Category: Festivals

23 Mar

Prison Valley nominated for famous World Press Photo

At the conclusion of the 2011 World Press Photo Multimedia Contest judging in Amsterdam, the jury published a shortlist identifying the three multimedia productions selected in each category. The six shortlisted multimedia productions were chosen from more than 40 nominations.

10 Nov

Prison Valley: Best cross-media/online production (AIB’s 2010, London)

Association for International Broadcasting announces winners of 2010 International Media Excellence Awards. Prison Valley won an award.

05 Nov

Jury special mention at Sheffield doc/fest (UK)

Prison Valley won a special mention at the BT Vision Sheffield Innovation Award.

24 Sep

Prison Valley winner of 62nd Prix Italia

Today, another great news for Prison Valley… Our program won the 62nd Prix Italia / International Competition For Radio Television and Web in Torino (Italy)

31 Aug

Prison valley winner of the 2nd France 24-RFI webdocumentary award in Perpignan

Our webdocumentary Prison Valley is the winner of the 2nd FRANCE 24-RFI webdocumentary award in Visa pour l’image (Perpignan).

11 Jun

Prison Valley wins crossmedia Prize at Bellaria Festival (Italy)

For the first time in its (long) history, the Bellaria Film Festival (this year’s is the 28th edition) decided to open a new concorsi, the competition for the best crossmedia programme. At 9.10 pm, the concorsi vincitore was announced. And it was Prison Valley.

15 Mar

Festivals and TV broadcasts (or ayearofwork, a yearofcraziness)

There are two main stages in the life of a web documentary. That can be brief instants of grace and some terrible bugs. Either/or – or both.
Grading – or the magic of colours at work.
Mixing – or the magic of sound editing at work.
Prison Valley has got these over and done with in the last [...]

27 Nov

Prison Valley spend 3 days in the heat of Amsterdam

It was the day before yesterday, in the middle of the International Documentary Festival Amsterdam, right in the centre of town. At the Tuschinski Theater, which was sold out for the occasion, and I don’t mind telling you we were scared stiff.

20 Nov

«New medias… » and melting borders

A few days ago, the Centre National du Cinéma organised a workshop on ‘new media’. And Prison Valley was invited. We chatted about web documentaries, ARGs, transmedia, cross media, and so on.

16 Nov

At the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam !

Prison Vallet’s been selected for the IDFA. In a few days, we’re off to Amsterdam. In a few days, we’ll be at the European Mecca of documentary filmmaking. In a few days, we’ll be at the International Documentary Film Festival, which our producer (Alexandre Brachet @ Upian), a regular, calls by its acronym, IDFA, like every other producer in the know.