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Time: September 10, 2007, 2:07 pm
Diamond Road OnLine
Launching on October 3, Diamond Road Online (www.diamondroad.tv) is a leading-edge synthesis of documentary, online community, and state of the art techniques that fuel some of the world’s most popular sites, including Flickr, Amazon.com and Del.icio.us. www.diamondroad.tv is the companion site to one of the jewels in the crown of the TVO and Knowledge Network’s fall seasons: the three part television series Diamond Road, which launches in Canada on October 17.
Users of www.diamondroad.tv create online profiles that launch them on a vibrant community exploration of the global diamond trade. Using a custom designed set of client tools, they can move effortlessly through the stories in a guided experience or take a more active path and explore the Diamond Road universe using the site’s Recommendation Engine: intelligent software that analyzes what the user has already seen, what other users have liked, and then recommends what they should see next. Users can choose to follow a favourite character, find out more about a particular theme, or sit back and let other users or DRO tell them a tale. At any point, they can become an “editor” of the story landscape by creating, commenting on, and sharing content sequences.
Diamond Road Online harnesses the power of technology and community to build an interactive documentary that learns from each user and is defined by the community. More information on the series and website is below. Additional information, interviews, etc. are available on request.
Kindest Regards, Deborah (416) 691-5168
Diamond Road Digs Deep into the
Secret World of the Most Coveted Jewel
September 10, 2007, Toronto: They’ve made multi-millionaires of some and virtual slaves of others; now they are the subject of a three-part documentary series and a state of the art companion website offering a rare inside look at the planet’s most intriguing gem: diamonds.
Diamond Road launches on TVOntario on October 17 and on Knowledge Network on November 14. Its website, Diamond Road Online, launches October 3.
Diamonds start out as tiny bits of carbon but once mined, they begin a year-long journey through the “pipeline,” a vast network encompassing five continents and a diverse array of diamond industry players. In the process, diamonds come to mean very different things to those whose lives revolve around them – from profit, power and exploitation to love, beauty and hope.
Diamond Road explores the diamond world through its captivating characters. The stories of an international prospector, impoverished miner, child cutter, celebrity jeweler and high-end dealer are interwoven with that of a complex industry leader who is fighting for fairness and transparency. What results is a multi-layered portrait of a stone steeped in human dreams, conflicts and desires.
“Diamonds have no intrinsic value and fulfill no real purpose – but a 70-billion dollar a year industry has been built by marketing them, turning them into the ultimate and enduring symbol of love. It’s an extraordinary story,” points out series producer Robert Lang. “What pleased us most in making the series was how much access we had to people working at every point on the pipeline in an industry that is notorious for its secrecy.”
The show’s website, Diamond Road Online (www.diamondroad.tv), combines the art of the documentary with the power of the web, employing the Web 2.0 techniques of Collaborative Filtering, and Personal Recommendations. Rather than simply providing an online representation of a TV documentary, the site is both a natural extension and a unique element of the entire Diamond Road project. The television series presents its stories and then invites the viewer online to become a contributor and editor of those stories.
Users of Diamond Road Online can choose to follow a favourite character, find out more about a particular theme or sit back and let the sites unique “Recommendation Engine” tell a story. Diamond Road Online uses intelligent software to analyze what users have already seen, assess what others have rated, and then make recommendations on viewing choices. At any point, the user can become an editor of the documentary, creating and sharing with the online community mini-documentaries made from the content they experience.
“We’re aiming for Diamond Road Online to redefine documentaries as an experience that involves an engaged audience in conversation with the creators and with one another,” says web producer David Oppenheim.
“It brings key Web 2.0 innovations into the world of storytelling and pushes online documentaries to the next level,” adds the project’s system architect and producer Richard Lachman.
Both Diamond Road and Diamond Road Online are produced by Kensington Communications of Toronto which has been creating award-winning television for over 25 years and interactive media for a decade. The television series was produced in association with TVOntario, Discovery Times Channel, ZDF/Arte, Canal D, Knowledge Network, History Channel and SBS Australia with the financial participation of Rogers Documentary Fund and the Canadian Television Fund: LFP. Diamond Road Online was produced with the participation of the Bell Broadcast and New Media Fund and TVOntario.
Please visit Kensington Communications at www.kensingtontv.com
www.kensingtontv.com
Diamond Road air dates:
Part I: The Dream
TVO: October 17, 10pm; rebroadcast October 21 at approximately 10:30pm;
Knowledge Network: November 14 at 9pm; rebroadcast November 20, 10pm
Part II: The Stone that Divides
TVO: October 24, 10pm; rebroadcast October 28 at approximately 10:30pm;
Knowledge Network: November 21, 9pm; rebroadcast November 27, 10pm
Part III: The Arrival
TVO: October 31, 10pm; rebroadcast November 4 at approximately 10:30pm;
Knowledge Network: November 28, 9pm; rebroadcast December 4, 10pm
Diamond Road Online launch date:
October 3rd
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Note to editors, B-roll, art available.
