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From the Sea to the Land Beyond DVD Release

From the Sea to the Land Beyond DVD Release

Monday 21st January sees the release of director Penny Woolcock’s enchanting and engaging documentary From the Sea to the Land Beyond. A compilation of over 100 years of BFI archive footage, the documentary is a meditation on Britain’s vast coastline and the role it has played in our lives and [...]

HTML5: the new standard for web development

HTML5: the new standard for web development

HTML has long been one of the key programming languages when it comes to designing websites and HTML 5, the latest version of the HTML language, has many benefits over its predecessors. The biggest and best new feature is the now streamlined approach to adding media to code. Previously if [...]

From the Sea to the Land Beyond- The Space Faves Winner!

From the Sea to the Land Beyond- The Space Faves Winner!

Recently there was a delightful announcement that following their extremely successful pilot phase, The Space will continue to provide its services for a further six months. This will allow for The Space to review and explore their digital platform for the arts, creating further possibility for a more permanent place [...]

British Sea Power Perform From the Sea to the Sea Beyond in Brighton, 16 November

British Sea Power Perform From the Sea to the Sea Beyond in Brighton, 16 November

British Sea Power will perform the live soundtrack to Penny Woolcock’s ‘From the Sea to the Land Beyond,’ a documentary compiled from BFI archive clips of the British coastline and produced by Sheffield Doc/Fest and Crossover at the Duke of Yorks cinema Brighton 16th November 2012. Sheffield Doc/Fest showcased the premiere of this [...]

Steven Johnson Keynote Podcast

Steven Johnson Keynote Podcast

Sheffield Doc/Fest have delved in to their extensive back catalogue of brilliant sessions and set up the Sheffield Doc/Fest Podcast on iTunes, a weekly opportunity to listen to the best in documentary and digital impart their wisdom. One of the highlights of the sessions is from the Crossover Summit in 2009 featuring internationally renowned [...]

Tribeca Hacks

Tribeca Hacks

With the world of storytelling moving swiftly into the interactive and the championing of the multiplatform and transmedia narrative over the more traditional singular forms, it’s great to see that more and more prominent media organizations are lending a hand to spread awareness and impart innovative wisdom to the next [...]

Twitter Buys Vine

Twitter Buys Vine

Recently, tech-savvy sites have been reporting Twitter’s recent purchase of Vine, a tiny company which is working on an online video sharing service. Could this acquisition be part of Twitter’s rumoured piloting of its own video hosting service? This is big news because, until now, Twitter has relied only on [...]