INTERACTIVE / TRANSMEDIA / IMMERSIVE DOCUMENTARY


BY ARNAU GIFREU


Researcher, producer, curator and lecturer

My doctoral dissertation (2013) provides an original conceptual framework and taxonomic study of the interactive documentary and the interactive forms of nonfiction. I've published articles, books and presented papers and activities on this topic in different national and international conferences.

I'm research affiliate at the Comparative Media Studies and Open Documentary Lab ( (MIT, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2013-2014) and part of the i-Docs group, (University of the West of England), the first research group and international conference dedicated to interactive documentary study (2011-2014).

I coordinate InterDocsBarcelona (2013-2014), the first event (conference, exhibition, meet up and popathon) on the interactive documentary in the latin area. I'm also the director of the research platform InterDOC (2011), which has several parts such a lab and project database.

I use to write for the  MIT Open Documentary Lab and  i-docs.org websites (international), and for inter-doc.org and "Somos Documentales" by RTVE.ES, running the blog: “Webdocs. Historias del siglo XXI

I've produced and directed some projects such as MetamentalDOC, Cyborg Project (European Youth Award 2013 and Teens&Docs 2013) and COME/IN/DOC (IDFA Doclab database, i-docs Conference), amongst others. I also offer consulting and assessment to companies interested (Las Sinsombrero)

I've helped to start the first line of interactive documentary for the Máster en Documental Creativo at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona  (2011) and also taught the first seminars of analysis of this genre ("La Casa del Cine", 2009-2012).

I've supervised several projects - theoretical and prototypes - of this nature during seven years leading the direction of project management of the Audiovisual Communication Degree at the Universitat de Vic  (Multimedia Specialty, 2007-2013).

In this figure is summarised my background in this specific field

 

 

Main publications

BOOKS

El documental interactivo. Evolución, caracterización y perspectivas de desarrollo

Pioneros de la tecnología digital. Ideas visionarias del mundo tecnológico actual

Narrativas de no ficción audiovisual, interactiva y transmedia

MAIN ARTICLES - BOOK CHAPTERS

Jugando en el aula con el documental interactivo y transmedia

El uso del documental transmedia como herramienta para el cambio social. Análisis de casos focalizados en las desigualdades de género en el siglo XXI

Processes, Modes and Methodologies for the Analysis and Design of Interactive Documentaries

Aproximación al potencial colaborativo de la narrativa documental interactiva en los procesos de cambio social

i-Docs Symposia-Conference (2011, 2012 and 2014)

El documental interactiu i transmèdia. Aproximació, estat de desenvolupament i anàlisi de casos en l'àmbit espanyol

Educational multimedia applied to the interactive nonfiction area. Using interactive documentary as a new model for learning

Estrategias y modelos de financiación del Documental Interactivo y Transmedia

El documental interactivo en la estrategia de la multidifusión digital Evaluación del estado del arte en relación con la temática, las plataformas y la experiencia del usuario

El documental interactiu com a nou gènere audiovisual - Premis CAC 2013

Proposed use of the interactive documentary in the field of education. Case studies developed at the University of Vic

Reseña Tesis Doctoral

Encuentros históricos entre el género documental y el medio digital para conformar el documental interactivo

El documental interactivo: estado de desarrollo actual

The case of Guernica, pintura de Guerra, the first catalan interactive documentary project

The interactive nonfiction as 2.0 educational strategy. The case of the interactive documentary

Llenguatge interactiu de no ficció aplicat en l’àmbit dels dispositius mòbils

The Interactive Documentary. Definition Proposal and Basic Features of the New Emerging Genre

El documental interactivo como discurso de la no ficción interactiva. Por una propuesta de definición y categorización del nuevo género emergente

El nuevo discurso de la no ficción interactiva y su aplicación para los dispositivos móviles. El caso del documental multimedia interactivo

El documental multimedia interactivo. Por una propuesta de definición y categorización del nuevo género emergente

DOCTORAL DISSERTATION (PHD)

El documental interactiu com a nou gènere audiovisual. Estudi de l’aparició del nou gènere, aproximació a la seva definició i proposta de taxonomia i d’un model d'anàlisi a efectes d'avaluació, disseny i producció (Tesis doctoral original - CAT)

El documental interactivo como nuevo género audiovisual. Estudio de la aparición del nuevo género, aproximación a su definición y propuesta de taxonomía y de un modelo de análisis a efectos de evaluación, diseño y producción (PHD - Tesis doctoral)

RESEARCH WORK (PRE PHD)

El documental interactivo. Una propuesta de modelo de análisis

El documental multimèdia interactiu. Una proposta de model d'anàlisi (Pre-PHD)

2023


Ways of Jordan - The Cube. Tridimensional Stories



Jordán Sube is the Colombian village with the smallest number of souls in the country. What happened to make it go from prosperity to ghost town?


* Role: Interactivity Director. Script. Design


* Creative Director: Juan Baquero

* Documentary Director: José Varón

* Audiovisual content producer: Camilo Galvis

* RTVCPlay delegate producer: Margarita Herrera

* Executive producers: Pilar Cubillos, Paula Arias

* + Dieciséis19 (production company) / Interfaz (multimedia studio)


Season 3 - Caminos de Jordán (Ways of Jordan): https://elcubo.rtvcplay.co/el-cubo/temporada-3

Project website (The Power + El Inquisidor): https://elcubo.rtvcplay.co

Collaborative I-Docs Beyond the Screens: Face-to-Face Participation Processes in Interactive Non-Fiction



This article presents an analysis of four projects developed both in physical and virtual spaces. We apply an original characterization model to each of the initiatives to draw conclusions about face-to-face participation, its different formulas depending on the creative approach and the influence that face-to-face participation has on the results.


