Among the many presentations and films at Cinekid I manage to attend only one, a seminar moderated by Greg Childs entitled Cross Media Projects for Children.
Projects presented:
Get Close to the Sugarbabes - Endemol pursue their path of voyeurism even further engaging celebrities to film themselves with mobile phones backstage and in otherwise private situations, and answering the stupidest questions fans will ask; interesting how this creates a seriously interactive situation between the singers Sugarbabes and their audience, as the audience commentaries influence the live performance and even the concert dates.
Total Drama Island, by Xenophile Media, I found it so brilliant I must post about it later; anyway, it pokes fun at Survivor while educating teens about the superficiality of it all; they also manage to make a few bucks out of it, which is lovely too.
W@-D@ (what is dat!?), introduced as Tintin meets Michael Palin - is a wildly creative series of episodes between fiction and documentary in which two funny characters go to different continents to bring back some magic objects, and while there they encounter a lot of weird situations, all related to the cultural reality that the characters are exploring . Together with the TV series there where a website and a series of magazines/books each about one specific country.
Kika and Bob is a project for smaller children, by the dutch Submarine, about a cat, a little girl and a fireman, employing multiple choice narrative and a Tamagochi relationship with the online cat.