Docs Online, Amsterdam: Call for Proposals Digital Documentaries

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From: "carolien euser" <ceus at chello.nl>
Subject: CALL DOCS ONLINE 2001 AMSTERDAM

CALL FOR PROPOSALS DIGITAL DOCUMENTARY PROJECTS

Special programme IDFA 2001
23-30 november, Amsterdam

What's the impact of new, digital media on the traditional, creative
documentary?
This year's DOCS ONLINE will raise some new questions looking at documentary
filmmaking and what the effects and possibilities are when working with
digital media and the internet. Starting off with a selection of interesting
digital documentary projects, the International Documentary Filmfestival
Amsterdam (IDFA) will allow space and time to exchange ideas, present work
and discuss the impact of the changing infrastructure on the documentary
landscape.

DOCS ONLINE.2 will be an inspiring platform for a broad audience; from
traditional documentary-filmmakers to webaddicts, from researchers to
producers, from students to experienced professionals.
In addition to debates, presentations and ofcourse a special website, the
audience can participate in discussions and meet the guests invited for this
program.
The central issue of debate will be "The Real versus Mediated Life".
Media-experiences have a big impact on the way we watch the world around us.
Media have become our senses, and experiences in the 'real world'
increasingly refer to information we have already absorbed and images coming
to us through media. Are there new ways of communicating
documentary-stories?  How are filmmakers and their audiences reacting to
CNN, docu-soaps and information overload?

DOCS ONLINE explores the changing nature of authorship, presents tools for
documentary content  production and distribution and invites a growing
online community to participate in the programme.

CALL FOR PROPOSAL
IDFA invites individuals and organisations to send in proposals for DOCS
ONLINE.  Check the IDFA website for more information www.idfa.nl or email to
the editors of the team:
Carolien Euser and Nathalie Faber info at cut-n-paste.nl
We are looking for online-documentary projects and filmmakers with an
interesting take on the use of digital media. Organisations which explore
the infrastructure of the web as a platform for documentaries are also
invited to come forward. Deadline 15th of October 2001

During the festival the public will have permanent access to the DOCS ONLINE
computers at the festivallocation 'de Balie'. There will also be
possibilities in presenting 'offline works' (cd-rom, dvd).  Please send in
your details, data, a description of your project (max. 10 lines), URL's
and/or tapes/cd's to
IDFA  Kleine Gartmanplantsoen 10  1017 RR Amsterdam.

EDITORIAL TEAM
Curators for this programme are Carolien Euser and Nathalie Faber who work
together as Cut-n-Paste
www.cut-n-paste.nl, coordinated by Adriek Nieuwenhuijzen and Manna Nasht
(production) +31 20 6273329
For information about DOCS ONLINE 2000 check out www.docs-online.nl