* Role: Co-author


Reference: Balaguer, J.; Gifreu-Castells, A. (2023). Collaborative I-Docs Beyond the Screens: Face-to-Face Participation Processes in Interactive Non-Fiction. International Journal of Communication 17(2023), 841–859. ISSN: 1932-8036.


Journal link: https://ijoc.org/index.php/ijoc/article/view/19412

Article link: https://ijoc.org/index.php/ijoc/article/view/19412/4027

Masterclass University of the Aegean



From Interactive Documentary to Expanded Non-fiction. Case Studies


* MSC Cultural Informatics and Communication - University of the Aegean (Grecia, 2023)


This session analyzes the 10 most representative interactive documentary projects of the last decade. The second part of the session will focus on the analysis of 3 case studies in which the professor has participated: Cyborg Project (2014), El Cubo. the professor has participated in: Cyborg Project (2014), The Cube. Three-Dimensional Stories (2020-2023) and Escape Europe. A Webdoc Game on the Southern Border (2022).


Web: https://aegean.cloud.panopto.eu/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=e8a2c378-59cb-4aff-9988-aff100d2e2ed

2022

Escape Europe. A Webdoc Game on the Southern Border



WebDoc with game narrative that aims to raise awareness, through transmedia gamification, about the experiences of migrants and refugees when they arrive in Europe.


* Role: Information design and architecture support


* Directors: Oscar Martínez; Domingo Sánchez-Mesa

* Utopi Social Films. ASAD-Asociación Solidaria Andaluza de Desarrollo. Universidad de Granada. ARCI Lecce.
Università del Salento. University of the Aegean. European Union

* Winner of the Medialab Award for Communication and Innovation in Digital Media 2022 - University of Granada

* Developed by the R+D PROJECT ERASMUS+ MIGRIMAGE. Image of Migration on The Southern Border


Web: https://utopi.es/escape-europe/

TIC TACK el despertar de los Yurbacos [TIC TACK The awaken of the Yurbacos]



Series that recreates the history of the Yurbacos, the ancestral people that inhabited the lands of the municipality of Turbaco. municipality of Turbaco. Project that seeks the mix of performing arts, digital tools and audiovisual productions with young people in audiovisual productions with young people in conditions of social and economic vulnerability of the commune 3 of the municipality of Turbaco (Cartagena de Indias, Colombia).


* Role: Tutor


* Direction: Eliana Zuñiga


* Corporación Integral para el desarrollo territorial social Cindetes


* Crea Digital 2022 - Colombia


* Project Presentation: https://www.facebook.com/watch/live/?extid=WA-UNK-UNK-UNK-AN_GK0T-GK1C&ref=watch_permalink&v=1154751798752221


XR Lab for the audiovisual - Mediamorfosis Festival



The XR Audiovisual Development Lab is a training process that allows projects of different technologies in the field of Audiovisual that allows projects of different technologies in the field of Expanded Realities to receive support from Expanded Realities can be accompanied by professionals of international relevance and experience in the field of and trajectory in the field of new media


* Role: Coordinator


* Direction: Damián Kirzner

* Executive production: Antonia Valenzuela

* Fetsival team: https://mediamorfosis.net/mediamorfosis/#Equipo


XR Lab Website: https://mediamorfosis.net/laboratorio-xr/

Mediamorfosis Website: https://mediamorfosis.net/

2021

Escarabajos. Un país descubierto a pedalazos [Beetles. A country discovered in pieces]



Transmedia project on the history and milestones of Colombian cycling made up of three parts: an interactive documentary, a traveling physical exhibition and a documentary resource center on Colombian cycling.


* Role: Interactive script


* Coordination: Zuly Zabala

* Museum specialist: Nadia Guacaneme

* Web development assessment: Jose Cruzado

* Designer: Javier Mozo

* Web developer: David Alméciga


Online Project: https://www.banrepcultural.org/exposiciones/escarabajos

Migrimage - Imágenes de la migración en la frontera sur [Images of migration on the southern border]



Webdoc funded by the European Erasmus+ program and led by the University of Granada on migration on the southern European border. Created as a complement to the 'Border Film and Journalism School', it is aimed especially at migrants and university students.


* Role: Script + Information architecture


European Research Project reference: 'Migrimage: Imágenes de la migración en la frontera sur. Programa Erasmus+ Programa KA203: Acciones Estratégicas Educación Superior. Nº de proyecto: 2020-1-ES01-KA203-082886'


Plataforma web: https://intlprojects2.ugr.es/migrimage_web/en/home-en/

Likuit - Water Cultures



Likuit is the transmedia story of the people of the world who build their identity around a culture of water, whose defense and enhancement is part of the solution to the local and global challenges of climate change.


* Role: Transmedia producer


* Direction: Juan Ignacio Robles

* Executive production: Antonio Cadierno

* EtnoLAB, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid & Antropodocs


Web: https://www.likuit.net/es/

Último verso [Last Verse]



Transmedia project that deals with the value of death, exposing its duality with life. This exposes it in such a way that the user lives - in the first person, within the Virtual Universe - an immersive and interactive experience.


