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!