Exploring the art of interactive and immersive non-fiction storytelling since 2007. Part of @IDFA. Next edition: November 2025
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We’re excited to share new findings from our partner @opendoclab research on embodiment, AI, and the perception of the real. The study was conducted during IDFA DocLab 2023 as part of our Immersive Network and R&D program. Read the full report here: drive.google.com/file/d/16f-…
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🚀Job Opportunity at IDFA DocLab!
DocLab seeks a Communications Coordinator (maternity leave cover). Are you a communications professional with an interest in digital culture, immersive arts, and technology? Join our team!
📅Apply by August 9
More info jobs.idfa.nl
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Join us on July 19 to celebrate Afrofuturism! With short films, a pop-up exhibition, a club night, and artists talks featuring Tamara Shogaolu, mo Futures, and jahi quasim reeberg, we explore the intersection of African diasporic cultures. Info & tickets bit.ly/4d1razA
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Seeking financial backing for your project? Apply before April 25 for the @Filmfonds Interactive Grant and support through our R&D porgram. Details: bit.ly/3VIWqOd
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Meet Kenyan artist Natasha Khanyola, the first recipient of the IDFA DocLab Spotlight Award at the Fak’ugesi African Digital Innovation Festival! This award grants her the exciting opportunity to travel to Amsterdam for IDFA 2023. Read more: professionals.idfa.nl/storie…
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Proudly announcing this year’s @Filmfonds DocLab Interactive Grant winners: @constantdull and Piotr Winiewicz with William Quail’s Pyramid and @mamamess with (this conversation is) Off The Record. Read more: idfa.nl/en/news/winners-of-t…
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Tomorrow our Call for Festival Commissions closes. This open call offers artists working across interactive and immersive media financial support to realize a new work and present it during the upcoming edition of @idfa #opencall #documentary #XR
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NOW OPEN - Call for all sorts of non-fiction artworks that use emerging media to represent reality: web and audio experiences, games, VR/AR, fulldome, physical installations, live performances & experimental theater. Show us what you've got! bit.ly/3JeXhhX 💫DL: June 27
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Pioneering immersive artist @CelineTricart just launched FIGHT BACK VR, an exciting new project that aims to inspire and empower people through martial arts-free download on Meta App Lab.
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@wecoven @Redcornerlabel @LucidDreamsFilm @francetvlab #VRforGood
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#opencall📣Artists working across interactive and immersive media, we offer financial support to realize a new work and present it during the upcoming edition of @idfa. The call is open to both experienced artists and new talent from around the world: bit.ly/3SF7jNt
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Congratulations @TaylorMcCue5 (Winner of the 2022 IDFA DocLab Award for Digital Storytelling) for being nominated for a Nuovo Award!
#IGF23 Nominees for Nuovo Award, Part 1/2
He Fucked The Girl Out Of Me (@TaylorMcCue5)
Afterglitch (@VladimirKudelka; @HangonitStudio)
An Outcry (@quinnkdev)
Betrayal at Club Low (@cosmoddd)
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Last chance to visit the DocLab exhibition @brakkegrond today from 11:30-18:00. Here you can discover and experience a selection of groundbreaking interactive and multi-sensory XR documentaries. For free! Register online for a free entry ticket at idfa.nl/doclab
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In less than 2 hours, live from ITA - Amsterdam, the official IDFA Award Show! IDFA DocLab's competition programs present the best immersive and interactive works at the festival, judged by an international jury. Tune in 8pm > bit.ly/3Xelfji
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We dance alone and yet together. This Sunday we bring together different artists who search for disruption of dominant systems and for togetherness within them in DocLab Live: Unlocking the System - Join us! > bit.ly/3NJ6MHU
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Our festival juries are an indispensable part of IDFA and fulfil an honorable role of immense value. They help us to serve the outstanding projects in the selection; to provide them with their much-deserved launchpad and to draw all possible attention to them and to their makers.
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The 12-title Immersive Competition showcases the growth of the immersive art form on all fronts. Proud to announce the 2022 selection: bit.ly/3FaqbiB
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With 10 selected titles, the @IDFA DocLab Digital Storytelling Competition builds on the rich history of interactive storytelling with both established names and newcomers. Check out the 2022 selection here: bit.ly/3eJBAex
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Excited to announce our theme program: Nervous Systems. Referring to our nervous systems—both inside the body and in the reality that surrounds us—our expo + live events (Amsterdam-Nov.'22) focus on experiential storytelling through different senses, art forms and technologies.
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Whether you are looking for funding for your interactive documentary project, or have an amazing #immersive #storytelling project ready to show the world, IDFA DocLab is open for festival submissions: bit.ly/3QFtcei
Image: Tabita Rezaire - Orbit Diapason
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Looking for co-producers, funders, commissioners, or distributers for your interactive documentary? The Call for IDFA DocLab Forum is now Open💥
Find out more and submit before August 1: bit.ly/3HoUYHw
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