* Rol: Transmedia project tutor


* ERAM (UDG) Students: Thaïs Aspa, Sònia Cabeza, Maria Llop, Blanca Viñas, Carla Jou, Roger Mañosa, Natàlia Puig, Iris Medina, Pau Luna, Laura Ruiz


Web: https://projectes.eram.cat/elultimoverso//

2020

The Documentary and the Digital (Das Dokumentarische im Digitalen - DiD)


Role of the author and new models of production, distribution and exhibition


Research Network Das Dokumentarische im Digitalen (DiD), focusing on the growing spectrum of interactive documentary practices. It is proposed to develop a transdisciplinary methodological instrument to analyze the potential of emerging practices to negotiate complex issues and stimulate participation in current discourses.


* Role: Research Member

Caballito de Mar [Sea Horse] - FDC Corto Transmedia


Transmedia project that explains the story of Andrés, who the day he discovers how seahorses come into the world, understands that being a man is not being a male.


* Role: Consultant for the 'Fondo Desarrollo Cinematográfico-Proimágenes Colombia' - Corto Transmedia (Category)


* Direction: Mauricio Abad

* General production: Sofía López Madrid

* Exceutive producer: María Elena Martínez

* Transmedia producer: Catalina Hoyos

* Researcher & Creation Interventionist: Andrés Marín


Web: https://caballitodemar.com.co/proyecto-transmedia/

El beat - FDC Corto Transmedia


Multiplatform musical universe made up of an interactive short film, digital content and virtual reality pieces on a journey to the DNA of Colombian music and its Afro roots.


* Role: Consultant for the Fondo Desarrollo Cinematográfico-Proimágenes Colombia - Corto Transmedia (Category)


* Direction, design & concept: Irene Lema

* Director: Carolina del Mar Fernández

* Executive production: Tatiana Villacob

* Audiovisual production: Alejandra Ospina


Jury Grant for the development of Expanded Documentary


Jury for the 2020 National Stimulus Program of the Ministry of Culture - Jury evaluating the call for Scholarships for the development of Expanded Documentary.

No son ruedas, son alas - Power Chair


Transmedia project on the adapted sport of soccer on motorized wheelchairs. Camilo and Reduán, two characters from the Granada team “Los leones de la Alhambra”, introduce us to this world where kids with mobility problems can have new friends, challenge themselves and develop their sporting and human potential. Project developed by students of the Master in New Interactive Media at the University of Granada.


* Role: Master's Degree Consultant


* Dirección: Inês Pascoal, Carolina Díaz, Patricia Jarpa, Carlos Rodríguez & Mauricio Manini


Webdoc: http://www.documental.alaskafilms.cl/

Distópicos [Distopic]


Project that criticizes a western society morbidly educated on social networks. The number of images and videos of explicit violence and morbid content that can be experienced on the networks is uncountable. It is alarming considering that most of the people who consume it are young people still in the personal training stage (adolescents and young adults). This is not new. The morbid content and violence have been systematic content in the media for many years. Project produced by students of SAE Barcelona.


* Role: Consultant - Professor


* Maria Jose Aranda, Ines Gonzalez, Victor Perona, Martina Bordenave, Juan Manuel Rodríguez, Josefina Alagia, Eva Dominguez, Bruno Riviera, Benja Meric, Arturo Fernandez, Amanda Serradell, Agustín Álvarez & Joel Ávila


Webdoc: https://distopicosproject.wixsite.com/home

Sequentium


Sequentium is a transmedia documentary project that addresses the theme of Death by transcreating a developing narrative that takes the user on a journey through various explorations of loss, memory and legacy. The project, which includes a short documentary, two interactive platforms, an exhibition and social media, is aimed at people who want to reach a deeper understanding of Death. Produced by the students of the Masters in Documentary Film and Interactive Media at the Babes-Bolyai Universitatea (Cluj Napoca, Transilvania, Romania).


* BBU Master's Degree Students: Bogdan Sorlea, Dani Sărăcuț, Alexandra Cincea, Emanuela Motrescu, Bence Prokop, Răzvan Micorici, Olivia Dumitriu, Ana-Bianca Tudorică, Andra Purdea, Ruxandra Hule, Teodora Zamfirache, Cosmin Creț, Adelina Bulibașa, Cosmin Creț, Günay Mutlu, Berk Bayter & Emanuela Motrescu


Website: http://sequentium.ro

Gir-asmus


This is the story of an Erasmus experience told by international students in Girona. The Erasmus project is a very attractive experience. It is designed for international students who are open to acquiring new knowledge, taking risks, sharing new ideas, sharing languages, and interacting with other students from different parts of the world. The current students of the Erasmus project have created an interactive platform to facilitate the information they have experienced and found in their exchange, to make it known to future international students who have decided to belong to the Erasmus program. Project produced by Erasmus students of the ERAM-University of Girona.


* Role: Academic Tutor


* ERASMUS Students: Jildert Hof, Nathalie van Den Berg, Natalia Pelaez, Rita Bastista, Szitai Ezster & Simon Hunor-Zoltán


Web: http://projectes.eram.cat/girasmus/

Transformacciones


Collaborative transmedia documentary that seeks to highlight the actions carried out in Colombia, the second most biodiverse country on the planet, to transform consumption habits, intervene in the community and question our responsibility on Earth.


