Launch of "Call for Transmedia Projects"
Pro Helvetia, the Federal Office of Culture in collaboration with the Solothurn Film Festival and the Focal Foundation are launching a second "Call for Transmedia Projects". The aim of this call is to promote new digital and interactive narrative forms.
The call for transmedia projects is aimed at people with innovative artistic projects that develop a complex fictional or documentary story on at least two platforms. The aim of this call is to promote the creation of new digital narrative forms. The content of the projects must be explicitly geared towards the Internet and mobile media. They should have at least one audiovisual component (film, web series, web doc, video blog and others) and one interactive component (video game, interactive comic, augmented reality, social networks). Projects that involve the audience in participatory processes are particularly welcome.
Dossiers can be submitted via the website transmediaprojects.ch from October 15, 2014 to March 2, 2015. An international jury will assess the submitted dossiers in a two-stage process. In the first stage, a maximum of 10 dossiers will receive a contribution of CHF 10,000 each for the further development of the project. After a second submission, those projects are selected from these that will receive a further grant of up to CHF 100,000 each. The selected projects receive technical support from experts in workshops.
On November 13, 2014, the second edition of the "Call for Transmedia Projects" as part of the Tous Ecrans festival in Geneva.
The "Call for Transmedia Projects" is a pilot project of the Swiss Arts Council Pro Helvetia and the Federal Office of Culture. It is organized in collaboration with the Solothurn Film Festival and the Foundation for Continuing Education in Film and Audiovisual Arts (FOCAL).
