Avatar Secrets is an interactive documentary that explores the complexities of human connection in the real and digital worlds as told through the true life experiences of writer/director, Ramona Pringle. Organized into 10 beautifully animated chapters, Avatar Secrets features numerous rich-media “margin notes” along with links to case studios, additional video content and interviews with some of the foremost thinkers in media and technology.
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As seen in “Mashable” and “The New York Times”, and at major documentary, film and interactive events, including: HotDocs, Sheffield Documentary Festival and TFI Interactive, part of the Tribeca Film Festival in New York City.
** App Store Editors’ Choice
** Featured and “Best New App” (App Store Canada)
** 2016 Screen Awards — Nominee — Best Original Program or Series Produced for Digital Media, Non-Fiction
** 2015 Rockie Awards — Nominee — Best Interactive Non-Fiction
“An amazingly beautiful documentary…” — Emluuuucy (user)
“A new breed of storytelling…” — Mashable
“Visually impressive…” — The Gloss
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Avatar Secrets chronicles writer/director Ramona Pringle’s personal journey across borders and bandwidths in search of love, meaning and community in the 21st century. Faced with a string of personal challenges, Ramona ventures online and into the world of MMORPGs (massively multiplayer online role-playing games). There, she creates a digital avatar — a healer called ‘Tristanova’ — and sets off on her first quest. After reaching Level Two of the game, Ramona finds herself lost… very lost. Eventually she asks another player for help. This leads her to discover the first ‘avatar secret’ — that the hardest part of the quest isn’t the quest itself, it’s admitting that you can’t do it alone.
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FEATURES:
Full colour animated graphics
Rich-media “margin notes”, cases studies and additional video content
Interviews with some of the foremost thinkers in media and technology including Vint Cerf (Google), Tiffany Slain (Webby Awards) and John Hagel (Deloitte LLP Center for the Edge).
Two ways to watch: use the auto function to play through each chapter in sequence OR flip each chapter like a book to pull up video interviews and other content
Optimized for iPads with Retina displays
iPad 3 uses non-Retina graphics
How-to tutorial…
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Watch Avatar Secrets as a 10 episode web series on Vimeo or stream the chapters from our website at http://avatarsecrets.com.
Link us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/avatarsecrets/
Follow us on Instagram: @avatarsecrets
Avatar Secrets is written and directed by Ramona Pringle. Creative direction by Michaele Jordana with animation by Olney Atwell and illustrations by Michael Derrah.
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CONTACT US
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