Inspired by the success of Open Source many are thinking about how other areas of creative work could change. One of the most inspiring projects is ‘Modfilms’ by Michela Ledwidge. She not only collaborates with hundreds of indviduals on the making of sanctuary, including innovative ways to collaborate via the net to work on making a film. She also is developing platform for remixable films and interactive storytelling. She will write about why she started modfilms and how she sees the film industry developing. Here a short intro to her very inspiring vitae:
Michela Ledwidge is a film director and entrepreneur with a background in systems architecture. As a child she wanted to be a zoologist, and then a funk superstar. Michela accepts that she may be also considered a geek. She has been involved in ‘new’ media since writing casual games for the Commodore 64 in the 1980s. In January 1993 she set up the first web site in Sydney, Australia and later that year founded thequality.com, her consultancy. In 1996 she received an Australia Day award for building the National Library of Australia’s first Internet service. In 2001 she wrote, directed and produced the multi-lingual interactive short film Horses for Courses which was awarded the web3d art prize at SIGGRAPH 2001.
In 2004, Michela founded MOD Films with an Invention and Innovations award from NESTA to develop a new film-making paradigm that incorporates user-generated content and the Sematic Web.