* Role: Executive producer


* Audiovisual Documentary Direction: Alejandro Borráez

* Interactive Documentary Direction: Alejandro Borráez

* General production: Omar Javier Umaña

* Producer: DolarBlue Films


Experiencia Cortázar [Cortazar Experience]


Transmedia project under development as part of the commemoration of the centenary of the birth of Julio Cortázar.


* Role: Transmedia producer


* Idea & direcction: Sergio Romero

* Executive production: Fernando Acuña

* Design & web development: Universidad de Misiones


Website: http://experienciacortazar.com.ar/

Tribute earth


Transmedia platform that provides access to ancestral wisdom and biocultural regenerative projects for all of our present and future generations.


* Role: Transmedia consultant


* Direction: Javier Marco & Carolina Franccesca

* See credits sections


Website: https://tribute.earth/

2019

Polifonias de la sierra gorda [Polyphonies of the Sierra Gorda]


Webdoc of the stories of 6 inhabitants of the Sierra Gorda de Querétaro (Mexico). Each story proposes a journey through the life of a character through a documentary short film, a soundscape, photographs and a 360 video.


* Role: Consltant


* Direction: Laura Juliana Ramirez

* Photo: Gustavo Añiaga y Alejandra Hernandez

* Still Photo: Raúl Alejandro Rizo

* Designer: Rodrigo Salom

* Web development: Samuel Jimenez


Webdoc: http://polifonias.com.mx/

Alicia


Interactive essay that tells the story of the Cuban Prima Ballerina Assoluta Alicia Alonso, the most important classical dancer in Latin America. Project produced by students of the Chair of TV and New Media of the EICTV - International Film and Television School (San Antonio de los Baños, Cuba).


* Role: Tutor - interactive consultant


* Mayra couto, Daniel Patrick Martins, Camilo Monotya, Judith Ruiz, Gelber Delgado, Kevin Humberto García, Nelson Sánchez & Gerard Martínez


Interactive essay: http://tvnm.eictv.org/idoc/alicia/

MIDBO - Muestra Internacional Documental de Bogotá [International Documentary Exhibition of Bogotá]


The International Documentary Exhibition of Bogotá - MIDBO is an event focused on contemporary documentary production, which has been consolidated, in Colombia and Latin America, as a fundamental space for exhibition, encounter, dialogue and thought around the cinema of the real. of expanded Documentary of the International Documentary Exhibition of Bogotá celebrates six consecutive years in 2019. This section exhibits works that put the traditional narrative of cinema to the test and open up new possibilities of experimentation and relationship with the viewer, expanding the notion of cinema of the real.


* Role: Guest curator for the expanded documentary section


* Expanded Documentary Coordination: Carolina Ortiz Cerón

* Coordination - direction (Germán Ayala, Carolina Ortiz, Ana Salas)

* Other curators involved: Nazly López Díaz, Andrés Jurado


Web: https://www.midbo.co/21/expandido/documental-expandido/

Interactive Memories, with a simply ·REC


Interactive essay in order to become a tribute to Pili Fernández Rosado. Interactive project in order to give credibility to the memory of Pili Fernández through the audiovisual field and create an interactive interface in which anyone can get to know this person better. End of Degree Project at ERAM-University of Girona.


* Role: Academic Tutor


* Student: Jordina Corominas


Interactive essay: https://www.eram.cat/es/showroom/interactive-memories-with-a-simply-rec

Las extraordinarias e inverosímiles aventuras de Biófilo Panclasta [The extraordinary and unlikely adventures of Biófilo Panclasta]


Interactive and itinerant transmedia documentary that recounts the adventures of the Colombian revolutionary Vicente Rojas Lizcano, who under the pseudonym Biófilo Panclasta undertakes a trip around the world to bring the anarchism to all corners of the earth and confront the powerful.


* Role: Tutor (Cassigned by inemateca Distrital de Bogotá)


* Director: Juan Diego Rivera


12th International Conference on Interactive Digital Storytelling - ICIDS 2019


Member of the Program Committee (PC) of the 12th International Conference on Interactive Digital Storytelling (ICIDS 2019), the most prestigious conference in the world on interactive storytelling.


* Role: Program Committee (PC) Member


Alados


The Colombian Corporation of Documentalists ALADOS Colombia is a non-profit organization created twenty years ago to bring together the Colombian documentary film guild.


* Role: Member


Website: http://alados.co/

2018

Interactive Documentary

Role of the author and new models of production, distribution and exhibition


- Master’s thesis Diplomarbeit: Masterstudiengang Digitale Medientechnologien an der Fachhochschule St. Pölten, TV- und Videoproduktion

- Student: Simon Zauner (Austria)

- Role: Final Master Degree co-director


Website: https://zaunersimon1987.wixsite.com/newmodels-authorship

More than Bodies


- Transmedia documentary with experimental and experimental dyes that shows how all bodies are beautiful in their own way and takes this idea to social intervention and physical space. Platforms: webdoc, exhibition, books, application and social networks

- Transmedia Group Final Degree Project produced at ERAM-University of Girona

- Role: Academic tutor

- Students: Núria Fontané, Helena Ortel, Marc Tienda, Miquel Burrut and Andrea Esteva.

