DIGITAL DOZEN: BREAKTHROUGHS IN STORYTELLING AWARDS (Spectre)

(Awarded for Spectre)

The DIGITAL DOZEN: BREAKTHROUGHS IN STORYTELLING AWARDS are presented by the Columbia University School of the Arts Digital Storytelling Lab in recognition of the year’s most innovative narratives.

The program recognizes signal achievements across the broad spectrum of media that rely on digital technologies, including film, video, journalism, advertising, marketing, games, art, fiction, theater, virtual reality, augmented reality, and experimental narratives. Launched in 2016 to spur creativity and further the Lab’s educational mission, the awards honor twelve signal achievements — the Digital Dozen. Out of these, the Breakthrough Award goes to the project in any field that best exemplifies the spirit of inventiveness at work today, while the Special Jury Prize, consisting of a workshop at the Lab, is given at the discretion of the awards committee. Winners are chosen by an interdisciplinary jury of Lab members and university faculty and announced at Lincoln Center’s Elinor Bunin Munroe Film Center each spring.
In citing these accomplishments, the Digital Storytelling Lab hopes to encourage creativity and innovation while furthering digital media’s potential to break free of rigid, industrial-age classifications and evolve in ways that analog media could not. All twelve projects are archived every year in the Lab’s online gallery.