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http://www.theanniversaryproject.com

The Anniversary Project explores the lives of 20 different Canadian children living below the poverty line. Nance Ackerman, who previously collaborated with Stitch Media as a writer for Redress Remix, is the director of this meaningful project. Her NFB-produced film Four Feet Up offers an intimate portrait of a child and his family’s struggle with poverty and serves as the inspiration for The Anniversary Project. Both the film and The Anniversary Project launched on the 20 year anniversary of the Canadian government’s promise to end child poverty.

Combining stunning photography, powerful music, and stop motion portraits, The Anniversary Project beautifully explores the lives of 20 children, allowing their voices to be heard as they share their experiences with poverty. The multifaceted project also provides resources for those facing similar struggles or who wish to help.

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http://www.yourmoney.ca/saving_penny

Saving Penny is a weekly web-based video series produced by Stitch Media and directed by Mark Mullane (This Hour Has 22 Minutes).

The world of finance is overwhelming, so the temptation for most people is to enjoy life now instead of worrying about the future. “Saving Penny” empowers viewers to take control of their lives financially through relatable anecdotes from engaging characters and cool animated visuals that demystify complex economic issues.

In each episode, Penny (Sarah McCarthy) is forced to confront her personal money issues head on with the help of her boyfriend Doug (Dan Beazley) and best friends Allison (Lauren Arens) and Jane (Alexandra Matheson).

Produced for Bell Sympatico, Saving Penny begain airing once a week as a feature on yourmoney.ca (more…)

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http://sidneycrosby.sympatico.msn.ca

Workout With Sidney Crosby is an interactive website that takes you into the gym with one of the NHL’s greatest hockey players. Sidney Crosby and his strength trainer Andy O’Brien demonstrate a new set of exercise skills each week. No matter what sport you play, your skill level, or what goals you’ve set, these exercise progressions have been expertly designed to improve athletic performance and kinetic efficiency for anybody.

Developed for Bell Sympatico, Workout With Sidney Crosby features a weekly video series of exercise sets, print out instructions to take to the gym, interviews with both Sidney and Andy, a video glossary of terms, and the ability for users to track their progress and share with friends. Both educational and fun, Workout With Sidney Crosby gives users a first hand look into what makes an efficient athlete while encouraging them to reinvent their own workout.

In addition, a half-hour TV show is packaged to air on Bell ExpressVu and Pay Per View channels on New Year’s Day to encourage viewers to shape up for the new year. The TV version offers highlights from the video content produced for the website and directs the audience to participate and find out more each week from the interactive experience.

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Supported by the Canada New Media Fund administered by Telefilm

http://www.nationalparksproject.ca

Canada’s urban population continues to grow as technology draws ever-more stubborn lines between people and nature.

The National Parks Project aims to reconnect Canadians with the wondrous wilderness that lies at the heart of their national identity through a digital re-introduction to Canada’s finest natural spaces.

Starring polar bears in Manitoba, rare birds along Point Pelee and the shimmering salmon of Kluane in the Yukon, the NPP initiates an unprecedented collaboration

involving more than 75 of Canada’s most acclaimed filmmakers and musicians (2 filmmakers and 4 musicians per park) to create thirteen 6-minute short films showcasing the artists’ visceral responses to these designated sanctuaries, and to each other.

The National Parks Project’s Virtual Campground is a mix of virtual world and Web 2.0 portability that transports online visitors into the park, empowering the average Canadian to participate in a continual artistic collaboration. The NPP Campground will be a virtual world at its core, but released from the constraints of the walled garden concept to exist in multiple formats, accommodating the widest variety of audiences.

http://www.survivorman.ca

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Survivorman Online is an interactive website and game that follows Les Stroud as he braves the elements in some of the world’s harshest conditions. Based on the OLN television series Survivorman, the online elements will allow participants to put themselves into his shoes and play along.

A blend of exclusive video footage and casual games allows a player to understand the trials of wilderness survival. Balancing thirst, hunger and the elements, the users must be vigilant to ensure that they survive long enough to find rescue. An interactive series told over seven days in the wild, the experience parallels the television series. Although there are countless games based on surviving a battlefield situation, very few concentrate on a much more important lesson – understanding man’s relationship to nature. Survivorman Online will be a training tool as well as entertainment as it teaches many valuable concepts of orienteering and triage in emergency situations.

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http://www.holomove.com

When Nate Bozemen was hired as lead software developer for Holomove, he thought his job would be fun and games. But his employers had something up their sleeves. The revolutionary holographic technology they were developing leads to mysterious disappearances and a web of tech, lies, and videotape.

This alternate reality game reaches far into the real world and captivated players to share clues, collaborate on puzzles, and help Nate Bozeman uncover a deadly conspiracy at his workplace.

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http://enitechlabs.com

Using a technological breakthrough that can capture images from thefuture, EniTech Research Labs have stumbled onto some disturbing results. Buried cameras, red-eyed assassins, and nuclear Armageddon await the researchers in this immersive online game.

Created with Millions of Us and incorporating users through blog posts, Youtube videos, Facebook and a GPS scavenger hunt for digital cameras that can predict the future, this virtual tie-in with The Sarah Connor Chronicles is a thrilling adventure full of twists and twisted technology.

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The Border is a 13-hour news-inspired television series that dramatizes the hot-button issues of the Canada-U.S. border. In the show, an elite enforcement team grapples with the problems of sovereignty, human trafficking, terrorist threats and their own prejudices.

The Border: Interactive extends the content of the series to mobile and online. Mobile users compete to collect passport badges using a camera-equipped mobile phone. Meanwhile, online users interact with a standalone interactive episode, using the tools of surveillance and decryption to join the ICS team.

Layers of narrative and a national scavenger hunt reinforces the connection between all media. The Border: Interactive challenges citizen viewers as they try to make sense of national and individual security in a post 9/11 world.