Last night, the Canadian New Media Awards (CNMA’s) announced their 2010 Nominees!
The CNMAs are the country’s only nationwide competition that clebrates the accomplishments of Canada’s most successful digital media companies. Now in its 10th year, the Canadian New Media Awards are a part of nextMEDIA Toronto, Canada’s leading forum for the convergence of all forms of digital media, taking place November 29th & 30th, 2010 at the Design Exchange in Toronto. The CNMA gala ceremony will be held December 1, 2010, on the Trading Floor of the Design Exchange. The event is a four-part affair comprised of a pre-awards showcase, cocktail reception, awards ceremony and the much-anticipated after-party.
“We received more entries than any other year from almost every province in Canada, and we’re thrilled to be recognizing such a diverse range of companies and individuals. Every year the bar is raised with innovative creativity, entrepreneurship, and pioneering technology.”
- Jory Groberman, Executive Director of nextMEDIA
I’m crossing my fingers for CFC Media Lab Alumnae, Victoria Ha (Stitch Media) for Producer of the Year!
Stroll City will appear on Onestopsubway platform screens across the city every 10 minutes from September 21 – October 5.
Shawn Micallef, CFC Media Lab Alumnus and the author of Stroll: Psychogeographic Walking Tours of Toronto(as well as EYE WEEKLY columnist/Spacing editor/flâneur extraordinaire), will be tweeting his Toronto discoveries through the Twitter handle @strollcity in addition to his own feed. Torontonians are encouraged to respond to his tweets with comments and their own discoveries over the two weeks. Click here to tweet him now!
TTC riders in the city can tweet their replies to Micallef’s texts, only to see them magically appear shortly thereafter in an ever-changing spot on the Onestop Media (http://www.onestopmedia.com) TTC network of screens, visible to over 1 million subway commuters daily.
Stroll City ran in conjunction withCulture Days, a weekend long initiative (September 24 -26) dedicated to celebrating arts and culture in the city.
Culture Days applauds The Stroll City project by Art for Commuters, Onestop and Coach House Press for its unique approach to interactivity and its embrace of the Culture Days spirit…
- Aubrey Reeves, Culture Days Animator/Coordinator – Ontario Arts Council
Get ready to walk and observe! Take part in this unique, groundbreaking opportunity: a city-wide, interactive media-art project that engages with Toronto and its citizens!
OCAD is looking for an instructor for their Time-Based/Transmedia Narrative course to start this Fall, so you will have to act fast!
Time-Based/Transmedia Narrative course (ADVR 3B03):
This course continues the study of trans-media narrative and introduces the subject of storytelling and the construction of a narrative structure as students gain an understanding of time-based media across a number of traditional and emerging platforms. Instruction includes the creation of scripts, their refinement and pre-production requirements. As well, students are introduced to professional techniques that will support the execution of their advertising concepts. Projects will include television commercials, time-based web media and other media currently used in conjunction with modern global advertising.
CFC Media Lab and MaRS co-presented with Jumpwire Media to launch Cross Media Toronto on July 21st, 2010 at the MaRS Centre. Cross Media Toronto (www.crossmediato.com) featured heavyweight media industry executives who discussed perspectives on how transmedia content will be produced, distributed and consumed in a cross media environment, with a specific look at ways to incorporate cross media into business models.
I recommend taking a few minutes out of your Monday to go YouTubing down the web-stream!
Bombs away!
The CFC Media Lab is gearing up for our second NBC Universal Multiplatform Matchmaking Program.
We are looking for experienced producers, creators, directors and writers from TV, film and interactive who are open to working collaboratively, learning intensively and exploring cross platform content creation from the ground up.
Facilitated by Crossover Labs, this event will run December 6-11, 2009.
Applicants must be nominated by executive producers, creative directors and/or producers, broadcast or interactive production executives, and funders.
If you would like to nominate someone for this program, please email us their name, contact info and a short bio at multiplatform@cfccreates.com.
“This is a perfect program for experienced professionals.” Tessa Sproule, Executive in Charge of Digital Programming CBC Television, Arts & Entertainment / Factual Entertainment
Stroll City will appear on Onestop subway platform screens across the city every 10 minutes from September 21 – October 5. Shawn Micallef, CFC Media Lab Alumnus and the author of Stroll: Psychogeographic Walking Tours of Toronto (as well as EYE WEEKLY columnist/Spacing editor/flâneur extraordinaire), will be tweeting his Toronto discoveries through the Twitter handle [...]
PSST! Hey Alumni… OCAD is looking for an instructor for their Time-Based/Transmedia Narrative course to start this Fall, so you will have to act fast! Time-Based/Transmedia Narrative course (ADVR 3B03): This course continues the study of trans-media narrative and introduces the subject of storytelling and the construction of a narrative structure as students gain an [...]
Check out the full coverage of Cross Media Toronto 2010 (CMTO10) now up on YouTube as a 13-part series: www.youtube.com/watch?v=n_hiHUhFtCY CFC Media Lab and MaRS co-presented with Jumpwire Media to launch Cross Media Toronto on July 21st, 2010 at the MaRS Centre. Cross Media Toronto (www.crossmediato.com) featured heavyweight media industry executives who discussed perspectives on [...]
The CFC Media Lab is gearing up for our second NBC Universal Multiplatform Matchmaking Program. We are looking for experienced producers, creators, directors and writers from TV, film and interactive who are open to working collaboratively, learning intensively and exploring cross platform content creation from the ground up. Facilitated by Crossover Labs, this event will [...]