+ Emili Bota (programming)


Webdoc: morethanbodies.com

2017

Wifive



- Web documentary on Internet connectivity in San Antonio de los Baños, Cuba. It tells the story of 5 people in Cuba who despite the distance and the adversities of connectivity seek to maintain their links with the people they love.

- Escuela Internacional de Cine y Televisión, San Antonio de los baños, Cuba

- Cátedra de Televisión y Nuevos Medios

- Role: Consultant

- Students: Ana Luisa Diaz Teixeira, Milko Winston, Santiago Bernard & Manuel Alejandro Rodríguez


Webdoc: http://tvnm.eictv.org/idoc/wifive/

i-doc Workshop - Cuba



- Workshop 'Conceptualización y Producción de Documentales Interactivos'

- Escuela Internacional de Cine y Televisión, San Antonio de los baños, Cuba

- Cátedra de Televisión y Nuevos Medios

- Role: Profesor


Web: http://www.eictv.org/profesores/arnau-gifreu-castells/

Eidomeni: from the another side



- Troject explaining the situation of 5 refugees from the Idomeni camp in Macedonia.

- Final Master's Project in documentary and transmedia journalistic report. University Carlos III of Madrid.

- Student: Silvia Muiña

- Role: Academic tutor


Report: http://agifreu.com/eidomeni/

DocsBarcelona Valparaíso 2017



- Second edition of the festival in Valparaíso, Chile

- interDocs: Masterclasses, Interactive Pitch, Hackadoc, Interactive Development Workshop

- Role: Interactive and transmedia coordinator


Web: http://www.docsbarcelonavalparaiso.com/


Video summary: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YwH2Phsajak

ICIDS 2017



- International Conference on Interactive Digital Storytelling

- ICIDS Art Jury 2017

- Poster presentation (con Valentina Moreno)

- Rol: Jury and author


Publication: https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007%2F978-3-319-71027-3_31

La aplicación del documental interactivo en el ámbito educativo

The Application of Interactive Documentary in the Educational Field



- Doctorate in Technologies, Structures and Treatment of Information. Complutense University of Madrid. Faculty of information science. Department of Journalism II

- Student: Valentina Moreno.

- Thesis defence: June 2017. Qualification: Apto Cum Laude.

- Role: Codirector of the doctoral thesis


interDocsBarcelona 2017

Docs Barcelona International Documentary Film Festival



- DocsBarcelona 20th edition - 5th edition of interDocsBarcelona

- Interactive Pitch, masterclasses, round tables, interactive viewings and interactive development workshop.

- Role: Interactive and transmedia coordinator


Web: http://www.docsbarcelona.com/ed-2017/


Video summary: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_bsai9yXUNs

i-docs as a research method

International Bremen Film Conference



- Workshop part of the 22nd International Bremen Film Conference

- Conference: ‘Interactive Documentary as a tool for research’

- Role: Speaker

- Universitat Bremen, Germany


East Doc Platform

Institute of Documentary Film



- Invitation as transmedia mentor at the 'Documentary Tank', the most important documentary forum in Eastern Europe, Prague, Czech Republic

- One World Festival

- Rol: Transmedia mentor - Keynote speaker


Web: https://dokweb.net/activities/east-doc-platform/2017/about

Lata de sardinas

Tin of sardines



- Transmedia documentary that reflects on respect between species and that questions the consequences of human superiority over others.

- Students: Nidia Andrea Martín, Anna Isabel Espinosa, Jordi Clopés, Alejandro Maestra, Valeri Ballester, Marta Montaño, Maria Dolors Moncayola, Judit Capell

- Role: Academic tutor


Web platform: http://projectes.eram.cat/latadesardinas/

Contadores del Caos

Caos Counters



- Platform for the digital empowerment

- Master Thesis: 'Narrativas en la era digital: mediaciones del relato y empoderamiento creativo en la generacion Z.'

- Director-author: Iván Sánchez López

- Rol: Interviewee and collaborator


Masters Degree in New Media and Multimedia Journalism



- University of Granada - Postdegree school

- Rol: Professor and mentor


Web: https://masteres.ugr.es/newmedia_periodismomultimedia/pages/ficha

Interactive Digital Stories Track



- Competition of non-fiction projects within the framework of the Madeira Film Festival, Portugal

- Organizers: Madeira Interactive Technologies Institute (M-ITI), The Department of Radio-Television-Film at The University of Texas at Austin y Madeira Film Festival

- Role: Jury


Web: http://interactivedigitalstories.m-iti.org/


Winning project: pregonerosdemedellin.com

2016

DocsBarcelona Valparaíso - 1st edition



- First edition of the Festival in Valparaíso, Chile

- interDocs: Masterclasses and Hackadoc

- Rol: interactive and transmedia activities coordinator


Web: http://www.docsbarcelonavalparaiso.com


Video summary: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tA754ZhiM3Q

Metáfora viva

Live metaphor



- Web documentary commemorating the 30 years of existence of the Film and Television School of San Antonio de los Baños, Cuba

              

- Role: Consultant



Webdoc: http://eictv30.eictv.org//

DocsBarcelona Medellín - 4a edición



- Fourth edition of the DocsBarcelona Medellín Festival

                

- interDocs was composed of: Masterclasses, case studies and Hackadoc

                

- Role: Coordinator of interactive and transmedia activities


Web: https://docsbarcelonamedellin.com/2016-2/


Video Hackadoc: https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=2&v=MZS1mJZfWDA

PotDoc



- Webdoc about marihuana and all that surrounds it: health, legality, regulation, cannabis associations and responsible consumption.

