A Brainstorm on Crowd-Sourcing Documentary Film Logging and Transcription…

The below is excerpted from an email I sent to some friends at an unnamed tech company, regarding my documentary This is Fi. I think this would actually work as a way to crowdsource documentary film logging and transcription – allowing people to donate labor instead of cash. The Problem: * We have over 100+ hours of footage (video diaries) of a man who speaks accented English. * The first step in turning those 100+ hours into a 90-minute movie... Read More

Your Cell Phone is Your Reality Series

A while back, I was invited to participate in a think tank about mobile/entertainment put on by Nokia. I pitched to them an idea that I still really want to see happen: the idea that an intelligent video camera (like Nokia’s N95) could become the filming media and platform for self-generated first-person documentaries. First-person documentary is a bit of an obsession of mine. I’m making a documentary on my friend, Fi, and 90% of the... Read More