The 2008 Producers Institute took place May 31st - June 9th at BAVC.
Projects selected for 2008 include stories from local, national, and
international producers on a wide range of topics including gang
violence, global warming, transgender issues and tolerance, the
International Criminal Court, the death penalty, and African-American
photography.
Project Director: Deann Liem
(sponsored by Sundance Documentary Institute)
AdoptLink is envisioned as an online space for Korean adoptees worldwide, and is a companion project to the documentary Precious Objects of Desire; a follow-up to Ms. Liem's award-winning First Person Plural,
a documentary about Ms. Liem struggle with identity when she was
adopted by an American family. The site will ...
This project is based on Through A Lens Darkly: Black Photographers and the Emergence of a People,
a two-hour broadcast documentary that explores how African American
communities have used the medium of photography to construct political,
aesthetic, and cultural representations of themselves and their world.
At the Institute ...
Project Director: Susana Ruiz
(lead developer of Darfur Is Dying, MTV's refugee game-for-change)
This game seeks to illuminate the flawed nature of the American prison system and the irreversible nature of the death penalty. It is based on an ongoing documentary project about six Kentuckians sentenced to life in prison as teenagers. The goal of the interactive project is to offer a range ...
The ICC is the first permanent international tribunal set up to try individuals for crimes against humanity. The Reckoning
is a documentary about the critical early years of the ICC as it issues
arrest warrants in Uganda and puts two Congolese warlords on trial and
shakes up the Colombian justice system...
With iWitness, Frontline/World hopes to bring a greater number of
unheard voices from around the world to the web & other platforms.
More in tune with the Facebook/YouTube generation, “iWitness will
encourage voices from beyond the mainstream, through video dispatches,
web cam and phone interviews.” This ...
"No Dumb Questions" is a short documentary about three sisters whose Uncle Bill becomes
their Aunt Barbara. An HBO film, it won awards at the Sundance Film
Festival in 2001 and currently has national educational distribution.
For the Institute, director Melissa Regan proposes an interactive
platform to create a new model for learning and storytelling online. It
will be a moderated user-generated ...
Monica is a twenty-year old pregnant gang member from San Salvador who
went to prison for murdering a girl from another gang. Hers is only one
of many stories explored in this documentary/new media project about
gang life, violence and intercultural identity. "Parallel Stories"
will ...
"Turning Up the Heat" is an independent radio documentary and multimedia project to raise
public awareness about the human impacts of global warming. It is
collaboration between Daniel Grossman and the Pulitzer Center on Crisis
Reporting. There will be a series of radio features produced for Public
Radio International's show “The World” along with an interactive
website...
Project Director: Brad Lichtenstein
(sponsored by ITVS)
"What We Got"
is billed as a “shared documentary/fiction mash-up about what belongs
to all of us.” It is a multimedia project that includes a feature
documentary/fiction hybrid movie (inspired by Wizard of Oz and Alice in Wonderland)
that tells the story of DJ Spooky's quest to discover the Commons. A
social networking site and set of tools and widgets...
