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Jaws – Blu-Ray Restoration Documentary with Steven Spielberg

documentary.net staff — Wed, 11 Apr 2012 15:34:33 +0000

Director Steven Spielberg worked with Universal’s in-house archives and restoration services on the new print, starting with the original negative of the film — which Spielberg calls “pretty crummy” in a featurette on the Blu-ray. You can watch that special on the restoration below, along with exclusive before and after shots from the film that show just how painstaking the visual renovation was.

Everything is a Remix – Part 4

documentary.net staff — Fri, 17 Feb 2012 06:46:31 +0000

Our system of law doesn’t acknowledge the derivative nature of creativity. Instead, ideas are regarded as property, as unique and original lots with distinct boundaries. But ideas aren’t so tidy. They’re layered, they’re interwoven, they’re tangled. And when the system conflicts with the reality… the system starts to fail.

We Are Legion: The Story of the Hacktivists – Documentary [Trailer]

documentary.net staff — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 11:10:48 +0000

“We Are Legion: The Story of the Hacktivists” is a documentary that takes us inside the world of Anonymous, the radical “hacktivist” collective that has redefined civil disobedience for the digital age. The film explores the historical roots of early hacktivist groups like Cult of the Dead Cow and Electronic Disturbance Theater and then follows Anonymous from 4chan to a full-blown movement with a global reach, one of the most transformative of our time.

The team is currently shooting and editing at Luminant Media in Los Angeles.
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Pirate Radio

documentary.net staff — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 17:55:45 +0000

Exploring London’s original and current illegal underground radio scenes.

The News Corp. Hacking Saga

documentary.net staff — Sun, 08 Jan 2012 22:56:45 +0000

As the phone hacking investigation that ripped through UK politics and media moves to the US, what next for Murdoch media, and how will the story develop in 2012?
An in-depth look at what was the biggest media story of last year – the tabloid phone hacking scandal that shook the world’s most powerful media corporation and is sure to cause more tremors in the year to come.

The big turning point in the Guardian newspaper’s investigation into phone hacking at the Murdoch tabloid News of the World came on July 4, 2011. A front page report revealed that the extensive phone hacking operation at the News of the World had not targeted just film stars, sportsmen and politicians, but even victims of crime like the 13-year-old British school girl Milly Dowler who was murdered in 2002.

The report boosted what had been a serious but low profile journalistic investigation into a mega media story that ensnared not only News Corp, the Murdochs and some of their key employees, but also exposed the ugly nexus between British police, the British political establishment and Murdoch media.

Too Many Friends – Use of Social Media and Privacy by the People that use it

documentary.net staff — Sat, 10 Dec 2011 06:37:41 +0000

Too Many Friends explores the use of social media by the people that use it, the people that study it, and the people that just plain stay away. Presented in a series of personal interviews, the documentary explores friendship and communication in an era where privacy is a rare commodity.

Featuring interviews with:
Dixie Seatle (Professor, AFTV Humber College)
Collin Douma (VP Social Media, Proximity BBDO)
Don Jones (President, Exper!ence It)
Mairin Piccinin (Friend)

Created by Teresa Marie-Boehm, Will Bowes, Diana Galligan, Jamie Manning and Mike O’Doherty

TV in 2020: What’s next? (Episode 6)

documentary.net staff — Thu, 24 Nov 2011 19:43:12 +0000

2020 Vision: Future of TV is an industry initiative dedicated to exploring how television will evolve over the next ten years. The films provide unprecedented access to business leaders, industry visionaries and production pioneers from Australia and around the world.

Episode 6/6

What Facebook knows about you

documentary.net staff — Mon, 07 Nov 2011 12:05:42 +0000

A couple of months ago the Austrian law student Max Schrems asked facebook to send him all their data stored about him. All Europeans have a right to do this, because facebook is based in Dublin, Ireland. It took a while and then facebook sent Max a CD with 1222 PDF files. A visualization of the data by taz.de

Schrems was surprised how much the social network knows about him and his friends. And how much it remembers. In theory, people at facebook could read all of his facebook messages. And find out what he has written on criminal law.

The content of these messages might interest advertisers who place customised adverts. Customised advertising probably earnt facebook around two billion dollars in 2011. What Schrems writes to his friends might also one day interest the police – or hackers. facebook keeps the messages even after Max has deleted them, deep down in its servers.

And facebook knows exactly when Schrems writes messages. And it remembers when Schrems logs on. So even weeks later it can be established precisely at what time Max used facebook.

facebook also sent a CD with data to Schrems’ friend Lisa. It knows much more about her because Lisa has taken photos with her i-phone. With GPS coordinates, the data can be used to work out exactly where she was. With biometric facial recognition, which Mark has introduced to facebook, it is possible to know about millions of people exactly who was where when.

Escape the Web: Every click online thralls Privacy

documentary.net staff — Thu, 27 Oct 2011 10:31:22 +0000

Every day we use mobile phones. Computers became part of our life. Some people even can’t live without those devices. It’s fashionable now to have an account on Facebook or on some other social sites. We provide our personal data online never thinking about probable consequences.

