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POSTS TAGGED: LAND OF OPPORTUNITY
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"Hangout” With Luisa Dantas This Thurs, Feb. 21st
As we shift focus here at Land of Opportunity to develop our interactive online media platform, we’re delving headfirst (with fingers crossed) into using cutting-edge transmedia. This week, Luisa Dantas joins a panel of media insiders for Interacting With Transmedia: An InterActs Live Google Hangout, an online roundtable hosted by NAMAC and The Daily Dot. The hangout will investigate best media practices and seek to answer the question: What is transmedia? Join Luisa and a team of innovative media artists, filmmakers, internet enthusiasts, gamers, and funders, as they explore multiple points of entry for understanding the transmedia landscape and what it means for the continued evolution of media properties. Tune in with us Thurs. Feb. 21st, from 2-3:30 pm CT, 3-4:30 pm EST by clicking here. Post questions for panelists via Twitter with hashtag #InterActs.
Panelists:
- Henry Jenkins (Moderator), USC Provost’s Professor of Communication, Journalism and Cinematic Arts; Author of Convergence Culture
- Nuno Bernardo, CEO & Founder, beActive Media
- Jo Ellen Green Kaiser, Executive Director, The Media Consortium
- Luisa Dantas, Director/Producer, Land of Opportunity
- Ingrid Kopp, Director of Digital Initiatives at Tribeca Film Institute
- Danielle Riendeau, Blogger for KillScreen, Professor of Interactive Storytelling at Northeastern University, Communications Officer for ACLU-NorCal
- Marc Smolowitz, Director, Producer, Executive Producer, Documentary Filmmaker
Tags: Land of OpportunityLuisa DantasNAMACThe Daily DottransmediaGoogle Hangouts
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January 10, 2013Disaster Recovery
We're attending the Road to Resilience in NYC!
Here in New Orleans, we at Land of Opportunity have been staying up to date on the recovery efforts for Hurricane Sandy, and have been communicating with mediamakers and activists working on the ground to rebuild the city. With the footage and first hand experience we have concerning post-Katrina reconstruction and the planning process that ensued and continues to this day, there are so many lessons to be learned from this documentation that we want to share and utilize with those that are the ones now in need. As a first step, we’re excited to announce our participation in Charting the Road to Resilience, a conference put on by the Municipal Art Society of New York. The Road to Resilience (a combination of both site visits to devastated areas, and presentations/break-out sessions held at the New School in Manhattan) will bring together more than 80 different partners to look at the challenges, and opportunities, of building a more resilient New York City from the ground up.
This Saturday’s events include relevant discussions: what are the hard facts about the impacts of the storm? What about the recovery process has worked well? What were the challenges? Are there lessons to be learned? What are the principles to guide us in the recovery and rebuilding process?
Our Interactive Producer Laine Kaplan-Levenson will be participating in a session on Communications, Social Media & Data (along with folks from Untapped Cities, Mayor Bloomberg’s Digital Office, Sandy Storyline, and 596 Acres) to bring our New Orleans framework into the dialogue and help brainstorm what to take from this experience, and what can be done differently this time around and in the future.
This is just the beginning of our efforts to open the communication between New Orleans, New York, and all cities in crisis, to exchange resources, knowledge, and leverage the voices of those working together to create the types of cities we want to live in.
Tags: Land of OpportunityMASRoad to ResilienceHurricane SandyNew York City
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BAVC Producer's Institute Features Land of Opportunity
Land Of Opportunity is off to California! This week is the Bay Area Video Coalition Producers Institute for New Media Technologies. We’re heading to San Francisco for an intensive week of workshopping our project and taking the next steps towards developing and designing our interactive web experience. If you’re in the Bay Area, don’t miss the Public Conference Day on Saturday, October 13 held at SPUR featuring numerous panels, discussions, and other fun networking opportunities. Follow us on Twitter for live updates (#pi12), and stay tuned for a post-BAVC recap! Find out more information at the BVAC website.
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Tonight: MIT's Urban Planning Film Series Screens Land of Opportunity
We’re excited to announce that our film is being screened tonight at MIT’s Urban Planning Film Series.
The Urban Planning Film Series is a mostly-weekly series showing documentary and feature films on topics related to cities, urbanism, design, community development, ecology, and other planning issues.
The film is showing at 6 p.m. tonight in MIT Room 7-429. If you’re in the Boston area, check it out! Free Admission.
Tags: land of opportunitynew orleansMIT Urban Planningfilm screeningBostonDUSP10/10/12Wednesday
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Land of Opportunity and Cowbird Co-Launch 'New Orleans' Saga
It’s been said that New Orleans will punch you in the face and then hand you a rose. And whether you’ve called it home, hammered nails in the Lower 9th Ward, or simply strolled down Frenchmen Street, you’ll probably agree it’s a city that leaves a lasting impression on your heart, soul, and liver. This month, on the 7th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, we’re pleased to announce a new partnership with Cowbird, an amazing digital storytelling platform that collects stories created by people all over the world told in images, text, and sound.
After experiencing this simple and impactful tool for sharing memories and moments, we decided to team up with them to create Cowbird’s first place-based Saga, New Orleans, and as of yesterday’s launch serves as an official call for open and ongoing NOLA-driven story contributions. If you’d like to participate, let us know and we’ll help you submit a story of your own.
We’re excited to watch this saga unfold into a beautiful mosaic of stories as powerful and diverse as the city that inspired them.
Tags: New OrleansCowbirdLand of OpportunitySuckerpunch and RosesHurricane KatrinaKatrina Anniversary
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Land of Opportunity to Participate in the 2012 BAVC Producers Institute: Stories With Impact
We are thrilled to announce our acceptance in the Bay Area Video Coalition 2012 Producers Institute for New Media Technologies ! This fall, from October 12- October 19, we at LOP along with our partners will join five additional transmedia projects in the making in San Francisco for a week-long ‘laboratory’ connecting social issue documentary filmmakers and partner nonprofit organizations with technologists and mentors to develop techniques and story assets to propel these creative social change agendas. Our interactive web experience will be workshopped and networked by the mentors on site as well as team members of the additional projects, and guided towards a most efficient functionality and design for our tool. We are so excited to share this opportunity and strengthen connections with not only our amazing partners at the Center For Social Media and Mozilla (a partner to the Institute as well), but fellow New Day filmmakers Theo Rigby and Kristy Guevara-Flanagan, as well as form new ties with all attending the lab.
For more information about BAVC, the Producer’s Institute and all accepted documentary projects, visit their website or read the press release here . Stayed tuned!
Tags: BAVCProducers Institute for New Media TechnologiesNwe Day FilmsMozillaCenter for Social MediaLand of OpportunityInteractive Web ExperienceTransmediaInteractivity
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Join Luisa Dantas on FDL!
Land of Opportunity and Luisa Dantas will be featured on Fire Dog Lake’s Movie Night Salon Monday, October 18th, from 8:00 pm – 9:30 pm ET/ 5:00pm – 6:30 pm PT. Please join the conversation and post your comments. Register and log in at FireDogLake beginning at 8pm ET to join the discussion!