Lab Saturday March 9, 11:00...
VIDEO: Convergence Journalism? Emerging Documentary and Multimedia Forms of News
Did you miss last week’s OpenDocLab event – “Convergence Journalism? Emerging Documentary and Multimedia Forms of News“? Never fear– video is now available for the talk, which was co-sponsored with theMIT Communications Forum. Last Thursday, OpenDocLab Director Sarah Wolozin sat down with Jason Springarn-Koff of the New York Times‘s Op-Docs initiative and Alexandra Garcia, multimedia...
