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07.12.2011

Fulscrn Wins Big at the Digi Awards

By Sean Embury | Add Comment

The Digi Awards (formerly know as the Canadian New Media Awards) were handed out last night and I am very proud to announce that two of our projects took home the hardware.

Truth & Lies – The Last Days of Osama Bin Laden, won the Digi for Best in Cross-Platform: Factual. Fulscrn worked with producers at CBC’s flagship investigative program, the fifth estate and cbcnews.ca to create an innovative interactive documentary that examines the hunt for Osama bin Laden and brings the raid on his Abbottabad compound vividly to life.

Welcome to Pinepoint, a project I worked on with long-time collaborators, Mike Simons and Paul Shoebridge (The Goggles) and the NFB, won the Digi for Best Web Series Documentary. A nice cherry to top off a string of national and international awards this project has won over the past year.

I should also mention that Loc Dao (a long-time colleague of mine at the NFB and at CBC Radio 3) won the Digi for Top Digital Producer. It is well deserved as he continues to lead the NFB in the creation of some of the web’s most innovative and moving work.

The awards wrapped up the 2011 nextMEDIA conference with winners named in 17 digital media categories. They were handed out at a gala ceremony at The Carlu in Toronto.

Here’s a nice story from RealScreen which talks about both projects.

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06.12.2011

CBC – Truth & Lies a Digi Award Finalist

By Sean Embury | Add Comment

Truth & Lies – The Last Days of Osama Bin Laden, is up for a Digi Award in the Best in Cross-Platform: Factual category.

The interactive documentary, produced with CBCNews.ca and the fifth estate, walks you through the story of the raid that lead to death of the world’s most wanted man – how the U.S. first learned about the compound in Pakistan, how Obama made the decision to go in, and how SEALS prepared and how they carried out the top-secret mission. There are a dozen questions that pop up at appropriate points — also available in a drop-down tray – that challenge the user and deliver answers with key, at times exclusive, interviews. Each of the screens has interactivity, whether it’s using your mouse like a flashlight to read tweets of the raid with the sound of helicopters over head, delving into bin Laden’s family tree and the blueprints of the building, or going through the sequence of options open to Obama. This truly innovative web project challenges the barriers of online story-telling and demonstrates how a television project can be a powerful, made-for-digital product.

We are up against some stiff competition from History Channel and our friends at Secret Location, and Parks Canada and our friends at Stitch Media.

The awards (formerly known as the Canadian New Media Awards) get handed out tonight at a gala event at The Carlu in Toronto.

Best of luck to us all!

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