Resources
Interested in learning more about digital documentary? Below you’ll find resources about the field, funding, festivals, digital tools and storytelling platforms, as well as community media. We plan to keep this guide as comprehensive and up-to-date as possible, so if we’re missing a resource, please drop us a line to let us know.
Introductions to Digital Documentary Storytelling
Whether portals to interactive projects or blogs on the state of online documentary, the following sites map the field of digital nonfiction storytelling and are good places to both orient yourself and discover new work.
The National Film Board of Canada
International Documentary Festival in Amsterdam (IDFA) DocLab
Tribeca Film Institute Sandbox
Funding & Festivals for Digital Storytelling
The following festivals and organizations number among the growing number of institutions that fund and/or showcase digital work.
CPH:DOX, Copenhagen International Documentary Film Festival
International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam’s Doc Lab
Sheffield Doc/Fest Devise to Deliver
Sundance Film Festival New Frontier & Sundance Institute New Frontier Story Lab
Tribeca Film Institute New Media Fund & TFI Sandbox & Tribeca Interactive conference
Digital Storytelling Labs, Workshops & Hackathons
From day-long hackathons to month-long incubators, the organizations listed below run workshops that jumpstart and/or nurture digital projects.
Sundance New Frontier Story Lab
Storytelling Platforms
These online storytelling platforms have been designed for people interested in creating interactive digital projects.
Digital Storytelling Tools
The toolkits, libraries, programming languages, and resources listed below have been built with digital storytellers in mind.
Mozilla PopcornMaker & Popcorn.js
Distribution for Community Media
These organizations support and distribute community and participatory media projects. Many additionally provide best practices and toolkits to community mediamakers.
Publications
Listed below are some of our favorite examples of the growing body of published work about digital documentary. These resources, which range from books to websites to manifestos, provide everything from maps of the field to best practices for makers.
MIT-IDFA Moments of Innovation
Zeega Web Documentary Manifesto
Web Docs: A Survival Guide for Online Filmmakers by Matthieu Lietaert
Digital Storytelling: A creator’s guide to interactive entertainment by Carolyn Handler Miller
Interactive Storytelling: Third Joint Conference on Interactive Digital Storytelling (ICIDS 2010, Edinburgh, UK)
Documentaries and How To Make Them by Andy Glynn
Narrative as Virtual Reality by Marie Laure-Ryan
