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.

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!

Fulscrn had the pleasure of joining other top Canadian companies producing cross-media projects, in a panel called The Canuck Showcase: Creative Kudos at Merging Media 2011. Evan Jones from Stitch Media, Sandy Fleischer (my old boss!) from Dare, Mike Ferguson from Ayogo, David Gratton from Work-At-Play, and myself were joined by moderator extraordinaire Lynda Brown Ganzert for an hour of showing off some work and sharing some tricks of the trade.

Of course, I stuck around for the rest of the two-day conference, which turned out to absolutely fabulous. Loved seeing some old acquaintances and meeting some great new friends and business contacts from around the world. Dinner with Brian Seth Hurst, Seth Shapiro, Evan Jones, and Scott Dobson was particularly awesome.

Conference highlights included “Down the Rabbit Hole” with Lance Weiler, “Breaking News on Multiple Screens” with Amjad Atallah, Al Jazeera’s Bureau Chief for the Americas, interviewed by the CBC’s Theresa Lalonde, and, of course, the “NFB Showcase” featuring my long-time collaborators Loc Dao, Michael Simons and Paul Shoebridge (The Goggles).

The site was added to the FWA’s public shortlist at the end of September and will be the SOTD on November 15, 2011. We can’t wait to see the spike in traffic!

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.

The interactive experience features dramatic recreations, stunning original footage, and provocative exclusive interviews with the people at the heart of the operation including high-level members of the US intelligence community and world leaders.

The site was a cross-media production launched in conjunction with the 2011 televised season premiere of the fifth estate and CBC News special coverage of the 9/11 anniversary.

We want to thank CBC News again for the opportunity to work on this amazing project and congratulate them on what we’re sure will be the first in a big string of awards for this site.

It was a night to celebrate.

After three months quietly building momentum in beta, Revolutions Per Minute was officially launched last night. And what better way to launch the coolest indigenous music property online than with a free concert at Vancouver’s Media Club.

Hosted by RPM’s very own Ostwelve, the night featured performances by Haida duo Sister Says, Squamish Nation hip-hop artist Discreet Da Chosen 1, and female rockers Vancougar (I love these ladies!).

Fulscrn is very proud to have been involved in both the creation of the RPM brand and visual identity (it was extra cool to see our logo projected behind the bands rocking on stage), and in the design and development of RPM.fm.

Thanks to Lynn Booth, Jarrett Martineau, Christa Coture, and Ron Harris at RPM and Make Believe Media for a great opportunity and a great night.

The conference organizers (including conference chair, Alison Norrington of StoryCentralDIGITAL) have put together a pretty solid line up speakers and some really good looking panels.

There are a lot of Canadians going from Vancouver, Toronto, Halifax, and a few places in between. Looking forward to seeing a few familiar faces and meeting all kinds of new and interesting people.

StoryWorld happens in San Francisco from Oct. 31 – Nov. 3, 2011.

Hope to see you there.

For you tweeters out there look for our updates @StoryWorldConf using the handle #swc11.

Congrats to Rob McLaughlin, Loc Dao, Steve Mackey, and all of the other great people involved with this project.

Find out more about The Test Tube and other work with the NFB here.

Fulscrn will be featured alongside other top Canadian companies producing cross-media projects, in a panel called The Canucks Showcase: Creative Kudos. Together with Stitch Media, Dare, Ayogo, and Work-At-Play, I’ll get to show off some of our award winning work and share some tricks of the trade.

It will be great to see some old acquaintances on what should be a really fun panel.

Fulscrn client, CBCNews.ca was honoured in the network category for our memorial to the Canadians who died in Haiti in the 2010 quake. The project is a rich multimedia project, featuring raw and compelling stories of those who died, as told by friends and family who so generously gave us their time during some of their most difficult days.

Find out more about our award and see all the winners.

The article said the projects achieve “a rare level of interactivity, offering inspiration to photographers and filmmakers alike and providing layered insight into the subjects these projects explore” and that they “are incredibly complex and layered, but at their core, incredibly strong storytelling holds the pieces together.”

Read the entire article and see images at time.com.