Multi-Platform Storytelling with Ann Shin

$20 regular, $15 students/seniors

NIFCO, 40 King’s Rd., St. John’s, NL

Thanks to modern technologies, writers, filmmakers and storytellers alike have incredible new ways to share their work and involve their audience via digital media. Interactive projects, cross-platform, phone apps, mobile sites and so on are just the beginning of the new forms your work can take. Award-winning filmmaker and new media producer Ann Shin (The Defector: Escape from North Korea, NFB) teaches us about Multi-Platform Storytelling- how to proliferate your idea into media, the process, how to develop your work and why, budgeting, funding and more.

*Participants with projects they are considering to develop into an interactive or multi-platform format are encouraged to bring material along with them.

Ann Shin is a multiple Gemini nominee and award-winning filmmaker and new media producer whose projects have screened and won awards at festivals including: the San Francisco Film Festival, Montreal World Film Festival, International Documentary Festival of Amsterdam (IDFA), SXSW, New York Festivals. Ann is the Executive Producer for Fathom Film Group, and has produced and directed programs and series for CBC, Discovery Channel, HGTV, History Channel, W Network, PBS, and Fine Living Network. Her film credits include “The Defector: Escape from North Korea,” Gemini nominee for Best Performance Doc, Four Seasons Mosaic (CBC), Chris Award-winning The Roswell Incident, Planet in Focus Film Festival winning Cow vs. Clown and National Film Board Reel Diversity winner Western Eyes.

Shin’s writing has been published in anthologies and magazines in Canada and the US, including Crossroads Cant, Broken Jaw Press On a Bed of Rice, Anchor Books, and Geography of Encounters, Rowman and Little Press and IV Lounge Reader, Insomniac Press, and The Last Thing Standing, by Mansfield Press. Her latest book of poetry, The Family China was published in 2013, by Brick Books and has won the Anne Green Award for innovation in story and narrative form. Some of the poems from the book were produced for broadcast on the CBC Radio One program ‘Living Out Loud’.

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