PAST EVENTS
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2009
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CROSSOVER NEW ENTRANTS' PROGRAMME
The Crossover New Entrants' Programme is a seven-month course, supported by Skillset!s TV Freelance Fund, in which 38 participants from across the UK will design creative interactive experiences for television while taking part in practical workshops, seminars and masterclasses delivered by industry professionals at Skillset Academies in Wales, Bournemouth and Edinburgh.
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The summit will address the new business of media and how production companies can respond to the creative and the commercial challenges of developing content and services for digital media. There will be a number of speakers as well as breakout sessions and round table discussions. In the days following the summit, there will be a strong strand of Crossover panels through the Sheffield Doc/Fest conference programme – including sessions, commissioning editor panels, workshops, project showcasing and cross platform pitching competitions. We encourage you to stay on for these as well as attend the Summit.
A Doc/Fest delegate pass will get you access to the Summit and the rest of the festival too.To register go to www.sheffdocfest.com
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ROUND TABLES @ CROSSOVER SUMMIT
In addition to the keynotes and panels, the Crossover Summit will feature a series of breakout sessions featuring presentations of funding opportunities, case studies from broadcasters and other commissioning bodies, advice on contracting and negotiating rights in collaborative projects.
To pre-book a place at one of these discussions, contact the Summit production manager, Nigel Fischer nigel.melt [at] theculturecompany.co.uk.
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An Interactive Screenwriting Workshop, hosted under the auspices of Montreal's Festival du Nouveau Cinema, our second Crossover in Canada was held at Quebec's unique National Institute for Image and Sound (INIS) in Montreal.
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The Crossover Networking Day was for all Crossover alumni, mentors, commissioners, visitors and funders to mingle, meet and share ideas. In the last few years around 300 people have shared the unique experience that is Crossover. Labs have been run in the UK, Australia, Canada and Scandinavia. There is a strong sense of community and this was a chance for the alumni to get together and brainstorm how to continue to work together and make the most of being part of the Crossover network.
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Crossover Play explored new forms of entertainment for digital media: the relationship between play and narrative, formats dependent on user contributions, mobile or location based entertainment with a broadcast component. And of course, games: social and casual games, games that involve live events and performance, augmented or alternate reality games, games with emotional depth, games that appeal to non-gamers.
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The first Crossover in Canada was organised by the Canadian Film Centre who described it as a "Multimedia Matchmaking Program"; it was sponsored by NBC and Universal". It took place in the Oban Inn in the picturesque small town of Niagara by the Lake in northern Ontario. It was the first full lab for mentor Richard Adams and involved producers, writers, animators and artists mostly from Montreal and Toronto.
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Sponsored by Northern Film and Media, Crossover 4IP was a three-day creative incubator for people based in the North East devoted to developing projects for new forms of participatory, public service media which could be supported by 4IP.
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Crossover Australia is a creative incubator devoted to building new forms of interactivity. Bringing together Australians from a variety of disciplines who are interested in applying their practice across platforms and who want to explore interactivity across screen based media. Our aim is to develop innovative interactive digital projects.
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2008
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A unique opportunity to invent future media for children, Crossover Kids was an extraordinary ‘creative lab’ for experienced and talented creative professionals from a diverse range of backgrounds: tv and film producers, game developers, web designers, animators, theatre practitioners and toy creators. The participants explored the future of children’s media and develop original ideas for cross-platform projects.
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In Crossover Docs, factual and documentary film and television producers worked with games developers, web and interaction designers to invent innovative projects for cross-platform delivery. A focus of the five day, residential lab was on interactive projects which address big ideas and contemporary challenges including climate change and other scientific issues.
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Crossover Nordic will brought together independent artists, writers, filmmakers, animators, game designers and new media producers from Sweden, Denmark and Finland. with the aim of developing innovative digital and interactive projects that embrace the growth of broadband and other emerging distribution platforms.
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Two labs specifically tailored to the Channel’s needs and designed to establish it as the UK’s leading commissioner and publisher of innovative, popular new media content and services.
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2007
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Crossover UK 2007 was the first Crossover Lab in the UK. It was funded by the London Development Agency, Screen Yorkshire, Channel 4 and BBC, as part of their cross platform and digital media strategies to assist in the creation of multi disciplinary teams and the development of compelling cross platform, interactive projects.
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Crossover Australia was supported by the South Australian Film Corporation, The Adelaide Film Festival and The Australian Film Commission.
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2003
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Crossover Australia was first held in 2003 and was inspired and based on Weblab's Crossover in the US. Crossover Australia was supported by the South Australian Film Corporation, The Adelaide Film Festival and The Australian Film Commission.
