Arnau Gifreu is a lecturer, researcher, and director in the audiovisual and multimedia field.
Arnau holds a PhD in communications and a master’s degree in digital arts from the Universitat Pompeu Fabra (Barcelona). He is also a research affiliate at Comparative Media Studies and the Open Documentary Lab (MIT, Massachusetts Institute of Technology) and part of the i-docs group (University of the West of England). He founded and served as coordinator of the interactive documentary and non-fiction observatories and production programs interDOC and INF (Interactive NonFiction).
Interactive Documentary: My Favorite Latin Projects
Canada and France are always going to be the pioneering leaders in the production of interactive documentaries. It seems that other countries, like the United States, Germany, The Netherlands, and England, etc., are also encouraging the production of these documentaries. Now Spanish-speaking countries are also creating a “corpus” of noteworthy projects. The fact that the Anglophone, Francophone and Latin cultures are different, with different stories, codes and motivations, affects how these types of documentaries are made and how the narrative is constructed. While there was some growth in this field at the international level at the end of the first decade of the present century, we are now witnessing the expansion of webdocs and transmedia documentaries made in the Latin area. They have also come to stay. In this playlist I’ve chosen some of them, but the best is yet to come. Hope you enjoy them!
