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Journey to the End of Coal is a French web documentary

Web documentary

A web documentary, interactive documentary or multimedia documentary is a documentary production that differs from the more traditional forms—video, audio, photographic—by applying a full complement of multimedia tools...

directed by Samuel Bollendorff and Abel Segretin.

Based on the choose your own adventure

Choose Your Own Adventure

Choose Your Own Adventure is a series of children's gamebooks where each story is written from a second-person point of view, with the reader assuming the role of the protagonist and making choices that determine the main character's actions and the plot's outcome. The series was based on a...

principle, the interactive documentary tells the story of millions of Chinese coal miners who are risking their lives to satisfy their country’s appetite for economic growth.

Award

Journey to the End of Coal won the Prix SCAM 2009 digital interactive artwork award .

Special screenings

IDFA Doclab, Amsterdam – November 2008
Cinema du Réel, Paris – March 2009
South by Southwest
South by Southwest
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, Austin TX – March 2009
Visions du Réel festival
Visions du réel
Visions du Réel is an international documentary film festival held in April each year in Nyon, Switzerland. Established in 1969 as the Nyon International Documentary Film Festival, the event adopted its current name in 1995....

, Nyon, Switzerland – April 2009
Sunny Side of The Doc, La Rochelle, France – June 2009
Festival des 4 Ecrans, Paris, France – October 2009
Sheffield Doc/Fest, Sheffield, UK – November 2009

Award

Special screenings

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