Producers Institute for New Media Technologies

2008 Producers Institute for New Media Technologies
Bay Area Video Coalition
May 30 – June 8, San Francisco.

Nine documentary teams have been chosen to prototype innovative interactive, mobile, multimedia, and game projects to engage and build audiences for their social issue storytelling during the 2008 Producers Institute for New Media Technologies

Funded by generous lead support from the MacArthur Foundation and additional support from the Nathan Cummings Foundation and the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, the Producers Institute for New Media Technologies connects independent producers and their socially relevant content to emerging models of storytelling and distribution. Through the Institute, documentary production teams from across the US and South America spend ten days at BAVC working with technologists, designers, and programmers to develop new models of participatory media. Mentors from leading technology companies, including Apple, Adobe, Google, MobiTV, Current TV, and others, work with teams to design and develop working prototypes, which are then presented to funding and review panels at the end of the Institute.