Multiuser Interactive Experience

Jeremy Mendes and Leanne Allison’s poignant interactive documentary about a bear in the Canadian Rockies illuminates the way humans engage with wildlife in the age of networks, satellites, and digital surveillance. Audiences from around the world can use their smartphones to become part of an interactive forest environment rich with bears, cougars, sheep, deer, and people as they follow an emotional story of a grizzly bear tagged and monitored by Banff National Park rangers.

Produced by Loc Dao, Dana Dansereau, Bonnie Thompson and Rob McLaughlin at the National Film Board of Canada.



Bear 71 Live observes and records the intersection of humans, nature and technology in a live, Internet connected event. Questioning how we see the world through the lens of technology, this multi-user, interactive story blurs the line between the wild world and the wired one.










credits,

Voice Actor: Mia Kirshner
Writer: JB Mackinnon
Executive Producers: Loc Dao, Rob McLaughlin and David
Christensen Installation and Live Event: NFB and Lance Weiler
Interactive Designer and Developer: Jam3
Designer: Aubyn Freybe-Smith