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Fourth Emmy Nomination!

The Spiral is nominated for the 2013 International Emmy Award in the category Digital Program: Fiction. The format was created by P and partners, and makes the fourth Emmy nominated project for the company.

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The Spiral is a television drama series following a young group of artists who strive to make their mark, and are pulled into a disastrous turn of events when they decide to steal six classical works of art from museums all over Europe. The productions is highly participatory, with the audience invited to find the paintings in a massive international chase. Six museums collaborated in taking down the paintings and news shows reported on the coup. The Spiral was aired simultaneously in ten territories.

The format for the show was created by The company P, together with the broadcasters SVT and VRT, and produced by Caviar. The participation design was made by P and partners. This years nomination for an International Emmy is P’s fourth project nominated. Previous projects include the 2007 International Emmy Award Winning The Truth About Marika (SVT), 2011 International Emmy Award nomination for Conspiracy For Good (Tim Kring, Nokia), and as transmedia consultant for the 2012 International Emmy Award Winning Endgame.

The company P is truly proud of all the people involved, and fingers crossed!

Fresh MESH 2013, is the first annual event organized by Doğan TV Holding, featuring the newest in the Media, Entertainment & Showbiz Industries.

Christopher Sandberg, spoke this month at the FRESH MESH event in Istanbul, presenting insights on how to create participatory drama.

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FRESH MESH is an interactive event platform, designed and organized by Doğan TV Holding, in defining today’s new MESH Ecosphere, which is co-created collaboratively by producers, distributors and consumers of MESH CONTENTS.

StoryCode interview

The StoryCode Ten is a short-form quarterly interview series that examines how leading cross-platform and immersive media storytellers around the globe are defining the medium.

Latest edition of The StoryCode Ten interviews P’s founder and Chief Creative, Christopher Sandberg. The interview, made by Hal Siegel, explores the early days of Sandberg’s work, as well as recent productions and design insights.

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Read the interview!

P at ideaBOOST & nextMEDIA!

This week is a busy one, with mentoring at ideaBOOST for the CFC and speaking at nextMEDIA in Toronto.

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ideaBOOST is an innovative creative and business development lab that allows you to develop your ideas with a customized team of world-class leaders and entrepreneurs through our intensive four-month part-time prototype development boot camp experience. Christopher Sandberg (CCO, The company P) is presenting during the two-day workshop as part of the mentoring of the participants.

Sandberg is also presenting at the nextMEDIA conference, renowned as Canada’s most influential community of executive-level media professionals working in the digital space.

P mentoring participation

P assists non-profit organizations and industry programs internationally, to foster a deeper understanding of rich participation in dramatic experiences.

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It is an absolute pleasure to collaborate with the Canadian Film Centre on their new accelerator ideaBOOST in Toronto. Equally valuable and inspiring is the mentoring at X|MEDIA|LAB on Participation Culture in Basel.

Look out for the ideaBOOST projects in the future!

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