Chewbahat

Hello New York! Chewbahat is in the city this week with Djehouti...

Sun, 19 May 2013 16:20:37 +0200

Hello New York!
Chewbahat is in the city this week with Djehouti to meet with Mike Knowlton and Aina Abiodun from Storycode.org, Brian Storm (mediastorm) and the Tribeca Film Festival. Also on the program, interview for our mini series “From the Ground”.
Feel free to reach out if you wanna meet!
Cheers

Our new project is on track, stay tuned for more updates very...

Wed, 15 May 2013 13:08:00 +0200

Our new project is on track, stay tuned for more updates very soon!
In the meantime, you can follow us on Twitter and like our Facebook page to support independent production.

Hello there! We’re very excited to present the new...

Mon, 13 May 2013 15:58:00 +0200

Hello there! We’re very excited to present the new Chewbrand identity! A fresh new look for the summer and all the exciting stuff that we’re preparing! Thanks for supporting us!

Design: Gerald Holubowicz © Chewbahat 2013

Multimedia Research Project - World Press PhotoI’ve been...

Mon, 29 Apr 2013 12:17:00 +0200

Multimedia Research Project - World Press Photo

I’ve been lucky enough to be one of the participant of the the first session of the Multimedia Research organized by Dr David Campbell in Amsterdam for the World Press Photo. The results of this study are now out and are worth your time.

Gerald

From the World Press Photo

”With the Academy, one of our aims is to add knowledge about new developments in the field. And we wish to stimulate conversation about trends within the visual journalism community.

Following the digital revolution and the explosion of Internet, multimedia has brought great innovation to visual storytelling. Photojournalists are exploring new approaches, combining images, video, sound, and text in their work. Our own multimedia contest has already seen three editions.

In a pioneering study, commissioned by World Press Photo and published here, Dr. David Campbell examines the current practices in multimedia against the background of the disruption in the traditional media economy, and the revolution in how people consume news today. Download the full research report, and join in the discussion on Dr. Campbell’s blog. “

WATCH THE ADDITIONAL VIDEO ON VIMEO

Chewbahat has a new skin! Welcome on our corporate...

Tue, 16 Apr 2013 18:33:00 +0200

Chewbahat has a new skin! Welcome on our corporate presence.
Visit chewbah.at, like our Facebook page (facebook.com/Chewbahat) or follow us on Twitter (twitter.com/Chewbahat)
Cheers

Chewbahat is glad to announce that Storycode Paris is now open!...

Tue, 16 Apr 2013 15:08:25 +0200

Chewbahat is glad to announce that Storycode Paris is now open! Thanks to Michael Knowlton and Aina Abiodunfrom StoryCode. We’re proud to announce that the first meeting will be on April 25th and will feature The Brussels Business and Eleonore Lamothefrom Kids Up Hill as well as WeDoData. Here’s the program (in French). We hope that everyone will enjoy that first session.
In the meantime, please like our page (http://www.facebook.com/storycodefr) and follow us on twitter (@storycodefr). Founder of this chapter are Benjamin Hoguet (djehouti.com), Gerald Holubowicz (chewbah.at), Florent Maurin (thepixelhunt.com) Alexis Sarini (webdocu.fr) and Adrien Aumont (kisskissbankbank.com).

StoryCode Paris launches with a new monthly lecture series with innovative projects in the field of transmedia and interactive documentary.

StoryCode aims to encourage feedback from the community, the transmission of best practices, explore new technologies and engage in a dialogue between all actors of transmedia in a spirit of cooperation and trust, friendly and open.

Storycode Paris # 1 is the first chapter organized outside the United States, where the concept was born in 2010 in New York.
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The event will be broken down into three stages.

Case Study #1 - 7:30pm
Kids Up Hill, creators and producers of the project broadcast by ARTE Brussels Business, we will present their project and obstacles, pitfalls and diffculties they had to overcome to achieve their transmedia experience.

5x5 pitches - 8:20pm
Three pitchers will have 5 minutes to present their projects and to appeal to the community by exposing a specific need (need a designer, a developer, producer etc..). Discover new projects and, perhaps, your future partners.

Expert View - 8:45pm
For a quarter of an hour we give carte blanche to WeDoData, specialists datavisualisation and information design to expose an idea, a concept, a brief vision of transmedia; history to take a little height before sending .

Hello world! Great news! We’re open for business! Driven...

Fri, 22 Feb 2013 16:31:00 +0100

Hello world!

Great news! We’re open for business!

Driven by a creative mind, a thirst for new adventure, fun and hard work, we are dedicated to explore new forms of storytelling. Our primary focus is to develop engaging experiences by using “traditional” medium such as photo or video, or innovative techniques like interactive documentaries and transmedia storytelling. Our core domain of expertise lies in the media industry but we’re super open to explore new frontiers!

If you’re looking for a dynamic team to work with, you’re very welcome to contact us!
One last thing, we’re located in Paris, France, but in this digital age does that really matter?
Let say we’re based on the “world wide web”.

Don’t hesitate to follow our twitter feed (@chewbahat) or like our Facebook page and stay tuned for more news, projects etc.

Thanks

Photo © Laura Surroca for Chewbahat - 2013

WORLD PRESS PHOTO ANNOUNCES MULTIMEDIA CONTEST WINNING...