Press Pause Play – A film about Hope, Fear and Digital Culture (720p Stream and 1080p Download)

documentary.net staff — Mon, 26 Sep 2011 11:16:37 +0000

The digital revolution of the last decade has unleashed creativity and talent in an unprecedented way, with unlimited opportunities. But does democratized culture mean better art or is true talent instead drowned out? This is the question addressed by PressPausePlay, a documentary film containing interviews with some of the world’s most influential creators of the digital era.

Interviews with Moby, Robyn and many more.

The feature length version of PressPausePlay has now been seen at over 30 film festivals around the world. You can download it here and join the growing audience:

Download the standard film in 1080p or 720p via torrent
Download the interactive version in Mirror 1 or Mirror 2 (Requires Adobe Air and internet connection)

Read the Press Kit for all infos about the film

Link: presspauseplay.com

The 9/11 Decade: The Image War

documentary.net staff — Wed, 07 Sep 2011 05:58:44 +0000

9/11: It was a PR stunt which killed thousands and launched a propaganda war that has, so far, lasted a decade. Since then, the US and al-Qaeda have competed furiously to win “hearts and minds” with elaborate media strategies. Spin, threats, lies, censorship, the killing of journalists; how far has each side been prepared to go to win the propaganda war?

In the “war on terror” the exploitation of images was to become a matter of life and death, as both the US and al-Qaeda bombarded the world with media designed to win people over to their side.

It started with 9/11 itself: an act of terror staged as a global media event and the catalyst for a decade of propaganda war. But al-Qaeda’s canny use of 9/11 imagery, which included saving footage of the attackers for release at a later date so as to maximise publicity, gave way to serious errors in judgement as the group’s use of beheadings not only terrorised viewers but also alienated one-time sympathisers. The US, for its part, did not perform any better with Guantanamo Bay and Abu Ghraib becoming prime examples of how to lose a war. Source: Aljazeera

Libya: Media on the frontlines of revolution

documentary.net staff — Tue, 06 Sep 2011 17:30:41 +0000

Throughout the Arab Spring the narrative of democratic change sweeping through the Arab world played well in the international media. And in Libya those opposing the Gaddafi regime had a territorial base in Benghazi and spokespeople in the public eye that could engage with the media. A look at the spin-doctors working behind the scenes in the Arab spring.

When they marched on Tripoli the media followed, ostensibly embedded with the rebel fighters. That proximity helped the leaders of Libya’s National Transitional Council (NTC) control the media message. But now that the Gaddafi regime has fallen and the country is in the hands of the NTC, journalists are having to shift their focus. No longer is the narrative dominated by the fight for Libya but rather who and what is left to run it.

Quick hits from Newsbytes: The government in Syria amends the country’s media laws but critics are not impressed; a former policeman is charged with plotting the murder of Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya; an Ecuadorian journalist flees the country after being found guilty of libelling President Correa; and WikiLeaks claims its website was cyber-attacked in the wake of its biggest release so far of confidential US diplomatic cables.

Since the beginning of the Arab revolutions, embattled regimes have faced a barrage of criticism in the press. To counter this, Arab dictators have employed the services of western PR companies to clean up their image. Consulting companies like the Washington-based Qorvis Communications and the London-based Bell Pottinger have been quietly working for governments in Yemen, Syria and Bahrain.

For these companies, as the bad press has grown worse for these governments, business for them has improved. But their work has pushed them into unfamiliar territory – under the spotlight and some have had to defend their business deals.

TV in 2020: Future Programming Trends (Episode 5)

documentary.net staff — Wed, 10 Aug 2011 08:18:12 +0000

Episode 5 takes a loot at some programming trends in television, will it chance complete or stay more or less the same?

2020 Vision: Future of TV is an industry initiative dedicated to exploring how television will evolve over the next ten years. In the second episode, the film investigates the power of the audience and the impact they now having on broadcasters and advertisers. The audience has always been what matters. But now, they are closer than ever to becoming part of the story.

TV in 2020: The Evolution of Advertising (Episode 4)

documentary.net staff — Mon, 08 Aug 2011 14:08:22 +0000

Episode 4 looks at how changes to the television platform are creating new opportunities for advertisers to grow deeper relationships with consumers.

Steal This Film – Part II (HD, 720p)

documentary.net staff — Wed, 29 Jun 2011 13:20:20 +0000

Steal This Film is a film series documenting the movement against intellectual property. Part 2 draws parallels between the impact of the printing press and the internet in terms of making information accessible beyond a privileged group or “controllers”.

The argument is made that the decentralised nature of the internet makes the enforcement of conventional copyright impossible. Adding to this the internet turns consumers into producers, by way of user generated content, leading to the sharing, mashup and creation of content not motivated by financial gains. This has fundamental implications for market-based media companies. The documentary asks “How will society change” and states “This is the Future – And it has nothing to do with your bank balance”.

Subtitles available: English, Croatian, Czech, Dutch, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Danish, French, Finnish, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Italian, Korean

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