                

- Final Master's Project in documentary and transmedia journalistic report. Carlos III University of Madrid

                

- Role: Academic Tutor

                

- Students: Ariadna Alvite Pérez, Raúl Díaz, Sara R. Acevedo and María Rosa Verdejo Jiménez


Webdoc: http://potdoc.club/

Sexe, maraques i chihuahues

Sex, maracas and chihuahuas



- Webdoc about the life of the musician Xavier Cugat

- Role: Coordination, script and documentation

+ RTVE.ES (Spanish TV), TVC (Catalan TV), Minimal Films and Labyrinz storymaking Studio

Spanish version: http://lab.rtve.es/webdocs/xavier-cugat/


Catalan version: http://www.ccma.cat/tv3/documentals/xavier-cugat//

Bugarach. How to Survive the Apocalypse



- Documentary game which tells the story of the small French village of Bugarach, the only shelter of Maya apocalypse ...

- Role: Interaction Design - Transmedia Architecture


Webdoc: http://lab.rtve.es/webdocs/bugarach/


Linear documentary: http://www.rtve.es/alacarta/videos/el-documental/bugarach-1/3834998//

Desenterrant el negre

Unraveling the black man



- The story of the conflict triggered by the Bushy Man toy, a full-scale reproduction of the well-known and controversial "Negro de Banyoles" (Black man of Banyoles). A curse on the doll causes anyone who comes into contact with it to become extremely selfish and power hungry. This is a false transmedia documentary in which the initial action takes place in an audiovisual piece of about 15 minutes.

- Final Degree Transmedia Project. ERAM - University of Girona

- Students: Gerard Hugas, Roger Bisbe, Daniel Alvarez, David Porras, Mónica Sala, Aida Pérez, Albert Garanger and Antonia Antequera

- Role: Tutor - Transmedia projects director


Webdoc: http://www.desenterrantelnegre.cat/

i-Docs Conference 2016



- i-Docs Conference attendance, presentation and panel moderation

- Panel: Latin webdocs + Quipu Project + Q&A

- Role: Speaker and moderator


Website: http://idocs2016.dcrc.org.uk/

COME/IN/DOC Documentary Series launch



- March 3, 2016 (Bristol, UK - MIT Open Documentary Lab)

- Role: Director


Website: http://comeindoc.com/documentaryseries.html

Video presentation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZpZEiI9coV4

interDocsBarcelona 2016

Docs Barcelona International Documentary Film Festival


- 4rth edition: Conference, Interactive pitch, Interactive Screenings, Virtual Reality Exhibition and Popathon

- Role: Coordinator


Website: http://www.docsbarcelona.com/en/ed-2016/interdocsbarcelona-2016/about-interdocsbarcelona/


Video conference summary: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bn9iBKxlgiA

interDocsBarcelona+Medellín 2016



- 3rd edition: Master Class, Case Study and Hackadoc

- Role: Coordinator


Website: https://docsbarcelonamedellin.com/industria/

Master Degree in Transmedia Journalism and Documentary


- Carlos III University (Madrid)

- Subject: Online Documentary Projects Management + Projects assessment

- Role: Professor - Tutor


Web Master Degree UC3M

2015

Scholarship for developing interactive web documentary



- Ministry of Culture. Government of Colombia

- Role: Jury


- Jury resolution: http://www.mincultura.gov.co/planes-y-programas/programas/programa-nacional-estimulos/Documents/Resoluciones%202015/Res%20N%C2%B0%201470.pdf

Cyborg Project: Winner Laus Award 2015 (Multiplatform Category)



- Cyborg Project deals with the life of Neil Harbisson, considered the first 'sonocromatic cyborg' of history.

- Role: Executive - Transmedia Producer


Transmedia documentary: http://cyborgproject.com/

Aixo nostre

This ours



- Interactive documentary about the values of a rural school located in the village of Osor, Girona (Spain)

- ERAM/Audiovisual and Multimedia Production School - Audiovisual and Multimedia Grade

- Students: Marc Auladell, Albert Sánchez, Ivette Serrallonga, Laia Font, Helena Corbera and Àngels Teixidor

- Role: Tutor - Transmedia projects director


Webdoc: http://aixonostre.cat/

Animal Hero



- Transmedia documentary about the game as a learning process in children with Down Syndrome

- ERAM/Audiovisual and Multimedia Production School - Audiovisual and Multimedia Grade

- Students: Anna Vila-Clara, Vanessa Pujol, Silvia Quera, Yolanda Peregrin, Alba Bosacoma and Aniol Batallé.

