Lance Weiler gave a keynote presentation on transmedia storytelling at the Darklight Festival in Ireland at the end of last year. It’s worth a listen if you are interested in new forms of storytelling and connecting with audiences.

I can finally attend one of these forums! Despite my obsession with interactive geekery, I never seem to be in the same city as the Power to the Pixel events. This year the lovely people at IFP have partnered with PttP to bring the Cross-Media Forum to NYC. Hooray! Speakers include Starlight Runner’s Jeff Gomez, GMD Studio’s Brian Clark and advertising guru Ty Montague. I’ll be on a panel with Lance Weiler (The Workbook Project) and Hughes Sweeney (NFB Interactive)…

Scott Kirsner has posted a bunch of videos on his CinemaTech blog from The Conversation event held in NYC back in March. Below is video from the Stories Everywhere panel on new ways of making media – featuring Asi Burak, Gita Pullapilly, Fred Seibert, Lance Weiler and moderated by Wendy Levy. ConvoNYC – Stories Elsewhere – Part 1 of 3 from Scott Kirsner on Vimeo. ConvoNYC – Stories Elsewhere – Part 2 of 3 from Scott Kirsner on Vimeo. ConvoNYC…

Select stories from the Spring issue of Filmmaker Magazine are now online and there are a couple of articles I particularly recommend as far as tools you can use goes: Esther Robinson tells you how to keep your credit sweet. And Jon Reiss gives some great pointers on marketing DVDs on the web. Filmmakers talk about shooting films with still camera. And Lance Weiler talks about building community on torrent sites.

Lance Weiler is live streaming from The Conversation which started this morning here in Berkeley, California. Update: You can follow The Conversation blog here – the blog includes links to photos, tweets and other joys.

I’m really excited to be heading to Berkeley, CA for The Conversation later this week. Partly because I love Berkeley and am always happy to have an excuse to visit the Bay Area, but mainly because The Conversation looks like it is going to be a brilliant couple of days of discussion about new ways of thinking about films, audiences, and platforms. The organizers are Ken Goldberg, Tiffany Shlain, Scott Kirsner and Lance Weiler and participants include Ted Hope, Peter…

We blogged earlier about Laure Parson’s excellent new blog on digital distribution. She has recently relaunched the site with even more resources for filmmakers including a list of online markets and a discussion board. The latest interviews on the blog include Doug Block, Sujewa Ekanayake, Caachi, IndiePix and Shooting People’s Ingrid Kopp. This is a great resource for folk trying to get a handle on all the latest distribution options. If you find this helpful be sure to check out…

Gee Whiz kids, sorry about our long blogging silence. The writers all buggered off on holiday and left nobody in charge. Fools! Anyway, our last post was about DIY Days in LA and now you lucky West Coasters get to do it all again in San Francisco tomorrow (Sunday, August 17th). So if you’re in the Bay Area get yourselves to 111 Minna Gallery tomorrow. Registration starts at 10am and as before there are lots of great folk involved and…

Another new post is up on TOOLS, this time about The Conversation “a two-day conversation — definitely not a conference — about the future of cinema, video, games, and telling stories with new media” coming up in Berkeley, CA later this year and bought to you by Ken Goldberg, Scott Kirsner, Tiffany Shlain and Lance Weiler. I definitely plan to attend this because I know many of the people involved and I’m sure it will be a really useful and…

Lance Weiler is bringing his film Head Trauma to the Museum of the Moving Image in New York this Saturday in a multimedia performance that I’m sure will be worth checking out. I’ll be back in London this weekend to start preparations for BRITDOC so I’ll miss it unfortunately. Here’s the blurb: In this innovative and playfully unsettling interactive multimedia event, the story of a drifter who returns to his grandmother’s abandoned house is brought to life in a collision…