Fri, 01 Feb 2013 16:07:47 +0100

Alma

Into the Shadows

Too Young to wed

Unknown Spring

WORLD PRESS PHOTO ANNOUNCES MULTIMEDIA CONTEST WINNING PRODUCTIONS

The international jury of the 2013 World Press Photo Multimedia Contest has awarded prizes in three categories Online Short, Online Feature and Interactive Documentary. Each category holds first, second and third prizes. In addition, a Honorable Mention was given to an Interactive Documentary production.

The jury chair Keith W. Jenkins summed up “What we see in the winners this year is a high level of sophistication. The entries were uniformly high in quality. This is an evolving field that each year should and does produce higher quality projects.”

Overview of first prizes:

First prize Online Short: ‘Into the Shadows’

Photography, direction and camera: Pep Bonet, Noor Images
Producer, script and interviews: Line Hadsbjerg, Remarkable World

Summary: People from neighboring countries move to South Africa in search of a better life. In inner-city Johannesburg, many of them struggle for acceptance in the face of discrimination, but are resourceful and persistent in their hope for the future.

First prize Online Feature: ‘Too Young to Wed’

Executive producer, photographer and additional videographer: Stephanie Sinclair, VII Photo Agency
Director and cinematographer: Jessica Dimmock, VII Photo Agency

Summary: Fifteen-year-old Destaye and her husband spend their time working in the fields of Ethiopia and taking care of their six-month-old baby. At the time of their marriage, Destaye was 11-years old and still in school, but her husband expressed interest in letting her continue her education. Since the birth of their son, however, she has had to fulfill her duties as a wife and mother exclusively.

First prize Interactive Documentary: ‘Alma, a Tale of Violence’

Authors and directors: Miquel Dewever-Plana and Isabelle Fougère
Producers: Alexandre Brachet and Margaux Missika
Photography and camera: Miquel Dewever-Plana

Summary: For five years, Alma belonged to one of the most violent gangs in Guatemala City. She has committed murder, battery, and brutality. Brutalized herself, she has been jailed many times. With 18 murders a day, Guatemala is a country undermined by violence. Alma is typical of her generation, where youths grow up in a world in which laws and justice are flouted with impunity. Families mired in poverty, despair, and alcoholism destroy each other in gang warfare that has become an ordinary way of life – and death. She was sentenced to death by her ‘homies’ the day she wanted to quit the gang. Yet she survived the bullets. Although she will never walk again, she is striving to rebuild her life.

Honorable Mention, Interactive Documentary: ‘UnknownSpring’

Director and photographer: Jake Price
Art director and programmer: Visakh Menon

Summary: Unknown Spring is an immersive online anthology that chronicles a community’s efforts to overcome the tsunami that struck Japan on 11 March 2011 through interactive maps, survivor interviews, video, and audio slideshows, Unknown Spring is a project that provides a portrait of Yuriage, a town that was obliterated by the tsunami’s backwaters, and its residents as they try to move past their traumas and continue on with life.

The judging was conducted at the World Press Photo office in Amsterdam, where the jury viewed all the entries and discussed their merits over a period of six days. A total of 287 multimedia productions were entered in the contest, organized for the third time this year.

“For the jury, the major challenge is that the field is changing almost hourly, so figuring out what the ‘standard’ is, is a very ephemeral effort. You have to be able to articulate the specifics of what you’re looking for, but also be flexible and understand that it’s a process that’s evolving. Each year you’re looking at different things, based on the technology, the platform, and the storytelling intent of the people producing a particular work,” Jenkins explained. “Still, there are some basic journalistic things that are always going to be part of it. Integrity, narrative voice, being informative and even entertaining - all the qualities that make for good journalism still apply.”

Managing director Michiel Munneke highlights World Press Photo’s aims: “With the multimedia competition we are trying to do justice to what we see happening in the field. Our ambition is to inspire photographers to move forward and explore new territories. We want to challenge them to tell stories in a different, compelling way. Part of our mission is to encourage the highest professional standards in visual journalism and to support documentary storytelling in all its aspects. That’s why, amongst other initiatives we started our multimedia contest.”

2013 Multimedia Jury

Chair:

Keith W. Jenkins, USA, supervising senior producer for multimedia at NPR

Members:

Samuel Bollendorff, France, photojournalist and webdocumentary maker
Kang Kyung-ran, South Korea, producer and director Frontline News Service
Susan Meiselas, USA, photographer
Patrick Mudekereza, DR Congo, writer and poet
Bjarke Myrthu, Denmark, founder and CEO of Storyplanet.com
Caspar Sonnen, the Netherlands, new media coordinator and curator IDFA DocLab

Secretary:

Alan Stoga, USA, president Zemi Communications

MORE INFOS ABOUT THE RESULTS HERE

We’re very proud to let you know that we’ve...

Mon, 28 Jan 2013 12:35:00 +0100

We’re very proud to let you know that we’ve completed our transmedia documentary project Moneyocracy on December 2012.

UPDATE

Project Title:
MONEYOCRACY, the rise of the United Corporation of America
Type: Transmedia Documentary
Language: Eng - Fr
Audience target: U.S.A - International - France
Formats: 90’ documentary - Interactive Documentary
Official website: www.moneyocracy-project.com
Wikipédia page: wikipedia.org/wiki/Moneyocracy
Status: COMPLETED on December 2012

"GREAT NEWS! CHEWBAHAT IS ALIVE!"

Wed, 18 Jan 2012 18:57:00 +0100

“GREAT NEWS! CHEWBAHAT IS ALIVE!” - Hi everyone, We’re proud to announce the creation...