Interactive - ITVS

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Television is just one way to tell a compelling story. For more than a decade, ITVS Interactive has developed, produced, and collaborated on new media projects for multiple platforms. From extensive program companion websites to online film festivals, Web-originals and mapping projects to social issue games, ITVS Interactive focuses on innovation, participation, and engagement bringing new audiences to public media 2.0.

Interactive Projects

	The Garbage Dreams Game On the outskirts of Cairo lies the world's largest garbage village, where 60,000 Zaballeen — Arabic for "garbage people" — have survived for centuries by recycling nearly 80 percent of Cairo's waste. Could you build a recycling business as efficient as theirs? Try your hand at our recycling game.
	World Without Oil On April 30, 2007, the world entered a global oil shock. Or so it seems at World Without Oil, an online alternate reality that enlisted the world's collective imagination to document the oil crisis with blogs, videos, and images.
	Returning Home Inspired by the film The Way We Get By, Returning Home allows family and friends to become troop greeters, by sending encouraging messages to American soldiers through user-generated content and virtual care packages.
	Children of the Amazon A Brazilian filmmaker travels a modern highway in search of the indigenous children she photographed 15 years ago. An enhanced website features blog posts from the Surui tribe, who use GPS and Google Maps to engage in global dialogue, monitor illegal logging, and preserve their forest home.
	Off the Map Embark on a multimedia tour of backyard paradises created by visionary artists around the world, and create and share your own backyard paradise.
	FUTURESTATES What will become of America in 5, 25, or even 50 years from today? This series of 11 fictional mini-features explore possible future scenarios through the prism of today’s global realities.
	When I Walk What is it like to be 30 and be living with multiple sclerosis? Jason Da Silva’s video blog gives a personal, political, and often humorous look at the filmmaker’s journey and his day-to-day challenges of living with MS.
	Beyond the Fire: Teen Experiences of War Giving voice to teenage refugees of far-flung wars who now live in America, Beyond the Fire captures the full impact of their experiences through Web-based, interactive storytelling.
	Face to Face: Stories from the Aftermath of Infamy Connect the experiences of Japanese Americans in the aftermath of Pearl Harbor with those confronting Arab and Muslim Americans today in a post-9/11 America.
	Circle of Stories With Native culture bearers as guides, explore the art, heritage, and legacy of the Native American oral tradition. Circle of Stories brings together the oldest and newest forms of communication.
	Fatworld A videogame about eating, obesity, and the politics of nutrition; get fat, stay healthy, or die — it's all up to you in Fatworld.
	Filmocracy King Corn, the story of two friends, one acre of corn and the subsidized crop that drives our fast-food nation, was the inspiration for the Independent Lens Filmocracy mashup contest. Get filmmaking tips with Learn from the Pros.
	Art House Theater Map From grand, restored movie palaces to rundown single-screens, art houses are known for taking audiences off the beaten path. Movie buffs share their favorite destinations for indie and alternative film viewing on this interactive map.