- Role: Tutor - Transmedia projects director


interDocsBarcelona 2015

Docs Barcelona International Documentary Film Festival



- 3rd edition: Conference, Interactive pitch, Interactive Screenings and Popathon

- May 22-28, 2015 - CCCB Barcelona

- Role: Coordinator


Web: http://www.docsbarcelona.com/en/ed-2015/interdocsbarcelona/about-interdocsbarcelona/


Video summary: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E0uLj7zWvwM

Pregoneros de Medellín



- Transmedia documentary about the people who sing to make a living in Medellín, Colombia

- Directed by Angela Carabalí and Thibault Durand

- Role: Consultant


Webdoc: pregonerosdemedellin.com

interDocsBarcelona+Medellín 2015



- 2nd edition: Master Class, Case Study and Hackadoc

- July 19-24, 2015 - Parque Explora Medellín

- Role: Coordinator


Website: https://docsbarcelonamedellin.com/6-2/sobre-docsbarcelonamedellin/hackadoc/

Course 'New narratives: Interactive and Transmedia Documentary’



- DocsBarcelona Documentary School

- Role: Academic Course Direction


Web:https://docsbarcelona.com/en/


Project 'Beyond the Paradise': http://detrasdelparaiso.eldiario.es/

2014

interDocsBarcelona+Medellín 2014



- 1st edition: Master class and Case Study

- July 17-23, 2014 - Parque Explora Medellín

- Role: Coordinator


Website: https://docsbarcelonamedellin.com/6-2/edicion2014/master-classes/

interDocsBarcelona 2014

Docs Barcelona International Documentary Film Festival



2nd edition: Conference, Meet Up, Interactive Screenings and Popathon

May 24-29, 2014 - CCCB Barcelona

Role: Coordinator


Website: http://old.docsbarcelona.com/en/text.php?id=151&edicion=2014

i-Docs Conference 2014



i-Docs Conference attendance: panel coordination (Focus Spain) and presentation

Role: Collaborator - speaker


Website: http://i-docs.org/2014/03/06/focus-spain-first-latin-panel-docs-conference-2014/

Video COME/IN/DOC presentation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=moo6kRCeKi8

Master Degree in Creative Documentary

Pompeu Fabra University



- Subject: 'Introduction to interactive documentary language'

- Role: Professor


Website: https://www.bsm.upf.edu/en/master-in-creative-documentary

ESCAC

Cinema and Audiovisuals Superior School of Catalonia



- Subject 'Documentary Theories' - Cinema and Audiovisual Media Grade

- Interactive Documentary Professor

- Role: Professor


Website: http://www.escac.com

2Puntllibre

2dotbook



- This project is halfway between an alternate reality game (ARG) and a transmedia narrative. As a starting point, this type of narrative consists of fragmenting a story and reproducing it in different supports, with the idea of linking, in this case, literature and technology. The project starts from a short story that takes place in the city of Girona. Each literary content was transmitted to multiple platforms: audiovisual, illustration, interactive application, sound imaginary, performance, drawing, photography, website and comic.

- Transmedia Final Degree Project - ERAM/Audiovisual and Multimedia Production School - Audiovisual and Multimedia Grade

- Students: Mireia Casajuana, Ferran Company, Jaume Serradelarca, Isaura Creus, Sara Pascual, Noemi Roset and Gerard Tarrats

- Role: Professor - tutor - transmedia projects director


Web: http://projectes.eram.cat/2puntllibre/


Experience: https://vimeo.com/92866635

COME/IN/DOC

Collaborative Meta-interactive documentary



- A project to learn about the interactive documentary (+ IDFA DOCLAB Database 2013, i-docs Conference 2014)

- Role: Director

+ Bernat Torras and Catalina Acelas


Interactive documentary: http://comeindoc.com/


Project Summary: http://comeindoc.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/Proyecto-Comeindoc.pdf

interdocsBarcelona 2014



- Second edition of the conference on interactive documentary, with interactive pitching, a transmedia documentary meet up and a popathon to develop prototipes

- Role: Coordinator


Activities Summary : http://old.docsbarcelona.com/en/text.php?id=151&edicion=2014


Summary: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_7y3FV5BxNM

interDOC_lab



- The interactive documentary lab of interDOC

- Rol: Director/Researcher


Section: http://www.inter-doc.org/interdoc_lab/


interDOC_indice


- First online database of interactive documentaries from Latin countries


Section: http://www.inter-doc.org/interdoc_indice/

Somos Documentales

We are documentaries



- Project produced by the Interactive Media Team of TVE (Spanish TV) that brings together more than 5000 documentaries and several blogs

- Role: Researcher/Editor

- Blog curator: "Webdocs. Historias del siglo XXI" [Webdocs. Stories of the XXI Century]


Blog: http://blog.rtve.es/webdocs/

The interactive documentary

Evolution, characterization and development perspectives.



- Barcelona: UOC Press. Editorial UOC

- Role: Author

- Author of the first book written in Spanish language about the interactive documentary


Book: http://editorialuoc.com/el-documental-interactivo_1

Las Sinsombrero

The 'Sinsombrero' - Woman without hat


- Transmedia documentary about the forgotten women of the literary "Generation of 27"

- Role: Assessment


Webdoc: http://www.rtve.es/lassinsombrero/es

Marató TVC

TVC Teleton



- Interactive documentary for the marathon of the Catalan Television station (TVC), for education about neurodegenerative diseases

- Role: Co-director, Multimedia producer

+ Pere Arcas and Catalina Acelas


Project: http://agifreu.com/marato2013/

2013

MIT Open Documentary Lab



- Researcher producing articles, interviews, lists of projects, COME/IN/DOC series and latin projects for the Docubase

- Comparative Media Studies Department

- Role: Research affiliate


Website: http://opendoclab.mit.edu/


Position: http://opendoclab.mit.edu/arnau-gifreu-research-affiliate

interdocsBarcelona 2013

Docs Barcelona International Documentary Film Festival



- First conference and exhibition dedicated to the study of the interactive documentary in Latin countries

- Role: Coordinator


Summary Conference: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U2htH3a1L2U


Summary Exhibition (summary): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HJ6j48WQyBQ


Summary Exhibition (long): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2vmtvRQy2eY

interDOC



- Learning platform dedicated to the research, analysis and dissemination of interactive non-fiction, which is proposed as a tool for studying and producing interactive documentary as an emerging form of audiovisual narrative

- Role: Founder and director


Platform: http://www.inter-doc.org/

Cyborg Project



- A transmedia documentary about the experience of not perceiving colors and the world of cyborgs.

