Interviews with Innovators

Enjoy these online interview excerpts with some of the visionaries and pioneers in the interactive documentary field. And please come back and discover new answers to big questions like:

  • What makes a documentary "interactive"?
  • What value does interactivity provide to a documentary to the audience?
  • Should interactive documentaries be assessed differently than non interactive documentaries in terms of criteria of success, quality, or impact?
  • What is going to surprise us in the future with interactive docs? What are important trends?  Where are the interactive documentary hotspots?
  • Specifically regarding revenue generation and new business models, does interactivity bring any new business opportunities to documentary filmmakers?

Scroll down to see interviews with Inside Disaster Producer Katie McKenna, Robert Lang & David Oppenheim of Kensington Communications, Kat Cizek of The NFB (interviewed by Sandra Gaudenzi), Pat Aufderhiede, Director of the Center for Social Media, Rudy Buttingnol, president of BBC Kids and President and CEO of the Knowledge Network Corporation, Alexander Knetig, Interactive commissioning editor at ARTE, Choco-locate producer Lalita Krishna, Sabrina Saccoccio and James Milward from Secret Location, and Eric Freeland, director of publishing and promotion at PBS Interactive.

 

Field Producer: Samara Chadwick