I covered POV’s first Hackathon, The New York Film Festival’s launch of their Convergence Program and Tribeca’s premiere Storyscapes.

I’ve missed quite a few other articles I wrote this year, so much thanks to everyone that took the time to seek them out and read them on their own. I appreciate you all very much!!! I’ll make an effort to try and keep everyone informed with the going ons of “The Lone Olive” here on the blog.

I wrote three articles on the event including my first piece on The Washington Post.  Check them out.  They all have a different slant and Emon’s pictures are wonderful.  He’s going to post a photo essay and I will link to that when it goes up.  I shared one of his photographs below:

 
The Washington Post – INNOVATIONS: Not Your Parents Storytelling

PBS – MEDIASHIFT: StoryCode’s Hackathon

EJC – MAGAZINE: Story Hack: Beta

Who said a hack can’t be sexy? A member of Team US Maple gets into costume.

You can read my interview with him here.

It is my second piece up on PBS MediaShift this week as they republished one of my EJC peices earlier in the week.

This was my “headshot” and “voting info” – what do you think?

AMANDA LIN COSTA

BIOGRAPHY

A graduate of Emerson College’s film program, Amanda Lin Costa has worked for twenty years in the film, television and performing arts community.  Starting as a production coordinator, Amanda moved on to working in the “vanities” on Broadway as well as in film and commercials working with companies such as Disney, MTV, Dreamworks and artists such as Whitney Houston, Tony Bennett, Nicole Kidman, Liam Neeson and many others. When her daughter left for college, she had her own fresh start.  She began directing and producing her first documentary and quickly crossed over into scripted content.  Her new life as a writer and producer finds her helming an adaptation and biopic, and a feature length documentary. Docu-style branded content is her specialty.

PERSON STATEMENT

It’s an honor to be nominated for the NYWIFT board. I’ve served on the Mentor/Intern Committee because of my deep belief that opportunities arise in this industry because of “who you know.”  Networking is key; it’s one of the reason I became a NYWIFT member. I hope to bring my knowledge of brand content integration and cross-platform distribution to the NYWIFT board. I’m excited about fundamental game-changing frontiers and my journalistic investigations into new technology and industry shifts furthers my optimism for the future of the industry. Connections I have made through social media and online platforms have created a world of opportunities for me. I look forward to being able to build connections for NYWIFT and its members.

You can read the article HERE.

My original article is here and includes as interview with Adrian Grenier and Trevor Doerksen.

Me interviewing Adrian Grenier and Trevor Doerksen

Will Personal Apps be Key to Celebrity Branding?

Immersive Journalism Article

The first was on “The Third Screen: Creating Mobile and Tablet Apps” panel. It appeared on PBSMedia last week: How Apps Are Making the ‘Third Screen’ a Primary Screen for Historical TV

The second piece was on “The Rise of the Feature Documentary” and appeared in this month’s IDA newsletter: Feature Docs and Brand-Building:History Makers Conference Highlights the Prestige of the Genre

I am currently finishing up a piece on “Covering the Arab World: A Masterclass with Al Jazeera” for EJC and promise to post a link next week when it goes up.