
May Abdalla
Interactive Documentary Filmmaker.
In recent years, a wide range of people working across film, digital arts, science and media have been innovating the documentary genre. Here is a list of people and organisations who we consider important digital pioneers. Through their work, they have been making us think, play and love what digital documentary storytelling has to offer.
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Thinker, artist, humanitarian and co-creator of the United Nations Virtual Reality film series
Memo Akten is an artist working with computation as a medium, exploring the collisions between nature, science, technology, ethics, ritual, tradition and religion.
Australian born artist whose eccentric engineering asks questions of ecology, perceptions of environment and computation.
Artist & researcher exploring notions of citizenship within the globally connected world.
My name is Gabriel Dance. I am originally from Colorado, and currently I live in New York City.
New media artist, experience designer, and creative technologist working at the intersection of art and technology.
Online performance artist, humorist, and public speaker, Ze Frank is creator of star.me and many other online play spaces.
American public radio personality, host and producer of the radio and television show This American Life.
Creative technologist exploring the possibilities of artificial intelligence and storytelling
Director of programming at IFP’s New Media Centre in New York and co-founder of Wholphin DVD.
Artist and computer scientist, assembling vast amounts of data to create large-scale real-time portraits of humanity.
An award-winning photojournalist, currently a staff photographer for the New York Times.
LG Associate Professor of Media Arts and Sciences at MIT & Director of the Social Computing Group at the MIT Media Lab.
PhD candidate at University of Porto & Madeira Interactive Technologies Institute.
Jason Kottke is an American blogger, former web designer, and founder of one of the oldest blogs on the web: kottke.org
An international photojournalist best known for his long term projects on the seven rivers of the world and the diamond industry.
Creative developer and a technical director specialized in interactive videos, new media art and installations
Comissioning Editor, Opinion Video and Series Producer/Curator for The New York Times Op-Docs.
Editor-In-Chief, Deputy Publisher and a leading innovator in the field of factual interactive content.
On a mission to unleash the power of media and push the limits of storytelling with visuals, audio and interactivity.
Producer at SBS Australia with a background in journalism, documentary film, media theory and interactive design.
Documentary filmmaker and journalist working on developing tools for collaborative journalism.
Artist exploring current social and technological systems and structures for interacting with other people.
Director and producer fusing new technologies with filmmaking, animation and interactivity.
Award-winning documentary filmaker, producer and an acclaimed Greek journalist.
Jason Spingarn-Koff is an Emmy and Peabody Award-winning filmmaker and journalist
Media artist with experience in creative direction, UI/UX design, HTML/CSS/JS and film/video.
Paisley Smith is a Canadian filmmaker, virtual reality director, and creative producer based in Los Angeles and Vancouver.
Media artist, documentary filmmaker, and inventor and architect of the Korsakow System.
Founder of Trabelsi Productions, producing critical, creative and politically moving documentaries.
Professor of Comparative Media Studies at MIT, Principal Investigator of MIT’s Open Documentary Lab, and Professor of Comparative Media History at Utrecht University.
Young French filmmaker and producer exploring the possibilities of new media storytelling.
An Amsterdam based new media artist researching new models of interaction and communication.
Associate professor at Northwestern University and former multimedia producer for The New York Times.
Independent conditional designer and director in the field of interaction, media design and film.
ARTE is a European public-service cultural television channel that targets audiences from different cultural backgrounds, in particular French and German.
Anagram is a creative studio who make immersive experiences, bringing together digital interaction and non-fiction storytelling
The CNC promotes, distributes, and supports projects across the French film, television, video, and multimedia industry.
Technology startup developing immersive experiences for next generation virtual reality devices.
Interactive storytelling studio exploring the intersection of comics, games, graphic novels, and e-books.
A place to explore and play around with prototypes of some of Google’s wild and crazy ideas.
An interactive production studio based in Paris, Honkytonk develops, produces, and distributes multimedia documentary films.
The official new media program of IDFA, showcasing new forms of documentary storytelling, digital technology, and media art.
International co-financing market for documentaries and Europe’s largest gathering of filmmakers, TV commissioning editors, and documentary producers.
An award winning collaborative interactive production studio, Jam3 blends creativity with technical wizardry.
Mediafonds stimulates the creation of innovative cultural and media content via radio, television and Internet public media institutions.
Mediastorm is an award-winning multimedia production studio with a focus on creating cinematic narratives for distribution across a variety of platforms.
MEDIA Desk Netherlands helps to promote and administer the European Union’s MEDIA Programme in the Netherlands.
Creative studio exploring the line between virtual and real-world experiences
The Award-winning National Film Board of Canada produces and distributes bold and innovative documentary, animation, alternative drama, and and digital media productions.
A thriving media organization at the forefront of digital innovation, NPR creates and distributes award-winning news, information, and music programming to a network of 900 independent stations.
The New York Times is the largest metropolitan newspaper in the United States, regarded as the national newspaper of record.
Paris based production company dedicated to transmedia, web documentaries, linear documentaries and cinema.
Amsterdam-based production company Submarine always explores new forms of visual storytelling.
Bringing creatives together to meet and share ideas, whether it is music, film, or the internet.
An orchestra in which every person in the audience and their smartphone plays a unique part.
The TFI New Media Fund looks for social issue media projects that use non-traditional and dynamic storytelling platforms to engage audiences.
Supporter of individual artists in the field, empowering filmmakers through grants and professional development.
VPRO is a Dutch multimedia broadcaster known for its radio, television, internet and guide programming.
VICE is a global media channel focusing on investigative journalism and counter-culture videos