Deborah Keegan
Babble On Communications
Tel: 416.691.5168
Cell: 416.525.5177
Email: deborah@babbleoncom.com
Web: www.babbleoncom.com
Susan McLennan
Babble On Communications
Ph: 416.699.1846
Fax: 416.699.1847
Cell: 416.568-5974 (Please note new cell phone number)
Email: susan@babbleoncom.com
web: www.babbleoncom.com
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Comment from Chris Metzler
Time: June 23, 2007, 4:27 pm
Hi Jim.
As local Bay Area filmmaker and having seen your posting on documentary trailers of the week, I figured I’d give a shout out about our John Waters narrated documentary, PLAGUES & PLEASURES ON THE SALTON SEA, as it is currently playing in theaters and will also be making its US Television Broadcast Premiere on the Sundance Channel’s THE GREEN next Tuesday, June 26th at 9:30pm, so I thought you might be interested in spotlighting the film’s trailer If so, it’d be greatly appreciated, as we’d love to drum up interest in the film, plus I just think it’s something you’d get a kick out of watching.
As to the film, it’s an interesting piece about the Salton Sea in Southern-California, as it covers the history and some of environmental issues, but all of that is mainly back-story. Because, it’s more a present day portrait about several eccentric communities that surround the Sea. A little off-beat, funny, and maybe even strange. Investigating the subjective notion of success and failure, amidst the backdrop of the American Dream.
Or as we like to say… “It features: Hungarian Revolutionaries, Christian Nudists, Pop Stars, Land Sharks, Hard Drinkers, Empty Cities, Failed Resort Towns, Tons of Dead Fish, A Dying Cafe, & a Man Who Built a Mountain.”
Okay, well that’s the film in a little bit of text.
If you’re game, maybe we can discuss things further on the phone or I can send over a DVD screener and then we can figure out where go to from there. Also of note, while we’re not activist filmmakers per se, as any good filmmaker, we still have some grassroots activism and marketing involved in the film. With each screening that we’re having on the festival circuit, we’ll be having the audience fill out postcards in the memory of Sonny Bono, late entertainer and former congressman, who had championed the Salton Sea. The cards will be addressed to the governor of California, Arnold Schwarzenegger, and encourage the delay of some of the currently scheduled water transfers. It’s a little tongue in cheek, but then also addressing an issue that is affecting all of the United States.
I’ve attached a synopsis down below and if you have any questions, feel free to e-mail me or ring me at (310) 497-6005. I’ll be looking forward to hearing what you think of the film.
As always, thanks for the look and cheers…
Chris
P.S. - All the broadcast info is pasted in down below.
www.saltonseadoc.com
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
SUNDANCE CHANNEL’S THE GREEN PRESENTED BY ROBERT REDFORD
CHRIS METZLER AND JEFF SPRINGER’S NEW DOCUMENTARY, “PLAGUES AND PLEASURES ON THE SALTON SEA,” MAKES ITS US TELEVISION PREMIERE TUESDAY, JUNE 26TH AT 9:30PM E/P ON THE SUNDANCE CHANNEL’S THE GREEN, A NEW WEEKLY PRIMETIME DESTINATION FOCUSING ON ENVIRONMENTAL TOPICS.
PLAGUES & PLEASURES ON THE SALTON SEA
Directed by Chris Metzler and Jeff Springer
Narrated by John Waters
Music by Friends of Dean Martinez
contact: metzler@rocketmail.com
“Weird and wonderful.” - The New Times
“A heartbreaking, sidesplitting parade of humanity.” - Village Voice
“Historically thorough and thoroughly hysterical.” - L.A. Weekly
“An interesting, disturbing, and humorous look at environmental disaster.” - The Berkeley Daily Planet
“A hilarious and kindly ode to a fallen paradise.” - SF Weekly
“Four stars! Offering you a vacation like you’ve never had before… in this charming, yet sad documentary.” - Film Threat
Fabulously offbeat and refreshingly upbeat, this lovable film gets friendly with the natives of the Salton Sea, an inland ocean of massive fish kills, rotting resorts, and 120 degree nights located just minutes from urban Southern California. This award-winning film from directors Chris Metzler and Jeff Springer details the rise and fall of the Salton Sea, from its heyday as the “California Riviera” where boaters and Beach Boys mingled in paradise to its present state as a decaying, forgotten ecological disaster. From wonderland to wasteland, PLAGUES & PLEASURES ON THE SALTON SEA captures a place far more interesting than the shopping malls and parking lots of suburban America, a wacky world where a beer-swilling Hungarian Revolutionary, a geriatric nudist, and a religious zealot building a monument to God all find solace and community.
Crisply and hilariously narrated by oddball auteur John Waters, and featuring music by desert lounge rockers Friends of Dean Martinez, PLAGUES & PLEASURES ON THE SALTON SEA melds high camp with stark realism, offering both a sobering message about the consequences of tampering with nature and a heart-warming tale of individualism.