- Cross-platform experience with the intention of recreating in different ways, using technology, the experience of not perceiving colors.

- The different parts of the project aim to invite the user to experience different ways of perceiving and relating to the world of color and to learn how senses and capabilities can be increased by creating and applying cybernetic extensions into the human body.

- Role: Executive and transmedia producer, promoter

+ Roger Soldevila, Raymond Lagonigro, Josep Cumeras and Isaac Martinez


Transmedia documentary: http://cyborgproject.com/

Espill Media



- Audiovisual, Interactive and transmedia production company

- Role: Cofounder - Director

- Partners: Roger Soldevila, Raymond Lagonigro, Josep Cumeras and Isaac Martinez


Website: http://espillmedia.com/

Doctoral Thesis Presentation - UPF



- PhD Candidate for the Doctoral Work entitled:

'Gifreu, Arnau (2012), The interactive documentary as a new audiovisual genre. Study of the emergence of the new genre, approach to its definition and taxonomy proposal and a model of analysis for the purposes of evaluation, design and production. [Doctoral Thesis]. Barcelona: Universitat Pompeu Fabra. Communication Department.'


TDX (Online Doctoral Thesis): http://www.tdx.cat/handle/10803/119606


Spanish version: http://agifreu.com/interactive_documentary/TesisArnauGifreu2012.pdf


2012

Interactive documentary website

(language: catalan)



- First catalan website to offer a complete guide to interactive documentary


Website: http://documentalinteractiu.com/

In a multi-color chip


- Interactive and audiovisual documentary about Neil Harbisson, the first sonocromatic cyborg in history, who sees in black and white.

- Students: Roger Soldevila, Josep Parés, Isaac Martinez and Arnau Costa

- Role: Tutoring, production and promotion


Webdoc: http://www.xipmulticolor.com/en

Talking Hearts



-Interactive project proposal that expands the play "Talking hearts", an interactive performance created by the collective "Roots and Routes". Talking hearts is a youth initiative funded by the Youth in Action program of the European Union and coordinated by the Subjective Values Foundation (Budapest, Hungary) in partnership with Associazione culturale Fabbrica Europa (Firenze, Italy), EuroEst Foundation (Bucharest, Romania) and the University of Barcelona - LMI (Spain). It brings together four groups of young music, media and dance artists from four European countries with a diversity of cultural roots to promote creative European collaboration and social inclusion.

- Role: Director of the interactive project.

+ Marta Mesquida, Catalina Acelas


Webdoc: http://talkinghearts.rootsnroutes.eu

2011

i-docs



- Part of the group created by the University of the West of England - Digital Culture Research Centre. University of the West of England, Digital Cultures Research Centre

Website: http://i-docs.org/

Website: http://www.dcrc.org.uk/


- Conference 2012 Collaborator

Website: http://i-docs.org/idocs-2012/


- i-docs Conference 2011 Collaborator

Website: http://i-docs.org/i-docs-2011/

I tu qui ets?

Who are you?



- Interactive documentary that emphasizes the importance of education in society and shows various possible alternatives to classical education, exploring education from a coeducational model, regardless of gender.

- Role: Tutoring. Multimedia script, project direction

- Graphic design and coding: Catalina Acelas

- Students: Bea Ruiz, Jennifer Vilarreal.


Webdoc: http://www.ituquiets.com/

Sparklyng (Big Visit)



- Web and mobile application with geolocation to create a unique and personal journey through the city of Vic, generating information and timelines in real-time using a mobile app.

- Role: Tutoring. Multimedia script, project co-direction

- Student: Jaume Masarnau

2010

Research work presentation



- Gifreu, Arnau (2010), 'The interactive multimedia documentary: a proposed analysis model [Research work]. Barcelona: Universitat Pompeu Fabra. Departament de Comunicació.'

Qualification: Suma Cum Laude


UPF online library: http://repositori.upf.edu/handle/10230/11346


Spanish version http://agifreu.com/investigacion.htm


English version http://agifreu.com/investigacion_eng.htm


2009

2nd prototipe: MetamentalDOC



 

- Interactive documentary that reflects on the documentary genre in terms of its history and concepts, including interviews and documents. It also contains an audiovisual documentary of 50 minutes.

- Role: Tutoring. Multimedia content and script. Project direction

- Students: Ingrid Blasco, Myriam Figueira, Glòria Campos and Marc Molinos.


Platform: http://metamentaldoc.com/

2008

First prototype: Societat 2.0

2.0 Society



- Start of interactive documentary production with students (prototypes, PhD Case Studies)

- Interactive documentary about how new information and communication technologies are transforming society. It also contains an audiovisual documentary of 30 minutes.

- Role: Tutoring. Project direction.

- Students: Joan Teixidó, Guillem Santapau, Oleguer Homs, Mireia Hurtado and Laia Piera