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Past events

Exhibition: Expanding Documentary 2011 25 Nov 2011 at 10:00

Interactive installations, immersive performances and other unexpected representations of reality, presented by IDFA DocLab, Paradocs and Brakke Grond.

Live Cinema Event: Stories We Love to Forget 23 Nov 2011 at 22:00

An evening packed with embarrassing, true stories told live on stage. With Micha Wertheim, Paulien Cornelisse, Kevin Allison (The Risk Show) and someone reading an excerpt from their adolescent diary.

Live Cinema Event: Reality vs Technology 22 Nov 2011 at 20:00

Live presentations of three of the most innovative projects at IDFA 2011: the webdoc and installation Barcode.tv, the interactive installation What Is It Like to Be a Bird? and the immersive iPad app Condition One. The authors will showcase their

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About IDFA DocLab

IDFA DocLab is a festival program for new media within the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam(IDFA). Throughout the year, IDFA DocLab showcases interactive webdocs and other new forms of digital storytelling that expand the documentary genre beyond linear filmmaking. Projects are presented online, as well as during live cinema events, exhibitions, workshops and industry panels.

Since the first pilot program in 2007, IDFA DocLab has developed into a unique platform for documentary innovation. Since 2010, IDFA DocLab annually invites an international jury to nominate and award the best examples of digital documentary storytelling. Throughout the year, IDFA DocLab maintains an online database for digital storytelling and organizes guest programs at other events, such as SXSW and the new PhotoStories conference.

Projects that previously premiered at IDFA DocLab include GazaSderot, Highrise/OutMyWindow,Welcome to Pine Point, PrisonValley, From Zero, Young Me Now Me, and many others.

Festival Dates
IDFA DocLab takes place during IDFA

Financing
Alongside the IDFA DocLab festival program, IDFA’s co-financing market The FORUM offers a platform for crossmedia projects looking for financing.

Submission Deadlines
The entry deadlines for IDFA 2011 have passed. The first upcoming deadlines will be:
IDFA DocLab competition program for Digital Documentary Storytelling 2012
Next Call for Entry: March 2012. Please use the regular IDFA Festival Entry Form and classify your project as interactive.

IDFA FORUM for Crossmedia Projects 2012
Next Call for Entry: tbd. Projects looking for financing should use the FORUM Entry Form.

See also

  • Official IDFA website: www.idfa.nl/industry
  • IDFA DocLab website: www.idfa.nl/doclab
  • IDFA FORUM website: www.idfa.nl/theforum
  • Twitter: www.twitter.com/doclab
  • Facebook: www.facebook.com/idfa.doclab
  • Email: doclab@idfa.nl