DocMontevideo 2013 edition. Click here to visit current edition

DocMontevideo Hackathon

The DocMontevideo Hackathon is a three-day workshop that leads to the production of three interactive prototypes geared to work in progress on documentary films, editing and the distribution stage.

The aim of the Hackathon is to stimulate the development of the production of interactive cultural contents and provide tools for digital creation and distribution. Each project has a team made up of producers and documentary makers of the documentary, as well as Uruguayan designers, programmers and web developers.

The DocMontevideo Hackathon is co-organized with the National Film Board de Canada with support from Arte France, and is sponsored by ANII and DINATEL – MIEM.

Support: NFB – ARTE – ANII – DINATEL – Canadian Embassy – French Embassy.

 

2013 developed prototypes

Fatherland


Argentina

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Synopsis: The project proposes a space-time travel inside La Recoleta cemetery. The user will be able to set-up his/her own walks, deciding which way to take in every cross-road. Their decisions will take them to live the pass of time in a place aparently static, to listen unheard conversations, to know the thought of the ones burried there, to share the daily routine. In brief, to live a whole day inside the most famous cemetery of South America.

Team: Pablo Ratto (producer), Martín Batallés (design), Gabriela Costoya (web developer), Maximiliano Fernánadez (programmer), Federico Valdés (edition).

Launch prototype

Homo Gelida


Uruguay

homo-gelida-grande

Synopsis: Using the footage from the documentary “Frozen Man”, Homo gelida is an interactive web that proposes a travel to the end of the world, boarded on a military ship that ploughs through the oceans to reach Antartica. Sailing between ice and inclement seas, the user will be able to traverse the route from Montevideo to the fozen continent, accompanied by notes from the travel journal of the film’s director.

Team: Carolina Campo (director), Gerardo Castelli (producer), Marcos Umpiérrez (web developer), Santiago Ferreira (web developer), Francisco Mattos (design), Hector Regis (design), Marcos Campo (consultant).

Launch prototype

The city of the lost Caesars


Chile

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Synopsis: The project takes, as a starting point, the Patagonian myth about the City of the Caesars, plot for the documentary, and invites the user to build in a few steps his/her own ideal, utopic, city. Different choices, such as dimension, services and infrastructure of the city, as well as who inhabitates it, will conform the unic result that the user will be able to share through the social networks and that will seek to express his/her vision of the ideal city.

Team: Francisco Hervé (director), Verónica Lyon (producer), Fabián Barros Andrade (design and developement), Marcos Campo (design and developement).

Launch prototype

The mentoring was in charge of professionals from the National Film Board of Canad and ARTE France

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The National Film Board of Canada (NFB) is a public body that produces and distributes interactive work, documentaries and author animations. The emphasis is on innovation, experimentation and social impact, and the Board takes creative risks that the private sector could hardly consider. The NFB’s films can be accessed at www.nfb.ca and on applications for telephones, tablets and connected television. Since its foundation in 1939, the NFB has produced more than 13,000 films, which have won more than 5,000 prizes including 7 Webby Awards, 12 Oscars and more than 90 Genie awards. 
 

francia-arteArte is a European cultural channel. It broadcasts in French and in German on cable, TDT and satellite all over the continent. It has numerous programs including documentaries about society, culture, art and history, and also original series, feature films, concerts and news. Its official page (www.arte.tv) is well known for the innovative support of its television programs, its offerings on a wide range of subjects and its web productions (Gaza-Sderot, Prison Valley, Code-Barre, Mödern Couple and Alma), which have won awards all over the world.

 

Hugues Sweeney
Hugues Sweeney ponente DocMontevideo

Hugues Sweeney (Canada) has been an executive producer of interactive productions at the National Film Board of Canada since 2009. Previously he was head of the Bande à Part multimedia project and programming chief at Espace Musique. His interactive projects at the NFB have been awarded numerous international prizes including the SXSW, Japan Media Arts, Boomerang and d’o FIPA, and have won nominations for the IDFA Digital Emmy, Géminis and Gémeaux. Mr. Sweeney studied philosophy at the Dominican College of Philosophy and Theology in Ottawa, and multimedia at the University of Quebec.

Dominique Willieme
Dominique Willieme ponente DocMontevideo

Dominique Willieme (France) is a producer of interactive projects at the National Film Board of Canada. She has been working on producing interactive contents since 2007. Prior to that she was a consultant for communications enterprises and an editor on various online pop culture projects. She was involved in the creation of the new formation of the publishers Fresh Media (Paris, France), and she subsequently joined the French channel ARTE as editor in chief of online contents and new platforms.

Martin Viau
Martin-Viau

Martin Viau (Canada) is head of technology and head of projects in the interactive production area at the NFB. He started there in 2006 as a DVD designer. In 2009 he joined the interactive production team and returned to one of his first loves: the Internet. In the last fourteen years he has been working passionately in new spheres of activity in the media. He is known for his dynamism, capacity to work under pressure, sense of resources, team spirit and for his ongoing interest in emerging technologies. He has worked on web development, post-production, special effects design and the creation of DVDs.

Alexander Knetig
Alex-Knetig

Alexander Knetig (France) is responsible for web projects at the European cultural channel ARTE France. In the last five years he has been involved in some of the channel’s web projects that have won the most prizes including Alma, Barcode, Prison-Valley and Gaza-Sderot. Before joining ARTE he was an independent journalist for various online publications in France, Austria and Spain, and for producers like the web agency Upian. He teaches interactive narrative at several French and German institutions, and he is a member of the Austrian Ministry of Culture’s jury for new audiovisual formats.

 

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