Filmgate Interactive Film Festival challenges filmmakers and programmers to come together to reimagine and redefine the documentary for the Internet age. Each team should develop a MVP (minimum viable product) which combines software and documentary footage. Each MVP must include a story synopsis, log line, characters, timeline, marketing, and the software tools used/developed. 

Example MVPs: specially developed software used as a platform to support a documentary; realization of a specific documentary on the Internet using existing software tools.

Teams can self select but each team must have at least one film industry creator and at least one software programmer. Teams lacking one of them will have one assigned. No team - no problem! We will assign you to a team. 

Guidance and suggestions will be provided by the well known Executive Producer Adnaan Wasey of POV Digital (PBS), who will also be one of the judges.

 

Eligibility

  1. Each team should have 2-5 members.
  2. Each team should have at least one programmer and at least one film industry creator (if one is lacking, one will be assigned to that team).
  3. If you don't have a team, one will be assigned to you.
  4. Software programmers and film industry creators can enter.
  5. All participants must be at least 18 years old.
  6. You must be able to travel to Miami Beach during the hackathon to be present.

Requirements

  1. Submissions cannot be made in advance, but must be created during the hackathon.
  2. Submissions should be a combined software and documentary footage product (MVP).
  3. Any software platform or tool may be used.

Hackathon Sponsors

Prizes

$1,000 in prizes
First Place
1 winner

Funding for the winning transmedia project.

Devpost Achievements

Submitting to this hackathon could earn you:

How to enter

The Filmgate Miami Interactive Story Hackathon is a live hackathon, running during February 1 to February 2 2014 at the Carlton Hotel (1433 Collins Ave, Miami Beach, FL 33139 United States). To register, please go to our website and scroll down to our Eventbrite registration link at the bottom - http://film-gate.org/event/filmgate-interactive-story-hack/. You can register as either an individual or a team. Please also register for our free Story Hack Workshop with Adnaan Wasey of POV Digital on the day before the Hackathon (January 31) - http://film-gate.org/event/pov-hackathon-workshop-and-story-hack/.  

Judges

Adnaan Wasey

Adnaan Wasey
Executive Producer, POV Digital

Mark Harris

Mark Harris
Partner, immersive entertainment studio Murmur

Diliana Alexander

Diliana Alexander
Executive Director, Filmgate Interactive Film Festival

Judging Criteria

  • Impact
    Will the idea have real social impact? Will it change how we interact with the documentary? Will it change documentary production and/or consumption? The idea should not be a new technological gloss on an old concept.
  • Innovation
    Does the idea solve a problem in a never seen before way? In other words, is the project truly innovative and different, or is it a "me too" idea.
  • Technical Achievement
    Could this project actually work as it stands, or could it be completed quickly? We are not necessarily looking for the most technically accomplished project, but rather a project that reached the highest technical level from the lowest starting point.

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