DocAgora: Audience Commentary and End-Note
DocAgora - Audience Commentary and Endnote

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Friday, April 27: 05:00 PM - 05:30 PM, Innis Town Hall

Albert Nerenberg, co-director, "Let’s All Hate Toronto"

Introduction by DocAgora

Speaker

  • Albert Nerenberg, Co-Director, LET'S ALL HATE TORONTO



DocAgora: Panel - The Seven Minute Ideal
DocAgora - Panel: The Seven Minute Ideal

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Friday, April 27: 03:30 PM - 05:00 PM, Innis Town Hall

As a jumping-off point, this panel considers The Seven Minute Ideal: the role, impact and challenges of funding and creating short-form, cross-media documentary content. For decades, the ideal length of for doc was either a 90 minute feature or a TV hour. Filmmakers have always resisted or adapted to the formatting needs of distribution outlets. In this new era, everything is subject to change. DocAgora proposes that the ideal length or golden mean for any digital documentary or interactive experience may well be 7 minutes.

What effect will this have on newform documentary? What business models are waiting?

Session Producer

  • Cameron Hickey, Founder, Pattern Films

Moderators

  • Frank Boyd, Creative Director and Founder, Unexpected Media

Panelists

  • Annie Valva, Director, Research & Business Development, WGBH Interactive
  • Jason Meil, Sr. VP Programming and Acquisitions, Currrent TV
  • Ray Newal, Head of Content, Yahoo Canada
  • Renn Scott, Chief Designer, likeTribe
  • Robin Altman, Manager, Entertainment & Interactive Content Programming, Telus
  • Steve Billinger, Executive Director, Digital Programming and Business Development , CBC

Speaker

  • Andra Sheffer, Executive Director, Bell New Media Fund
  • Judy Gladstone, Executive Director, Bravo! FACT


DocAgora: The Auteur vs. Collective Ownership
DocAgora - The Auteur vs. Collective Authorship

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Originally Held: Friday, April 27: 01:50 PM - 03:00 PM, Innis Town Hall

This modified Oxford-style debate considers the role of authorship. One side of Generation D (as in Digital), user-generated doc-makers take on Doc-auteurs, linear trad-school broadcasters and point-of-view purists. The Proposition: Can you still be a doc-auteur filmmaker in this brave, new digital world? Is auteur documentary a dead duck in the digital water?

Presented by:
Center for Social Media, American University


Session Producer

Cameron Hickey, Founder, Pattern Films

Moderators

Neil Seiling, Consultant/Fellow, Centre for Social Media, American University

Panelists

  • Adnan Hadzi, Media & Communication, Goldsmiths College, University of London
  • Brad Dworkin, Filmmaker / New Media Artist, Ryerson University
  • Daniel Cross, Producer, Homelessnation.org
  • Femke Wolting, Director/Producer, Submarine
  • Jennifer Fox, Filmmaker, FLYING: CONFESSIONS OF A FREE WOMAN, Zohe Films
  • Nick Fraser, Series Editor, "Storyville", BBC
  • Rudy Buttignol, Media Consultant & Independent Commissioning Editor of Documentaries, TVO


DocAgora: Welcome Address and Keynote
DocAgora - Welcome Address and Keynote

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Originally Held: Friday, April 27: 01:30 PM - 01:50 PM, Innis Town Hall

Welcome:
CBC, DocAgora and Hot Docs

Speaker

Steve Billinger, Executive Director, Digital Programming and Business Development , CBC

Keynote Speaker

Sara Diamond, President, Ontario College of Art and Design (OCAD)


Welcome!
ABOUT DOCAGORA

DocAgora is a non-profit organization working internationally with documentary festivals and through its virtual webplex at docagora.org. DocAgora aims to open up a conversation on new forms, new platforms and new ways of financing creative, authored and socially-engaging documentary content.

Stay Tuned for Video and Audio coverage of DocAgora:

  • DocAgora - Welcome Address and Keynote
    Friday, April 27: 01:30 PM - 01:50 PM, Innis Town Hall

  • DocAgora - The Auteur vs. Collective Authorship
    Friday, April 27: 01:50 PM - 03:00 PM, Innis Town Hall

  • DocAgora - Coffee and Case Study Presentation
    Friday, April 27: 03:00 PM - 03:30 PM, Innis Town Hall

  • DocAgora - Panel: The Seven Minute Ideal
    Friday, April 27: 03:30 PM - 05:00 PM, Innis Town Hall

  • DocAgora - Audience Commentary and Endnote
    Friday, April 27: 05:00 PM - 05:30 PM, Innis Town Hall